Nuclear Det Pack Underwhelming.

[Zeradus]

I think it needs to be a bigger blast radius on top of being a remote detonator. As it is right now I haven't found any use for it at all. Literally takes too long to arm, the 30s timer on it makes it so situational that there aren't any actual situations in the game where it is useful when compared to regular remote det packs and proxy mines.

[Corporal-Sheppard]

its been good against taking out gren. They dont attack you just place them at their feet, and they probably wont move either. Its my teams go to strat now.

[Zeradus]

Originally posted by CorporalSheppard:

its been good against taking out gren. They dont attack you just place them at their feet, and they probably wont move either. Its my teams go to strat now.

Grens die super quick as it is though to any kind of fire, that's what I'm talking about. Every situation where the nuke would be good, everything else handles it better and faster.

[CptnSpandex]

Does it not kill enough troopers for your liking ?, lol only joking but i see in the notes for that it does say causes damage to troopers so i am guessing the radius of this is to stop people trolling with it say like at the extract ship for instance !!!.

[Zeradus]

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

Does it not kill enough troopers for your liking ?, lol only joking but i see in the notes for that it does say causes damage to troopers so i am guessing the radius of this is to stop people trolling with it say like at the extract ship for instance !!!.

If they only balance it to account for trolling it will stay an underwhelming piece of edge-case equipment that barely sees any use due to everything doing the job better and more efficiently than it. Regular demo charges do the same job but better and you get 4 of those with a remote detonator.

[Corporal-Sheppard]

Originally posted by Zeradus:

Originally posted by CorporalSheppard:

its been good against taking out gren. They dont attack you just place them at their feet, and they probably wont move either. Its my teams go to strat now.

Grens die super quick as it is though to any kind of fire, that's what I'm talking about. Every situation where the nuke would be good, everything else handles it better and faster.

Not in veteran they dont

[Bad Brad]

It needs to either:

1. Have a remote detonator
2. Be like a huge grenade

The 30s timer thing is useless

[kevin]

Originally posted by CorporalSheppard:

its been good against taking out gren. They dont attack you just place them at their feet, and they probably wont move either. Its my teams go to strat now.

it takes more than one nuke, and you are vulnerable when placing them if there are small bugs around., hawkeye+ammo is more effective at killing and can support team.
if/when there is an update hopefully placeables can be dropped while moving/jetpack to make them more useful

[Ricky Bobby]

Originally posted by Bad Brad:

The 30s timer thing is useless

100% agree on this. The 30 second timer is completely unpractical in this game. Most engagement against a large amount of enemies last less than 30 seconds besides the protect the base part of the game.

[onewhofound]

Originally posted by CorporalSheppard:

its been good against taking out gren. They dont attack you just place them at their feet, and they probably wont move either. Its my teams go to strat now.

Seems a suboptimal strat since a Hi-Ex grenade or remote detonator bomb would do the same thing but also be usable in other circumstances. Not to mention you don't have to crawl under a giant Bug to use them.

[NewbieKit]

I would love to at least throw it away instead of slowly plant it at your own feet

[A X I]

Originally posted by CorporalSheppard:

its been good against taking out gren. They dont attack you just place them at their feet, and they probably wont move either. Its my teams go to strat now.

In the time it takes to get to the grenadier the rpg would have killed it many times over usually.

[Nix]

Considering the fact that's totally useless in battle: I think It's going to be useful to destroy static objectives that are not in the game yet. If you paid attention there are already the signs that indicates the location of different bugs nests on the map.

[Lupo Rossi]

I'd like to assume that it will have a better purpose in another, yet unreleased game mode.

[LIlChode]

nuclear det pack does a well job at taking out the hive minds. Its currently not in the game right now but essentially, orange eggs dens spawn in the map and its the cause of infestations levels to rise. As the assault class all you would need to do is center mass the nuke in the hive and jet pack away taking 60-70% of the hives eggs died with this strat.