The Explosives of Fallout!
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- If it goes boom, we look at it here as the first part of a multi-part series into the explosives of Fallout. Here we are focusing on thrown explosives and look at the lore, real world inspirations, and any other interesting information. Fire in the hole!
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the microfusion cell grenade is obviously using the three cells from the crafting recipe clipped inside of each other and taped together. The pin pulling animation is making a tear in the tape, allowing the three MF cells to separate themselves apart, causing a detonation due to janky fallout physics.
I'd love fourth wall breaking grenades like that. I was thinking of one along the vein of the wabbajack from Skyrim where prewar scientists figured out a way to manipulate a special dimension called the "game code" and the grenade changes a characters model to another random model.
@barackobama1625 They turn your computer/console into a grenade. Call it an all wall break
This is the correct answer.
@@Bigman-vd7gcI want a cursed halo style D100 grenade that has different effects Everytime. From spawning the adoring fan, to a deathclaw lol
@@infernaldaedramake a mod
I think the baseball grenades were meant to be a loose nod to the tennis ball bombs you can learn how to make in the anarchists cookbook.
Or it may have something to do with the popularity of baseball in 1950's America.
I feel like the player should’ve been able to throw them farther and faster since you know it’s a baseball
@@dylanmcgovern2739thats also how baseball grenades irl were made
They are a reference to the US military round grenades called "baseball" grenades. They are called that because the Army felt Americans knew how to hold and throw a baseball so it would be easier to use which is why it was designed in a round shape compared to the original pineapple grenade.
@@dylanmcgovern2739or, or, consider- both. Sometimes, two things can be true! 🤯
My guess as to why Molotovs are relatively rare : the fossil fuel crisis drove up the prices of most flammable liquids up to the point where other explosives where cheaper
But alcohol is pretty easy to make, so it should be more common.
Cooking oil can make for a mean Molotov.
Ummm... yeast, sugar and a still. Boom. Flammable liquid.
Citrus fruit rinds, a press,. Boom. Flammable liquid.
Pine resin, water and a still. Boom Flammable liquid.
There are three very simple ways to make a Flammable liquid.
To keep goin, I'd have to remember some college chemistry... but I'm drunk... and and really hungry right now, I don't want to look up how to synthesize a couple of nasties.
My point being, that petroleum isn't a requirement for Flammable liquids.
EDIT. STILL DRUNK... but now i've eaten. So yeah.
Polyethylene glycol (used as Dot 3 brake fluid among other things) bit complicated to make but not super tough... but betcha you could find plenty in abandoned garages, and wrecked cars in the wasteland.
And calcium hypochlorate... (a commonly used swimming pool chemical... ) and VERY easy to synthesize.
not a flammable liquid per se... but a binary ingredient incendiary. Put one each into breakable containers that fit one inside the other and throw...
Calcium hypoclorate isn't that hard to make (slaked lime reacted with chlorine gas... you can make chlorine gas with ammonia and bleach or any household cleaner that contains enough bleach... powdered Ajax or similar comes to mind... the gas generated by that? Chlorine gas. Easy to make, toxic as hell. don't breathe that if you fart around and try to make it.
Anyway... if you ever wanna screw around - in a safe spot on a non combustable surface, put a small pile of swimming pool chlorine granules down, and then pour some Dot 3 brake fluid on it...
Stand back and enjoy. Keep a fire extinguisher handy just in case.
Another one (and not a flammable liquid, but an easy way to make a Flammable gas) is make hydrogen and put it in a sealed container with a way to ignite it on release.
Hydrogen gas is laughably easy to make. Galvanized steel (nails, scrap, whatever) or zinc chunks (sacrificial anodes on boats, you'll find some at far harbor i reckon) some cheap cast metal parts (hipoint pistol frames come to mind, and modern pennies) etc. Betcha some of the die cast metal toys in the wasteland are die-cast zinc.
And a strong acid... the gas that reaction makes? Hydrogen. Highly flammable. Ask the crew of the Hindenburg...
You can even make it (not as efficiently) with drain cleaner and aluminum foil...
@@stinkyfungusThis man is a legend
@@stinkyfungus i like your funny words magic man
Molotovs actually have a major benefit over other explosives (especially in Fallout 4 survival). They leave a pool of fire that stupid enemies like feral ghouls and supermutants will run through, and are EXCELLENT for chokepoints.
