and you dont really need engineer. u can just spam it on nuketown. 95% of the time you are going to get hit mark. and plus, it is 9v9 if you play nukejacked playlist.
It's still pretty useful for rushing situations. Like when a team holds up together in a game of Kill Confirmed and sits tons of Betties and Trophies around, one good roll of an EMP and a couple of frags/Semtex/C4 (the last of which is ever so helpful) and that entire team is either booking it out of that room, or their gonna be blown to bits by the grenade spam.
How I use an EMP grenade? I use it as both an instant sensor grenades, because if it EMP's somebody, then I get a hitmark, meaning I will know if there's somebody over there, furthermore, if there's equipment, there's mostly a player closeby, so how I use them? I use them to look around.
The number 1 benefit from emp nades and the reason i have them on 8/10 of my classes is the 50 score from assists which is easy to get from almost every emp you throw. with reaching through walls it adds up tremendously especially with hardline
i was playing tdm on hijacked and there was 3 guys camping upstairs by a-dom they had everything gaurdians gaurding the doors sentry gun on the balcony claymores and tac inserts. i threw one emp on the balcony and one inside the room and it was all gone i ran in there with a vector and easy kills.
Great episode as always. It's amazing after playing many games days worth of time that I'm still learning something useful with every in depth episode. Keep um coming man.
You can think of it as a general response to the initial blast, it's almost as if your character is acting as if a flashbang or concussion has gone off around him because, after all, he is in the heat of battle, the blast of an EMP could lead to the same initial flinch of a concussion, it just lasts less time.
So do I. And if you have slayers on your team they can give you the 50 point assists which means they help you greatly. I also use EMP's to create a fast recovery if i'm flashed or stunned :D
with all of the quick scoping lobbies I run into in groundwar EMP grenades are amazing, one throw can get 100-200 points worth of tac inserts, plus anyone hit nets the 50 assist points.
thats a pretty good class, but one exception. Say both FHJ rockets, black hat, and EMP are used up, and you have no scavenger. you could either swap the attatchment on the PDW and add scavenger with perk 2 greed, or dump your primary option for an LMG with FMJ and Quickdraw. that will still take out ground streaks relatively fast
Agreed. The fact that a fucking EMP in your pocket with the blast radius of a nuclear bomb could take out Sentry Guns and Guardians in one shot is fucking ridiculous. It should of worked a bit like this. Cut the blast radius in half. Make so it stuns Sentries and Guardians, but doesn't kill them. Then while they're stunned, you have the option of running up to them and knife them to take them out. As for AGRs, make so it stuns them so you have the option of laying down some damage on the AGR in that time frame.(Bonus Note-Also, I'd make it so C4 isn't a one shoot to an AGR. Whoever came up with the brilliant idea of having an AGR to be a one hit kill with C4 needs to be shot)
Alex Norton Uh... what? Yes. I know that knifing a sentry or guardian does nothing. But in my opinion, an EMP shouldn't destroy a Sentry or Guardian, but just stun it and give you the option of running up to it and knife it for a one hit kill. My point is that it shouldn't be that fucking easy to destroy a 5+ killstreak like that.
Ze Doctor Yeah, it's harder to break a UAV than a Sentry Gun, because EMP spammers break the sentry in one hit instantly, while to break a UAV you need to stop, look up, pull out a launcher or Black Hat, and aim and shoot. It's BS that EMP spammers can just break a sentry without sweat while you can easily die when trying to shoot something down.
emp is so useful it kills hunter killer drone, sentry guns and dragonfire. Also destroys claymores, c4, betties and trohpy systems easily etc. and is good for checking if there are enemies in nearby areas.
True, however, the video prior to this one (Flash vs Concussion) he asked the viewers to give "some sort of strategy recommendation" for him. Go back and watch toward the end.
It's also very useful in checking areas. If you think someone may be in the kitchen on Raid, just toss an EMP in that direction. If you get a hitmarker, you know someone's in there. If you don't get a hitmarker, you know to move on to a different area.
Driftor, some has crossed my mind.Smoke grenades and the MMS scope i was playing before i got deployed and could see rite threw a smoke nade w the mms scope, Come on ppl show this solider some respect and let driftor brake it down for us!
