Okay, can we agree that literally no other game in the entire world had a better-feeling default grenade? Loadout's frag grenade was quick, versatile, and felt amazing to land one-shots. You could drop it right on your feet and use it as a spacing tool, you could bounce it cleanly off basically anything in the maps, and it was so effective that you really couldn't afford to not respect when a grenade was dropped down. Like, it's been years since the game shutdown and I still think about how good that default grenade was.

The best grenade in the world combined with a pulse triple shotgun was my go-to. I lived for close range fights and I loved enemies who'd engage in like 90-second-long footsies fights with me. For a game whose enemies didn't move all too fast, it was still a visceral experience that most games either let dissolve too quickly, or punish aggressive close-range play. I loved fights in Loadout, and getting to adapt my playstyles to other people's loadouts. I don't think any game can come close to offering what Loadout had in terms of raw gameplay and of course its specific style of humour.

Bring it back

I'm waiting for the day when I can play loadout again ;)