Practicing grenades has been made much easier,
thanks to 3 new console commands.
All of them help you to see where thrown grenades
will go, and where they’ll detonate. Roughly.
The first is
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Simply get a grenade out, hold down the throw
button and it will show its trajectory, were
you to throw it from your exact position.
It even takes into account your movement direction
and speed, and at which point the grenade
will detonate if it’s an explosive one!
Though with that being said, I didn’t find
it 100% accurate. If stood still, it got the
bounces right, but would show the HE grenade
exploding before it actually does.
And, if you’re moving, I think the shown
trajectory is a little bit behind where you’re
actually stood. Maybe it doesn’t account
for lag compensation or something, but as
you can see here it clearly shows that it
should bounce off the wall and towards the
doors, and not into CT spawn. But when it’s
thrown, it goes into CT spawn. Pls fix.
The second is
cl_sim_grenade_trajectory
followed by the number of seconds you’d
like for this to be shown for. It does the
same as the first command, but will hold your
set position and throw, allowing you to walk
about freely and to study the trajectory for
as long as you like from other angles. This
one is probably best bound to a button on
your keyboard- letting you use it in conjunction
with the first command. As they say in the
release notes, seeing a trajectory from other
angles is useful for throws that end up in
spots out of view from where they’re thrown
from.
And lastly is
sv_rethrow_last_grenade
which repeats the last grenade thrown, no
matter where you’re stood at the time. This
would be great if you want to know what it
feels like to be on the receiving end of a
grenade, like a pop-flash or being molotov’d
out of a corner. This is another command that’s
probably best bound to a key. It’s great
fun to spam this command and if somebody doesn’t
make a custom gamemode set in a confined space
where everybody’s equipped with molotovs
and this command then I will be bitterly disappointed.
I’ve provided a console command in the description
of this video which will set up an ideal grenade
practicing server. Be sure to replace the
keys with the ones you’d like the commands
to be bound to, though.
And here’s another load of console commands
to equip you with one of every grenade type…
worth having.
These are all very powerful features which,
when combined, will help new grenade throws
to be discovered, practiced and perfected.
But rather than to make the game easier, I
expect it to make it harder by giving dedicated
players another tool to give them the advantage,
making CS:GO’s skill ceiling even HIGHER!
Practice with these console commands, or risk
falling behind the players who do. Well done
to Valve for sneaking out this quiet -but
useful- update.