Two potential fixes: •The blast no longer goes through cover or •Hard Wired protects killstreaks and equipment Until one of these, or something similar, is implemented the EMP grenade will be imbalanced.
I have also seen the .950 JDJ written down as a sniper's rifle.The problem with that is the weight of the gun and price of both the gun and ammo.Also the .950 JDJ has impractical recoil.I have seen COD players think a shotgun isn't deadly past 60 feet and have shown my brother in law who was one of those people that you can hit a head sized target with just a brass bead front sight at distances close to 75 yards reliably.I also used a 20 gauge which i find drop later than heavy 12 gauge slugs.
emp are crazy good. i just love it when people put down their sentry guns and a second later u throw an emp near it and it's destroyed just like that earning you 125 points - awesome
I would like to see hardwired buffed. Possible buffs: Emp immunity/resistance is extended to your score-streaks and equipment; Your equipment/score-streaks take longer to hack and lock-on to.
I always run EMP grenade nowadays, It saves me against all kind of scorestreaks, like guardians, sentry guns and AGR. It is also great to throw into a camp sport, since it will destroy everything (claymores, shock charges, betties, etc.)
Since we're on that topic. If you have an LMG with FMJ and you're using Engineer on Hijacked, you can usually wall bang people from the other room upstairs in the other spawn. They'll mostly be hiding behind their Riot Shield which will be lit up thanks to Engineer.
I'm pretty sure the blast radius is more like a cylinder shape than a sphere.I've heard that the height of the blast radius is so high that you can destroy UAV's as well.I tested it out with the dragonfire at max altitude and an emp took it out easily.
One of the coolest things i've done is using emp grenades to to stop hunter killer drones before the player manages to throw it, detonating it in his hands and denying them a potential hunter drone kill.
He didn't mention that the EMP grenade is awesome for getting scorestreaks. I once threw one into a room and took out a guardian, a sentry gun, two shock charges and a bouncing betty: 400 points. But the little nickle and dimes like a tac insert or mine here and there add up pretty quickly. I run EMP on almost every build except an annoying LSAT with Dual Band and smoke grenades. EMPs are just so frustrating to play against, especially if you're running mines or guardian/sentry.
easily my favorite item in the game, counters the people who run shock charges with betty's, counters the people who spam microwave's and turrets. and when you run scavenger, you throw them all over the map and get heaps of easy assist points.
I use emps all the time, except I use them as more of a sensor grenade. I throw them into building not to hinder the enemies, but to let me know that they are in the building and to be cautious
EMPs grenade should stun scorestreaks like stun grenades used to do on sentries instead of destroying them. and even if it isn't, it should be in the lethal grenades category or be limited to one like the smokes.
AN94/stock, SMAW (Scar-H is fine too) Hardline, Scavenger, Toughness, Engineer EMP grenade, Claymore My go-to loadout when I want to play to win and mess up/deny my opponents.
Used EMP grenades and Counter-UAVs on a well-organized team that spammed Orbital VSATs in a Domination game. Not once were they able to take a second flag.
i usethem all the time, because it impliments a mental side affect. It messes with their minds. When you have someone spamming EMP's, its hard to really do anything. I get tons of points from destroying things and they are always useful, tactical or against electronics
Drift0r covers a lot of game types but he sometimes forget hardcore. In hardcore you can ALSO destroy friendly equipment such as claymores, bouncies, shock charges. Aside from that you may be able to destroy some killstreaks, I know it's happened to me where I've destroyws sentry guns and guardians.
Do a in Depth on Hardcore! Make sure to cover how you can hurt your own team with equipment (i.e. EMP grenades) and how some guns that are bad in core are really good in hardcore!
Drift0r, I feel you missed a big part of why people use EMP nades and that is for the assist points they grant. +50 points per enemy affected by them is huge, especially when EMP nading B dom can get you ~200 points very easily which can push you closer to your next scorestreak. You dont even need to know where the opponent is, just throw one in the middle of the map and you're bound to get a few assist points, anything else in terms of equipment destruction is a bonus really.
Another great tip @drift0r didn't mention...if the eny emp's u & u have emp's equipped yourself, throw your emp at your feet & it counters the enemy emp!! Your welcome :)
You forgot to mention your emp assist points as well. Although there are no more points awarded compared to other assists, you can hit many more people due to its wall penetration.
