Small question about the decoy grenade, is it useless?

[Rattling Rambler]

If so, then why isn't it removed or replaced?

[Cat]

Where on Earth did you hear someone or something said it's useless?

[LeBrowning Automatic Rifle James]

Originally posted by Damas the Cat:

Where on Earth did you hear someone or something said it's useless?

A silver

[Mitch, hold the L.]

It has marginal use. It acts as noise pollution and also visual noise on their radars. Experienced players usually don't fall for it, but you can also decoy where you're going, so they think it's a fake. Could probably make it hard for people to hear foot steps if it's near them, too.

[FurbyHoard]

Originally posted by Antlion:

Originally posted by Damas the Cat:

Where on Earth did you hear someone or something said it's useless?

A silver

that explains why you would think that

[Dr. Zoidberg]

it's not completely useless.
it's useful only if you are a pro. it's pretty much useless to me.

[opp slayer]

fake flash w/ decoy and peak .5 secs after enemy can see it, they will usually flick back for flash and then will be vulnerable as you peak.

[Storm]

It's useful for co ordinated rushes

[Rattling Rambler]

i kind of thought it was useless, and yes i am unranked, thank you all for making the decoy grenade confusion more clear to me.

[Alpacalypse]

It explodes for 3 damage, so you can use it to get people kicked by going down to 2 HP and standing on it.

Idiots will sometimes assume it's a flash.

[deni]

you can also pretend to be a decoy by doing short bursts. this can be a great tactical afvantage because everything is the same as a decoy apart from you are where you need to be. thus allowing room for error in the other team, - calling a fake, pretending to be a fake ect

[paradigm249 [NO]]

it could cause confusion, i have been confused where it came from once

[Chaken]

you pretend its a flashband and throw it around a corner then when the enemies turn away to not get flashed rush and get them

[僕の名前 (仮)]

It's not useless, but 99.9999999% players use it wrong. Throwing it on spawn after they bought it. Enemy can't even hear it from that afar, and even if they would see red dot on spawn and they know it's decoy.

I used decoy to make enemy thing that I'm behind left corner while I was on right side, so he check left corner and I shoot in his back.

It's also can be used to mask footsteps (only works with rapid fire guns)

I also see enemy throw decoy to A and rush to B, and then all my teammates think it's enemy shooting. I see this so many times. Decoy on A? Enemy must be rushing B. But it's very obvious trick, only silvers or boosted novas get tricked by it.

[Dexter]

Decoys need to be retweaked so that they sound realistic, with random varying intermittent spray bursts.

You can easily tell a decoy from a real person because the sound never sounds like how a player actually fires their gun.

[Positive Ronnie]

the decoy (for its price - $50) is one of the best things you can buy in the game. Using it in combination with other things can increase its effectiveness a lot.

People often don't use it and its totally underutilized which is great for those who do use it.

The decoy can literally act as another body - a ghost of yourself. Use it as if it were another teammate and it can give an incredible advantage.

People focus so much on things like aiming, when in reality, its tactics, movement and deceiving players that is way more effective.