Noob tubing… hah. I never knew what it was until I heard someone complaining about it. So, I looked it up and realized what a crock of bull it was that people are saying they have skill when they launch a grenade at you hoping to hit you.
There have been times I’ve used the GL/Thumper. I don’t have a class set up with it now, but I usually involve skill with mine. It takes skill to stand at one end of the map, aim for a window, and hit exactly what you’re aiming for on the other end. Not luck, but skill. I don’t blindly shoot it out either, hoping someone will stumble across it. I do, occasionally, toss a frag in general direction that I know will get me kills (in fact, one of the ones I did tonight got me a triple kill because I knew where there would be people). That may not require much skill as opposed to luck, but part of skill is knowing your opponents (or rather, the strategy for each map).
It /does/ get extremely frustrating, though, when you are running around and out of nowhere, ***BOOM*** you’re dead… then you watch the kill cam and it’s just some moron pointing it up at the sky.
We could stand to get rid of the grenade launchers. Unfortunately, that will not happen.
Charneus