R870 isn't overpowered because of the pellet spread, that's exacly what keeps it from being overpowered. The pellet spread is what causes it to have such limited range. If that spread were tightened any more than is possible in the game it would be overpowered (KSG type range + more power).
Quick tip: If someone stuck you or there is frag you know you can't escape, emp yourself. When you emp yourself I think it only lasts one second and the grenade won't explode just disappear. Hope this tip helps!
DRift0r you forgot to mention emp asists when someone is emped and your teamate kills them you get 50 points since it lasts so long this is the real power of it
Fight Against Grenade Spam Remember that? Neither do I, people seemed to forget that when Grenade Spam was rewarded along with camping, losing, and boosting.
I'm not sure, but I think you throw them the same, just the fact that the EMP has an extra un-interrupted 15 ft. to go through walls makes it feel longer.
Agreed. The reason something gets nerfed is because it's too powerful and therefore subject to abuse. The only way I can combat snipers is to carry around the shield and the combat axe (I put tape on my screen for crosshairs lmao).
They need to do something with the Hardwired perk, make it so you can hack enemy ground Scorestreaks like a Sentry gun or AGR (Obviously itll take longer for scorestreakes and if you can be next to an AGR long enough that it doesnt kill you then I think thats fair. The scorestreaks you hack are only at 1/4 hp though)
I think they are a great balancing tool, kill streaks are way over powered in this game more so then in any other cod. Plus it offers a second option, otherwise you would have to use blind eye and cold blooded which i hate because the mini map uav is a huge part of my game-play. That being said i still hate it when people take out my sentry guns.
The kap40 and b23r still deal the same damage but not on the head anymore. Headshots are useless on those pistols right now that is what Treyarch called a damage nerf. And the b23r has the same poor hipfire as the dual wield kap40 when you have dual wield on it.
EMPs cover too much area because of the through wall abilities, there is a reason why trophy systems exist. Either make tac mask disable them, or not hit through walls.
Not gonna read through it all. But i have noticed if you emp yourself while your hit with concussion . It shorthens the time a lot. Not sure if it works with flash or not. And really not sure if it works with concussion all the time. Just may be me but i seem to snap right back from concussion with my own emp if i think to use it. Like up if you agree
I personally love EMP grenades. one thing he didn't mention - if a person is running a controllable killstreak - it seems like emping that person destroys the killstreaks o.0 either that or they just hate/snipe dragonfires across the map lol
The Hardwired perk should make it that the EMP's deal less damage against your equipment. Claymores, Bouncing Betties and C4's should still be destroyed by one hit but your sentry guns and guardians should require 2 hits instead. And your AGR should not be stunned by the EMP grenades but still receive damage.
I lovr the emp grenade and i always run engineer regardless so i can rack up points and get my kill streaks... and its also a good way to protect yourself from hunter killers and swarm just drop it dirrctly in front of you just as a hunter arrives and its destroyed
Yes they could, easily, with Hardline they could help you out a lot, not just because they kill alone, but because you could easily get one, die to reset your streaks, get another one, and then have most of the map locked down and just watch the points roll in to a Lode or a swarm easily. With how easy it is to get sentries and Guardians, the EMP destroying them is completely necessary and balances them out.
Hey Driftor, how does equipment (lethal and tactical) react in hardcore ? Could you do a long in depth on every equipment that you haven't done yet in one vid (stats and tips) and compare them when used in hardcore... Does the concussion do 30 damage, has the EMP got an improved range, etc.
There is another way to counter the emp. If you get emped by the enemy it will last for 12.5 sec right... But if you emp yourself it will cancel the enemy's emp and last for 2 secs
it might be a bit hard to test seeing as if the rc-xd itself was close by then it could have taken that out instead. If possible for any future in depth grenade tests could you show a visual explosive effect range? atleast that way people can kinda use it as a judge of where they can throw stuff... sometimes i don't take down a sentry with emp unless there is something else nearby. getting a sentry takedown and the camper with shock charges yeilds alot of point in match... love engineer lol
Chuck two EMPs in nuketown and you get tons of assists.
Drake, the blast radius of the emp grenade is spherical! SPHERICAL! - Josh
Hit spheres brother, hit spheres. ITS SPHERICAL!
