I first want to start this off with saying:
I killed a full shielded banshee with one splinter grenade, and it had already sunstained one AR clip from long range, basically doing nothing, and basically nothing else. I don’t know why I didn’t record it, but say la ve. I’m not making this another topic about how unfair it is for people to be able to run up to someone, hit RB and get a free kill in most of the time 1/2 of a second. That’s unrespectable, it’s cheap, it’s kinda annoying. But we all do it anyway, and it’s still fair game. What I’m talking about is how could ONE splinter grenade kill a banshee? With no/very minimal damage?! I’ve had mutiple occurences also of splinter grenades destroying way to armoured stuff it shouldn’t be able to destroy.
I honestly think that 343 has some of the weapon logic messed up. You need 1 clip from a hydra to take down a banshee, but with one splinter grenade it’s easy.
It’s kinda weird.
Have you guys had any stuff like this happen?
/discuss
well first question is, what level of banchee? Regular, sword, ultra, temple? Plus you have to remember that there are balances to the game this grenade is super strong but really hard to “land” and obvious. If you throw a splinter into the chest of a fellow spartan they’re dead, usually with only two “splinters” used in the process leaving behind the five. If it was a regular banchee I can easily see it taking all the splinters and dying.
Without video there is nothing to comment on, as there are a multitiude of factors you may not be accounting for in your description. There have been times when things happen on odd/weird things happen on the battle field, but when I review the tape, most can be explained.
I’m heavily doubting this myself. Full Shielded means little when one particle causes an EMP effect.
Even if this is true, it either takes a lot of skill to kill a banshee with a splinter grenade, or a stupid pilot to fly low and slow enough to be hit by one.
I’ve never seen a splinter kill a banshee before, ever and like abother postercsaid I can’t really give input on something I can’t analyze.
Regardless though splinter grenades are to strong in general. To many rely on it’s ohk capabilities from the get go of a fight or use it as a last resort when losing, irks me so much. I use it primarily to just block entrances off or to stun vehicles momentarily, I don’t find value in tossing them at people (although I probably could since grenades spawn like crazy in these maps).
Is it in your recent game history or was it a while ago when this happened?