Do the grenades from Call of Duty 4 count as enemies? I tried playing Veteran and the only thing that stopped me from getting through any parts of the game (especially that damn fight on the second mission in the TV station) was the bastard grenades. Those things can seriously fly through walls to land perfectly at your feet, killing you instantly, and the game has an incredible habit of giving enemies an infinite supply, and putting two or three at your feet in the span of a few seconds, so that if you want to try to throw one back, you get blown up by the second and third. This is compounded by the fact that in 99% of cases, the only place to run is out of cover, where you get promptly destroyed by machine gun fire. I swear, I know Veteran is hard, but it's beyond the point of unfair; it's a complete fucking nightmare that relies more on luck than it does skill. I dunno, maybe the PC version is harder because you don't ave that magic "snap to target" button that does 95% of the work for you, but still, the grenades ruin it for me.
Oh, while I'm at it, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky also has horrible grenades, although the intent is definitely not malicious and has to do more with enemies following the same AI scripts in the same way. Stumble onto a group of 10 people and the first thing they do is throw grenades at while maybe one or two provide enough suppressing fire to ensure that you can't just stand in one place to pick them off. If you're stuck in a fairly narrow space, playing the game becomes an exercise in quick-loading.
