Can grenades be made noisy, please?

[kozak6]

Seriously, can they clank or tick or beep or something?  They are tremendously difficult to see, and 9/10 times, the poor alien doesn't even know it is there until it blows his legs off.

[[HUN]N.M.I.]

Let's make the nades 30 times bigger and glowing in a red aura, ok?
Grenades can be perfectly seen while throwing (and bouncing, that's why they bounce I think). A thrown and triggered (waiting for the big blow) nade is indeed really hard to see but it would cause it useless - Aliens have plenty of time to retreat (hail to blockers   ).

[next_ghost]

Grenades clank while bouncing. Just listen carefully while fighting humans and you can hear them drop grenades.

[Slajer]

Use headphones?

[Neo]

they're easy to see if you know what to look for, just you need to pay attention which a few aliens don't seem to do.

[kozak6]

I'm still curious if I am the only person here that has a problem with grenades.

[Basilisco]

The only problem with nades is for grangers and dretches that just out the egg. They don't know the nade is there, and you can blow some aliens with a grenade when eggs are really close.

This is why some ppl support the 5 second immunity after spawning.

[Neo]

I'd like a grenade sacrifice like they have in AA. Because yelling 'Grenade!' seems to only make aliens want to go and find the grenade to see where you're pointing, then go boom.

[werepants]

I don't have much problem with grenades as alien, as long as I am there when the grenade is thrown.  The problem is when the grenade is laying in a hall or something, or thrown right before spawn, and I run into it unawares.  However, it seems like this is reasonable, that if a human is lucky/skilled enough to anticipate exactly when an alien will walk by or spawn, he should get the kill.  Plus, the grenade is one of the few things that is reasonably priced on the human team @ 200 credits, and considering you can kill a dretch and still not get your money back, it is pretty balanced for cost vs power.
I do think more aliens need to pay attention to their sound.  I play with headphones and listen carefully, so it is never a problem for me.  It was a problem though for two tyrants who got stuck on each other while retreating on karith and didn't hear me drop a 'nade in their escape route... :wink:

[Paradox]

I have a bind to yell Grenade/Explode whenever a grenade is dropped or something is about to explode. I have a 7.1 surround sound system, so i hear most dropps, and have saved several teammates. The grenade is fine, but a small glow would be nice.

[[Aiax] Minorock]

If the Grenades made more niose then they do at the moment then the Aliens could easily get away in the very long delay between the grenade being dropped to it exploding (3-5 seconds or something)

[Lava Croft]

Grenades have a scary 'tonk' 'tonk' noise when they are thrown! How can you -NOT- hear it?~