so, basically, i thought up this topic as a way to test you guys, and see if you would do the "right" thing in a given situation. I'm gonna give you a situation, and you tell me how you can handle it. there is no right or wrong answer, but they do have to make sense. You can't just say, "i drop a grenade and kill them all" so, here's the situation:

You are playing a light engineer. You have a Kross SMG and a pistol. You have 1 mine. After setting up a turret, you go around a corner, and come face to face with the enemy. Their group is composed of 2 heavy's and a medium. One heavy is a soldier, the other is an engineer, and the medium is a medic. You have 1 grenade, but the enemy's are about 10 feet away from each other. They haven't noticed you yet, and you are only 20 feet away. There are some boxes around that could offer light cover.

So, what do you do?

Edited to be more specific.

attract attention and dash back around the corner, take some distance, throw the grenade when they're bottlenecked and then find another corner where you can wait for them to try and melee them.



edit: made a small mistake writing "cover" instead of "corner"

thats almost exactly what i would have done, since you just set up a turret around the corner, that would be the probable thing to do IMO. there's tons of other possibilities though.

I suppose it would depend on your skill level and the power of your gun.

If you had one of the "sniper" rifles, one with a relatively high rate of fire, and the skill to use it effectively in close range, chuck the grenade at the medium (the fastest), dive for cover and light 'em up.

Such a thing would be almost infeasible, but I couldn't think of anything else beyond what's been said. The bottleneck strategy there would be quite effective, assuming one of the heavies doesn't jack you with a GL before you get around the corner.

i'd melee the closest one to me that would get their attention and wound one of them then i'd spider monkey my ass back round the corner, find cover if any, once they have come round throw my nade and the turret would open fire and i would fire from cover. hopefully they die and i win

both good ideas.

chances are after you chose to melee, you would be dead. You might not even get the melee attack off.

i assumed there were no weapons apart from the melee attack and grenade...


you'd have died between wounding one and starting to spider monkey


serious?

keep in mind that they ARE spread out. i think it depends on which body type he melee's, and the reaction time of the enemy players, as well as the reaction time of the player himself

Run to the boxes, if they haven't noticed me, I'll probably take out my SMG, get a little distance, go around the corner, peep out, then pick off the medium. If they notice me, I throw a grenade over to weaken the heavies and finish them of from the same position.

i still don't get where these people get their smg's from since the only weapon i read about is 1grenade, apart from the sentry that is

The Kross SMG is a confirmed gun that has been used in multiple gameplay videos.

If they don't see me i would plant a min then throw the grenade maybe killing 1 and letting them now i am there, then i run around the corner. They step on the mine and get shot by the turret.
P.S. i didn't notice we have the same location

yeah, thats a pretty straightforward way to do it

:rolleyes:

i think i read the Kross SMG was going to be cut...

and i meant in this situation, as you only mentioned one grenade i assumed that was the only thing i could work with

yeah thats probably what i would do.

P.S. lol thats hilarious..if we met up..who would be behind who?

Really too many variable and not enough info.

What are your weapons?
What are your abilites?
Do you have mines?
What is the order of the enemies?
How spaced are they?
What weapons do they have?
What classes are they?
Do you have any teammates nearby?

Just a few things to consider.

I would: Shoot at them until they start shooting back. Once I have there attention I will run around the corner and crouch/stand next to the turret. I throw a well placed grenade at the corner where they will be bunched up and running so some of their health depletes. Once they're around the corner, my turret starts firing at them and I add firepower by shooting myself.

Cons:
I'm outnumbered.
I'm defensless.

Pros:
I have a turret.
More health then them. (Because I threw the grenade.)

Draw their attention, go around the corner, pre toss the nade and maybe come around behind them is possible, if not, use the nade and turn it into a your already hurt lets have fun shootout.

Or, throw the nade and shoot them when its about to blow, that is if they don't see me.

The smart thing would be run and find back up. But if i had to fight, id cook the grenade and toss it at a heavy and fire as soon as i threw the grenade. That should take out one heavy. After that, the enemy would then be alerted to my presence. Id run behind the corner and hope that they are stupid enough to follow. If they do, id wait for the turret to fire at one, which is then who i would fire at. That should kill that enemy(getting a look at the damage that you do in the demo). So having only one enemy left, id either die due to the damage i have been taking if any at all, or id just unload the rest of my ammo into the last enemy.

This is assuming you purchased the ability to cook nades.


This scenario is "rigged" in a way, because in everybody's answer, everything goes smoothly. People will be like, "I toss a nade, and take some of them out." How do you know? What if they saw you toss the nade, and waited for it to explode before perusing you?

try and take med with the grenade, then run around corner and wait for the heavies with my turret and try to take 'em out

edit: see H0RSE, not everybody and no, I didnt read that post of yours before posting

Run away and hope I don't get shot. They're my turret's problem now.

walk back around the corner, put a mine there, then run around the corner like you haven't done that yet, fire your pistol 3times, one bullet per player while roughly aiming at them.
run back around the corner, wait for the mine to explode, then throw a grenade and wait for them to come around the corner so you can take them out with your Kross smg and turret

better. lol