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[Gimmick]

Some of you may be asking yourselves, How does gimmick do that nade trick? Well for those of you who don't know how to do it, here is a quick lesson.

Step 1: Catch the nade with your grav gun. This is the most important part of grav nading. If you cant catch the nade you can't throw it. To catch a nade with your grav gun hit 5 then left click, then G then right click. Timing is everything.

Step 2: Learn the timing. The nade will beep 4 times then go boom. If you throw immediately after the 4th beep it will go boom about a foot in front of you. If you throw it as soon as you catch it, it will fly across then stage before it explodes. Learning when to throw the nade is paramount to your success as a nader.

Step 3: PRACTICE. The way I learned was to practice by myself. I made a solo game in domebox and then practiced catching nades untill I got good at it. Once you can catch, then try practicing hitting explosive barrels. Once you can do that, try platform jumping and hitting barrels while flying through the air. Once you are good at that, then start practicing against other people.

Good luck!

[=BWS=Yeti-Ninja]

Thank you for that, seems like I have trouble with my mouse switching to GG after I toss nade, helplessly watching it roll away harmlessly. Or if I'm real quick, I can run up on it and suicide.


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[Gimmick]

Timing is everything! Keep practicing the catch. Don't start practicing throwing untill you can catch.

[=BWS=Nutz]

Grav-Nade

Grav-nading is performed by tossing a grenade in the air, then using the gravity gun to fire it. There are a two variations to this. The first is the nade cook. This is done by grabbing and holding the nade in the gravity gun while the timer runs down, then firing it at the appropriate time for precise placement. The other method is called long distance grav-nading. This is done by simply zapping the nade with primary fire instead of catching it first.

Nade Cook

When performing this technique, you can initiate with either primary fire (thrown) or secondary fire (lobbed). Both have their pros and cons. The secondary fire method will be described here, as it is slightly more forgiving if mistimed. If you decide primary fire is the method for you, the basic technique is the same. You will just need to make adjustments in your timing and catch angle, plus react slightly faster upon releasing the fire button.

To summarize the differences, the primary fire method is marginally faster, but it is also easier to fumble during moments of lag. Primary fire will throw the grenade away from you if you miss. This reduces the risk of blowing yourself up by accident, but it also means you cannot recover the grenade. In fumbling a primary fire grenade you may have just provided a free grenade for your opponent to cook and fire back. Another difference is that a secondary fire nade can be converted to a long distance grav-nade mid-throw, while a primary fire one may not. In other words, you can wait until after you have lobbed the nade before deciding on which variation to use to fire it, which is quite useful in an extremely dynamic game like HL2DM.

Step 1: Prime the Nade

Priming the nade correctly is often overlooked by players trying to learn to grav-nade. If you just click once to lob the nade, you will have a much harder time putting the nade instantly into your gravity gun. To prime the nade, hold down secondary fire and do not release it until ready to perform the cook. If you have primed it correctly the hand holding the grenade animation will no longer be showing on your screen. Practise doing this and moving around with the grenade primed and ready to go. If you decide not to use a grenade after all, do not release secondary fire, but instead press the button for another weapon.

Step 2: Lob the Grenade

When ready to cook, aim up slightly, maybe about 20 degrees. This will lob the grenade in the optimum spot to catch it. Release the nade and it will be lobbed in to the air. When first learning, do not try to catch them, just observe the animation as it releases the nade. Notice that at one point in the animation the palm of the hand is facing you. This is the point at which you will switch to gravity gun and catch the nade.

Step 3: Switch to Gravity Gun

As soon as you lob the grenade you can switch to gravity gun. Sometimes during moments of lag, you will switch too fast and end up grabbing at air. To ensure the nade has actually been lobbed, wait until you see the palm of the hand facing you before making the switch. In order to get the timing down you must switch quickly.

Step 4: Hold Secondary Fire

Now that the nade is in the air and you have switched to gravity gun at the correct time, you need to hold down secondary fire on the gravity gun to scoop up the nade. Note that steps 3 and 4 have to be so fast they are almost simultaneous. As soon as the gravity gun is out, you should be holding down secondary fire to grab the nade as quickly as possible. If this whole process from prime to catch is done correctly, it should look like the nade almost went straight from your hand into your gravity gun.

Step 5: Cook and Fire

Once you have a grenade in your gravity gun, a ticking timer will sound. The timer ticks fast, so be careful. You have five fast ticks to fire the grenade. The longer you hold the nade, the less distance it will travel, but hold it too long and you will blow yourself up. The actual timing and placement of a cooked nade comes with experience. For now just practise by counting the ticks and firing it at various objects and opponents.

These are the basics as layed out in the university. Maybe Gimmick can go into the server and practice on some barrels or us
and post a vid here for everyone I would but you may as well learn from the master not just an expert.
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[Maverick]

I learned a lot from you Nutz the other night, Ive been practicing it and Ive managed to launch a few at people and have it explode next to their head...lol
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I might suck, but I try...lol

[=BWS=The Avatar]

Nicely done Maverick.
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[Maverick]

Thanks

It still takes a long time to switch weapons, usually Im dead before I even get the grenade launched...lol
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I might suck, but I try...lol

[Psychopomp]

I luvs cooking nades
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[=BWS=Yeti-Ninja]

Soz, whats for dinner tonight?
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[=BWS=Rommell]

GO-NADES!!!!

wow

that sounds.....odd......

uhhhh

i'm tired

R

[=BWS=Nutz]

Ya go figure. you remove the E and your in a totally different place. especially for cooking :O
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[Gimmick]

I suppose I could make a barrel sploding lesson vid. What's the best program for recording in game vids? Fraps? BTW When nade cooking the nade ticks 4 times then immediately explodes. Also I've always used the left mouse button when grav nading. I never knew people used the lob for it.

[=BWS=Nutz]

Fraps would be the best.
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[=BWS=The Avatar]

No better person to demonstrate than Gimmick.
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[Impala]

The game does have a bug that pisses me off: I like a long range GNade and the first toss and pop deflects upward, the second and third...are ok.

You prime toss and immediately slam it out with GGun.
Drives me crazy, especially in Killbox.

Gimmick also is a good backwards Hopper, good for GNading.

And Pomp, she doesn't like "The Stick"!
LOLOLOLOL