Back in E3, nade' spam was much worse due to shorter fuse times, and people thought that fixing the fuse would make grenade spam a thing of the past. Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I think grenade spam is still pretty bad, even if it isn't at E3 levels. So here's my proposition:

Put a cooldown on a player every time he/she obtains a grenade from a supply depot/nanohive, and that player can not receive a grenade from ANY nanohive or supply depot until the cooldown wears off. I am open to suggestions on how long the CD should last, but I was thinking 8 seconds seemed reasonable.

Some of you may think: "But It would take too long for me to restock at a supply depot/nanohive even if I wasn't spamming off grenades!" Well, yeah but grenades shouldn't be an inexhaustible resource at your beck and call every second of every moment. Grenades are by far the most powerful weapon in the game, the only reason you don't see as many OP threads about them is because everyone can use them. Why should you be able instantly re-gain the most powerful weaponry in the game after standing next to a nanohive for 3 seconds?

I would make it a 8 second belay between re-stocks. So if you get to a supply depot you can probably get re-stocked instantly but if you are just spamming grenades it will apply. So if i am out on the front fighting and i frag someone with grenades then go back to a depot i will be able to refil with everything instantly assuming it takes more than 8 seconds to get to the depot. If i then toss those and i am near the depot and only take a second to get back to it then i have to wait 7 seconds to get grenades back.

So the cooldown doesn't start until the grenade is thrown is what you're saying? I think that would be better then starting after each re-up so those that don't spam aren't really punished.

The OP idea overall is good though so +1

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Yes exactly. And people like me that are waddling around in heavy frames will pretty much never suffer from this cooldown with how long it takes me to go from one place to another.

So Contact Nades are even more useless than they are now?

What if the fuse time scaled upwards across the tiers? +1/2/3 for std/adv/pro so people would have a chance to evade the damn things and their users would have to put more focus on cooking.

Back in E3, nade' spam was much worse due to shorter fuse times, and people thought that fixing the fuse would make grenade spam a thing of the past. Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I think grenade spam is still pretty bad, even if it isn't at E3 levels. So here's my proposition:

Put a cooldown on a player every time he/she obtains a grenade from a supply depot/nanohive, and that player can not receive a grenade from ANY nanohive or supply depot until the cooldown wears off. I am open to suggestions on how long the CD should last, but I was thinking 8 seconds seemed reasonable.

Some of you may think: "But It would take too long for me to restock at a supply depot/nanohive even if I wasn't spamming off grenades!" Well, yeah but grenades shouldn't be an inexhaustible resource at your beck and call every second of every moment. Grenades are by far the most powerful weapon in the game, the only reason you don't see as many OP threads about them is because everyone can use them. Why should you be able instantly re-gain the most powerful weaponry in the game after standing next to a nanohive for 3 seconds?

Back in E3, nade' spam was much worse due to shorter fuse times, and people thought that fixing the fuse would make grenade spam a thing of the past. Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I think grenade spam is still pretty bad, even if it isn't at E3 levels. So here's my proposition:

Put a cooldown on a player every time he/she obtains a grenade from a supply depot/nanohive, and that player can not receive a grenade from ANY nanohive or supply depot until the cooldown wears off. I am open to suggestions on how long the CD should last, but I was thinking 8 seconds seemed reasonable.

Some of you may think: "But It would take too long for me to restock at a supply depot/nanohive even if I wasn't spamming off grenades!" Well, yeah but grenades shouldn't be an inexhaustible resource at your beck and call every second of every moment. Grenades are by far the most powerful weapon in the game, the only reason you don't see as many OP threads about them is because everyone can use them. Why should you be able instantly re-gain the most powerful weaponry in the game after standing next to a nanohive for 3 seconds?

Could you tell us of a situation where you've been grenade spammed? I've been playing for a solid two months (Not long, I know) but I have NEVER been the victim of Grenade Spam to the point to where it was an issue.

Granted, there's that one map with domination with that highly defensible rooftop area directly above the objective, and a supply depot behind it and on the ground, but after chucking 20 grenades up there to scatter them, I no longer received grenades from any resupply until I died. That, however, is tactics. If the enemy is in a tight encampment, that's what a grenade is for.

I've never been in a map to where I've seen a grenade and thought "Ooh, it's a chocolate egg full of candy!" I see the grenade icon on my HUD and I get away from it.

Back in E3, nade' spam was much worse due to shorter fuse times, and people thought that fixing the fuse would make grenade spam a thing of the past. Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I think grenade spam is still pretty bad, even if it isn't at E3 levels. So here's my proposition:

Put a cooldown on a player every time he/she obtains a grenade from a supply depot/nanohive, and that player can not receive a grenade from ANY nanohive or supply depot until the cooldown wears off. I am open to suggestions on how long the CD should last, but I was thinking 8 seconds seemed reasonable.

Some of you may think: "But It would take too long for me to restock at a supply depot/nanohive even if I wasn't spamming off grenades!" Well, yeah but grenades shouldn't be an inexhaustible resource at your beck and call every second of every moment. Grenades are by far the most powerful weapon in the game, the only reason you don't see as many OP threads about them is because everyone can use them. Why should you be able instantly re-gain the most powerful weaponry in the game after standing next to a nanohive for 3 seconds?

Then players would stick with Std nades and a butt-load of hives. You may survive the first one but you won't survive the next 500!

Smaller blast radius...

no no no no, don't do that. make throwing a grenade use up a small portion of your stamina. mean obviously your arm is gunna get tired after throwing 5 grenades, but make it so that if you throw all 5 of those grenades, it is like an overheated railgun, and your stamina replenishes a bit slower. and maybe after your 2nd grenade, you get just a tiny bit less accurate. that way you can throw three accurate grenades, with very little penalty, but once you throw 4 or 5 grenades they are inacurate, and use lots more stamina, plus the stamina regeneration delay.

this would be diffrent numbers, maybe by like 1 grenade for scouts, since they have more stamina, and AV nades would use more stamina by the 3rd one. that way you don't have av nade spam. and people have to be wise and accurate with the nades.

the effect would be more for AV nades, less for flux nades, because fluxes would be lighter. sorry i shouldn't have left flux nades out.

and maybe add a special type of stamina, that way it doesn't effect run speed as much as it affects your aim