I don't mind emp-ing myself because it only effects you for like a split second, not 12.5
I love emp grenades. They give me so much assist points
How to have fun on BO2: use Engineer and EMP Grenades :D
+PSJamie2k and use it on nuketown. "STOP USING EMP!" "Oh, now you mentioned it, l kinda forgot to use mine."
and you dont really need engineer. u can just spam it on nuketown. 95% of the time you are going to get hit mark. and plus, it is 9v9 if you play nukejacked playlist.
新年号角 yep you know!!!
+PSJamie2k and there was once l got 8000 points total in one match. spamming EMP was large portion of that points, lol
新年号角 yeah a couple of days ago I'm pretty sure I got about 1500 score in a kill confirmed game from EMP (I got 4000 in total lol) fun times
It's still pretty useful for rushing situations. Like when a team holds up together in a game of Kill Confirmed and sits tons of Betties and Trophies around, one good roll of an EMP and a couple of frags/Semtex/C4 (the last of which is ever so helpful) and that entire team is either booking it out of that room, or their gonna be blown to bits by the grenade spam.
How I use an EMP grenade? I use it as both an instant sensor grenades, because if it EMP's somebody, then I get a hitmark, meaning I will know if there's somebody over there, furthermore, if there's equipment, there's mostly a player closeby, so how I use them? I use them to look around.
The number 1 benefit from emp nades and the reason i have them on 8/10 of my classes is the 50 score from assists which is easy to get from almost every emp you throw. with reaching through walls it adds up tremendously especially with hardline
The best tactical IMO
StanwoodSpartans yep
Wow Driftor, great job making more people EMP spam.
i was playing tdm on hijacked and there was 3 guys camping upstairs by a-dom they had everything gaurdians gaurding the doors sentry gun on the balcony claymores and tac inserts. i threw one emp on the balcony and one inside the room and it was all gone i ran in there with a vector and easy kills.
Wow you ruined their days
Great episode as always. It's amazing after playing many games days worth of time that I'm still learning something useful with every in depth episode. Keep um coming man.
Emp means electromagnetic pulse, just if u guys were wondering
Mac Jay I play call of duty. Of course I know what it means I’m a professional. 😂😂
You can think of it as a general response to the initial blast, it's almost as if your character is acting as if a flashbang or concussion has gone off around him because, after all, he is in the heat of battle, the blast of an EMP could lead to the same initial flinch of a concussion, it just lasts less time.
I run around using EMPs to get hitmarkers to see where people are.
So do I. And if you have slayers on your team they can give you the 50 point assists which means they help you greatly. I also use EMP's to create a fast recovery if i'm flashed or stunned :D
with all of the quick scoping lobbies I run into in groundwar EMP grenades are amazing, one throw can get 100-200 points worth of tac inserts, plus anyone hit nets the 50 assist points.
My favorite grenade.
its not a grenade
Yes it is
Its a tactical
Tellende Goudvis tactical GRENADE...
thats a pretty good class, but one exception. Say both FHJ rockets, black hat, and EMP are used up, and you have no scavenger. you could either swap the attatchment on the PDW and add scavenger with perk 2 greed, or dump your primary option for an LMG with FMJ and Quickdraw. that will still take out ground streaks relatively fast
in my opinion....a fucking grenade that anyone can use should not be able to destroy a sentry gun or an AGR.
Agreed. The fact that a fucking EMP in your pocket with the blast radius of a nuclear bomb could take out Sentry Guns and Guardians in one shot is fucking ridiculous. It should of worked a bit like this. Cut the blast radius in half. Make so it stuns Sentries and Guardians, but doesn't kill them. Then while they're stunned, you have the option of running up to them and knife them to take them out. As for AGRs, make so it stuns them so you have the option of laying down some damage on the AGR in that time frame.(Bonus Note-Also, I'd make it so C4 isn't a one shoot to an AGR. Whoever came up with the brilliant idea of having an AGR to be a one hit kill with C4 needs to be shot)
Alex Norton Uh... what? Yes. I know that knifing a sentry or guardian does nothing. But in my opinion, an EMP shouldn't destroy a Sentry or Guardian, but just stun it and give you the option of running up to it and knife it for a one hit kill. My point is that it shouldn't be that fucking easy to destroy a 5+ killstreak like that.
