BF2S Forums Help my mines arent working :p

Yes, it sucks, in BF42 it was 0 seconds.

I thought it had more to do with the vicinity in which you placed them as in like they won't blow you up too so you gots to git away from them before they will go off.

slicknic wrote:

if they armed instantly, people would run around throwing claymores in gun fights, then running  (they already do this enough ><)

But it takes a bit too long atm.. if you had 2 seconds, you would only be fraggins blind people and fools

stryyker wrote:

mines are a strategic asset. deploy them with strategy, so you can be 1/2 a map away and still kill someone

that is awsomez lol

I despise claymores, and I despise myself when I use them. One of my favorite strategies is to pick up the kit of snipers I've killed and chuck their claymores around before getting my own kit and moving on. There are times when I'll have 6-8 claymores spread around a base, and a little more of my soul withers and dies when someone walks into one.

They are quite effective though.

iPoon.be wrote:

slicknic wrote:

if they armed instantly, people would run around throwing claymores in gun fights, then running  (they already do this enough ><)

But it takes a bit too long atm.. if you had 2 seconds, you would only be fraggins blind people and fools

2 seconds is stilll quite fast... claymores are supposed to be a defensive tool, and i think the time could be increased... expecially  since they are indestructable.

Skruples wrote:

stryyker wrote:

Skruples wrote:

I despise claymores, and I despise myself when I use them. One of my favorite strategies is to pick up the kit of snipers I've killed and chuck their claymores around before getting my own kit and moving on. There are times when I'll have 6-8 claymores spread around a base, and a little more of my soul withers and dies when someone walks into one.

They are quite effective though.

really, cause you can only deploy 2 at a time kthx.

You don't say?
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9264 … 0694qd.jpg

vat de fuck?

edit: i was saying like with the same kit

Last edited by stryyker (2006-07-11 16:07:17)

I'm sure you'll figure it out, I left you two clues in the screenshot. Anyway, I think claymores would be much more balanced if there was a setup time associated with throwing one, say, 2 or 3 seconds. It would put a stop to all the yahoos running around chucking claymores in firefights.

i dont think u planted all those claymores on a normal server or recently... cuz i can only lay 2

Skruples wrote:

I did that about 10 minutes ago. Cmon man THINK! There is a discarded sniper kit laying in the foreground... I suicided 5 times very recently. How do you think I planted more than 2?

my point was you cant plant more than 2 WITH THE SAME KIT

iPoon.be wrote:

(at that point the mine gets excited to see its creator again and tries to impress me with fireworks.)

lolz, im get that all the time. those lil buggers never learn to keep calm.

rolluf69 wrote:

î know that in real time a mine takes about 10 seconds to arm and a claymore something like 15 and it is to not blow your self up,so at bf2 it takes less and running from someone and dropping a claymore is gay anyway

Actually, I think the time to "arm" an AT mine IRL is a lot higher than that... OK, I know technology has progressed the last couple of years... But when I was young (*sigh*... Sounding like the old fart that I am), you actually had to DIG A HOLE to put the mine in, then arm it and bury it again (to avoid the mine being seen). On average, it'd be rare to be able to lay out more than a couple of mines in an HOUR (they're also damned heavy, so just moving them from the box to where you want to bury them is a task in it self). And on the downside, the enemy will just roll in a mine sweeper, or fore one of those new smart missles that blows up all mines in a 25 meter corridor, making all your hard work go to waste....

As for a claymore. The actual claymore is easy, just plant it in the gound/tree/sand/whereever and pull the safety. However, the trigger is tripwire, so THAT takes some time to do, as you have to tie up the wire end somewhere, pull it tight, then connect it to the trigger, making ABSOLUTELY sure that you didn't connect the wire to something that will move in a light breeze... All labours of love, ofcourse (!)