I know that most won’t care about this issue. I really enjoy using the Pulse Nades though in this game. They are the least effective nade in the game, but they aren’t as bad as first impressions suggest. Right now I am ranked 3rd in the world for Pulse Nade kills and love using them to send a message to the other team that I can use lower tier weapons and still dominate them. But I still agree with the general population that they are pretty useless considering one has plasmas and frags available to them.
So my request is this: Please let us spawn with 2 pulse nades if we choose it as a loadout. 343 has clearly overestimated their worth only giving us 1 to start with. I don’t imagine anyone would complain about this addition. Most wouldn’t care, and a few others would be happy.
I agree, I would use the pulse grenades if it wasn’t for starting with just one (without grenadier). They’re effective if you know how to use them correctly.
It simply doesn’t make sense that you can spawn with two plasma grenades but only one pulse. It should be the other way around.
I also have a pretty large amount of pulse grenade kills, and agree that 2 pulse grenades at spawn is fair. I think 343 made only one an option because they were afraid of pulse grenade spam blocking off many paths at once or something, although I’ve never seen them as becoming a significant problem.
It was pretty fair in the beginning when the game came out to make people start with 1… The biggest advantage to me is that with resupply, a player can amass many grenades and have an impressive volley and just when they think your done throwing your nades and try to close the gap… Bam pulsed and headshot.
Pulse grenades are easy to use; just plant one at the feet of your opponent (very easy to do) and then go for the headshot. Making people spawn with 2 of them would see an increase in its frequency of useage, which could result in them becoming just as annoying as the plasma grenades are now.
Both grenade types are rediculously easy to use, especially as a last resort when you’re about to die. They grant you cheap and easy kills in a lot of situations.
An additional advantage of reducing sticky starts to 1 is vehicle balance in BTB.
> I would rather reduce plasma grenade starts to 1.
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> Pulse grenades are easy to use; just plant one at the feet of your opponent (very easy to do) and then go for the headshot. Making people spawn with 2 of them would see an increase in its frequency of useage, which could result in them becoming just as annoying as the plasma grenades are now.
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> Both grenade types are rediculously easy to use, especially as a last resort when you’re about to die. They grant you cheap and easy kills in a lot of situations.
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> An additional advantage of reducing sticky starts to 1 is vehicle balance in BTB.
People rarely use pulse grenades. They might be easy for some people, but most do not use it.
> > I would rather reduce plasma grenade starts to 1.
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> > Pulse grenades are easy to use; just plant one at the feet of your opponent (very easy to do) and then go for the headshot. Making people spawn with 2 of them would see an increase in its frequency of useage, which could result in them becoming just as annoying as the plasma grenades are now.
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> > Both grenade types are rediculously easy to use, especially as a last resort when you’re about to die. They grant you cheap and easy kills in a lot of situations.
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> > An additional advantage of reducing sticky starts to 1 is vehicle balance in BTB.
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> People rarely use pulse grenades. They might be easy for some people, but most do not use it.
You also can easily do this with a Frag too, and I find the Pulse Grenades much harder to throw. The game probably only gives you 1 because it had an EMP effect when originally implemented in the PAX Build a year ago.
> How do you find out your world rank when it comes to kills with paticular weapons?
The only way I know about is from HTR (HaloTracker). There you can also see the rank in a specific country (or the world) for every weapon and medal. But I think only the registered on that website are in the statistics, not everyone.