EMP Grenades - use them, like em, love em - Page 5

**draeh** · 09-20-2007, 03:50 PM

Don't know if its been mentioned, but you can also use EMPs in the way you would use smoke in BF2. When rushing a flag, toss in an EMP before you go. Anyone around the flag gets disoriented and cannot aim as accurate. Except those with exceptional skill who know exactly where the reticle is even if it isn't displayed. The EMP effect lasts a heck of a lot longer that the 2142 smoke grenade.

Augustus Gloop · 09-20-2007, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Skylark

But it worked. Unfortunately, he did not seem to have any help nearby either. It took a long time before someone got around to killing me (I was NOT getting out of that walker.. i was alone and he was on a roof)

You did the right thing. The only thing worse than having to sit in a walker and wait to die is watching an enemy use your walker to tear up your team. It sucks, but kudos for sticking it out.

For everyone else who might not have been in this situation before,
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE UNMANNED

I don't care if you know you can kill the guy who's emping you, or if you've been screaming for assistance and no one has come. If you can't see the flames licking your vehicle already, don't get out.

**Lorax74** · 09-20-2007, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Augustus Gloop

For everyone else who might not have been in this situation before,
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE UNMANNED

I don't care if you know you can kill the guy who's emping you, or if you've been screaming for assistance and no one has come. If you can't see the flames licking your vehicle already, don't get out.

Unless you're on the other team, then it's fine.

**Tarenth** · 09-20-2007, 07:45 PM

What you DO want to do is switch from the driver seat to the AA seat of the walker. When the driver seat is unoccupied the walker will slump down into 'unoccupied' mode which may throw off an inexperienced EMPer. Additionally, the little AA gun's movement is a lot harder to notice than the walker's main guns so you might inch it towards them and be able to take them out.

Luxx_Jorge · 09-20-2007, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Tarenth

What you DO want to do is switch from the driver seat to the AA seat of the walker. When the driver seat is unoccupied the walker will slump down into 'unoccupied' mode which may throw off an inexperienced EMPer. Additionally, the little AA gun's movement is a lot harder to notice than the walker's main guns so you might inch it towards them and be able to take them out.

That is a really good tip, thanks for the idea. Of course now when I'm trying to emp a walker I'll make sure not to fall for it...

Luxx

**Lyramion** · 12-27-2007, 02:14 AM

Bumping for great justice! For the love of god if you are in a fully operational 6 Person Squad bring EMP Grenades! I don´t care for your Sentry killing two guys. EMP grenades are the difference between a walker mowing down our whole squad and the walker trying to run away from our squad being scared. Many people know I can use a walker well and you know what I am scared off most? Not the Pilum, not Motion Mines and not the Orbital - its EMP Grenades because they can basically be a 1 hit KO in the hands of a skilled squad.

EMP Grenades next to the Defib are THE Teamwork item in this game!

Augustus Gloop · 12-27-2007, 10:54 AM

QFT.

Emp grenades and I have had a long and satisfying love affair. Not the kind where you're meeting in seedy motels and paying in cash so there's no paper trail, the kind where you meet on a midnight train ride through Italy, and you spend your time reading Yeats naked while eating strawberries.

HBrutusH · 12-27-2007, 12:50 PM

You like your EMP's, huh gloop? :P

**Zhohar** · 12-27-2007, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Lyramion

Many people know I can use a walker well and you know what I am scared off most? Not the Pilum, not Motion Mines and not the Orbital - its EMP Grenades because they can basically be a 1 hit KO in the hands of a skilled squad.

This is true, there is nothing worse than having yourself repeatedly EMPd in any kind of a vehicle.
But even so, if you are being EMPd, you must stay within the vehicle.
If you stay in, you will either break through or die with the vehicle, losing one ticket.
If you bail, you will surely lose your ticket, you will give the enemy a vehicle, and that will cost us many more tickets and grief.

Yes it is annoying to be EMPd and not be able to fire back, but if you are properly coordinating your efforts with your squad, you will be able to rely on them to take out the person EMPing you.

**Lorax74** · 12-27-2007, 08:01 PM

If you are on my team and you're getting EMPed, please stay in the vehicle until you either break free or die trying. If you are on the opposing team, feel free to get out and go looking for that support guy that is giving you such a hard time.

SharinganTH1422 · 01-01-2008, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Augustus Gloop

QFT.

Emp grenades and I have had a long and satisfying love affair. Not the kind where you're meeting in seedy motels and paying in cash so there's no paper trail, the kind where you meet on a midnight train ride through Italy, and you spend your time reading Yeats naked while eating strawberries.

darksteel525 · 01-01-2008, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by SharinganTH1422

**daithi1** · 01-02-2008, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by darksteel525

I could descend lower hmm....
*Stops to think*

Although on second thoughts I probably couldn't or shouldn't.
By the way EMP nades = poonage and one sideways looking walker (anyone else noticed this bug).
*Shakes fist at EA for killing one bird with three stones for 1.4 patch*

SharinganTH1422 · 01-02-2008, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by darksteel525

How do you do the jawdrop smiley...?

Anyway

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Originally Posted by SharinganTH1422

I gave a detailed analysis on the support kit on the "Support kit 101" thread, (read it if you want, it's the post that seems to never stop...

)

Reading this back, it's poor form.

Link of the whole post.

And the quote about EMP grenades to go with it:

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Originally Posted by SharinganTH1422

EMP Nade - Just misses out, it's good, and I used it quite a lot for a while, it was even my favourite piece of equipment at one point in my stats, however, after I found the Dystek, I just had to replace it. It is decent on vehicles, and it does effectively assist the friendly vehicle in a vehicle vs. vehicle fight (usually walker/tank vs. walker/tank) by throwing EMP grenades while going in and out of cover while the vehicle will be too busy fighting the vehicle, I throw a supply crate down as well to stop myself from running out of nades. Also, people forget how useful it can be against infantry, the blurred vision of the other team can really put your squad at an advantage in a firefight with lots of cover and because it explodes on impact, rather than having a waiting period, it can catch them off guard, and they won’t have time to disperse. Also as it is quite an unorthodox thing to do, and many people don't expect it. Also, down titan corridors, they can cause amusingly considerable amounts of havoc, as sentry guns malfunction, and soldiers bump blindly together, recons start panicking and press the RDX detonator, that doesn't kill as many as it should, then storming down the corridor with assaults and one recon (and with the revived support) to take out the soldiers and the control panel, or is it called the console, but I swear there's a reactor in it somewhere...? (What is it called...? I haven’t played titan in a long time,

)

Note: I'm using it a lot more often on TG servers now, since I used to pub, and was still fairly new to TG when I wrote this, I never realised its usefulness in a squad.

**pedestrian01** · 01-02-2008, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Augustus Gloop

QFT.

Emp grenades and I have had a long and satisfying love affair. Not the kind where you're meeting in seedy motels and paying in cash so there's no paper trail, the kind where you meet on a midnight train ride through Italy, and you spend your time reading Yeats naked while eating strawberries.

If you think that is bad you don't want to know what his relationship with the radar grenade involves. After hearing about Gloop's exploits I've lost all respect for the radar grenade.