Explosives

The tenth weapon in the Payback 2 game is **Explosives** (also know as, **Dynamite**, **C4**, or **TNT**), old name "**Remote Bomb**", a powerful weapon that has fantastic range and massive damage, but poor general utility.

## **Description**

The Explosives looks like an orange C4, a little larger than a Grenade. But, way more powerful than Grenades. It has a huge blast radius, to the extent that about 90% of Remote Bombs would get something caught in the blast, when it detonates, though the damage diminishes the further the player is from the bomb. They are the best possible suicide weapons, due to their guaranteed one hit-kill on most vehicles except for Tanks and Buses/Trucks (if the bomb is not planted at the middle of the bus or truck.) Remote Bombs are often used in Capture The Swag modes. They can be placed all around the swag so, if someone gets the swag, alerted bomb users can detonate their bombs, and the thief will immediately be delayed and surprised, if not killed as someone triggers the Explosives. This may cause conflict with strategies depending on Auto Turrets. However, because of the large detonation radius, usually it can destroy them easily, if not knock over the turrets. Still, it's preferable as a general strategy to counter Vehicles. Firearms are unable to trigger it, though explosions.

Initially, Explosives were called "Remote Bombs", looked much larger and more like a yellow bomb, couldn't be stuck to surfaces, and had little or no explosion delays in old version.

## Gallery

Explosive (close-upDetonator of the Explosive (close-up)Explosive placed on the roof an building (Payback 2)The hologram of the Explosive (Payback 2)
## *Trivia*

* They do not stick to any surface and therefore ambushing is a better idea.
	+ No longer true after 2018. The same update also enforced a fuse limit - The bomb can't be detonated for two seconds after it's deployment, to prevent kamikaze strategies from disrupting game balance.

* Explosives are picked up in an amount of 1, also the only weapon that can be picked up singularly per pick-up, making it the second rarest weapon in general (Lasers and Auto Turrets, they never have pickups and are provided, when spawned/re-spawned only).
* AI Players don't use Remote Bombs despite, they can be shown holding one.
* The maximum amount of Remote Bomb, you can start with is, 50 (in Custom mode).
* Normally, without detonating the first one, a user can't place a second one, equipping the Remote Bomb, and pressing the fire button, while one is placed by the same user, will cause the previous one to detonate, they don't explode upon a respective user's death though.
* Changing your weapon into any other weapon and firing them, will not result in the Remote Bomb exploding. Likewise, the Remote Bomb can only be detonated, if the player equipped them.
* They can be thrown like Grenades albeit the max possible distance is severely reduced, then cannot be thrown when in a vehicle, but dropped instead.
* If no more of them remain after detonating one on a vehicle, and the player did not changed their weapons, upon exit they will be still holding one. However, pressing the fire button will result in switching into a different weapon instead.
* If an player enters a vehicle while a bomb is still stuck to them, it will de-spawn upon entrance of said vehicle.
* Originally it was called a "Remote Bomb" with a fuse bomb icon, and it used to be a small yellow box that wasn't sticky, and could be blown up with little or no delay.
* Before, the bomb did not stick to any surfaces and could be pushed around.
* Before the character revamp and animations update, the Remote Bomb would alert the Cops, if dropped near a police.
* If dropped while inside a vehicle, it will not stick to the ground and can be detonated by shooting it with any weapon.
* Deploying it near a group of enemies and running off to a fairly long distance, before detonation is a lot more safer strategy.
* If a player is attempting to run you over with a vehicle, attach an Explosive to their car, hijack it, and then detonate it to kill the driver. But remember to bail out and run away before the car explodes.
* Stick an Explosive on a fast car, drive the car towards the enemies and then bail out once you reach a fast speed, then detonate the Explosive once the car reaches the enemies to give the them a "Special Delivery".
* You can also stick an Explosive and detonate it, while running to get a huge boost. But, stay far enough to avoid blowing yourself up.
* Many players has been sticking Explosives on slopes or a ground level that is lower than the player, then they will detonate it to send them jumping and flying without blowing themselves up, this strategy is referred to as "Bomb Jumping".