[2021] Timed charge, useless bomb ever.

Originally posted by Rusty Damage:

Originally posted by Sonata: not sure why everyone seems to think they work like nukes or smth... :CatKira:

There are literally six C4 bomb bars wrapped together with timer...

I mean, it's 6 sticks of -something- wrapped in a timer. Considering it's made with gunpowder, acid, iron, and some electrical parts, it's definitely not C4. Might look like it- But it isn't.

It's essentially a breaching charge- IT's designed to funnel the explosive payload into a small area for maximum breaching power. On a safe or door, that's enough to blow through the locking mechanism. On a meter thick concrete wall, that's enough to put a couple inch deep hole into the spot where it blows through- You'd do very little appreciable damage to it.

Originally posted by Seftak:

Originally posted by IRuleAll: even if i was given an unlimited stack of these useless things for free to open up every single container, i still wouldnt waste the item/stash space in my inventory lugging around something so useless and redundant.

You do not want to waste space to carry breaching charges but will carry lockpicks? They take the very same space but you cannot use lockpicks to open vault doors and they take much longer to open safes unless you invested points into the skill.

Honestly, If it DID do block damage to everything in it's blast radius, You wouldn't actually be able to use it for it's intended purpose at all.

If it actually did block damage to all blocks, Placing it on a chest or safe or door would explode literally every block around it in 90% of situations (I can think of like, 5-10 cases where a door/safe/chest is encased or supported by something tough enough to survive 3000 hp explosive damage), totally destroying all loot in the blast radius as well as the chest/safe itself in the process via collapse (Because the explosion would have blown out the floor under it, or the wall behind it in the case of wall safes.).

Like, I get the desire here- But, You should be asking for a new explosive that does what you want; Not trying to change the existing one that does what it does for a reason.