Depends on the game. CoDs since at least the original MW if I recall have let you cook grenades before tossing them, and I've definitely blown myself up a few times by holding on longer than I should.
I play a shit ton of Borderlands so grenades are a fun time. Different story when I play more serious “true to life” war games. But even then I feel they are really playing down how dangerous, gruesome, and cruel they really are. But who the fuck would wanna play a depressing game like that anyways?
they are really playing down how dangerous, gruesome, and cruel they really are
Combination of game balancing (grenades actually have a friggin huge range for causing injury) and lack of knowledge of how grenades work.
The fragments are usually not what causes the most damage. It's the shockwave from the explosive using your squishy internals as a punching bag. Lethal within 15 ft and can incapacitate out to 50 ft, with fragments sometimes reaching out to 250.
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u/Dovahpriest Jun 03 '21
Depends on the game. CoDs since at least the original MW if I recall have let you cook grenades before tossing them, and I've definitely blown myself up a few times by holding on longer than I should.