Blowing Up Vehicles

[Yxklyx]

So, there are some items on the map that you can shoot and they blow up - but with vehicles, they only explode the turn after. Is there a way to get a vehicle to explode right away (without a reaper)?

[discodog]

Hit them twice. Mostly with grenades but some skills can hit them.

[Nibelungen Finest]

I had a mission when I aim my plasma grenade specifically toward a sport car, it exploded with grenade simultaneously.

Not sure if it’s random, but it could be done,

[Parzival]

Also, any type of higher explosives will do the trick. A rocket launcher, flamethrower, etc.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Conventional nades (the ones you start out with) only "ignites" vehicles' engines. If you want to blow 'em up immediately you'll gonna need plasma nades.

[red255]

might be able to do it with the demolition skill. I don't use it because early betas it used to consistantly set your grenadier on fire.

[Tiasmoon]

Frag grenades have low 'enviromental damage'. Pretty much anything else is capable of destroying a car in one turn, altho there's a few things (like armored train cars) that can only be destroyed by the really heavy stuff such as shredstorm.

Plasma grenades, rocket launchers and the reapers Claymore all detonate regular cars in one hit. If you dont have those yet, 2 frag grenades also do the trick.

[Yxklyx]

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Frag grenades have low 'enviromental damage'. Pretty much anything else is capable of destroying a car in one turn, altho there's a few things (like armored train cars) that can only be destroyed by the really heavy stuff such as shredstorm.

Plasma grenades, rocket launchers and the reapers Claymore all detonate regular cars in one hit. If you dont have those yet, 2 frag grenades also do the trick.

I'm not seeing this with Plasma Grenades. Is it possible that vehicles are tougher on Commander? Or maybe the grenade damage is reduced by distance for environmental hazards? Mid to late game I very rarely see a vehicle blow up on the turn it gets hit - by any of the late game damage dealers.

[red255]

the heavy weapons of the war suits and what not blow them right up.

[Setokaiva]

I've always consistently managed to blow up cars with rocket launchers and the like. Frag grenades, yeah, those take the one-two punch. After a car is "ignited" (it starts burning and shows flames), a second hit with an explosive is usually enough to make it blow. Stray weapons fire can also do the trick; I had a Sectoid with a beam pistol miss a shot against a rookie behind a truck once, hit the truck and blow it up in one go for an instant kill.

That's right. Even on a miss my luck still kills me. x_x