Ultimate Quick Grenade Bind

[Baker]

As a very wise and respected member of the Quake community once said, "+sattack6 should have been built into Quake since day 1".

+sattack6, aka quick grenades (there are other +sattacks, but who uses 'em), are built into many multiplayer mods (RQ, xCTF, IHOC, even Artifact-RJS had them) and since 1996 players have been making their own quick grenade scripts that usually go like this:

alias +sattack6 "-attack;wait;impulse 6;wait;+attack"
alias -sattack6 "-attack;wait;impulse 7"

bind h +sattack6 // change "h" the key you want to throw a quick grenade

The crappiness of scripts is that it gives an advantage to those that spend the time playing with their config. I remember last year being on a server where 1 player asked the other "What is the alias for a grenade on this server?" and it was a mod without such a feature.

Anyway, I was playing around with a mod without this functionality and finally got annoyed with even the above script. (What if I don't have RL?)

Here is the best quick grenade alias. It works with JoeQuake, QRack and ProQuake (support for bestweapon).

// Ultimate Quick Grenade
alias +sattack6 "-attack;wait;impulse 6;wait;+attack"
alias -sattack6 "-attack;wait;bestweapon 7 8 5 4 3 2 6 1"

bind h +sattack6

The above will throw a grenade and then switch back to either the rocket launcher, lightning gun, sng, ng, ssg, sg, gl or axe (first available with ammo).

[Canadian*Sniper]

My DualWeapons config offers more versatility. Quick Switching Galore.

[SIZE="1"]alias w1 "bind MOUSE2 +weapon1; echo DualWeapon-AXE"
alias w2 "bind MOUSE2 +weapon2; echo DualWeapon-SG"
alias w3 "bind MOUSE2 +weapon3; echo DualWeapon-SSG"
alias w4 "bind MOUSE2 +weapon4; echo DualWeapon-NG"
alias w5 "bind MOUSE2 +weapon5; echo DualWeapon-SNG"
alias w6 "bind MOUSE2 +weapon6; echo DualWeapon-GL"
alias w7 "bind MOUSE2 +weapon7; echo DualWeapon-RL"
alias w8 "bind MOUSE2 +weapon8; echo DualWeapon-LG"


alias +weapon1 "impulse 1;+attack"
alias -weapon1 "-attack;gsnip"

alias +weapon2 "impulse 2;+attack"
alias -weapon2 "-attack;gsnip"

alias +weapon3 "impulse 3;+attack"
alias -weapon3 "-attack;gsnip"

alias +weapon4 "impulse 4;+attack"
alias -weapon4 "-attack;gsnip"

alias +weapon5 "impulse 5;+attack"
alias -weapon5 "-attack;gsnip"

alias +weapon6 "impulse 6;+attack"
alias -weapon6 "-attack;gsnip"

alias +weapon7 "impulse 7;+attack"
alias -weapon7 "-attack;gsnip"

alias +weapon8 "impulse 8;+attack"
alias -weapon8 "-attack;gsnip"


bind 1 snip1
bind 2 snip2
bind 3 snip3
bind 4 snip4
bind 5 snip5
bind 6 snip6
bind 7 snip7
bind 8 snip8
alias gsnip "impulse 2" /* default = no null :) */
alias snip1 "impulse 1; alias gsnip "impulse 1""
alias snip2 "impulse 2; alias gsnip "impulse 2""
alias snip3 "impulse 3; alias gsnip "impulse 3""
alias snip4 "impulse 4; alias gsnip "impulse 4""
alias snip5 "impulse 5; alias gsnip "impulse 5""
alias snip6 "impulse 6; alias gsnip "impulse 6""
alias snip7 "impulse 7; alias gsnip "impulse 7""
alias snip8 "impulse 8; alias gsnip "impulse 8""

alias +shotty "impulse 2;+attack"
alias -shotty "-attack;gsnip"

alias +naily "impulse 5;+attack"
alias -naily "-attack;gsnip"

alias +nadey "impulse 6;+attack"
alias -nadey "-attack;gsnip"

// deactivates it
alias deactivate "bind MOUSE2 +hook; bind MOUSE3 rune-use; pq_moveup 0; bind e rune-delete; bind q rune-tell; echo DualWeapons Deactivated; play items/protect2"  

// activation mwhahahahaha
alias activate "w8; bind MOUSE3 +shotty; pq_moveup 1; bind e +nadey; bind q +naily; echo DualWeapons Activated; play items/damage"[/SIZE]

[Spirit]

Has anyone a decent grenade timer?

[Canadian*Sniper]

yep, my brain.

[Monster]

binds are for weaklings. you can't aim the grenade or rocket in the direction you want.

according to hydro, a grenade takes 3 seconds to explode. if you have proquake, look at the timer, and wait for 3 seconds to go by. Then the grenade should explode.

Or, the easy way, is to shoot the grenade straight up in the air, and on the second bounce, the grenade will explode.

[Canadian*Sniper]

binds are for weaklings. you can't aim the grenade or rocket in the direction you want.

The binds/aliases are used to make weapon switching easier. It has nothing to do with your aim.

SHEEEEEEEEESH

[Lardarse]

according to hydro, a grenade takes 3 seconds to explode. if you have proquake, look at the timer, and wait for 3 seconds to go by. Then the grenade should explode.

Actually it's 2.5 seconds - and it's not completely easy to do it by the game clock. The best grenade timer I've seen is built into the QdQstats progs.dat that speedrunners use.

Or, the easy way, is to shoot the grenade straight up in the air, and on the second bounce, the grenade will explode.

You try doing that with a low ceiling...

[Baker]

Ultimate Quick Grenade bind for DarkPlaces and other clients without "bestweapon" support.

// Quick Grenade
alias bestweapon7854321 "impulse 1; wait; impulse 2; wait; impulse 3; wait; impulse 4; wait; impulse 5; wait; impulse 8; wait; impulse 7" // Make a fake bestweapon alias

alias +sattack6 "-attack;wait;impulse 6;wait;+attack"
alias -sattack6 "-attack;wait;bestweapon7854321"

bind h +sattack6 // substitute "h" for your preferred key