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Smoke from handgrenades?
« on: May 18, 2011, 12:31:18 AM »
In some movies and games. For exampel Day of defeat source. When you have pulled the sprint off and throw the handgrenade away. There is smoke coming from it like it had a fuse firing.

Is this just something movie/games had come up with to make it look cooler or something or do real (or at least old ones) handgrenades have it this way?

Or like it probaly is. Some handgrenades have it that way and others dont?

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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2011, 01:00:29 AM »
Not that i would know, but it doesn't sound right to me for smoke to come out of a frag grenade. :-\

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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2011, 03:31:28 AM »
He's talking about a fuse, which sounds more like dynamite than a grenade.  ;)

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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2011, 04:29:09 PM »
No, it aint dynamites XD

Here is a example.

DOD: S Grenade Tricks

Yes I know he is firing rifle grenades. But the effect is the same. There is smoke coming from the grenade. And thats the question ^^

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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2011, 04:50:10 PM »
He's talking about a fuse, which sounds more like dynamite than a grenade.  ;)
Yes, i know. ;)

I would assume it's something that games add to make it more visible, like the smoke trail that sniper rifles often have.

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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2011, 08:56:10 PM »
Its because the explosion of the grenade going out of the gun.
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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2011, 08:23:07 AM »
The same reason why everything seems to fire tracers; so players can see it.
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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2011, 05:02:56 PM »
Yes, Yes ofc. But thats handgrenades in games. I remeber seeing movies with the same smoke handgrenade thingys :o Or in comics actually.

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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2011, 05:12:28 PM »
My assumption is that they might have produced smoke back when they were first invented (Don't know what they were like back then.), but a modern (or W.W.II) grenade producing smoke really doesn't sound right to me.

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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2011, 05:50:35 PM »
Yes, Yes ofc. But thats handgrenades in games. I remeber seeing movies with the same smoke handgrenade thingys :o Or in comics actually.

I dont, I think it's there so you can see them easier
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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2011, 12:21:07 PM »
The "normal" riflegrenades exploded when they hit anything. In DoD:S it's just for better balance that they have a delay of the explosion and the smoke that you see it better.
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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2011, 04:17:09 PM »
Really? :o I thought exploding on contact was just something the Company Of Heroes Riflegrenades do for some reason. ???

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Re: Smoke from handgrenades?
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2011, 08:04:09 PM »
Call Of Duty ones do too IIRC.
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