I am so sick of people who suicide stick.
For those who don’t know what suicide sticking is, it’s when you know you are going to die because the other person is better than you so you just spam your plasma grenades at them in the hope that you will kill them, it usually occurs when you get the first melee on someone and they know they are about to die.
I am just so fed up with it, it seems that no matter what lobby i go into there is always one or more players (who has a better connection than me) and don’t have any skill whatsoever so they have to rely on a tactic that is incredibly annoying
Sorry about this rant but it just annoys me so much!!!
Tell me what you think about it and what could be done to stop this problem, i personally think that your only load out grenade should be the frag and the plasma and pulse grenades should be an ordinance item.
^ This
Spawning with stickies is probably the worst bit about loadouts, don’t get me wrong, I really like the rest, but plasma grenades drive me crazy!
About the ordnance I think you would have to make them have a slightly larger AOE to be worthwhile when you could choose a rocket launcher instead. Oh and also pulse grenades can in now way be classified as ordnance…
It’s even worse, when the sticker basically just runs towards you with the intention of sticking you from up close.
15 kills, 0 deaths, noope. Sticky grenade.
> I am so sick of people who suicide stick.
> For those who don’t know what suicide sticking is, it’s when you know you are going to die because the other person is better than you so you just spam your plasma grenades at them in the hope that you will kill them, <mark>it usually occurs when you get the first melee on someone and they know they are about to die.</mark>
> I am just so fed up with it, it seems that no matter what lobby i go into there is always one or more players (who has a better connection than me) and don’t have any skill whatsoever so they have to rely on a tactic that is incredibly annoying
>
> Sorry about this rant but it just annoys me so much!!!
>
> Tell me what you think about it and what could be done to stop this problem, i personally think that your only load out grenade should be the frag and the plasma and pulse grenades should be an ordinance item.
I have about six thousand plasma nade kills (18000 DMR kills).
I use neither anymore! I am a frag/pulse nade guy now and always.
I currently rock with Storm Rifle/Carbine combo as I work towards Weapon Mastery.
As for plasma/pulse being ordnance only, no. You only get one Pulse nade unless you use the Grenadier mod. There are no grounds for removing the Pulse nade from load-outs, IMO. As for the Plasma nade, I don’t mind if it is reduced to one in the load-outs just as the Pulse currently is. The fact that people can’t run round picking up nades off dead people like in Halo Reach is good (unless you use Resupply); however, two plasmas is one to many.
BTW, when I used to use stickies, my response to your post would have been: if you got a Melee on me first, using a sticky is 100 per cent legit. I’ll make sure you go down with me and thus it is a trade off; why on Earth do I want your team to go up one kill! If someone is that close to me, they have to know they run the risk of not coming of best; which begs the question, who is the better player!
Also, I have about five thousand Melees so, assuming I’m a sucicde sticky bomber who is not a good player would be wrong; I can Melee with the best of them!
What is it with the ‘skill’ angle?
I agree with you OP (that it is an annoying tactic), but the skill argument means nothing. It’s about surviving, or taking the enemy with you.
Because, if someone is getting shot at close range and about to die, they’re not simply going to say “ah bugger, might as well get it over with, then I’ll respawn. Throw my plasma grenade, you say? Don’t be stupid. Where’s the skill in that? I hold onto it purely for decorative purpose. It goes well with my shoulder pads”
No. They throw the bleeding grenade.
Nah it is annoying getting stuck but hey I have stuck others so I am not going to condemn them for doing so.
If you are going to get up in my face then expect the unexpected & if you dont expect a plasma then more fool you!
Hmmmm ok I have just confused myself haha
Curse them for not just standing there and dying!!
And here is me thinking the game is about killing your enemy no matter what.
All’s fair in love and war…
Excuses are the nails in the house of failure.
Well, I have been known to kamikaze when the going gets tough…
This tends to happen to me alot in KotH, Odball, and occasionally BTS, its annoying, but thats how some people play.
I will say I hate the “vortex” the sticky grenade seems to have, ive seen plasma nades curve at me and stick me when it seems they should go wide of my spartan frame, to me those are the most annoying, when a bad throw is still rewarded
they’re probably trying to master plasma grenade commendations.