Ze Doctor Yeah, it's harder to break a UAV than a Sentry Gun, because EMP spammers break the sentry in one hit instantly, while to break a UAV you need to stop, look up, pull out a launcher or Black Hat, and aim and shoot. It's BS that EMP spammers can just break a sentry without sweat while you can easily die when trying to shoot something down.
Great vid Drift0r. I find the EMP grenade to be one of the most beneficial pieces of equipment in the game.
emp is so useful it kills hunter killer drone, sentry guns and dragonfire. Also destroys claymores, c4, betties and trohpy systems easily etc. and is good for checking if there are enemies in nearby areas.
True, however, the video prior to this one (Flash vs Concussion) he asked the viewers to give "some sort of strategy recommendation" for him. Go back and watch toward the end.
Great Job Driftor. I use EMP Grenades ALL the time and I still learned something from the video.
the only guy that can make a 7 1/2 minute video on an emp grenade. Love it!
Congrats on making it into the Fariko Hall of Fame! you have seriously helped me improve and you deserve it
It's also very useful in checking areas. If you think someone may be in the kitchen on Raid, just toss an EMP in that direction. If you get a hitmarker, you know someone's in there. If you don't get a hitmarker, you know to move on to a different area.
Driftor, some has crossed my mind.Smoke grenades and the MMS scope i was playing before i got deployed and could see rite threw a smoke nade w the mms scope, Come on ppl show this solider some respect and let driftor brake it down for us!
Two potential fixes:
•The blast no longer goes through cover
or
•Hard Wired protects killstreaks and equipment
Until one of these, or something similar, is implemented the EMP grenade will be imbalanced.
Also, Emp grenades can be used in Search and Destroy to get an idea where people are by using the hit markers since it travels through cover.
Nice video as always .I usually use the Hardline perk to prevent mostly the Counter-UAV. And yes, it's very useful against the EMP grenades.
I have also seen the .950 JDJ written down as a sniper's rifle.The problem with that is the weight of the gun and price of both the gun and ammo.Also the .950 JDJ has impractical recoil.I have seen COD players think a shotgun isn't deadly past 60 feet and have shown my brother in law who was one of those people that you can hit a head sized target with just a brass bead front sight at distances close to 75 yards reliably.I also used a 20 gauge which i find drop later than heavy 12 gauge slugs.
emp are crazy good. i just love it when people put down their sentry guns and a second later u throw an emp near it and it's destroyed just like that earning you 125 points - awesome
I would like to see hardwired buffed. Possible buffs: Emp immunity/resistance is extended to your score-streaks and equipment; Your equipment/score-streaks take longer to hack and lock-on to.
I always run EMP grenade nowadays, It saves me against all kind of scorestreaks, like guardians, sentry guns and AGR. It is also great to throw into a camp sport, since it will destroy everything (claymores, shock charges, betties, etc.)
Since we're on that topic. If you have an LMG with FMJ and you're using Engineer on Hijacked, you can usually wall bang people from the other room upstairs in the other spawn. They'll mostly be hiding behind their Riot Shield which will be lit up thanks to Engineer.
I'm pretty sure the blast radius is more like a cylinder shape than a sphere.I've heard that the height of the blast radius is so high that you can destroy UAV's as well.I tested it out with the dragonfire at max altitude and an emp took it out easily.
@ Drift0r: I think it's possible to get scrap-down assists on stealth choppers and drones. You can also easily destroy dragonfires
One of the coolest things i've done is using emp grenades to to stop hunter killer drones before the player manages to throw it, detonating it in his hands and denying them a potential hunter drone kill.
He didn't mention that the EMP grenade is awesome for getting scorestreaks. I once threw one into a room and took out a guardian, a sentry gun, two shock charges and a bouncing betty: 400 points. But the little nickle and dimes like a tac insert or mine here and there add up pretty quickly. I run EMP on almost every build except an annoying LSAT with Dual Band and smoke grenades. EMPs are just so frustrating to play against, especially if you're running mines or guardian/sentry.
easily my favorite item in the game, counters the people who run shock charges with betty's, counters the people who spam microwave's and turrets. and when you run scavenger, you throw them all over the map and get heaps of easy assist points.
Played bo2 on my ps3... bullets lagged like hell, played on my xbox .... diddnt miss a shot, treyarch you are something else
I put Hardwired on 3 of my classes because of EMP spammers... It feels awesome to not be affected by that crap anymore when I use those classes.
