BF42 and ExpPacks

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Hi,

I had a strange problem today playing BF42, using ExpPacks. Maybe
nothing wrong at all but I've never noticed a problem until today.

I know exppacks last about 4 minutes in MP, then blow-up if not
detonated, or disappear if killed before detonating them. If not
useable, I know it's best to detonate them when no team-mates are
around, just to get rid of them.

The questions I have are:

1. With FF on, and if I haven't been killed since placing them, do
'expired-exploding' exppacks have the same explosive power as a 'live'
exppack, using the plunger to detonate? If not, how much explosive
power do they have?

2. As I understand it, if I'm killed *before* detonating exppacks,
they will disappear after a very short time (about 20 seconds). Is
this correct?

Today I was killed before getting the chance to detonate 4 placed
exppacks, yet they all blew-up about 4 minutes later, TK'ing a -bunch-
of team-mates, followed by an instant and well-deserved Kick. I can't
figure out how they blew-up.

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outaping wrote
> I had a strange problem today playing BF42, using ExpPacks. Maybe
>nothing wrong at all but I've never noticed a problem until today.

<snip>

A bit sad, but I timed the expack and landmine expiry some time ago

This was using version 1.2 of the game though, so could conceivably have
changed in a subsequent patch, but this is how it was in 1.2:

Detpacks explode 4 minutes after they have been set, or will disappear
(without exploding) within a few seconds of the engineer dying.

Landmines explode 6 minutes after they have been set, or will disappear
(without exploding) around thirty seconds after the engineer dies.

Cheers

--
[AGB]Villy Vonka
Sheffield, UK
http://www.villyvonka.co.uk

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:12:57 +0000, Villy Vonka <Villy@[127.0.0.1]>
wrote:

>A bit sad, but I timed the expack and landmine expiry some time ago

Me too.... (I have the info in a text-file . They match the same
numbers you posted.

I'll probably go back to the same server soon (with modified
Stalingrad map), drop some exppacks in a safe place, go get killed
then run back and see if they're still there. If they're not I must
have hit the plunger by accident.

Thanks for the posts and info.