The Plasma Pistol and Pulse Grenade commendations.
One issue I find with these is that you NEED kills with both of these. And these two alone can’t do much. I can understand a little that why we need to kill players with these, but there are a few problems:
Plasma Pistol
It can take on the players shields, but not the flesh of them. Which would mean you taking on a DMR person, you better be praying he’s a terrible shot. Any CQC rifles (AR, Storm Rifle, Suppressor,) is going to stop you cold.
It costs a ton of charge to use. 100% and 150% = 50% and 75%. Each normal shot from it costs two charge, simple math really.
It overheats pretty fast, might I add. The other generations of the weapon it took a long time for it to overheat, without overcharging it.
Lastly, it was meant to take on vehicles, not players.
Pulse Grenade
It’s not like the Frag or Plasma. It does not explode and do damage, it’s a force field. And players know to stay away from it, well because they see it.
You only spawn with only one of these. You don’t spawn with two, unless you pack the Grenadier Tactical Package. And I’m questioning why we only spawn with one.
Not very effective against vehicles. Plasma Grenades do that role.
These are my problems with those commendations as I see. Anyone else agree? What would you suggest as a alternative to obtain these commendations?
I think you should also be concerned about the Mongoose Destroyer. Once I get to SR-130, I’ll be driving around like a maniac and letting people have their fill of Mongoose destruction after a few kills to prevent a ban for boosting.
As for the Plasma Pistol, you can just fire two shots, melee, one shot if they have full health and shields in Regicide. If you get close enough for a melee which is actually rare in a lot of cases for me atleast.
And Pulse Grenade, use it when they’re cornered and almost dead.
I have 2 plasma pistol kills. I have no idea how I got the first one.
My second one I completely charged the plasma pistol and shot it at a ghost. It just happened to hit the driver who had no shields and he died. I’m not even going to bother with that commendation.
So far I’m at the expert part of the pulse grenade commendation. When you see someone coming in from a cornor, throw it right infront of them and their shields will get damaged, then they can be come an easy 1 shot. Also, if your shields are down, then the pulse grenade will instantly kill you.(its my favorate grenade)
Throw a frag then finish them with normal uncharged shots for an easy PP kill. Dexterity+Grenadier help here. Play 4v4 slayer for more kills, regicide is just going to score you 50+ kill assists and no PP kills.
For pulse grenades, hit the player on foot with an EMP then throw a pulse grenade to finish him. If they are in a ghost/ warthog/ mongoose/ banshee, hit the vehicle with an EMP, throw a pulse grenade where the ennemy would get kicked off after being hijacked then board his ride. He will land stunned+unshielded near/inside the pulse grenade. Grenadier+ordnance priority (call in more pulse grenades) or Grenadier+Drop Recon (help you find grenade drops) help here.
> I think these Commendations should be ‘Kills including these weapons’ rather than Kills.
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> The Hammer is a good one as well, though I’d prefer to try for that than either of the other two.
That’ll be easy to get when Grifball comes out, along with the Sword commedation, hint hint…
