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"Satchel Charges are remote control bombs plantable on any flat surface. You can place up to 3 and detonate them simultaneously by pressing RB (with the ability selected), or individually by interacting with them from a distance. Enemy fire can destroy them, so try not to plant them in obvious places"


Sounds like stickybombs from TF2, just hand-placed. I'd love to see the trap possibilites.

Definitely an ability I would greatly enjoy using.

"The enemy is taking our comm--" BOOM BOOM BOOM "--never mind!"

You should probably mention that you can also detonate them individually, which I think is awesome.

Oh, you're right. I just copied it from the description they put on the facebook page.

me likey boom B)

also a good trap for lights, scenario: heavy soldier with mini-gun covering an area, light guy runs thru fire toward seemingly unprotected area/hallway, pull out detonator, blow him to bits

Its.. Beautiful. :woot:

Although satchel charges/C4 tend to be found in every shooter, nowadays, so its appearance isn't much of a surprise.

Still neat though.

This shall be very useful to me.


And Dead is right, nothing new, but still nice...

I can't wait to try all of these abilities

The ability to detonate them simultaneously or individually is great. The trap and defensive possibilities is great. Everyday when they show off a new skill I want to play that class and then the next day I wan to play that class. The inclusion of an item/skill like this is expected but it is always a crowd pleaser.

Im going to guess that they will be pretty good because its the last solider ability, alot of people will use it.

Very cool.

I approve.

I'll probably get blown up by these occasionally...

EDIT: At least it's a level 5 ability, so only the dedicated Soldier-class players will be using it

Good perk. i dont understand how i can detonate 1 indivudually from afar though... and if i blow one up and my friends one is next to it can my friends blow up?

This is going to be a very useful and strategic ability sounds great

The more I see these abilities the more I'm thinking I might prefer to be a soldier over an engineer. Just have to wait and see which I like better

Perhaps you can detonate them by staring at them and hitting the "interact" button. No, I'm not being sarcastic, it could actually work like that. Just aim at them and press use.

And since they can be blown up by enemy gunfire, I assume that your explosion would explode your friend's explosive as well. With FF on, anyway.

That was what i was thinking, and explosives are delisious, mmm

Thanx this sounds good then. And i htough FF was on all teh time?

Plants 3 bombs at comand post and stays by it enemy comes in shooting and one stray bullet hits a charge blowing him up...yeah...pwnd

*Enemy fire can destroy them

My hawk eyes will come in handy.

edit:Notice it's a level 20 power

Not if their behind you. bliviongate:

Or above you.

Most gamers don't look up. It's a sad sad fact. One I plan on exploiting so much, everyone who has ever played against me will be permanently staring up.

hopefully they wont be as bloody useless as they are in CoD.

This begs to question, if there is remote charges is there claymores?

Fixed.


Engineers have mines, which will likely be similar.

Ah yes thats right.

I think the main difference here is that we are seeing a lot of abilities we recognize just tweaked ever so slightly(or not so slightly in some cases) to make them applicable for tactical play. Like take this C4 or Satchel Charge for example. Its been in almost every shooter since the WW2 era setting but here we find it with a couple little twists that add so much to its depth. You can place three of these charges all around the map(I would assume they disappear when/if you die) and either detonate them all remotely without the need to have line of sight(The minimum requirement I would think to "interact") or you can detonate each individually in the best scenario as long as you have line or sight or as stated above: aim at the charges.

Its also possible for an enemy to shoot to destroy these charges which could act as a sort of alarm system.

Another difference I don't think anyone has mentioned is that, since abilities use Supplies in Brink, if Satchel Charges work anything like grenades, they will recharge, so you can keep using them.