I bought some of these yesterday for the first time. I found it to be extremely dissapointing. Its literaly a time bomb that is less expensive and cannot do explosive damage. Then that brings up the question whats the point of them?

Seriously satchel charges need to have the explosion raidius of old napalms and deal 10 damage because you have to plant them, satchels gives time for opponets to run away and it even beeps so they know when the satchel will explode.
My opinion  

You bring up a great point. There's no real way to use them strategically. I say remove them and replace them with C4 similar to metal gear. You plant one at a time and have to detonate them remotely, using the same C4 icon (or change icon to a red button).  

Posted by Shock

You bring up a great point. There's no real way to use them strategically. I say remove them and replace them with C4 similar to metal gear. You plant one at a time and have to detonate them remotely, using the same C4 icon (or change icon to a red button).

agree
sorry if I'm commenting on this
the way u explain C4 will work make me thinking
"hmm P4 that can be detonate remotely"
no offense I still like your C4 suggestion  

Posted by ÈXØD¡ÄX*

agree
sorry if I'm commenting on this
the way u explain C4 will work make me thinking
"hmm P4 that can be detonate remotely"
no offense I still like your C4 suggestion

None taken.
What about P4-R? A good, non confusing name.  

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

I bought some of these yesterday for the first time. I found it to be extremely dissapointing. Its literaly a time bomb that is less expensive and cannot do explosive damage. Then that brings up the question whats the point of them?

Seriously satchel charges need to have the explosion raidius of old napalms and deal 10 damage because you have to plant them, satchels gives time for opponets to run away and it even beeps so they know when the satchel will explode.
My opinion

yes, u are correct. Satchel chrages are basically useless and is a waste of money. This is just my opinion also  

C4 does not work well with era.  

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

Most grenades/explosives do not work well with era.

Fixed.  

 

Posted by Lazerlatté

Fixed.

Gotta be kidding me right? If you know how to use that explosive then it becomes a very deadly tool  

I've never played with Satchel Charges on iEra, so I can't really say what they are here.

I do know that Satchels kicked ass on PC Era back in 2004-ish.
They had two options:

• Timed Explosion: you would set the time (5-99 seconds), set it down, and it would count down to 0, and explode.
• Toss: throw them about 6 tiles away from you, and explode upon landing.

Era PC also had Trip Mines in about 2005, which sounds like your C4 idea.
It looks like they changed the Trip mines since then, because they had better graphics and ganis before, but here's a video that pretty much shows how they worked:

 

Timed bombs are nearly never used. Timed bombs are pretty much the nerfed version of satchel charges. People may still have their freebie timed bombs.  

Posted by Meph

I've never played with Satchel Charges on iEra, so I can't really say what they are here.

I do know that Satchels kicked ass on PC Era back in 2004-ish.
They had two options:

• Timed Explosion: you would set the time (5-99 seconds), set it down, and it would count down to 0, and explode.
• Toss: throw them about 6 tiles away from you, and explode upon landing.

Era PC also had Trip Mines in about 2005, which sounds like your C4 idea.
It looks like they changed the Trip mines since then, because they had better graphics and ganis before, but here's a video that pretty much shows how they worked:

The idea is the same, but the use is more specified. The P4-R would be exactly like the trip mines, except with no "laser trip" feature. You'd just have to detonate it when you mean to.

Posted by V.

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The first one would be awesome. Just what I imagined.

No detonator GFX really necessary. Just two options when it's equipped: 1.) Place Bomb 2.) Detonate. And switching the item makes them explode, since you're not "using" the detonator.  

I will fund you to make this a reality. Take this imaginary cookie and bribe the Admins to make it. I expect 500 packages at 1900 hours.  

Posted by BabyGhost

Timed bombs are nearly never used. Timed bombs are pretty much the nerfed version of satchel charges. People may still have their freebie timed bombs.

they are good for blocking off entrances. I used to love them strategically. Place them behind a door when a MOB is coming, they all have to wait for the time to pass, flank them and shoot em from behind = ez defense  

Meph play with them. They are crap

Posted by Meph

I've never played with Satchel Charges on iEra, so I can't really say what they are here.

I do know that Satchels kicked ass on PC Era back in 2004-ish.
They had two options:

• Timed Explosion: you would set the time (5-99 seconds), set it down, and it would count down to 0, and explode.
• Toss: throw them about 6 tiles away from you, and explode upon landing.

Era PC also had Trip Mines in about 2005, which sounds like your C4 idea.
It looks like they changed the Trip mines since then, because they had better graphics and ganis before, but here's a video that pretty much shows how they worked:

Wow those would work good with iera. Trip mines would be pointless since theres proxy mines. Also what really annoys me a ton is how proxy mines explodes after 2 minutes