@@jennaheiser625 I noticed something similar in Halo 3 and Halo 3 ODST none of the ai-controlled enemies in the game seem to be programmed to be capable of noticing terrain that has been set Ablaze by the flamethrower or fire bomb so a viable strategy is that even if an enemy is out of range of either weapon you can set the ground on fire and enemies will sometimes walk right onto it and Catch Fire it's a cool little detail but unfortunately allies also lack the ability to realize that a section of terrain is on fire this isn't a problem if the non-player character has invincibility or near invincibility thanks to plot armor but Batman dealing with non-essential non-player characters you have to be very careful with incendiary weapons
So for the pipe bombs with cleaning materials that's a product of its time. So if you didn't know before the 2010s, the toilet bowl cleaner used to have a very violent reaction when mixed with aluminum foil in a tight space. Essentially shake it up or add an explosive, and it will create a chemical bomb. I'm pretty sure that's what they were referencing.
Didn't the first Terminator movie make a pipebomb the same way?
i was going to post this. growing up in the 80s and going to High school in the mid 90s this was part of the "playground lore" But the stories always referenced one particular brand of toilet bowl cleaner. The knowledge i suspect was spread around via text files posted to a BBS
@@CMG78the brand of toilet cleaner doesn’t particularly matter as long as it has lye, which is sodium hydroxide and which you can still easily buy as drain cleaner.
@@libraryproject2007 you can even buy food grade lye to make pretzels with, yummy
@@LuluTheCorgiIn Sweden a traditonal christmas dish is lut-fisk, which is lye fish.
Maybe the FO4 cryogenic grenade was intended to be in the Institute’s inventory because they do use cryogenic mines during the switchboard quest. Sadly the institute don’t give grenades to their weaker synths and they only give relay grenades to coursers. It would be interesting to see a mod that adds cryogenic grenades into gen 1 and 2 synth inventories. It matches their white esthetic.
Possible. Maybe created pre war in CIT though since weapon merchants sell them and they can be found in random containers at higher levels and I doubt the Institute ever shared tech with the outside communities.
It’s always been frag mines for me…
I would hazard a guess that the 'fire bomb' from New Vegas is called such because, unlike a molotov, it seems to have a fuse, maybe something like a firecracker or a small charge of dynamite involved in the detonation. This would explain the bounce, the delay in explosion and the ability to reverse pickpocket them.
Mushroom clouds don't denote nuclear explosions, if you have any explosion powerful enough it will create a mushroom cloud.
Yeah, it's something to do with convection flow or whatever. I tried to briefly look it up right now and got bored, but I think the gist is that if there's a crapton of heat in an area, it will flow upwards due to the low density of heated, air, and new cold air will get drawn in from the side, heat up, and follow the rest of the hot air up, until the temperature has normalized somewhat. As the hot air flows upward and disperses, it flows outward, and cools as it does so, meaning some of the dust in the cloud may even start to flow down again, or at least roll downwards relative to the rising cloud, until it gets caught in the inwards draft. This causes the rolling convection flow the make up the sides of the cloud. Some stuff like that, IDK, I take no responsibility if I'm wrong.
Sounds about right 👍. 🔥
I did not know that , I thought the mushroom cloud was specifically a nuclear bomb thing. Learn something new every day.
I have a feeling Bethesda (the same guys who made uranium waste green glowing goop) don’t know that though 💀
@@tobiashagstrom4168 lmao i love how you said, “but i got bored” so based
Cleaning Supply reference could most likely be a reference to the first Terminator movie when Kyle Reese is making pipe bombs with household cleaning supplies
My guess for the FO3 bait grenade is that it would attract Mirelurks to the position it landed in. Because usually when you use bait you want something to be in a certain place.
"If you don't know the pop-culture reference that inspired this, then your parents failed you" - I fully agree.
Restoration MOD is the new Base game for me! I never play Fallout 2 without it.
Yaaa! Boom booms.
Idk why but this comment made me smile uncontrollably
Funny
AGAIN? Ugh, we're running out of diapers.
Getting borderlands 2 vibes from this comment.
@@magnawaves this kid is gonna cost me a fortune in diapers 😡. Well they said being a parent wasn't gonna be easy
Just a small and almost pointless correction; the Holy Hand Grenade is likely not modelled after the Holy Orb from the British Crown Jewels; since it’s modelled on the Holy Hand grenade from the Monty Python movie, which in turn was modelled after a Globus Cruciger, a Christian symbol of authority (which the Holy Orb was also modelled after - confusing!) it’s modelled on that instead.
With everything looking exactly the same, I can see that this is almost a difference of no distinction, but since it’s a pop-culture reference to the movie, and the movie modelled it’s version of the HHG on a Globus Cruciger, that’s more likely. Just so happens that the Crown Jewels item was modelled after the same thing!
I appreciate your energy, it's nice seeing a correction with the intent to be helpful rather than to be smarter than someone. That was also very interesting to learn as well!
an akshually comment that I didn't hate reading???
Orb of dominance (or in other words authority)
Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
@@evilbron666 one, two, five!
Three sir!
Three!
