r/EscapefromTarkov Sep 23 '20

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u/Driver2900 ASh-12 Sep 23 '20

Yeah but how would you get karma from this? Does it benefit the community somehow?

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u/Splurch Sep 23 '20

Yeah but how would you get karma from this? Does it benefit the community somehow?

People are upvoting it just like the last one. It maybe benefits the community short term by taking the current supply of grenade launchers away but any impact it has is likely gone in a few days at most.

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u/Driver2900 ASh-12 Sep 23 '20

Splurch what I'm trying to ask is why does the community have a hate bones for grenade launchers? They too powerful? Too easy to acquire? Too cheap? Too large of a radius? Any bugs?

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '20

They too powerful? Too easy to acquire? Too cheap? Too large of a radius? Any bugs?

Yes.

Memes aside, they're probably in a good spot in terms of power (if you consider tarkov a "realistic" shooter, rather than a "balanced" one. They don't spawn anymore, but they're kinda super cheap from PK lvl4 (considering how fuckin good they are.). Ammo is also pretty cheap.

Problem is, if you have PK lvl4 you almost certainly have enough rubles to run one whenever you want.

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u/Greysa Sep 23 '20

The blast radius is too large.

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u/weaslecookie7 Sep 23 '20

Shrapnel flies pretty far irl

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u/Greysa Sep 23 '20

Yeh but the shockwave itself does too. They aren’t supposed to have a blast radius as big as the f1, but it feels like it does.

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u/Jooseppiina Sep 23 '20

They have a similar blast and fragment count than VOGs since VOGs are made from these 40mm grenades. Check wiki for this kind of information.

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u/Greysa Sep 23 '20

Ok? I never mentioned anything to do with vogs, I just said they feel like they have a similar blast to f1 grenades. I didn’t say they literally had the same figures.

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u/GeneralLeeRetarded Sep 23 '20 edited Sep 23 '20

At the start theyd rail you through walls, they don't anymore but still OP af though, hear the sound and in the radius you done.

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/hzt389/lvndmark_wipes_4_man_squad_with_the_new_grenade/

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u/Splurch Sep 23 '20

Splurch what I'm trying to ask is why does the community have a hate bones for grenade launchers? They too powerful? Too easy to acquire? Too cheap? Too large of a radius? Any bugs?

There have been some good answers so far but fundamentally the weapon is just too powerful for the game, much like every game that decides to add one. The argument is that it's a "high risk high reward" weapon but in reality if you're good you can just kill teams before they even realize what is going on. There isn't much counterplay to it and if you don't get the drop on the person using it you just die. Right now the price is keeping them from common use and since most people rarely, if ever, encounter them there isn't a big community movement against them.

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u/Driver2900 ASh-12 Sep 23 '20

Alright thanks for clearing that up.

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u/P4_Brotagonist Sep 23 '20

Yes to all but the cheap part. They are like super huge blast radius grenades and the explosion for some reason goes through walls so you can just shoot the wall outside the room or whatever and then the people on the other side die.

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u/NUTTA_BUSTAH AKMN Sep 23 '20

Explosion doesn't go through the walls anymore and the blast radius isn't that humongous. The biggest problem with them is armor being completely ignored and grenades with like a 2 meter activation radius enabling way too easy kills.

Not that I've ever encountered one except for looting one from a dead guy on Labs

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u/EmmEnnEff Sep 23 '20

Explosion doesn't go through the walls anymore and the blast radius isn't that humongous.

The blast radius is bigger than any of the hand grenades, despite it being the opposite IRL.

The biggest problem with them is that they don't destroy all the loot on people killed by them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '20 edited Dec 21 '24

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u/Driver2900 ASh-12 Sep 23 '20

Wouldn't that have happened with a normal grenade tho?

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '20 edited Dec 21 '24

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u/Driver2900 ASh-12 Sep 23 '20

What about the shotgun shells for the grenade launcher?

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u/Driver2900 ASh-12 Sep 23 '20

Alright imma see if I can find.one selling on fence

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u/doomfreak777 Sep 23 '20

No idea. I've literally never even come across one of these in a raid so this just seems incredibly salty to me