How to spot and disarm BOOBY TRAPS

Here's a quick guide with visuals on how to spot and disarm booby traps without setting them off.

What is a booby trap and where to expect it?

A booby trap is an explosive trap, rigged with a wire, that is placed by the bottom of the door.

There's currently two types of booby traps. One with a flashbang and one with a HE grenade.

Triggering a flashbang trap will disorient you for a while, giving the armed suspects a good chance to engage and kill you.

The HE grenade trap is even worse than that. Triggering it most often results in an instant death for everyone close enough to the door.

How to spot a booby trap.

There are 3 ways to spot a booby trap.
The first method is using your mirrorgun. Just use it on the door, look around and it should look something like this:



On some levels, the trigger wire is a bit out of place and will be very hard to spot with the mirrorgun. So what I like to do is check with the mirror gun, peek and check for traps and then fully open the door.


The second method, which is handy if you don't carry a mirrorgun, is to peek through the door (Don't fully open it, just open a little crack!). Then you should be able to see a small wire through the doorcrack.



The third method is the most obvious one. If you're standing on the other side of the door, they're quite easy to spot. Just keep an eye on the bottom of the door.

How to disarm a booby trap.

Disarming it is pretty easy actually.
If you're on the side on which the booby trap is on then you can just cut it with your tool. Press F once while looking at the trigger wire to equip your tool then hold F on the wire to disarm it.

If you're on the otherdoor however, things could be a bit more tricky. First you peek-open the door, look at the wire at the bottom and cut it. Be careful to not bump into the door as opening it further might trigger the trap. It would be also wise to inform your squad that there's a booby trap behind the door.

Final word

Hope my guide could help you a little!
If it did then please give it a positive rating so other players might find it as well!
Thank you and keep your limbs attached!

[Interiorhood]

oh also the fifth way is to have a teammate kick open and walk through the door :3

[Interiorhood]

came here 3 years later expecting this to be a meme post again, and was surprised to see my own comment when i scrolled down.
incredible.

there is a 4th method though, you can actually shoot the frag from the frag trap and you can even wallbang it, thus allowing you to check for a trap by shooting the wall next to every door lol

also there are (or at least used to be) 3 different kinds of traps, not 2. the third one is an alarm trap that just makes an alarm sound when you trigger it so that enemies are alerted to your position. you'll know it's an alarm trap because you cant see a flashbang nor a frag grenade, although, i dont know if this was removed or not because i havent played much since 1.0

[Jabuchilo_jr]

THANK YOU i died 2 in a row in 10 minutes on the 5. mision just cuz of booby traps this is real helpful

[jaber]

occasionally your character will verbally announce to the team that there's a trap when using the mirror gun, might just have been a coincidence though

i say this because my guy said "watch out guys, looks like a trap" when i mirrorgunned a door; i promptly ignored him and walked through the door thus killing me and my entire team

[perodactyle]

my method is to kick the door open and hope for the best

[Interiorhood]

just carry a flashlight or nvg if you really cant see them

[Interiorhood]

I came here fully expecting it to be a meme post because of how easy traps are to see

[Scatman]

To disarm the Bomb Threat bombs you must find the bomb(s) first, they give out an accoustic signal. Just follow the peeping noise till you see a small package with a red light. Press the Interact key and it should start to disarm it manually which takes about a couple of seconds.

[CalmWhiteWolf]

How do you disarm bombs in the bomb threat mode???

[George]

my method for spotting traps without a mirrorgun safely is
1. peek the door
2. check for civs or suspects through the crack
3. when clear, look down and see if there is no wire (if there is, disarm and you're able to go through safely)
4. if there is still no wire, check one more time by looking down and panning from the side of the door with the knob to the side with the hinges (if there is a wire, disarm to go through safely)

idk if it's a glitch, but sometimes tripwires don't look the one in the second image and instead look like they're running across the door on the side that faces the player