I think the MFC grenades LED is the exposed core or some catalyst which is pushed into the cell to initiate the fusion reaction.
RadKing, you are seriously underrated. These videos are on par with TheEpicNate and TKS Mantis. Plus your voice is quite soothing; I could listen to you spit Fallout lore all day. Thank you for the fabulous content. Well done.
He'd be more popular if he actually checked his work and didn't mess up basic lore so much. You'd think you'd check your facts and sources for a lore video
Ive been watching these vids at bedtime and have been falling asleep to fallout lore, so soothing
As far as the homemade bomb is concerned, cleaning materials makes perfect sense. My brother and I used to explode water bottles with the works toilet bowl cleaner. That stuff is no joke!
My guess for the Fallout 4 cryo grenade crafting recipe is that the acid is a stand-in for a corrosive refrigerant, likely ammonia (since one of the best places to get it is fertilizer). You can also make a heat-recharged battery with ammonia, which explains the makeshift batteries as well.
Edit: my guess for the nuclear material is it's used as a fuse and initiator to pop the casing, the refrigerant is highly compressed, and when it pops, poof, cloud of cold. The small amount of heat the reaction would generate is nothing compared to the power of latent heat of vaporization.
I also think that's the reason for the acid, ammonium nitrate is a common agricultural fertilizer that's also used in some first aid cold packs. But yeah, I work in a production plant and the company that stores the product that is produced uses an ammonia refrigerant system, so that's more than likely the reason for acid, I just don't see where nuclear material comes into play.
Molotovs are horrifying weapons. Like other fire-based weapons, they kill slowly, or (arguably worse) only cause horriffic injuries without killing the -victim- target.
When used against enclosed spaces like tanks or small bunkers, they may kill by carbon monoxide poisoning rather than by burning.
As you mentioned, they can be... augmented by adding a sticky substance to the fuel mix, such as engine grease or styrofoam for extra fun.
There is also the "chemical fire bottle", a version without a wick, which self-ignites when the container breaks. If I describe it any more than that I suspect we'll all end up on a few watch lists.
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As for the cryo grenade, I would expect it to generate an endothermic chemical reaction (i.e. that drastically reduces the temperature. The opposite is exothermic, a common example of which is fire). How to make that happen with acid, aluminium and nuclear material is beyond me, though.
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The MFC grenade... well, a fusion cell is, for practical purposes, a battery. As I'm sure you are aware, some types of batteries have a very volatile reaction to being damaged, causing them to catch fire or even explode when the energy stored in them is rapidly converted to thermal energy.
Since a MFC can store _way_ more energy than your average lithium ion phone battery, the resulting effect is a lot more, well, energetic.
As for how it stores the energy, uhh... fusion? (Not really, we have already seen that "fusion" is pre-war shorthand for "We want it to sound cool in marketing, but we don't want to tell you what it actually does)
Happy hunting!
as for molotovs, they generally make for pretty poor anti-personnel weapons. even if that sticky monsanto-associated chemical is used, their use in warfare is largely anti-vehicle. Yes you can press any weapon into any use... even heard a guy used a plastic MRE spoon once. But the secret to a molotovs success was throwing some burning gas into an engine block.
this does wonders to melt rubber belts, throw the pistons out of whack, warp the metal and cause it to go out of time, or best of all: cause combustion in areas where combustion aint supposed to happen! the brits wrote on this:
"The Finns' policy was to allow the Russian tanks to penetrate their defences, even inducing them to do so by 'canalising' them through gaps and concentrating their small arms fire on the infantry following them. The tanks that penetrated were taken on by gun fire in the open and by small parties of men armed with explosive charges and petrol bombs in the forests and villages... The essence of the policy was the separation of the AFVs from the infantry, as once on their own the tank has many blind spots and once brought to a stop can be disposed of at leisure"
-Anti-tank measures; adoption and production of sticky bomb, 1940, The National Archives
I remember doing an experiment in chem lab with acid that was an endothermic reaction but beyond that I don't remember any other details.
@@johnjohnson8575 Likely to be Citric acid and Sodium Bicarbonate.
@@Robb1977 These are very good points, thank you.
@Valsorayu makes sense
Love how you are talking about the baseball grenade at 33:05 and how it's not that powerful followed by a flying ghoul corpse flying at you via said grenade lmao
For those who don’t know, Baseball Grenades are almost certainly a nod to the origins of the WW1 American Grenade.
You see back in WW1 the Germans used Stick Grenades, as axe throwing was a common sport and thus most Germans could throw the stick grenades. For the Americans though, the common sport was Baseball and so their grenades were shaped like baseballs to feel familiar in the hands of the troops.
It’s also likely that in the world of Fallout with the wake of food shortages and whatnot that some Americans made Baseball Grenades to use in Riots.
