Make Zeds Stupid!

[Demonic]

What about adding the ability to cook grenades. Then you can hold the grenade for a few seconds, throw it, and have it explode before the specimens have a chance to turn 360 degrees and walk away.

This, but inb4 noobs blowing themselves up and the resulting "OMGWTFBBQs."

 

[joecheeze]

yeah the avoidance was added in a patch... think the heavy metal one. Nades used to be sooo much more deadlier.... oh i remember now. the reason I remember the nades being stronger is cause I was playing on normal way back then. I would just love to see for once a clot pick up a nade and look at it with confusion just before it asplodes

 

[nath2009uk]

It's the splash damage . Didn't I say that before?

I throw them infront of them, behind them, in a group.
They walk what seems like 64-128 Unreal units away from it (that's barely anything and splash damage should still kill them) but they don't die.
They get THROWN towards me While set ON FIRE and lose about 3/4 their health.

 

[Colt .45 killer]

I don't remember this at all and I've been reading these forums since the retail release.

I recall playing for the first few patches and not having nade avoidance, then after a patch sometime before heavy metal, the zeds started avoiding grenades. Il read up in the update history and see if there is mention of it.

edit: no luck finding it in the steam update info, and im not sure where the changelogs are.

Either way I recall very well noticing them avoiding grenades after a patch a while back.

 

[Nenjin]

Yes, 'nade avoidance was slipped in. I don't remember if it was before or with the Heavy Metal patch. It also wasn't documented iirc.

 

[Bio666]

I like to spin my character in circles so when i throw a grenade the g-force will make it fly farther and faster.

Physics fail

 

[drfeelgoodmd]

I hope this doesn't turn into some retooling of the game where nades become so powerful they kill fp's and skrakes with just one nade. Then we'll ask for a nade nerfing. Then someone will complain after it gets nerfed that the knife is too strong and needs to be nerfed.

 

[Wolfdust]

for being semi-smart they sure do moan and hobble a lot

They're imperfect clones. Kevin Clamely managed to get a lot right (I mean, making the **** you fight is pretty impressive) but he also managed to **** a lot up. Clots don't have enough motor control to really run - or to pick up and aim a firearm. But they're got enough smarts to go "Oh hey, grenade. I should get away."

 

[Yu_Fucndie]

Well, if they want to keep the nade avoidance, then we should be allowed to "cook" or "prime" a grenade, that is, hold it a few seconds to try to time it so that it explodes just as its reaching the targets. It's just a minor annoyance of the game but something that certainly could be fixed to make the game more enjoyable.