> > I am so sick of people who suicide stick.
> > For those who don’t know what suicide sticking is, it’s when you know you are going to die because the other person is better than you so you just spam your plasma grenades at them in the hope that you will kill them, <mark>it usually occurs when you get the first melee on someone and they know they are about to die.</mark>
> > I am just so fed up with it, it seems that no matter what lobby i go into there is always one or more players (who has a better connection than me) and don’t have any skill whatsoever so they have to rely on a tactic that is incredibly annoying
> >
> > Sorry about this rant but it just annoys me so much!!!
> >
> > Tell me what you think about it and what could be done to stop this problem, i personally think that your only load out grenade should be the frag and the plasma and pulse grenades should be an ordinance item.
>
> I <mark>have about six thousand plasma nade kills</mark> (18000 DMR kills).
>
> I use neither anymore! I am a frag/pulse nade guy now and always.
>
> I currently rock with Storm Rifle/Carbine combo as I work towards Weapon Mastery.
>
> As for plasma/pulse being ordnance only, no. You only get one Pulse nade unless you use the Grenadier mod. There are no grounds for removing the Pulse nade from load-outs, IMO. As for the Plasma nade, I don’t mind if it is reduced to one in the load-outs just as the Pulse currently is. The fact that people can’t run round picking up nades off dead people like in Halo Reach is good (unless you use Resupply); however, two plasmas is one to many.
>
> BTW, when I used to use stickies, my response to your post would have been: if you got a Melee on me first, using a sticky is 100 per cent legit. I’ll make sure you go down with me and thus it is a trade off; why on Earth do I want your team to go up one kill! If someone is that close to me, they have to know they run the risk of not coming of best; which begs the question, who is the better player!
>
> Also, I have about five thousand Melees so, assuming I’m a sucicde sticky bomber who is not a good player would be wrong; I can Melee with the best of them!
I am shocked. OVER 6000! Grenades were primarly only backup, now it’s definetly not …
I remember someone suggesting that the Plasma Grenade should travel a set distance before it can stick to enemy players, therefore eliminating the point-blank stickies people spam.
Annoying as it is, I have to say it is pretty funny seeing the blue plasma swirling on your face before you blow up if someone stuck the helmet.
> This tends to happen to me alot in KotH, Odball, and occasionally BTS, its annoying, but thats how some people play.
>
> I will say I hate the “vortex” the sticky grenade seems to have, ive seen plasma nades curve at me and stick me when it seems they should go wide of my spartan frame, to me those are the most annoying, when a bad throw is still rewarded
Yeah I’ve noticed that too, on a game of BTB on Settler yesterday, a guy threw a plasma nade towards me I moved out the way and from about 4 yards away it suddenly stuck me at a right angle to where it was, WTF!!! I put it down to lag, if stuff like that happens its usually Settler it happens on!
Is there any sort of “homing” feature like there is in the rocket pistol, sorry plasma pistol?
For my fellow suicide stickers out there, do not listen to the cries of these infidels. Let them all die in the hot molten plasma!!!
Really though, it is annoying as hell to be killed by a dude who is like 5-10 and plasma grenades are always his top method of destruction.
It is most certainly annoying, and affect automatic users quite a bit. But it’s clever, the entire ‘taking the enemy down with you’ tactic. I guess it’s one of the down sides of getting to spawn with plasmas. Being able to only spawn with frag/pulse (and increase pulse to 2, it’s not like it’s OP) in MM would be good. In Spartan Ops, you should still be able to spawn with plasmas.
The most annoying is when you’re playing regicide.
If I’m not getting shot by some guy with his jetpack and assault rifle, I’m getting killed by someone who just sprinted all the way across the map, stuck me in the face and killed himself.
I mean, really? Where’s the fun in that. I understand suicide sticking when they’re about to die (it’s still annoying) but one guy did this the entire match where he’d just charge at me and try to stick me.
Of all the matches I hated playing, that’s definitely up in the top.
I like doing what I refer to as “grunting.” I stick a friendly with a plasma or a detonator and then have them run at the enemy team… It’s a funny way to rack up kills.