How do the Frag grenades work?

Are you talking about the Mass Effect 3 Soldier's Frag Grenades?

Grenades in Mass Effect 3 (in single player: Frag, Sticky, Lift, Cluster, and Inferno) are a finite resource. Depending on talent evolutions, you will typically have between 2-6 grenades in single player. Soldier, Infiltrator, Sentinel, and Adept can get up to 9 grenades total if you take Inferno Grenades as a bonus power.

Frag Grenades do not have a cooldown. You can throw grenades as long as you still have grenades. The icon for Frag Grenades will indicate how many grenades you have.

You can pick up grenades on missions. They will be laying on the ground or on tables or in ammo boxes, similar to thermal clips. However, some missions seem to have more grenades than others. N7 missions have ammo boxes that replenish grenades at set intervals, similar to multiplayer; they are multiplayer maps after all. Other missions seem to have little to no grenade pickups at all.

Generally I tend to avoid using grenades on a lot of my Shepards since powers with a cooldown are more reliable and do not depend on grenade pickups during missions.


Frag grenades deal damage in a radius. If you hit an enemy directly, it will explode on contact. Otherwise it will explode after about 1 second.

You throw them, and things die.

toss it away and poof

grenades

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Yeah there isn't really that great a supply of grenades for SP on normal missions. Sort of interesting to compare the balance of SP grenades to MP that way since in MP (and the SP version of MP maps), they are easy to get with ammo boxed, you have the Grenade Capacity Gear, and you can burn Thermal Clip Packs to refill them.

For the most part I appreciate empty grenades on Shepard so I can bind the grenade key to G and get MP-medi-gel-like reload canceling.