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I figured out how to use one of the most useless weapons in the game.  The plasma grenade.

See, you might be thinking to yourself, "I've played halo, plasma grenades are easy."  Nah, in this game, plasma grenades are like impact detonated normal grenades that can blow up a house.  Except, they travel the path that a normal grenade would take, but very, very slowly.  Like, 10 year old who didn't do his homework walking to school slowly.  If thrown like a sane person, any target (including a large mass of aliens) will be gone by the time the grenade arrives.  They're used by a flying class, and their schtick is that unlike other weapons, they aren't powered by the jetpack energy bar.  And of course, the game's already wonky grenade code becomes almost unusable when flying.

But I've made it work.  What I do is, fly above and a little in front of the target, and hover in place.  Then I begin descending, drop the grenade straight down (which requires holding the throw button for a bit because I don't know), and then rapidly pull up from the descent before i get caught in the blast radius.  Its suicidal, and it uses energy so it kinda ruins the point of the weapon, but man is it fun.
EDF 4.1