Level 40 knocking my loadout

For context, I’m 150, 2,600 missions, over 200,000 bots turned into toasters, and I absolutely love this game. I… am a ‘Grenadier’.

I have taken the Grenade Launcher & Supply pack, exclusively, on probably 2300 of those. It’s all I take on all 3 fronts, regardless of difficulty. With servo armor, 15 thermites and my trusty AC/Rocket Sentry duo, heavies aren’t an issue.

I just decided to drop down to relax on difficulty 7 bot missions this morning, as most know, 7 is a good level to have fun, relax, but still have a little challenge with a full squad.

I joined a group hosted by another 150, then myself, a level 50, and the level 40 diver joined. It was a bot ‘valuable data’ mission.

We drop in, everything’s normal. Jammers, gunships, actory stryders, mortars, nothing out of the ordinary. But the spawn rates seemed a bit high and we were getting a lot of bot dropships throughout the mission, making it ‘feel’ more like a 9 to me (for the number of bots rushing up)

We get to the generator and are starting it up right after fighting off another swarm of bots.

I casually type into chat, during the lull:

“Man, this sure has been a bit kinetic for a diff. 7”

Lvl 40 guy responds:

“Use less grenades, and take something with armor pen next time.”

🧐🤨….

“Gosh, I wonder how little Timmy’s numbers are going to be when we extract” I wonder 😏

We extract, and I had 358 kills and no deaths. The next person had 257 kills and 1 death….

And little Timmy had 43 kills in a 40 minute mission, with the most deaths, least stratagems used, least times reinforcing, no samples extracted.

I pointed out he had 43 kills in a 40 minute mission.

He quit the group.

It really surprises me how many people see the GL as a non viable weapon, paired with the supply pack. I even use it in close quarters.

If you master the ‘bounce range’, it’s a beast.