Grenades should damage everyone in the blast radius, including self inflicted explosions. The tactic of sneak and explode has become too prevalent. There is no defense unless the grenadier is seen from a distance. I've quit playing Royale because otherwise good players default to this tactic, cheapening the experience.
I understand I could do it too, fight fire with fire. I'd rather win with skill than with tricks.
@Tamara Hughes (mamamonkey): thx!
I THINK THEY FIXED GRENADES.
I accidentally blew myself up with my own grenade just now when I completely screwed up my throw and dropped it instead of chucking it. I have never been so excited to die in-game.
Posting again because I AM TIRED OF BEING KILLED BY INVINCIBLE GRENADE PLAYERS WHO THINK THIS IS A VIABLE WAY OF WINNING.
FIX THIS PLEASE. I'm not a programmer so I can't speak to it, but how freaking hard can it be to make a grenade cause damage to the player who throws it? Rocket launchers and grenade launchers kill the players who uses it if it goes off too close, so wth is going on here?
Grenades are strategic weapons designed for clearing hostile rooms and causing damage to enemies who are on the other side of a solid obstacle.
A "Jihad Grenade" - holding a grenade in one hand and aiming a weapon at it with the other, then pulling the trigger the moment you either get close to someone or they get close to you - is an instant kill that requires no aiming, no talent, no strategy, and is ubiquitously unfair and unbalanced to all players in the game.
The shotguns are useless at more than mid-close range, but lethal up close. If I can get close enough to you to blast you in the chest with a shotgun, you either have really bad luck, or really bad situational awareness. Jihad Grenades give players who stink the ability to go, "GOTCHA!" to players who have out-maneuvered them.
Grenades and shotguns - used properly - work incredibly well against any and all players of all skills, trust me. Jihad Grenades are cancerous to the game.
Please turn on self-damage for grenades. It's needed.
Back in my day I thought the same you did kid, but once you take a couple more than a few thousand arrows to your upper torso you start to realize that the cheap trick's nothing more than a shotgun. You can hear them coming if you listen close, see them coming if they're being blatent about it, and then all you've gotta do is teleport backwards.
The vast majority of the time it's safer to just throw the grenade, you get more range and you have a headstart when running away.
Like shotguns, they only really work against inexperienced players, or as a last minute desperation tactic for when you're hiding in a bush or house from a pursuing enemy. It's not a broken strategy by any means, you're sacrificing all your range for zero fuse time which promotes stalking teams for when they all clump together (dont do that btw) and sneaky play.
They shouldn't hurt your teammates, to prevent griefing, but you should be able to hurt yourself.
Please for the love of GOD fix this. Suicide grenades break the game.
@Mark Fiorino: I'm not sure what you're saying. You say for the love of God and then fix the J grendes. I'm sure god loves the grenades like these. Atleast that's what the good old books suggest.
Agree 100%. That technique isnt very sportsmanlike.
Still tuning the damage, but grenades now self-harm (along with harming opposing players) if you are in the blast radius.