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25 NEW KILLS FOR THEGRENADE

A rocket goes where it is pointed. A grenade goes where physics sends it, so this gun’s camera language is the bounce and the fuse: a lazy arc, a shell that hits the floor and keeps going, a thing that rolls to a stop somewhere nobody chose, and a burning fuse that everyone in the frame can see. Every kill here is built on its own from its first frame to its last, as long as its own idea needs, with the gore at full.

YOU SAID“Even if we are building 1000 kill animations, each one should be very well designed and crafted.”
YOU SAID“From start frame to end frame everything should be very very different.”
1PLAY THEMTap any kill card. Nothing plays by itself. 2THE LANGUAGEWhat makes a kill a grenade kill. 3HOW THEY PLAYRarity order, what a kill needs, the stage. 4THE BOARDAll 35 weapons and what is ready.
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TAP A CARD TO PLAY IT

THE GRENADE KILLS

Tap any card and it plays in the phone above, on a real arena, at full gore. PLAY AGAIN restarts it, SLOW drops it to a third speed, and the track under the phone carries that kill’s own beats — drag it to stop anywhere. Nothing plays until you ask for it. Tap CHANGE on any kill you want rebuilt.

THE ROTATIONMost epic first, then the next
1Your owned kills for this gun play in rarity order, the biggest first. › 2If the spot can’t host one, it is skipped and comes back later. › 3Once they have all played, it starts again from the top.
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WHY THESE LOOK LIKE PISTOL KILLS

THE CAMERA LANGUAGE

Each weapon family has its own way of being filmed, so a kill reads as that gun’s even before you see the gun. These are the grenade launcher’s, and no other family uses the same set.

THE BOUNCE IS THE SHOTThe shell is a real little simulation, not a path someone drew. Where it ends up is physics, and the camera follows it there.
THE FUSE IS VISIBLEEverybody in the frame can see how long is left, including the man it is lying next to. The rocket has no equivalent.
THE CAMERA WAITS ON THE FLOORIt gets to where the shell is going before the shell does, and watches it arrive. Lazy, low and patient.
IT CAN BE ARGUED WITHA grenade can be caught, kicked, stood on or thrown back. A rocket cannot. Several of these kills are lost arguments.
IT COMES TO RESTGrenade kills have a moment of total stillness before the bang: a shell sitting on the floor, going nowhere, with the fuse still lit.
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DECIDED 23 OCT

HOW THEY PLAY IN THE GAME

These are the cinematic kills, on top of the 238 skin kills that already exist. Nothing is replaced.

ROUND-ENDING ONLYAnd the match-winning kill, exactly as the kill cam works today.
THE APPROACH STAYSWalk-up, dash or ranged as now — the kill itself is the next animation in the rotation.
WHAT A KILL NEEDSA wall, a ledge, a second foe, room. If the spot can’t host it, the next one that fits plays instead.
THE CINEMATIC STAGEA mini map built only for kill animations. The kill cam cuts to it so a set piece is never lost.
ANY TAP SKIPSSame as today. Up to 15 s, as long as the kill's own story needs, never padded.
EVERYTHING IS OWNEDFor now. Kills are sold on their own as well as inside a skin.
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