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How to spot and disarm BOOBY TRAPS
By Singham™
This Guide will help identify and disarm booby traps to save yourself.
   
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What Is A Booby Trap And Where To Expect It?
A booby trap is an explosive trap, rigged with a wire, that is placed by the bottom of the door.

There's currently two types of booby traps. One with a flashbang and one with a HE grenade.

Triggering a flashbang trap will disorient you for a while, giving the armed suspects a good chance to engage and kill you.

The HE grenade trap is even worse than that. Triggering it most often results in an instant death for everyone close enough to the door.
How To Spot A Booby Trap.
There's 3 ways to spot a booby trap.
The first method is using your Mirrorgun. Just use it on the door, look around and it should look something like this:

On dome levels, the trigger wire is a bit out of place and will be very hard to spot with the mirrorgun. So what I like to do is check with the mirror gun, peek and check for traps and then fully open the door.

The second method, which is handy if you don't carry a Mirrorgun, is to peek through the door (Don't fully open it, just open a little crack!). Then you should be able to see a small wire through the doorcrack.

The third method is the most obvious one. If you're standing on the other side of the door, they're quite easy to spot. Just keep an eye on the bottom of the door.
How To Disarm A Booby Trap.
Disarming it is pretty easy actually.

If you're on the side on which the booby trap is on then you can just cut it with your tool. Press F once while looking at the trigger wire to equip your tool then hold F on the wire to disarm it.

If you're on the otherdoor however, things could be a bit more tricky. First you peek-open the door, look at the wire at the bottom and cut it. Be careful to not bump into the door as opening it further might trigger the trap. It would be also wise to inform your squad that there's a booby trap behind the door.
4 Comments
NoRain :( 🗕 🗗 🗙 14 May, 2023 @ 4:46am 
NoRain :( 🗕 🗗 🗙 14 May, 2023 @ 4:44am 
There are 3 traps. There's a literal grenade, the flash-bang, and the one you missed; the alarm. Swarms nearby enemies to you. Also, there are no more negative points for detonating a trap. I won't ever recommend it, considering you can kill civs, suspects and teammates alike with that strategy.
DavEboy2004 14 Jan, 2023 @ 11:10am 
Thanks for intel. Really useful. only done a couple missions, havent run into booby traps yet, but now i know what to look for
PH4T3 <*.*> 10 Jan, 2022 @ 4:38pm 
I would like to note that, destroying a trap with a C4 door charge instead of disarming it is negative 30 points. Whereas you gain 15 points for disarming it. Not a huge price to pay to save an officers life in a pinch scramble door charge. As painful as it sounds, if there could be a trap, check every door, or load up a shitload of C4 and prepare to take the negative 30 or negative 60 hit.