Grenades

[Jabberwocky 2D]

Ok, i've been trying to figure out what the hell the red stuff on the grenade is after you have thrown it. From what i can tell, it seems that it might be some sort of mechanism that helps the grenade travel farther? I dunno, any ideas?

 

[Ames]

A 'tracer' to see where the grenade has gone....?

 

[bryanf445]

A 'tracer' to see where the grenade has gone....?

exactly, thats what i thought

 

[fenner]

Isn't it a red LED? (light)

 

[hellboy900]

Its a LED light to let you know that you have armed the grenade.

 

[Qwert93]

It's a heat transmitter, where it will heat whatever hazardous stuff inside it, causing it to explode.

 

[Jintor]

It's a design flaw.



Tracer, probably. It makes it so hard to grenade people in the dark...

 

[A True Canadian]

Don't forget that the addition of the "red thing" (I think hellboy900 got it right) looks more interesting too.

 

[_-_-SELAS-_-_]

Its so that you can easily see when the combine are attacking you with nades.

 

[$kelet0r]

in real life leds leave tracers like that - cos they're so bright and small their movement remains burnt on your retina for a splitseconds after it has moved away

 

[WacK]

Just a ligth..

 

[Takaitokuten]

It's just so you can see where you threw it. They're so bouncy that you'd lose track of them.

 

[Przemek]

The red thing on the grenades is to distinguish them from unarmed grenades laying on the floor - it would be pretty uncool to see a grenade slowly coming your way and you wouldn't know to pick it up or to run... this would be much more realistic, but Half-Life is not Rainbow Six, or anythin' like that
Hmm, it should be pretty easy to mod the 'nades to make 'em realistic :]

edit - this could also be a feature of the HEV suit, that notifies the user (Gordon) when the grenade is ready to blow or not.

 

[CookieCuttah]

Lol I threw an unarmed nade with the g-gun and people still ran for their lives.

 

[Computer5k]

Probably because there would be no way to tell if it was armed because of the physics

 

[Johnnny49]

Reminds me of the old saying....

Once you have pulled the pin, Mr. Hand Grenade is no longer your friend.

 

[Solidsocom]

Its a LED light to let you know that you have armed the grenade.

agreed