Quick Long Bomb Guide

The Long Bomb Penance/Achievement gives you a torso cosmetic for the Veteran and is necessary for the helmet cosmetic later on. This is a guide on how to throw grenades as Veteran so that you don't need to yeet it across the map.

Edit: They nerfed grenade regeneration from 45 seconds to 60 seconds.

Brief Introduction

The Veteran Sharpshooter carries four krak grenades. There is a Penance/Achievement you need to complete called Long Bomb to get a torso cosmetic, as well as being a necessary achievement for a helmet cosmetic later on.

I found that most guides on this achievement point out specific parts of missions to do it on, but I was lazy so I figured out a more practical solution by quick throwing the grenade.

Steps

You'll want to go to the Psykarium to practice throwing the grenades for a few minutes. Follow the hallway to the right when you spawn in the hub to find it.

With your grenades, stand about 20 meters away from a horde of weak enemies. Look up about 40 degrees or so (better to overthrow than underthrow) and just quickly left click without holding it.

This quick throw won't go as far, and if done right, should explode a bit above head level.

Once you can do the throw comfortably, join a mission on the easiest difficulty (sedition).

Whenever you find a sizable horde, just let your teammates engage them while you stand back and do the throw. With a bit of luck and good practice, it shouldn't take too long.

Tips

At trust level 10 for Veteran there is a feat that replenishes grenades every 60 seconds. With this feat you can attempt to throw multiple grenades at a horde, and if you don't get it, you can always try again later in the mission.

Sometimes missions will have the condition "endless horde" which might make it easier to get the achievement.

[★Let’sGoBrandon★]

i start play game at 3rd difficulty and this grenade are so weak this is why i cant do this by any accident. At 5 difficulty this grenade literaly deal like 1 scout lasgan shoot damage LMAO
But by your tips i complite this)

[Lion 'El Johnson]

I got this one totally by accident. I don't know what the map was called, but you had a large drop down and you have to fight waves of hordes in an open arena. Anyways, There were 4 grenade boxes at the drop down and I didn't want those to go to waste so I just spammed 12 grenades at the crowds far down and voila. I just wanted to share my silly accident, didn't even know about this penance yet haha

[Hentai Senpai]

Glad to hear it

[Kodiak]

Worked like a charm, thanks. For some reason the fuse on a quick throw seems to be shorter when you throw the grenade at that ~40° angle.

[Hentai Senpai]

To each their own really, this is just an alternative for people less inclined to remember specific map areas to do this on.

[Slurs! In the Discord]

Keep on the lookout for static Horde spawns and try to get max distance without alerting them and angle your grenades to the very tail end. That's how I got mine.

[Hentai Senpai]

I tried that, but even throwing a grenade straight up with an underhand throw doesn't run down the fuse enough. You could try it if you had an elevation advantage though

[MikeLC]

you can also hold down rightmouse to underhand the grenade, but idk if that'd help