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In article <vholdD1...@netcom.com> vh...@netcom.com (Vhold) writes:
>From: vh...@netcom.com (Vhold)
>Subject: Re: Possible uses for Proximity Bombs
>Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 18:36:15 GMT

>Terry Henning (ter...@msn.fullfeed.com) wrote:
>: Are proximity bombs good for anything other than when someone is following
>: right on your tail?  I've never been able to succesfully use one.  I tried
>: to place a mine somewhere and found that they have a time limit of about
>: 45 sec to one minute.

>: Any ideas for creative uses for them?  I always seem to be maxed out on these
>: things.

>I figure they would be useful for those things with the cutters that come 
>straight at you.. you could drop one and back up.. it'd probably plow 
>right throught it.. I havn't tried tho

I tried dropping these in those monster-generation things (the purple things 
that keep turning 'em out) so I wouldn't be surprised (the thing creates a 
monster, and BOOM!). But it never went off... Mechs kept flying past the bomb 
and nothing! As I recall I ended up blowing it up myself (heh heh heh). The 
only thing I've ever found that could really set prox. bombs off is myself 
(oops). Does anyone get good use out of these things? Maybe if there wasn't 
any time limit, they'd be more useful. Myself, I almost never use anything 
except the laser. The spread weapon doesn't do a lot of damage, particularly 
compared to a level 4 quadlaser. The vulcan cannon eats up a lot of ammo and 
doesn't seem to do much extra damage; plus, that noise seems to slow my 
computer down sufficiently that I can't aim (Oh, if I only had a Pentium). The 
missiles... I always save up the missiles for a special occasion and never get 
around to using them. Maybe the registered version only weapons are more 
useful. The FAQ mentioned that certain weapons are better in certain places... 
anyone have any advice on this matter? Still, just using my laser works for me 
(kinda like in DOOM where I almost always use the shotgun (works great and 
plenty of ammo); I was kinda disappointed in DOOM II where they stop giving 
you shotgun ammo and so I have to use the plasma rifle and so on. 'Course, 
there's a cyber-demon in every level after about 10 and the shotgun doesn't 
work very well against him, even double-barreled. Works against everything 
else, though).
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