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Posted by: Hylebos
Posted by: the n00b pwner
another example would be the lotus anti-tank mine to replace the trip mine
True, but realize why they didn't add a mine into the game that is capable of killing tanks in one hit.
I don't know about you, but after several betrayals at the hands of silly team mates, I no longer just throw a trip mine out and hope that a vehicle runs over it. I now carry the tripmine around with me, and treat it as a 5th grenade. While frags, plasmas, fires, and spike grenades do not go through bubble shields, the tripmine is equipment, not a weapon, so it does. Its easy to safely kill a weakened shotgunner hiding behind the walls of a bubble just by jumping and pressing X, or at the very least, killing his shields.
Now, imagine that we have something powerful enough to kill a tank. Now I essentially have a one hit kill weapon that can go through equipment and that can be deployed just before I die. I could run into the flag room, try to kill a defender, but before I die I can kill him instantly in a much quicker way than swapping to rockets and shooting one at my feet.
Thats why we don't have one hit kill mines in multiplayer. If we did have an anti-tank lotus mine, it would need to have 10 seconds to arm, to prevent it's use in infantry situations.
i guess a 10 second arm is fair, so why not