Hellbombs

[The 'Dwayne Johnson' Rock]

Why on gods green earth do you think a hellbomb is destroyable while its armed and about to blow up. im pretty sure if i threw a grenade at an armed nuke, IT WOULD EXPLODE. Fix this ♥♥♥♥ its so unplayable to have to fight 4 gunships and protect a cardboard hellbomb.

[The 'Dwayne Johnson' Rock]

I’m sure if I asked a bomb squad veteran what would happen if I took a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ chainsaw to a bomb or bomb vest, the answer would be “you’re dead”. If they wanted to keep the design of the destructible hellbomb after arming, why not make it even more chaotic and just have the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ detonate prematurely, it was make running the ♥♥♥♥ away From the giant ass bomb way more entertaining than having to baby sit it so a single berserker bot doesn’t cut it in half.

[L1qu1dator]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Yeah, Hellbombs in the wild can go off like that but the one from us doesn't?
Make sense.

[L1qu1dator]

Originally posted by Kain:

Originally posted by Van:

oooh...you had two gunship fabricators next to each other huh? I feel your pain.

Ha, thats not even the worst that can happen.

Yeah there was once at least 8 gunships around us. I mean there wasn't really time to count them all, they made together a full circle in the sky around us... It was a massacre.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by The 'Dwayne Johnson' Rock:

Why on gods green earth do you think a hellbomb is destroyable while its armed and about to blow up.

Because a bomb being armed doesn't mean its exploding. You can arm a pack of C4 and throw all sorts of sh♥♥ at it, without ever triggering it, provided there is no electrical charge presence.

Taking the safety off of a gun also doesn't mean its shooting. Arming a Bomb is making it ready to explode.

Originally posted by The 'Dwayne Johnson' Rock:

im pretty sure if i threw [...] at an armed nuke

How do you figure that the Hellbomb is a nuke?

This is not a Nuke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCpolQ9F-iM

Just because you get a mushroom cloud does not mean its a nuke. Matter of fact, the fact that you can stay in close proximity to the thing going off and not die of radioactive poisoning is a strong indicator that a Hellbomb is not a Nuke.

Originally posted by The 'Dwayne Johnson' Rock:

im pretty sure if i threw a grenade at an armed nuke, IT WOULD EXPLODE.

No, it would not. That is not how Nukes work. It's not even how Nuclear Fission Plants work. The reason Fission plants go up in smoke, and why only older models are susceptible to it, is because you are getting a run away fission. Fission plants build after Chernobyl are build in a way that you do no longer get run away fission.

A run away fission happens when neutrons are hitting parts of the reactor rod they are not supposed to hit. And why modern Fission Plants are constructed in a fashion to drop the rods into special material that absorbs any run away neutrons, thus inhibiting the fission from going out of control.

Nukes do work different. They work by using a chemical explosion to set of a fission, which then provides the energy for the Fusion.

There is a reason Iran and North Korea have been working on Nukes for decades. It is a super delicate process. It isn't just throwing an explosion at some nuclear material to set off a fission, which then powers the Fusion process to get a boom.

If it was easy to set off a Nuke, everyone on this planet had one. From the lowest Terrorist to the biggest countries. The reason only a handful of countries have them is because they require very specific set of circumstances.

Not even a fission bombs are easy. Just putting the keys into the ignition (which is what arming is), doesn't mean the bomb goes off.

In addition to this. Hellbombs, by the sound effect used, seem to indicate something is charging up. Which means that before whatever capacitor (and technically you probably wouldn't hear that) is charged up to full (at which point it goes boom), any less of that charge wouldn't set up whatever is detonating.

Much like plastic explosives needing a minimum level of charge, otherwise they would be set off by static electricity.

So we can conclude that when you "arm" the hellbomb it charges some capacitor, and only when that thing has enough charge the Hellbomb goes boom.

Which then also explains why the unexploded Hellbombs in the level go off when you shoot at them. Something has interupted the process to deliver the charge from capacitor to explosive material. And much like you can trigger a charged capacitor by unsafe handling, agitating the hellbomb seems to set off the charging process. and it goes boom.

[Lord Rambo]

What grinds my jimmies is how the Hellbombs the player calls down die with a pathetic fart under enemy fire, but the unexploded 'dud's you find around the battlefield trigger a full-yield detonation if so much as a butterfly touches it.

[[CT] Forced Jaketh]

Actually no, if you threw a grenade at a nuke it wouldnt simply just go off, a nuclear reaction isnt that easy to create lol. You need to concentrate the materials together, blowing them apart would do the opposite.

[76561199622330936]

Originally posted by Lord Rambo:

What grinds my jimmies is how the Hellbombs the player calls down die with a pathetic fart under enemy fire, but the unexploded 'dud's you find around the battlefield trigger a full-yield detonation if so much as a butterfly touches it.

well the one you call in has to drop from orbit and not detonate. the hellbombs in the field were launched out of ships and failed to explode, they are already primed unlike the called in hellbomb

[rpayne88]

I think this is besides the point.

The point being that our Hellbombs have to survive falling from orbit and not detonate or break.

I wish I could find the video, but there's a NATO training film from the 70's showing soldiers literally throwing tactical warheads out the back of a moving truck. They didn't detonate, but I can assure you they would still go off if someone pressed the proverbial button.

Even if Hellbombs were tactical nukes, ours completely disintegrate if a bug so much as sneezes on them. They should be FAR more durable.