Grenade Launcher

"Man, it's gonna be raining zombie parts!"

- Coach

The Grenade Launcher is a weapon in Left 4 Dead 2. Based on footage from Comic Con, it appears to be a M79 Grenade Launcher. Not much is known about the grenade launcher other than "it liquefies flesh-eaters with remarkable efficiency."

It fires one shell at a time and takes around two or three seconds to reload. It takes the place of the primary weapon. It appears to have the same power as the pipe bomb. It also has the worst friendly fire damage, as in a video released by Kotaku, Rochelle shot Nick with it and took close to a half of his health in the process. This weapon appears to be just as effective against Special Infected.

The Grenade Launcher's ammo cannot be found in normal Ammo stacks.

Demo
The Grenade Launcher is one of the weapons the player cannot find in the Demo's levels. However, the player can obtain it by opening the console and typing in "sv_cheats 1", the "give_weapon_grenade_launcher". Note that this only works in Single Player mode or on a server hosted by the player.

In the demo, the Grenade Launcher lacks a skin and it's grenades display an "error" logo, but otherwise it works fine.

Trivia

 * The Grenade Launcher doesn't have a walking animation; it stays completely still on your screen.

Videos

 * http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/left-4-dead-2-grenade-launcher/325211
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m2F8XteODs