Tweak: Fix Smoke Grenades

[QueeNiE]

I've been playing other games recently and smoke grenades have played a very important role in the strategic maneuvers.  Currently our smoke grenades offer little protection for a little amount of time, and are very hard to throw, as to predict where they will fall.  I propose two things:

1. We allow the ability to carry both a paint, and a smoke grenade.  (Switch between the two with scroll wheel, etc.)

2.  Smoke Grenades bloom slower, and stay 'alive' longer, with a larger plume.  Allow the toss to bounce for less time, possibly make the grenade 'heavier'.  Just make it easier to throw, or bounce more realistically.  This will allow a whole new range of strategies, and possibly actually bring the use of smoke grenades into match play.

[Spook]

I would vote for this, but it seems as though the feature request list is growing with more and more useless stuff that no one needs, or it's for pub play. As I stated, I would vote for this, but it seems as though it'll take years before anything is actually done to help the matching community.

[atmays]

Im for it. Think its a good idea.

[Holo]

I like the second idea the best. 

[zimtstern]

"and stay 'alive' longer"

no please i lag so hard then...

-1

[XtremeBain]

Just make them stick after a couple bounces so that they're not just rolling around everywhere being useless.

[T3RR0R15T]

1. No
2. Yes

[jitspoe]

http://dplogin.com/dplogin/featurevote/feature.php?id=10157

Due to some limitations of the hud as well as the way the inventory is set up right now, it wouldn't be easy to make it possible to carry both grenades.

"and stay 'alive' longer"

no please i lag so hard then...

-1

This probably deserves its own feature vote thread, but I might be able to work on a way that makes smoke grenades render faster on low-end machines.  It probably won't be pretty (could be just solid boxes), but at least it wouldn't make the game unplayable.  What kind of graphics card do you have?

[Laged]

+1
I've always wanted the smoke nades to be more useful.

[wallpainter08]

I vote Yes to both

this way we can cover ourselves better with the smoke not just blind the enemy

[QueeNiE]

If your computer can't handle quake 2 style smoke animations.. well..













































Go spend the 25 dollars and buy yourself a computer that can.

[wafflez205]

the first idea wouldnt work for me because i dont have a scroll wheel on my mouse

[Fullmetal_Steeb]

the first idea wouldnt work for me because i dont have a scroll wheel on my mouse

SOMEONE's stuck in the '90s.

Anyway, that's not the point. I'm sure you could change the key bind for it to something you do have, like perhaps, Alt - F4.

[Rewind]

Sounds like a great idea if the nades were used in the proper manner. However, this would be god awful for all the players in the pubs who feel dropping grenades isnt nearly as conveniant as throwing it.

[ShantiBantu]

I would support being able to carry 2 nades, either one of each or two of one...perhaps the ability to carry two would eliminate people smoking their own spawns while ditching smoke nades in favor of paint grenades

The smoke nades themselves function fine for me strategically...