It appears that more often than not if a plasma grenade lands on you DURING armor lock it will still kill you and count as a stick, this has happened to me at least 4 times in a standard game. My friend got a clip of it on his file share here
This happens sooo often, I realize that you can die if you are stuck before armor lock but this is during the lock while having plenty of remaining energy.
There is a serious problem with AL.
It is still in matchmaking.
I fail to see how this is a problem, a bug, or anything that should be changed, OP.
The only problem with it is that it doesn’t drain enough to warrant firing at it.
> It appears that more often than not if a plasma grenade lands on you DURING armor lock it will still kill you and count as a stick, this has happened to me at least 4 times in a standard game. My friend got a clip of it on his file share here
> This happens sooo often, I realize that you can die if you are stuck before armor lock but this is during the lock while having plenty of remaining energy.
If that is the case. They might as well remove it. AL is now useless
> > There is a serious problem with AL.
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> > It is still in matchmaking.
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> Haha, this! Simply this!
^ Couldn’t have put it better myself. Take Armour Lock out
The only useful thing about AL is MM with vehicles thats it, it gives just a little bit of chance to anyone on foot. Other than that I despise AL and the Jet Pack…in fact I despise all these stupid armor abilities, why would an augmented super soldier need an armor ability just to run fast…
I’m just a grunt and I can run fast…no armor abilities here…
i thought TU was up just to prepare for the changes i thought they werent gonna be put into effect yet??
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> It appears that more often than not if a plasma grenade lands on you DURING armor lock it will still kill you and count as a stick
Thats part of the update…
no more sticky shedding.
Hahaha that video was great. Good job 343, the only way armor lock could possibly get any better is if it was removed from MM entirely.
What i think is that AL should be used for playlists with a high number of players, for example, in a 4 vs 4, one team could all choose to use AL, and would screw up the game by just spamming grenades and getting into AL. Now, in a BTB on Paradiso or Hemorrhage, or Premium Battle, it serves it’s actual purpose: To make the user survive a direct hit that would have been fatal, like a rocket, a banshee bomb, a wraith, or a piece of scrap/destroyed vehicle at 200MPH (Come on, you know it happens everyday)
So yeah, AL should be used for Open places with big team battles. That is all.
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I also see no real problem with this, it will serve the user right for standing in an open area against people with stickies. That’s hardly a problem. Even then, they’ve been tormenting other players for over a year now, so now the tables will have turned.
So now that it actually has a counter it’s broken? I’d rather say it’s fixed.
> So now that it actually has a counter it’s broken? I’d rather say it’s fixed.
Counter, stay back, wait a maximum amount of 6 seconds, shoot in the head. Most of the time when someone use AL their shield is already gone and a headshot will be enough…
I never got what peoples problem was, I love AL, not that I use it myself as I prefer having sprint or hologram, but because of the easy kills, it’s much easier to kill someone standing still coming out of AL than someone moving around.
As for what the OP said, I just think he means the grenade shouldn’t kill the player and definitely not count as a stick, just simply pop him out of AL. I’d have to agree, AL was so ridiculously easy to counter before it’s gonna be worthless now if it won’t even save it’s use from a grenade.
Maybe we should double the energy usage of the jetpack, sprint and evade while we are at it? 
I just don’t understand why people think AL was ever a good idea, or easy to counter. They gobble up power weapons, and most people press AL several times in quick succession with full shields just to strip yours and then melee you. What I want to see is people actually out DMR or outskilling an opponent, not spamming AL all day (and what’s with people practically walking with it on for several seconds that I see far too often in MM - is this a cheat or another instance of AL being broken?) Obviously poeple think that power weapons should be useless, and that AL combat is fun - I have yet to see an AL player actually kill me without AL.
Thed only time AL should be justified is if you are going for that AL achievement, and even then that is in BTB or Invasion, where the impact of one Al player is reduced.
Good 
Well, how much energy does a plasma grenade drain from AL? Is it possible that it’s draining the energy and the rest of the damage is bleeding through to kill you?
How much health did you had when you went to AL?