i miss this ♥♥♥♥

Okay, can we agree that literally no other game in the entire world had a better-feeling default grenade? Loadout's frag grenade was quick, versatile, and felt amazing to land one-shots. You could drop it right on your feet and use it as a spacing tool, you could bounce it cleanly off basically anything in the maps, and it was so effective that you really couldn't afford to not respect when a grenade was dropped down. Like, it's been years since the game shutdown and I still think about how good that default grenade was.

The best grenade in the world combined with a pulse triple shotgun was my go-to. I lived for close range fights and I loved enemies who'd engage in like 90-second-long footsies fights with me. For a game whose enemies didn't move all too fast, it was still a visceral experience that most games either let dissolve too quickly, or punish aggressive close-range play. I loved fights in Loadout, and getting to adapt my playstyles to other people's loadouts. I don't think any game can come close to offering what Loadout had in terms of raw gameplay and of course its specific style of humour.