So at first glance the gun that shoots the glowing balls of boom seems useless. At second glance the gun that shoots the glowing balls of boom seems pointless.

Then you find someone who knows how to use the damn thing and you think to yourself "That's awesome!"


My question is: Has anyone made a practice of using this gun effectively?


The Clark-RDX is a combination of many different weapons actually.

Each glowing ball acts like a grenade with a slightly smaller blast radius. They will hiss on impact and explode after a few seconds. The explosion itself follows the rules of RDX more than the frag grenade in that they will do blast damage instead of fragmentation damage. Confused by the difference? If you are hiding behind a crate and someone throws a frag grenade in front of it, the crate will block the damage from the grenade because its fragmentation damage and the crate acts like a barrier. If you are hiding behind a crate and someone planted RDX on the other side, the crate will create a blast shadow that blocks some of the damage, but the blast radius is large enough to pass beyond the shadow and kill you. In short: The Clark-RDX will penetrate through some forms of cover.

When you throw a grenade it will arc along a trajectory and explode either X seconds after leaving your hand or X seconds after it impacts against something. If you throw too far and too high it will blow up in the air, but if you bounce it just before it self destructs it will act like a normal grenade. The Clark-RDX will also arc along a trajectory, but it will not explode unless it impacts against something. It is also quite heavier than a grenade so you can use it to drop at sharp angles behind cover. Unfortunately its quite hard to aim unless you have significant amounts of practice (which I don't) or are a subscriber of trial and error (easier with a deployed ammo box). In short, it can be used as a hand held mortar to drop explosives behind cover with the right trajectory. Most people I see use the Clark-RDX range find a certain point and just saturate the area with explosives to kill anyone that comes close. This is a bit more effective if you consider that you can cause damage behind cover as well if you put the blast radius close enough.

The Clark-RDX is the only weapon the support has that is effective in destroying vehicles. EMP grenades will disable a vehicle, but the Clark-RDX will do damage to vehicles. Granted, its not much damage, but every little bit counts. Using the fragmentation vs blast damage example you can construct an idea of where and how to approach a piece of armor to get the most effect. ANYONE can damage vehicles with their default weapon if they shoot at the weakest point (between the grills of the EU tank, under the APC, the vents of a walker, etc etc etc) with that in mind its not surprising that a frag grenade will do damage if placed close to that weak spot (behind the tank, under the APC, under the Walker, etc). Armor will still deflect the frag damage, but some of it will get past the chinks in the weaker parts of the armor due to how the area is saturated. Since the Clark-RDX follows the rules of RDX and grenades it stands to reason that those glowing balls of boom will ignore some armor and do grenade damage to vehicle. Whats even more significant is since they act like sticky grenades you can do more damage by sticking them actually in the weak spot instead of near it. It is entirely possible to destroy a vehicle if you unload a few clips (like I said, some damage) into the rear of the tank or at the knee joins of a walker.

Of course there's the last and probably most amusing aspect of the Clark-RDX. Those glowing balls of boom will stick to players and auto-kill them just like a regular RDX blast would. By Auto-Kill I mean they are unrevivable. Proximity explosions will make them revivable just like grenade blasts, but sticking a ball to the body (head and crotch being of great amusement) will kill/instagibb someone.


The one thing I can't get past is how HORRIBLE the aim is with the Clark-RDX. Its like giving basketballs to a blind kid and telling them to hit the basket. The balls go in the right direction, but the deviation is very bad going up and down as well as side to side.

Anyone else have any thoughts about the Clark-RDX?