I use emps all the time, except I use them as more of a sensor grenade. I throw them into building not to hinder the enemies, but to let me know that they are in the building and to be cautious
EMPs grenade should stun scorestreaks like stun grenades used to do on sentries instead of destroying them. and even if it isn't, it should be in the lethal grenades category or be limited to one like the smokes.
This is my favorite thing to use in BO2. So many uses.
Driftor I have a tip.if u are emped with an emp grenade you can disable the emp affects if u emp yourself
AN94/stock, SMAW (Scar-H is fine too)
Hardline, Scavenger, Toughness, Engineer
EMP grenade, Claymore
My go-to loadout when I want to play to win and mess up/deny my opponents.
They can, I've done it a couple times. It's more lucky than anything. Also you can take down Dragonfire's with it as well(relatively easy)
Used EMP grenades and Counter-UAVs on a well-organized team that spammed Orbital VSATs in a Domination game. Not once were they able to take a second flag.
i usethem all the time, because it impliments a mental side affect. It messes with their minds. When you have someone spamming EMP's, its hard to really do anything. I get tons of points from destroying things and they are always useful, tactical or against electronics
Drift0r covers a lot of game types but he sometimes forget hardcore. In hardcore you can ALSO destroy friendly equipment such as claymores, bouncies, shock charges. Aside from that you may be able to destroy some killstreaks, I know it's happened to me where I've destroyws sentry guns and guardians.
Do a in Depth on Hardcore! Make sure to cover how you can hurt your own team with equipment (i.e. EMP grenades) and how some guns that are bad in core are really good in hardcore!
Drift0r, I feel you missed a big part of why people use EMP nades and that is for the assist points they grant. +50 points per enemy affected by them is huge, especially when EMP nading B dom can get you ~200 points very easily which can push you closer to your next scorestreak. You dont even need to know where the opponent is, just throw one in the middle of the map and you're bound to get a few assist points, anything else in terms of equipment destruction is a bonus really.
Finally an in-depth Episode
Yes, it does, he explained this in his Hard Wired In Depth episode.
Hey Drift0r, thanks for grantin my request on damage of grenades! I appreciate it. Thanks man
Another great tip @drift0r didn't mention...if the eny emp's u & u have emp's equipped yourself, throw your emp at your feet & it counters the enemy emp!! Your welcome :)
You should do a "black hat vs. EMP" video. I'd like to see how the ups and downs of these two side by side.
You forgot to mention your emp assist points as well. Although there are no more points awarded compared to other assists, you can hit many more people due to its wall penetration.
R870 isn't overpowered because of the pellet spread, that's exacly what keeps it from being overpowered. The pellet spread is what causes it to have such limited range. If that spread were tightened any more than is possible in the game it would be overpowered (KSG type range + more power).
This episode did not even get close the potential it has.
Quick tip: If someone stuck you or there is frag you know you can't escape, emp yourself. When you emp yourself I think it only lasts one second and the grenade won't explode just disappear. Hope this tip helps!
This is the best tactical ever. The anti-camper grenade ♥ love for the emp..hope treyarch will never patch it
I've been suggesting the second idea. Makes hard wired more on par with other perks and nerf EMPS at the same time.
A cool trick if you get emp'd is to emp yourself with your own grenade. It makes the HUD disappear for 3 seconds opposed to 12
DRift0r you forgot to mention emp asists when someone is emped and your teamate kills them you get 50 points since it lasts so long this is the real power of it
Fight Against Grenade Spam
Remember that? Neither do I, people seemed to forget that when Grenade Spam was rewarded along with camping, losing, and boosting.
I use the emp to tell if a person is in a place, because since it goes through walls you usually get a hit marker
I'm not sure, but I think you throw them the same, just the fact that the EMP has an extra un-interrupted 15 ft. to go through walls makes it feel longer.
Agreed. The reason something gets nerfed is because it's too powerful and therefore subject to abuse. The only way I can combat snipers is to carry around the shield and the combat axe (I put tape on my screen for crosshairs lmao).
