claymore / c4 hard nerf

[Exarch]

So, i've been gone a while, about 18 months. whats with the claymore and C4 hard nerf. They don't stay until the owner is dead anymore, have a lifespan of about 1 min it seems? .... C4 can't be (as safely) used to protect from vehicles. and claymore are supposed to protect while looking off screen (like if ur sniping. or to protect you in pathways) ... could anyone weigh in on this decision? :o
:dragon:

[JackMayol]

the C4 lasts for 2 minutes and the Claymore 4 minutes. Even for a camper it should be long enough imo :)

[Exarch]

Originally posted by Lizard Gamer:

Something about it was too easy using C4 as anti tank mines on KOTH maps or something, not sure about the claymores, hardly anyone use them anyway, at least i dont see people use them often.

As for my use of C4, i dont find any issues with the despawn, 99% of times i destroy a tower or tank ect. with C4, i detonate it less than 2 seconds after throwing it lol

I used them to hold tank choke points while sniping. But, that's what they were for, anti tank mines / anti building / objectives.

Originally posted by JackMayol:

the C4 lasts for 2 minutes and the Claymore 4 minutes. Even for a camper it should be long enough imo :)

claymore time isn't horribly bad. 5 min can last. but on some maps, easy to forget to put a new one. haha.

Thank you both for the quick reply. :D

[Exarch]

@ jack
c4.projectile file says

use_time_to_live="1"
time_to_live="45">

[JackMayol]

ah, you are right. I was looking at the time to live out in the open instead, my bad. I was wondering about the huge number haha.
Initially the C4 was meant to destroy high HP structures by being placed directly on them.
It eventually works even if the C4 has no direct contact to the target. As for the vehicles, it is obviously also working but in comparison to those infrastructure targets, you can blow them up even if the C4 explodes a couple of meters from the target. This was used a lot by veterans to control chokepoints by placing C4 and then falling back, camping and waiting so that no enemy armored vehicle could enter the battle zone.
This is why we nerfed the time to live (which was 30s, so 15s less at some point).

[Exarch]

ahhh. gotcha. Ty for the explanation as to why it was nerfed so hard. haha. i am one of those who uses it to deny vehicles. haha.