REMINDER: The Lab – Grenades Only

“The Lab” returns for an explosive weekend of Grenades Only matches! This episode of “The Lab” will run from Friday, July 23, through Monday, July 26.

By arne | Twitter @arnemeyer | Wednesday July 21 2010

REMINDER: The Lab – Grenades Only

Welcome back to the second episode of “The Lab” in July!

I have no doubt a bunch of you will be heading down to San Diego this weekend to attend Comic-Con, but in case you’re not able to attend Comic-Con, consider joining us in “The Lab.”

“The Lab” is open from Friday, July 23, at 10:00 AM PDT (what time is that in my city?) through Monday, July 26, at 10:00 AM PDT (what time is that in my city?).

This episode of “The Lab” promises to be quite explosive with the Grenades Only variation of our standard Deathmatch mode. When we say Grenades Only, we mean grenades ONLY. Every player spawns with 99 grenades – that’s virtually an unlimited supply – to blow up everything in sight. Well, actually make an attempt and try not to kill your teammates. We’ve also disabled boosters for “The Lab” this weekend – it wouldn’t be much fun if just about everybody used Sure Foot, right?

End result? It’s pretty much what I said in our blog post announcing the schedule for July – BOOM.

The active maps for this weekend of “The Lab” are:

  • The Plaza
  • The Sanctuary
  • Train Wreck
  • The Village

We’ll be opening the Grenades Only discussion thread on the Naughty Dog community forums at about the same time “The Lab” starts this weekend. Be sure to leave your thoughts after you’ve had a chance to play a few rounds!

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C_Seerden's avatar

Posted by: C_Seerden on 07-21-2010

Grenades ONLY.. No Hammer or other weapon to help you aim? Only arch throws? If so, I won’t play a single match and just continue playing regular Deathmatch. No need to waste my time playing 20 minute arch-throw deathmatches. No boosters either.. No BoHs, no money. Meh, I won’t play Grenades Only at all anyway, I think.

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Posted by: renostheflash on 07-21-2010

no boosters .this SUCKS ASS dude .i was gonna play the lab this time but with no boosters how the * am i gonna get my money now .

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Posted by: Maxamilius291 on 07-21-2010

It’s a shame there isn’t any weapon to help you aim like the hammer or a pistol with no ammo, but I’ll still have fun playing this nonetheless. I don’t really think this is a very serious playlist - only being able to arc grenades, everybody spamming them left right and centre, people getting more teamkills than normal kills… I can imagine this being just a bit of a laugh. In other words - AWESOME!

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Posted by: yourworldonfire on 07-21-2010

cross your fingers for an addictive game type :D

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Posted by: Tjc99 on 07-21-2010

I don’t know about this, I might try it but with no boosters means no BOH which means I won’t earn much money so I won’t play very much.
At least give us a pistol with no ammo so we can aim!

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Posted by: tapantaola on 07-21-2010

Arc (L2) is not the only way to throw a grenade, you can aim with L1 first also.

Anyway, we’ re gonna see a lot of grenade spamming and many kicks. Does anyone know if there is any cash penalty for being kicked?

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Posted by: C_Seerden on 07-21-2010

How do you want to aim without an assault rifle or pistol?

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Posted by: egee22 on 07-21-2010

Hola ND que esto de granadas nada mas va hacer muy divertido quiero que sea el viernes para usar el laboratorio hasta el lunes, me gustaría que dejaran y volviera el duelo de escopetas que es lo que mas me a gustado del laboratorio solo escopetas, a lo mejor me guste este también de solo granadas, gracias por todo lo que hacen y sigan asi con mas sorpresas

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Posted by: Jonnyboyjet on 07-21-2010

It’s going to be fun nade’s flying everywhere. When you jump and roll out the way be sure not to land on the other nade’s all around you haha. Just for fun this one smile

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Posted by: Jonnyboyjet on 07-21-2010

This is for Fallen and Volt’s see you on the battlefield.

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Posted by: Hammer-Spammer on 07-21-2010

notice how the train wreck is in all the labs apart from the first one?

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Posted by: Camdog916 on 07-21-2010

I can’t wait.  This is going to be AWESOME!!!!!!

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Posted by: Jippdaboss on 07-21-2010

Hey ND are these labs being put out for testing because these will be future game types for all competitive mode. I ask this because I hope you guys put out a poll of votes for the best one because pistol plunder def got my vote.

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Posted by: guamexigese on 07-21-2010

wow, no boosters and no other weapons? this will be total chaos. I don’t see any place on any of these maps that will be safe. the cover system and verticality are obsolete now. Arne, has the blast radius or strength been tweaked for this mode? I’ll give this mode a try. like tapantaola said, there looks to be “kicks” in this mode and as far as when I have been “kicked” for team killing, I don’t remember getting penalized, but that was some time ago and may be different now.

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Posted by: Furrikiller1 on 07-21-2010

now this is gona be owesome i’m olmost an expert in granades you just look up and press L2 and the granade will go flying all the way to heaven

keep up the good work ND xD

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