avoiding APMs

[hooahguy]

how do you avoid APMs? it says in the game tips to crawl around them, but it never works for me. on time it did work, but some idiot ran past me and set it off, blowing both of us up. :mad:
:shakehead:

[RichardDawkins]

you answered your own question, don't cross them with retards around

[hooahguy]

:laugh:
but is there a better way of getting around them then crawling past? does crouching work?
also, do APMs go away? i laid one by a step and when i got back to it after a bit, it was gone. and i never got a notification that i killed anyone.

but the best thing to do with an amp is to drop on from a roof in front of a column of enemies.

[Skates]

Crouching works too and is better than prone because you move faster. They go away a little bit after you die. If you hadn't died yet, it is possible a team-mate who was also a recon with apm's picked yours up. Not a nice thing to do, but possible.

[EnergyNL]

You can crouch and prone to avoid them. (doesn't work when some idiot is running towards it behind you though xD)

The Zeller also disables an APM.

[hooahguy]

so they go away after you die? that sux....

[EnergyNL]

yeah, or the recon that put em there dies, then they last for about 1min.

Same counts for mines btw.

[hooahguy]

awww......

[RichardDawkins]

would be silly imba if they stayed forever

crouching is the way to go, if ppl are around you spam q-shoot to alert them

[Dtneter]

hmm it woulda be so much better if dice did just activate the Enemy mines voice overs so you know that there are mines. *Enemy mines!* huh wha *BOOM*

[jake___]

Crouching/crawling will not trigger them

Shooting them with the Zeller (unlockable sniper rifle)

Use the AE defuser (engineer unlock)

[Lolyn]

Teamkill your teammates before crouching past them. Guaranteed success.

[RichardDawkins]

or just wait and let them defuse it themselves. bonus point!

[DorranKame]

I've seen enemies RUN past my AP mines... blatantly not working.

[TheRealWolfgang]

I've seen enemies RUN past my AP mines... blatantly not working.

Which is ironic, since often times I come up to a mine, crouch, and THEN it blows up. :rolleyes:

And yes, before crossing a mine check to see if there are any friendlies following you. If there are, let them go first so should they choose to set it off at least you won't be an extra point for the recon.

~Wolfgang

[Field]

if i see some little area clustered with apms ill usually just hang back and let all the rushtards go in there and give me free revive points. i dont get blown up by apms a huge amount i dont think caus i generally favor shooting enemies over taking flags.

[EnergyNL]

Which is ironic, since often times I come up to a mine, crouch, and THEN it blows up. :rolleyes:



oh yes that happend to me exactly 460 times... I see them... and BOOM :dead: hehehe oh sheit.. those things again.

Thants why I (exept for the 460 times) always go prone when I'm going around a corner, but you can't avoid them all.

Lame tactic is to place them in a radius around a spawnpoint, offcourse I've never done that but the rumour goes :D

[Field]

i think its lame to crawl around corners, you actually do that?

[TheRealWolfgang]

I wouldn't advise going prone around EVERY corner, but there are exceptions. Of course certain places are almost guaranteed to have an APM waiting, such as the big wall between Toll and Central Camp on Gib, the stairs to the EU main on Cerbere, etc. In such cases, when those flags are the 'front lines' flags, then crouching (NOT proning...proning is way too slow for actually moving somewhere and gives you zero mobility should you come under fire) is a good idea. Also if I just happened to kill an enemy recon and I'm walking around where he was or if it was his base and I'm nearing the flag, I always crouch for good measure. The only times I die on predictably-placed APMs are if I happen to be running from something else (nades, walker, orbital strike), or when someone else sets them off as I go by.

But hidden APMs are always fun. You'll always get a kill from a 'predictable' APM, since someone is bound to go walking in front of it without thinking, but I always enjoy getting kills from my more strategically placed APMs because they're usually players that are smarter/more cunning as they're avoiding the front lines cluster****. ;)

~Wolfgang

[Fingulfin]

Crouching/crawling will not trigger them
Shooting them with the Zeller (unlockable sniper rifle)
Use the AE defuser (engineer unlock)


Every single one of you defusing noobs forgets that the RDX Shotgun takes them out too ;) MMB and RDX work as well.

[jake___]

Every single one of you defusing noobs forgets that the RDX Shotgun takes them out too ;) MMB and RDX work as well.
Sorry I didn't think of those. :(

But, I never use the defuser. ;)

[Field]

your saying motion mine bait takes out apms? huh?

[Fingulfin]

your saying motion mine bait takes out apms? huh?
Even pros like Field still are noobish when it comes down to the wonder that is the Engineer kit :rolleyes:

MMB defuses EVERYTHING. APMs, RDX and Motion Mines. Thats why I pack it when titan attacking... You chuck it into a corridor, then charge into a very confused recon ("Why isn't the d*** RDX blowing up???")

[Dtneter]

yeah the Rdx shotty is usefull for boarding the titan like you see an apm on top of the vent and your instinct just tells you hey shoot 2 other balls down there to check for the rdx camper. I did it many times and mostly the campers didnt even notice their rdx was gone so they just sat there.

[EnergyNL]

i think its lame to crawl around corners, you actually do that?

No, i ment crouch.. sorry.. and yeah almost every corner... because I always play on Camp G.

[dd64]

crouch all the way:nod:

[ZinZ]

I hang back and let noobs run into them, sometimes I hit the ones around corners and stuff usually. Good APMs are hard to come by, most recons just lay them around the spots people go just to get kills, they don't bother putting them on the flags and around important areas.

[hooahguy]

Even pros like Field still are noobish when it comes down to the wonder that is the Engineer kit :rolleyes:

MMB defuses EVERYTHING. APMs, RDX and Motion Mines. Thats why I pack it when titan attacking... You chuck it into a corridor, then charge into a very confused recon ("Why isn't the d*** RDX blowing up???")

i was going to try this in last nights match when i was on with you guys, but my dad came home......
=L13= FTW! :yay:

[BandoIruka]

feh, i could had sworn there is already a thread on something like this floating around. Search function ftl. Put them in spots and watch over them. the ones that run gets blown up while you shoot the ones that try to crawl past them.

[Field]

yeah i had no idea that the mine bait could do all that. meh wheres my assault rifle lol.

but yeah ill tend to get blown up by apms a bit more when im tired and starting to play stupid usually ill start being more impatient and rush into areas. sometimes though youll get killed by coming across some recon that looks all stupid and hes sniping and you think he is an easy defib/knife kill but then when you go to dive at him and kill him you find hes proned on top of an apm and its hidden in his body LOL

[wardogHk]

Yeah! Just run and jump over them! always works for me!!

[hooahguy]

yeah i had no idea that the mine bait could do all that. meh wheres my assault rifle lol.

but yeah ill tend to get blown up by apms a bit more when im tired and starting to play stupid usually ill start being more impatient and rush into areas. sometimes though youll get killed by coming across some recon that looks all stupid and hes sniping and you think he is an easy defib/knife kill but then when you go to dive at him and kill him you find hes proned on top of an apm and its hidden in his body LOL


cool! i should try that!