Fragmentation Grenade

For the explosive in the Remake, see Frag Grenade (System Shock Remake). For the ammunition in System Shock 2, see Fragmentation Grenades.

Fragmentation Grenade
Pickup Icon
Weapon Data
First Found	Level 1 - Hospital
Dropped by	Cyborg Drones (5%) Cyborg Warriors (5%)
Destructible	Yes
Hit Points	10
Operation	Contact Explosion
Attack Type	Projectile
Damage	150
Armor Penetration	20
Offense Value	3
Blast Radius	4
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A Fragmentation Grenade is an explosive weapon found in System Shock.

Overview

This grenade’s metal fragments make it an ideal anti-personnel weapon. Its percussion trigger, once armed, causes the device to explode on impact with either an enemy, an solid object in the environment such as a table, or the floor.

The most common grenade aboard Citadel Station, Fragmentation Grenades are also 'renewable' in that they can be looted from some types of cyborgs once destroyed. While initially quite useful to the Hacker, their value gradually decreases as tougher enemies begin appearing. Heavier robotic units in particular such as the Security-2-Bot are quite capable of shrugging off multiple Fragmentation Grenades and still functioning.

One slightly unorthodox use for Fragmentation Grenades is to rapidly clear a room of a large number of corpses. The blast will vaporize the corpses, which will promptly drop any loot they have for quick and convenient looting.

Note that grenades cannot be disarmed once armed by double-clicking in the MFD.