Catalyst HLB Detonates Grenades

So when I woke up this morning I decided to go into training mode to test the changes to melee and weapons to see how they feel and play now. I figured I would take this opportunity to also familiarize myself with the new maps and chose catalyst. While testing I started randomly throwing Spike grenades seeing about how far they could be thrown across the map before they would just explode because the spike grenade for some reason has a preset timer no matter what. As I was throwing Spike grenades I noticed that some of them were exploding quicker than others. Every time I threw a Spike grenade at the hard light bridge in the middle they just detonated as soon as they touched it. And since I was in training mode I decided to go ahead and try all the grenades. It also triggers the Plasma grenades but not the Frag or Dynamo.

I’m not sure if this was intentional or not so I was just going to make a post in the forums to see what kind of response I get. And now that I think about it there’s a hard light bridge on behemoth so I’m going to go check to see if it triggers there as well.

Okay so the top part of Behemoth in the middle doesn’t actually have a hard light bridge it just has hard light “glass” I guess is what you would call it and it does not trigger grenades to explode upon contact.

Now it’s time for some even dumber testing. I’m about to go back into training mode on catalyst and get a bunch of bots onto the hard light bridge kill them all at the same time and see if they’re grenades explode when dropped.

Dang it! And now I find out that bots don’t have grenades. Hmmm… Maybe I should send this one out to Defend The House and see what they do with Halo Mythbusters.

I think it could make combat around the bridge more interesting. Good to know!

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