Grenade Launcher
A long range fire support weapon, the Grenade Launcher is an indirect fire weapon capable of lobbing grenades at great distances with alarming accuracy.
What differentiates this weapon from other explosive weapons available is that it fires its grenades in an arc. As such the Grenade Launcher is not a direct fire weapon like the majority of weapons in the game, but can be used to fire above terrain to strike targets that could not be attacked conventionally.
It could be best to think of firing the Grenade Launcher as akin to throwing a grenade, but with far greater range and with an immediate detonation effect (assuming X-COM engineers have not m̶o̶d̶d̶e̶d̶ reconfigured your grenades to explode immediately when thrown).
The core strength of this weapon is that the soldier wielding it can simply stay well behind the frontlines and freely fire grenades at spotted hostile targets from safety and with impunity. This weapon works best on open, flat, maps, and conversely struggles in highly urban or jungle/forest environments. The weapon becomes functionally useless in close quarters combat or inside a building/base, soldiers wielding this when entering a UFO may be served in swapping to another firearm.
The Grenade Launcher comes with access to three ammo types.
- High Explosive Rounds - Function akin to regular human Grenades in terms of power and blast radius
- Smoke Rounds - Produce a small cloud of smoke at the target akin to a smoke grenade.
- Incendiary Rounds - Set a target area on fire.
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Firing Time Unit Notes
The following lists how many times a soldier can fire the gun by shot type continuously in any given round and the remaining percentage of any left over TUs that cannot be spent as a shot.
- Aimed 1 shots, 25% remaining TUs
- Snap: Dependent on amount of time units soldier has, fixed cost of 15 TU's to reload mean soldier with high TU could fire, reload and fire again.
