CS Gas

**CS Gas Grenade** is a non-lethal grenade that releases a cloud of Chlorobenzylidene malonitrile, better known as CS Gas or Tear Gas. It causes all unprotected individuals to be unable to fight by causing tearing in the eyes and irritation in the mucus membranes. As opposed to other grenades, it can't harm any individual or detonate explosives, making it useful in missions where explosives are around the building.

## In-Game Description

*This grenade emits Chlorobenzylidene malonitrile, or CS. CS is a chemical agent which causes tearing in the eyes and irritation of the mucus membranes. Commonly known as Tear gas, this agent causes people to lose visual acuity and have difficulty breathing. While under the influence of tear gas, suspects are at a significant disadvantage when encountering officers.*

## Usage

By holding the attack button, the player will keep the grenade primed. The longer the button is held, the farther the grenade will be thrown, although there is a maximum distance. The grenade will not go off until 1.5 seconds after it has been thrown.

Upon releasing the attack button, the grenade will be thrown and it will bounce three times before landing. After landing a gas cloud will start with a 20 units radius (0.4 meters/1.3 feet) and gradually expand to a 400 units radius (8 meters/26 feet) within 2 seconds. The gas cloud will ignore clutters and barriers within a room and it will present for 7 seconds from the moment the grenade goes off.

## Effect on Players

The CS gas has no effect on player in single player. In competitive modes, once the player inhales the gas cloud, the stun effect will lasts for 11.5 seconds during which the player is unable to fire their weapon and their vision is blurred. Other players will be able to arrest the player (if in a multiplayer game mode that permits this, such as Barricaded Suspects). The effects of gas grenades on the player are completely eliminated when wearing the Gas Mask.

In co-op, the player may fire their weapon while being affected by CS, and cannot do so in competitive modes.

## Effect on AI

Once the gas cloud is inhaled, the CS Gas stuns suspects and civilians for 11.5 seconds and subtracts their morale value by 0.35. While the target is coughing, they may wander about randomly to try and get away from the player. The effects of gas grenades are completely eliminated when AI is equipped with the gas mask.

Given how morale is calculated for gas weapons in game, Pepper-ball Gun attacks and CS Gas inhalations do not stack when lowering a suspect's morale, thus making the pepper-ball gun a poor choice to clear rooms engulfed by CS Gas.

Gas grenades have no effects on AI-controlled officers, regardless of what equipment they are using.

## Changes in Elite Force

In SWAT: Elite Force, CS Gas' radius will now expends to 600 units radius (12 meters/39 feet) and stuns the suspect for 22 seconds while subtracting their morale value by 0.2. In single player mode, both the player and the SWAT AI officers can also be affected by the CS Gas if not wearing any protective gears.

Gas masks has now been enabled in single player to counteract the above changes. In addition, Riot helmet is introduced to halve the effects of CS gas, while S10 helmet is added as a version of gas mask with added ballistic protection.

This item is now one of several tactical aids that can be carried in a 3-pack at the cost of 5 times the Weight and Bulk.

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