Why Does Knifing Sticky Bombs and Mines Cause Them To Blow Up?

(Black) #1

I find this a bit odd because It really means that if fletcher or proxy lays down their explosive on one area it’s essentially sterilized because the only way to get rid off it is by it exploding.

Knifing it should be a sort of “disable” instead of it blowing up in your face, so they can actually be countered.

(N8o) #2

You could… shoot them.

(gg2ez) #3

Go up (or down) to good ol’ 'Nam and knife a mine. That’s why it explodes.

(Terminal_6) #4

There’s really not much reason for this mechanic. If you’re close enough to a mine to knife it, then it’s already detonated. Also, most of Fletchers detonate their bombs very quickly, unless they die beforehand, in which case I think his bombs detonate anyway.

I could only see this being useful for scraping sticky bombs off of/away from deployables, assuming Fletcher has neglected to detonate them for whatever reason.

(RyePanda) #5

[quote=“Terminal_6;139880”]There’s really not much reason for this mechanic. If you’re close enough to a mine to knife it, then it’s already detonated. Also, most of Fletchers detonate their bombs very quickly, unless they die beforehand, in which case I think his bombs detonate anyway.

I could only see this being useful for scraping sticky bombs off of/away from deployables, assuming Fletcher has neglected to detonate them for whatever reason.[/quote]

Well, you could be knifing a mine that hasn’t activated yet. Also, you could want to knife mines off of yourself so they don’t happen to hurt nearby friendlies when the Fletcher decides to detonate.

(streetwiseSailboat) #6

Maybe Proxy’s mines are also pressure sensitive, so it blows up when you hit it

(AnimeDude) #7

Yeah, knife a proximity mine, genius

(Faraleth) #8

I would imagine to keep consistency of damage=trigger. Good ol’ “game logic”, but it makes sense from a design stand-point.

(Shaelym) #9

Well, maybe it could be an ability added to pineapple juggler : you can disarm deployable explosives using your knife. Not overly powerful but since it already has a (crappy) use, why not ?

(Scav) #10

Following up on that logic, explosive devices contain, well, explosives. Thus, disarmed or not, if you shoot it, they blow the fuck up :smiley: So, if you disable, lets say, a proxi mine, the owner can still back up, aim at it and “trigger it manually” while you are busy knifing.

I imagine it requires extra coding schenanigans, and it would be barely noticable, since then ppl would just shoot their stuff to make it blow up. So, its a nice creative idea, but its flawed and is kinda pointless to me. :wink:

(SzGamer227) #11

Do I have to explain how very daft it would be to try to stab a PROXY MINE with a KNIFE??

(Scav) #12

I always do it on warmups, its quite tricky actually, sometimes the mine just ignores me slashing at it wildly. T-T