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Subject: How do plasma grenades work?
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How do they manage to stick to the enemy, but not walls or your hand?

  • 08.23.2011 11:07 AM PDT

Death to rank junkies.

I'm assuming the sticky feature activates a couple of seconds after the grenade is primed. How it chooses what to stick to, I have no clue.

  • 08.23.2011 11:24 AM PDT

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It also sticks to vehicles so I guess it depends on the internal temperature to stick.
Or if it detects electrical pulses at the targets surface.

I think that the sticky feature won't activate until you stop pressing it.
(suicide grunts fling them into the air if killed)

  • 08.23.2011 11:36 AM PDT

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The stickyness is activated after you throw it and for some reason it doesn't stick to walls. I like the spike grenade better.

  • 08.23.2011 11:38 AM PDT

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Left trigger.

  • 08.23.2011 11:47 AM PDT

My best guess is it's one of the closest parodies of Forerunner tech the covenant use. It probably uses a very complicated targeting system that must some how "know" what is and isn't a target. Perhaps using some relic of the Forerunners, or lifted right off a Flood War era smart bomb.

  • 08.23.2011 12:52 PM PDT

Read the books and Halsey's journal. It sticks cuz it melt into the targets skin. Not sticking to walls is just for gameplay

  • 08.23.2011 12:53 PM PDT
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It would stick to the walls, but that would be silly in the game. You press button then ah -blam!- that was hot

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  • 08.23.2011 1:16 PM PDT

look fore plasma granade at halo.wikia.com

  • 08.23.2011 2:11 PM PDT

yeah i like spike better but plasma grenades have a better area of affect

  • 08.23.2011 2:23 PM PDT

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It likely has a little sensor inside that looks for some sort of biological or heat signature, or maybe both, or something else.

It likely then releases some sort of chemical on the grenade, causing that weird flames effect on the outside to become adhesive, and activates a countdown timer.


When the timer goes off, it likely releases a little plasma core to make an explosion, vaporizing the grenade and anything close enough to the explosion.


/speculation

  • 08.23.2011 2:53 PM PDT


Posted by: M5inTheBu
Read the books and Halsey's journal. It sticks cuz it melt into the targets skin. Not sticking to walls is just for gameplay


This is my favorite response... makes the most sense and is simple.

  • 08.23.2011 2:52 PM PDT

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I like it to, as well as the left trigger.

  • 08.23.2011 3:01 PM PDT

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This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

It has a device which allows to differentiate between designated threats and non-threats.

But I too have a question about the Plasma Grenade. When it sticks, is it basically plasma which allows it fuse to it's target? So let's say the grenade dosent detonate, would the grenade just peel off or would it stick doing burns of all type of degrees?

  • 08.23.2011 3:39 PM PDT


Posted by: M5inTheBu
Read the books and Halsey's journal. It sticks cuz it melt into the targets skin. Not sticking to walls is just for gameplay


That makes no sense, because you're able to stick Elites on their thick armor plates.

[Edited on 08.23.2011 3:58 PM PDT]

  • 08.23.2011 3:58 PM PDT

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Either a timer with a button, or a certain amount of pressure and a timer. But I think it's like a normal grenade (with plasma. The grenade wielder presses a button on the grenade and then throws it onto his target, once the sticky shell of the plasma grenade hits it's target the plasma is released from some sort of explosion with in the grenade. (That's just what I think)

  • 08.23.2011 4:14 PM PDT

Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Posted by: H0FFman J
Or if it detects electrical pulses at the targets surface.


This would be the most logical reason. After all, we do know that plasma grenades, when they detonate, release a small EMP burst.

  • 08.23.2011 4:17 PM PDT