Airdrop Blast Radius

[AlphaNilla]

Does anyone know roughly what the effective lethal blast radius is for airdrop containers??

[DoctorX]

Pretty big, I was killed by one from well over 50m away.

To find the exact radius, walk away from one until you get to a spot where you think, "it couldn't possibly kill me from here"... then add 10m.

[^DreeMax^]

Around 50 meters indeed.

[Bunny]

The max radius of the explosion is 60 meters. Maximum damage is applied in a 5 meter radius and it slowly drops off the further away you are from the drop. Additionally - the blast will erase all items in a 5 meter radius around the cargo drop.

[Ye Olde Curmudgeon]

/me think if it would ever be possible to "hijack" the drops onto precise targets.... >:-)

[AlphaNilla]

So the circular error probability is quite high indeed, and I found out the hard way about that 5M "confidence region" of the blast, after it effectively vaporized all the cool loot I had neatly stacked up some distance from the container .

[smokey57]

It will annihilate both you and your vehicle out to 40 yds or so. Don't ask me how i know this.

[insettoinfetto]

Originally posted by Bunny:

Additionally - the blast will erase all items in a 5 meter radius around the cargo drop.

This is from the last patch? Cause I died a couple of times there but my belongings never disappear with the blast.

[AlphaNilla]

The blast still vaporizes items left too close to the container. I laid out some stuff and tested it.

[Urbanmojo]

it never destroyed the toolboxes I left outside the door when it exploded

[AlphaNilla]

Interesting. I wonder if toolboxes are somehow immune to the blast? Just to be clear I'm in SP, and I'm assuming that containers behave similarly in multi...

[essieboy]

LOL.... Just found this out the hard way!!!

Lost Everything, I've not played in agesssss and thought i'd give it a go again, got a nice air drop and thought wow, happy days some decent loot in here, its looking up!!!

Ow how wrong was i, it started beeping then i though hell, get outta here its gonna blow hid behind a tree.....

Lets just say the tree didn't save me ahahahahahahahaha. Lost everything. Ow well XD

[AlphaNilla]

lol @ essieboy! Been there done that...

[Nero Chaos]

Wished to find out about trees myself, but the buildings work as cover: drop was 20 meters near the barn, been inside - got no harm.

I'm curious, when it starts to beep - it open all the locks. So, for example, you're inside, ready, it starts beeping, you open 2 lockers, grab everything asap and run - is it possible to make a safe distance in time in a flat open ground?

[smokey57]

Originally posted by Nero Chaos:

Wished to find out about trees myself, but the buildings work as cover: drop was 20 meters near the barn, been inside - got no harm.

I'm curious, when it starts to beep - it open all the locks. So, for example, you're inside, ready, it starts beeping, you open 2 lockers, grab everything asap and run - is it possible to make a safe distance in time in a flat open ground?

Timer lasts 30 seconds. Takes a few seconds to search/open each of the six lockers, plus fiddly time to click on and grab anything you might want- the more you want, the more likely you'll die. I wouldn't try opening more than one or two lockers at most, before running like hell.

[Bunny]

One locker and then run, that would be my advice :)