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Overview


Yuri, use your RC Bombs to open this door.
Spetsnaz Officer, Secret War


The Radio Controlled Bomb or RC Bomb is a remote detonated explosive device exclusive to Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes.

Overview & Gameplay[]

  • This niche equipment, similar to its other counterparts, aren't useful in combat, though still essential for mission progress. It is primarily used to destroy enemy infrastructure, supplies and equipment, often for tactical reasons.
  • RC Bombs can only be planted in Radio controlled bomb zones. Planting a device takes a second and a half and has a two second detonation delay when pressing the button on the remote.
  • When picked, five bombs will automatically be supplied to the player.
  • Being explosive, the RC Bomb can still deal damage to anyone within its 270 units blast radius. It deals 100 health point damage and 50 with armor. It is advised to take distance and keep allies away from the blast radius. Because of its delay and limited placement it is better off only used to destroy its intended targets.
  • Even though the player automatically switches to the remote control when a bomb is planted, multiple bombs can be planted at once by using the alternate fire button (MOUSE2 by default) to switch between the remote and another bomb. This, however, isn't used often, given the rarity of relevant scenarios as bombs are

Appearances[]

The device appears as two different pieces of equipment - A remote control with a grip, antenna and a red lid to cover the detonation button and the green circular explosive devices with a round center and four screws placed on the circumference of the item.

The Radio Controlled Bomb is only used by Counter-Terrorists (mostly player-exclusive) throughout the Deleted Scenes and makes several appearances:

  • The device is first introduced in the last portion of the Counter-Terrorist Training during the equipment training phase. After the weapons training, it is located in between the Blowtorch zone and the Camera zone.
  • During the events of Recoil it appears in a storage room that can be accessed by destroying the two crates covering a fissure, allowing entrance to the room. It is only used to destroy a damaged wall on the second floor, allowing access to the later part of the city.
  • In Lost Cause, they are found in the second area of the compound in a storage. It is only used once to destroy crates, allowing access to the back of the compound.
  • In Secret War, it is first used by Yuri to gain access to the ICMB Launch Facility. The devices are later found next to his corpse in the silo's upper levels and are used to destroy the blast doors on the bottom of the launch shaft and planted on the fuel line before being detonated by the player's commander.
  • In DrugLab, they are provided at the start. They are used to destroy drugs, money, and processing equipment.
  • In Thin Ice, they are given when the game begins. They are only used to destroy a door leading the upper levels of the ship before the Harrier fight.
  • In Rise Hard, it can be first found next to the body of the civilian contact. 3 bombs are used to destroy 2 enemy emplacements and the facility's surveillance equipment. The item is lost when the player is captured, though they are found again in a supply crate outside the computer room where several Explosive Charges and the Nuclear Weapon were placed at. It is used a final time to destroy the structure that the Midwest Militia leader stands on, causing him to fall to his death and preventing him from remote detonating the Nuclear Weapon.
  • Pipe Dream provides the player 5 bombs, allowing him to destroy obstacles to further proceed into the facility.
  • Sandstorm also gives the player five of the devices to destroy the facility's chemical processing equipment and a Scud Launcher.

Bugs & Exploits[]

When detonating RC Bombs, the player can hold the primary fire button (MOUSE1 by default) as long as they want and past the standard two second delay. The RC Bombs will only detonate once the primary fire button is released. This can be used by the player to distance themselves from the blast radius.

Sometimes, RC bombs will refuse to detonate. They will usually detonate on the second attempt.

Trivia[]

  • Yuri and the Officer in Secret War are the only known NPCs to use the RC Bombs.
    • Yuri is seen both planting and detonating the device, although he doesn't use the remote and the bomb reuses the Land Mine's model. Furthermore
    • The Officer only uses the remote control to manually detonate bombs planted on the fuel lines by the player, denying enemy access by destroying the facility and everything inside. This is the only known instance of the Deleted Scenes where an item is given to an NPC from a player's inventory.
  • Despite only a single explosive appearing on the worldmodel, it always comes with five units of ammunition.
  • The glowing red model used to indicate the bomb emplacement in Radio controlled bomb zones is much more detailed than the planted model. This is because the indicator model uses the same mesh as the viewmodel's.
  • All of the item's destruction sequences are scripted.
  • Despite being only used by the Counter-Terrorists throughout the Deleted Scenes, some of the bombs are found within Terrorist bases and facilities.

Behind the scenes[]

  • Several unused playermodel versions of the weapons and equipment reside in the Deleted Scenes game files. Among them is the RC Bombs.
    • Three player models are present, one for the remote control, one for the bomb and one for both held at the same time. The last one suggests that both remote and bomb were to be simultaneously held by the player.
  • The RC Bomb's ammunition icon can be found in the Counter-Strike (Xbox) game files. Like most of the icons found it is simply a colored version of the Deleted Scenes' variant.
    • The icon could be a leftover from recycling Ritual Entertainment assets or was to be used in the cut singleplayer portion of the game.

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