You could still get killed by friendly 1.21 landmine/claymore

[fore a lot]

In case you don't know this, here is how:

Exit your vehicle when it's still moving over the landmine you(your teammate's mine might work too) just set. Then the no-man's-slow-moving-vehicle will trigger the mine and blow the vehicle and you nearby.

This also applies to claymore. Just drive by the exploding side of the CM and exit(make sure u face the blowing side of CM) when it's still moving. The vehicle will be fine but you're blown.

This should register you a TK if your teammate does that. No eye confirmation yet but i got a few weird TKs when i(play as engy) was doing nothing. Must be the damn mines.

My point?
please do NOT exit the vehicle when it's still moving over the friendly mine(s). I don't care about my points or get TKs. Just don't want you get pxxsed

[JonnyMacFred102]

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That has happened to me before on team mines. If no one is in the vehicle and it passes over a mine, it will blow up and kill anyone nearby, resulting in a teamkill.

I have seen people get killed out of the back of a moving jeep from claymores... it's hilarious!

Team mates can't activate claymores or land mines. However, if they manage to get hit by the blast, the damage is done and usually you get a teamkill.

[WarGimp]

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Hehe... I thought I'd be cleaver and drop a mine on the respawn point for a tank. Figured that it would make the tank "safe" from theft when it respawned.

A couple minutes later, I got smacked with 3 TKs as the empty tank respawned and blew up the people standing around waiting for it.

Oops.
Leason learned.

[MisterBubbles]

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LMFAO Wargimp.

[raceacontari]

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Hehe... I thought I'd be cleaver and drop a mine on the respawn point for a tank. Figured that it would make the tank "safe" from theft when it respawned.

A couple minutes later, I got smacked with 3 TKs as the empty tank respawned and blew up the people standing around waiting for it.

Oops.
Leason learned.

I learned this but the easy way...did the same thing only when it spawned, no one was near and I saw my mines blow up....then I cursed and grumbled and proceeded to just drive off in the tank instead...:p

[IntensivCareBear]

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the claymores need to be addressed.

they are without a doubt the biggest and most unbalanced fault of 1.21.

it is absolutely ridiculous that all they did was reduce the number of free kills from 5 to 2.

most urban maps with 64 players are still almost ruined. EA MUST change them AT LEAST EVENTUALLY to the following solution.

1. ALL guns and ALL explosives destroy claymores. you want claymores that do realistic damage even though nothing else in the game does? then the claymore can be blown up as it could in any sensible game.

2. If a teammate walks in the claymore explosion radius, then it EXPLODES, but he IS NOT DAMAGED.

this way both parties benefit. no tk or negative points for sniper, no damage to teammate.

simply a reminder that you CANNOT LEAVE 2 claymores in the first MEC base at karkand, knowing that you will get 2 free kills.

yet, if you leave a claymore in the enemy base and an idiot teammate blunders into it, youre only minus one claymore, not a tk and a claymore.

[PHPT]

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Hehe... I thought I'd be cleaver and drop a mine on the respawn point for a tank. Figured that it would make the tank "safe" from theft when it respawned.

A couple minutes later, I got smacked with 3 TKs as the empty tank respawned and blew up the people standing around waiting for it.

Oops.
Leason learned.

I'd say it serves them right. :p

[WarGimp]

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Hehe... well, that little story left egg on my face... along with little bits of clanmates :p

[FierceTeapot]

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Personally, since 1.2, I think its a farce. Mines and claymores are dumb and they should be dumb in game! They will explode when friendly or non friendly drive on them or steps near them, thats what they do.

So this whole "OMG i spammed mines everywhere and I got loads of TKs" is tough crap.

Probably the best solution would be to punish the player who sets off a friendly mine and dies (as they are well marked). That would cut back on people driving into them for fun or to **** off the engineer.

But currently the whole 'it wont kill friendlies' is a fricking joke. They should kill anyone who sets them off.

[fore a lot]

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Probably the best solution would be to punish the player who sets off a friendly mine and dies (as they are well marked). That would cut back on people driving into them for fun or to **** off the engineer.

big nono for that. PPl will do that intentionally just to get you punished. More jackA-$$ will drop mines in front of the jet and the pilot will get blowned and punished?

[Kannon]

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The tough part about mines and claymores is that either they're a large part of the game or not. I've set my mines in such a way that friendlies should never get blown up by them yet they would manage to (pre-1.2). Now i don't worry nearly as much, but i've never run into mines or claymores so much now that i would wish them to be switch back to pre-1.2.

[Thirdeyez]

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Claymores have to be destructable, your creating choke points with the new FF.
Mines too they have to be destructable, make mines only C4 destructable.

Leave FF in, make stuff destructable and lastly..give the classes more.

Worse thing about being an engy or a sniper with destructable explosives is lack of them. Lay your stuff then a team mate or some arty just wipes it out..sucks, then your looking for support on soem map that isnt Urban and your $hit out of luck.
Bump up ngy to 10-12 mines, sniper to 3-4 claymores. Then after the mine/claymore is destructed or kills they have a recharge bar (a slow one ) that replenishes that spent explosive.

[fore a lot]

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I got an ideal about mine/claymore:
Still FF off to your team but FF on when you drive over or pass by your own mine/claymore. So you gotta be careful when you drive because the red skeleton could be your own work. So you'll TK your passenger(s) if you're blown by your own mine

[Combined]

Re: You could still get killed by friendly 1.21 landmine/claymore

Claymores should be remote detonated, solution to all of your problems.