I do supply backpack and grenade launcher, and hoover up every supply drop, and blast grenades like they're machine gun bullets.
So far so all I've done with the grenade launcher is kill myself and sometimes my teammate
I was fighting the automatons at fairly close range and managed to blow myself up when my grenade bounced on their armor straight back to me. That’s when I learned that the autocannon works way better for the automatons.
If you click really fast the recoil will save you from yourself.
A buddy of mine realized a fun thing. If you, say, want to main autocannon, recoilless, or have any of the assistant backpacks, equipping the resupply pack stratagem is still good as a secondary resupply.
You pick it up, resupply yourself, maybe a few teammates, then just drop it for your main BP and move on.
It's kinda obvious but it was huge for us when we connected the dots.
I have seen so many supply backpacks and I have never received supplies from one of those packpacks.
In fact, I am usually fighting to get loose ammo before the ones with the supply backpacks take it and don't give me anything.
People that take more than their fair share of ammo from the resupplies are a special sort of bastard.
When I was under level 15, I called in resupplies, often away from the other 3, way more than I should have. I didn't know they were shared.
I also rushed the core objectives and called in extract while the other 3 were doing side objectives more times that I'd care to admit. I didn't know how important the side objectives are.
I get the learning curve there (exacerbated by the fact that I don't voicechat), so I am patient, mostly with under lvl 15s.
What keeps happening to me that I absolutely cannot stand is dying from friendly grenades and airstrikes. And Arc Throwers. So many lvl 35+ people murdering me with Ark Throwers aimed at Chargers when I am trying to flamethrow them...
This is why I go with Sickle + Laser Cannon as my main quickplay build. I usually find enough stims and grenades laying out in the world to keep enough supply to get through entire missions without ever touching a resupply pack. In fact, I'm usually the one watching my team's inventory icons and calling resupplies when I see them running low. I'd rather let the randoms in my lobbies stay stocked up.
