Pull grenade / flashbang pin with trigger hand?

[Falandorn]

This crops up from time to time usually pulling grenade pins with teeth but this is something slightly more realistic.

I wanted the option to maintain the pistol-grip on my main hand weapon allowing my free hand to pull a grenade or flashbang off my belt and pull the pin by placing the grenade near my trigger finger.

This could also be done holding a two-handed weapon but releasing your main-hand and grabbing a grenade and pulling the pin with your front gripping hand.

It's just so fiddly trying to juggle weapons in DM or TDM to use grenades or flashbangs. I hardly ever see them being used and it's usually just quicker to run in a room and shoot the enemy than use them because by the time you have put your weapon away, pulled out the grenade, pulled the pin, armed it, thrown it and found your weapon again your either dead already as they charged you or they have left the area.

I can see in Search & Destroy where it might be slower and people camp in specific spots they might not be so awkward, especially if you have team mates ready to shoot anyone rushing you. I feel the whole other half of the gaming community misses out on using these fun little items.

[SyncHero]

Yeah, I have to agree.
Having the ability to pull the pin out while using one hand is great.

[Jimmy]

As mentioned it would make utility too good in normal S&D. Utility is already super effective. In terms of using it in DM/TDM I totally get why it's not used as much in those modes as they're much faster. In that same way I think making them something you can easily one hand is just asking for spamming in those modes.

Beyond that even if it were feasible to allow it just for those modes (DM/TDM) I think that lack of consistency between modes would frustrate players more than not being able to one hand grenades.

[Tajin]

Yeah maybe they should allow that and also add a random chance that you fumble and drop the grenade while performing that stunt.


Meanwhile you can just think ahead and pull the pin before you approach the doorway. Then you can still hold the ready grenade in one hand and the weapon in the other.

[Wouha]

it would be cool if you could pull the pin off on your vest.
The trade off is this would arm the grenade immediately so it's not too OP as you can't just hold it.