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This article or section refers to legacy content that was inherited from previous game and/or engine releases and were not meant for use in the current game and/or engine but may show up in the in-game files. |
- For the non-legacy explosive barrels with official appearances, see Exploding Barrel.
Explosive barrels are legacy brushes and props appearing in both GoldSrc and Source games of the Counter-Strike series.
Overview[]
GoldSrc[]
All the GoldSrc games (notably Counter-Strike Beta, Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike (Xbox)) can have explosive barrels or brushes in them thanks to the engine's library. Even so, exploding barrels appeared only once in the Counter-Strike Beta. Although available in Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike (Xbox), they are never used in any official maps for balance reasons. They can be placed in custom maps, with the amount of damage they can take before detonating or the damage they deal being entirely modifiable.
Source[]
Although not appearing in any official Counter-Strike: Source maps, having its engine being the closest to Half-Life 2's, Counter-Strike: Source inherits most of its static and physics props including the explosive oil drum. They can either be placed by map makers or by the use of cheats. Under normal circumstances, the barrel immediately explodes upon receiving damage (due to weapons in Counter-Strike: Source dealing far more damage than those in Half-Life 2), it can however be ignited with a HE grenade's splash damage and will detonate within 4 seconds of ignition.
Data & Location[]
| Counter-Strike Beta | ||||
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| Map | Number | Location | "Health" | Armorless - Kevlar - Heavy Armor Damage |
| Arabstreets | 5 | Plant [5] | 130 | 60 - 30 - N/A |
| Counter-Strike: Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Map | Number | Location | "Health" | Armorless - Kevlar - Heavy Armor Damage |
| N/A | 0 | N/A | 20 | |
Bugs & Exploits[]
- GoldSrc multiplayer games do not register barrel deaths as deaths at all. If a player detonates and kills another player with it, they will not receive an additional kill. Neither will players killing themselves with the barrel explosion have a kill deducted from their total.
- Even with Friendly fire turned off, barrels in Counter-Strike: Source will still damage or kill teammates. Kills will be counted as team kills.
- Counter-Strike: Source barrels, despite also having giblet models inherited from Half-Life 2, do not spawn them upon destruction.
Behind the scenes[]
- Although Counter-Strike: Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes introduced a new
func_breakable_modelbrush, it is never used for barrels which rely instead of the oldfunc_breakable. - Barrels in Counter-Strike: Source are considered as part of the world and natural terrain, meaning deaths are registered as such.
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