They need to do something with the Hardwired perk, make it so you can hack enemy ground Scorestreaks like a Sentry gun or AGR (Obviously itll take longer for scorestreakes and if you can be next to an AGR long enough that it doesnt kill you then I think thats fair. The scorestreaks you hack are only at 1/4 hp though)
Blackhat takes betties clamores and shockcharges so u can us it against the other team while emp is good on sentries and tac inserts
you can also emp yourself to negate flash and stun effects and the self emp time is around a second
I think they are a great balancing tool, kill streaks are way over powered in this game more so then in any other cod. Plus it offers a second option, otherwise you would have to use blind eye and cold blooded which i hate because the mini map uav is a huge part of my game-play. That being said i still hate it when people take out my sentry guns.
The kap40 and b23r still deal the same damage but not on the head anymore. Headshots are useless on those pistols right now that is what Treyarch called a damage nerf. And the b23r has the same poor hipfire as the dual wield kap40 when you have dual wield on it.
EMPs cover too much area because of the through wall abilities, there is a reason why trophy systems exist.
Either make tac mask disable them, or not hit through walls.
This is actually the best way to get lots of XP. The blast radius is big, goes through walls, and fucks up enemy tactics.
Not gonna read through it all. But i have noticed if you emp yourself while your hit with concussion . It shorthens the time a lot. Not sure if it works with flash or not. And really not sure if it works with concussion all the time. Just may be me but i seem to snap right back from concussion with my own emp if i think to use it. Like up if you agree
EMP, Blind Eye, Hard Wired/Cold Blooded, Engineer, FHJ-18. Best equipment for Arms Race.
I personally love EMP grenades. one thing he didn't mention - if a person is running a controllable killstreak - it seems like emping that person destroys the killstreaks o.0 either that or they just hate/snipe dragonfires across the map lol
sometimes, if the emp grenade is directly thrown at it then no. but if it's just randomly thrown then yes.
Thx drift0r been waitn on this one man. Good job
Love EMP nades....hate target finder so it helps counter that without coldblooded
It is my favorite in hardcore because of the assists score you get.
and destroys guardians and sentry guns one blast
This is actually a good point sir. Thank you for your advice!
I agree, since it destroys pretty much any ground streak instantly.
Engineer and EMP go great together like peanut butter and jelly. Also, it's peanut butter jelly time!
I throw EMP's into high-traffic areas when going for high score streaks. You get a couple +50 EMP bonuses
The Hardwired perk should make it that the EMP's deal less damage against your equipment. Claymores, Bouncing Betties and C4's should still be destroyed by one hit but your sentry guns and guardians should require 2 hits instead. And your AGR should not be stunned by the EMP grenades but still receive damage.
I lovr the emp grenade and i always run engineer regardless so i can rack up points and get my kill streaks... and its also a good way to protect yourself from hunter killers and swarm just drop it dirrctly in front of you just as a hunter arrives and its destroyed
Thank you for doing the overkill wildcard.
I prefer dexterity, but there is also the ultimate camper equipment: shock charge + claymore or shock charge + C4
I think engineer is best paired with the blackhat. Once theyre hacked the claymores and betties can be useful.
Yes they could, easily, with Hardline they could help you out a lot, not just because they kill alone, but because you could easily get one, die to reset your streaks, get another one, and then have most of the map locked down and just watch the points roll in to a Lode or a swarm easily. With how easy it is to get sentries and Guardians, the EMP destroying them is completely necessary and balances them out.
InfinityWard came up with the specialist idea so that means it will only be for the games they come up with.
even at the edge of its blast radius and through a wall it will still keep u emp'd for ages
Hey Driftor, how does equipment (lethal and tactical) react in hardcore ? Could you do a long in depth on every equipment that you haven't done yet in one vid (stats and tips) and compare them when used in hardcore... Does the concussion do 30 damage, has the EMP got an improved range, etc.
Completely agreed.
Hard wired needs the buff.
There is another way to counter the emp. If you get emped by the enemy it will last for 12.5 sec right... But if you emp yourself it will cancel the enemy's emp and last for 2 secs
it might be a bit hard to test seeing as if the rc-xd itself was close by then it could have taken that out instead. If possible for any future in depth grenade tests could you show a visual explosive effect range? atleast that way people can kinda use it as a judge of where they can throw stuff... sometimes i don't take down a sentry with emp unless there is something else nearby. getting a sentry takedown and the camper with shock charges yeilds alot of point in match... love engineer lol