Why do fire extinguishers explode?

[Nico Nico Knee]

isnt that the oppisite of what theyre supposed to do?
Theyre filed with foam not explosives.

[Shogun]

Just supposed to be fun a bit man >_>

[injected11]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxvdrge1q00

[Frag Maniac]

They explode just due to being under massive pressure, but not all use foam. If devs show a poof of white, the explosion is done fairly accurately. If they show flames like a typical combustible explosion, then it's done horribly wrong.

You can clearly see here that they do the visual effect properly. The only thing that is strange is it shouldn't cause a zombie to ignite as shown here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdjJWyoADPg

[Nico Nico Knee]

Originally posted by Frag Maniac:

They explode just due to being under massive pressure, but not all use foam. If devs show a poof of white, the explosion is done fairly accurately. If they show flames like a typical combustible explosion, then it's done horribly wrong.

You can clearly see here that they do the visual effect properly. The only thing that is strange is it shouldn't cause a zombie to ignite as shown here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdjJWyoADPg

Mine mustve been glitched then because it blew up like the propane tanks

[Nite69]

its the pressure that makes them explode, those kinda tanks have tons of it to compress the gases

[Frag Maniac]

Originally posted by Dr.Chainsaw ✚ #TeamHeavy:

Mine mustve been glitched then because it blew up like the propane tanks

Well, maybe a propane tank was near it and you didn't see it.

That said, it's possible they inadvertently scripted one as a propane tank, especially when you see things like zombies catching fire from an extinguisher exploding.

Most games have some amount of bugs. Hell, TW3 has far more than this game, and it won GotY.

[Nico Nico Knee]

Originally posted by Frag Maniac:

Originally posted by Dr.Chainsaw ✚ #TeamHeavy:

Mine mustve been glitched then because it blew up like the propane tanks

Well, maybe a propane tank was near it and you didn't see it.

That said, it's possible they inadvertently scripted one as a propane tank, especially when you see things like zombies catching fire from an extinguisher exploding.

Most games have some amount of bugs. Hell, TW3 has far more than this game, and it won GotY.

True, it was only one extinguisher, i didnt test out any others because this one nearly killed me.

[Frag Maniac]

I'm not saying it isn't normal for them to kill people. The fastest time I've ever killed Tahir was when I struck a fire extinguisher and ran behind the pillar it was on. He was already damaged, but not anywhere near death, and it dropped him.

It's not normal for them to look like a propane tank when they explode though.

[Mr. Knob]

In my gameplay they explode as well, but I think it's a mechanic intentionally placed so the explosion ( noise ) attracts virals. I don't mind though :D. Note: i find it very amusing when u fight a demolisher and he charges into a propan tank, making it explode, and then u hear that magical sound of a door banging and a scream, and then 3 virals appear. I always find it funny, in a good way though