"Don’t use them when you’re up against the NPCs and the predator is already dead! "
All it does is make a veil of unseeable shit that makes NPCs tough to see.
ANd when you;re surrounded by tall grass…doesn’t make it any better. just more challenging when it shouldnt.
Please dont!
Don’t use them if the predator is alive just as well… Well not unless you couple them with thermal device.
Honestly, these grenades are almost a rare thing to use. They rarely prove to me that they are useful in combat asides from create a diversion. and even still it is rare to create a diversion at the chopper/ or at the body of a dead predator.
I think that people use them to seem cool without knowing the disadvantages. It only messes with your vision. The Predator can just use thermal to see through the smoke. I actually won a couple of games because they used smoke and couldn’t see me in time.
I love it when the fireteam uses smoke at the extraction point… i just run in and drop bear traps that they cant see , and just wait …
smoke is fine when paired with a thermal device as then both sides can’t see anything
Depends if you have a melee predator, if you do, you’re helping him.
Even in a cloud of smoke and thermal, Predator can still see the red scan icon above your head and can just got for that.
So with smoke vs Predator, you are probably just handicapping yourself and wasting an equipment slot for thermal. In my opinion.
sadly that clip doesn’t show if the red icon appears during a thermal + smoke so i can’t believe your statement
as the red icon appeared when the FT was out of his smoke +thermal regardless if the predator was in it
and also the speed at which the red icon appears is based on how many times you scanned them
so by using both your taking a bet predator hasn’t bothered to scan the FT which
in my time playing the predator i never waste my time doing that
FT was using both at the time. We had a conversation after the match. He had dropped both on the corner hoping to blind me.
Also you can see smoke in regular view and the thermal when I switch the bio mask on.
Actually at 0:12 ish you can’t see through thermal…or smoke. Good against Predator…but thats not my point. Read the OP.
At 0:12 I cannot see the FT directly, but I can see the red scan icon above his head through the thermal. That is what I was trying to say.
Also onced scanned you can see the icon through smoke as well.
It is happening pretty fast though, so I have been wronger…
I like the smoke effects as far as visuals go. The real life applications of smoke are undeniable. Implementing smoke as a useful game mechanic in close quarters combat is difficult! I think smoke as implemented in this game so far is more detrimental to FT than predator.
I guess I can see them as a run away tactic but even then I don’t think the area of coverage can even be useful.
Okay, sorry if you feel I did not read the OP. My train of thought is that you are advising to only use smoke against the Predator.
Since smoke is countered by the bio mask, smoke against the Predator is barely an inconvenience. To even have it be a factor, FT pretty much needs to also pair it with thermal.
So I present evidence that even in a cloud of smoke and thermal, the FT is still not safe from the Predator. Leading to the logical deduction that both have very limited use cases and probably hinder the FT more than the Predator.
Which I think supports your advice in the OP indirectly by pointing out that smoke is not only a hindrance to the FT, it is not much of a hindrance to the Predator. So using smoke at all (vs NPC or vs Predator) is probably doing yourself more harm than good.
I hope that makes sense, thanks!
I hoope the title didn’t throw you off either. This isn’t a sexest remark. so i changed it. I’m sorry if you misunderstood the post. sorry!