The Americans did indeed make baseball shaped grenades. And as you say the cultural heritage of baseball helped familiarity during weapon training and combat.
But they were quickly abandoned after it was realised there was no good way to ship them. Especially in the holds of trans Atlantic ships. Since round things do not stack well.
axe throwing was never popular in Germany, different countries used the grenade on a stick type. The Stielgranate was just more comfortable to throw
@@clothar23 they stopped for a while (like 60 years lol) but the current M-67 HE-FRAG uses the same baseball idea, they even asked us in basic training if we know how to throw a baseball to figure out who doesnt need to be trained for it lol.
@@ROOFTOPGUY Nope. It was cause the Germans were on the assault not cause like anything else. The stick grenade is just a high explosive on a stick. Primarily used to knock out enemy vehicles. Whilst the American baseball grenade was a fragmentation device, meaning anti personnel. Also we def switched to pineapple shaped grenades due to the fact that spherical packing doesn't work too good when you have a pull pin device attached to the sphere.
I always assumed the MFC grenades were just the 3 cells wired in series, with the red LED closing the circuit between the positive and negative terminals.
What would've made sense is a smoke grenade that emitts a smell mirelurks can't stand so they would run away, or if you've been to Vault 92 say the survival guide sent you there beforehand, you can tell Moria that White Noise kills mirelurks. She could then tinker with the data and give you a holotape to play when entering the mirelurk lair, they'd run away from you because of the now annoying noise that only they can hear and leave you alone.
Considering it's called a bait grenade and not a repellant grenade, I think the opposite was planned (but never finished) it was to be a smoke grenade that emits a smell that would attract a mirelurk to a specific area allowing you to slip past them but yes both of those would've been cool
My first thought was that the nuka quantum grenade could be less impressive and radiation free due to the military not wanting to bombard a location only to have fallout to deal with; essentially making a "clean" nuclear explosive device helps with front line acquisition.
I don't know if the devs thought this far, but with the baseball grenade you basically have a leather bag you can fill with tin can flechettes (or other steel bits) and powder. It hits the floor like a bean bag and sets off like a normal grenade but due to the soft casement, there is less shrapnel. It is less damaging but much more covert... actually kind of diabolical.
13:33 Best clip of the video
Oh, okay, I know some trivia about the Molotov. So, the reason it got its name is because Soviet minister Molotov claimed during the Winter War that Soviet bombers were dropping food aid to the Finns. So the incendiary bombs dropped by the Soviets became known as "Molotov breadbaskets" and the Finns responded by serving up Molotov cocktails.
@@NuclearDemoman don't want to be the "well achually" person but gotta be a little bitand i'm waaay too late
They were cluster bombs which were looked down upon or even mentioned in a convention as being "not allowed in war". I don't remember exactly.
There's a parody song nyett molotoff as well that is about the lies spouted by the foreign minister, (even more recent nyett vladimir)
16:38 that makes sense because if you freeze solid - you're instantly dead (except for fallout's cryogenic sleep), and i doubt the person(s) who makes or uses those grenades would ever want them to be relatively safe. Plus maybe such a small package is too small to freeze anyone solid (with earth technology at least)
I would think it would put out pheromones that would attract myrlarks . That way you could either distract or use it to get people attacked. Might have drove them in to a frenzy so they attacked each other too.
There was a baseball size and weight grenade developed by the Office of Strategic Services (the CIA's predecessor) near the end of WWII, the BEANO T-13 grenade. The thinking was every young America man (aka all the enlisted men) knew how to throw a baseball at high speed and with great accuracy. It has an in-flight arming mechanism, as opposed to a straight timer. A few thousand were sent to Europe, but supposedly caused more injuries to our side because of the unreliability of the mechanism. After the war, they were all ordered to be destroyed and the records classified. One was on Pawn Stars once.
Most of this information is from that Pawn Stars video and a Wikipedia article with no citations.
Somebody said the anarchist cookbook has a recipe for tennis ball grenades, might be a reference to that. Not sure if the book got it from that though.
"If you don't get this reference your parents failed you." I remember watching this when I was like, 14. That was 20 years ago, haha. I hope people never forget Monty Python.❤
I am enjoying playing Starfield atm but ngl the FO4 music in the background just hits different.. the instrumentation is so beautiful
Toad gives no money for favor toad earns favor by allowing the rad king to share his status as a monarch
Mirelurk bait grenade probably was meant to pop and spray bait to attract them to an area.
I suspect the Boom Bugs description of exploding when bored may be a reference to the swamp dragons in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, who have a "habit of exploding violently when angry, excited, frightened, or merely plain bored".
Loved the instructions on how to make a molotov from a historian. Step one, take petrol and pit it in a glass bottle. Step 2, Secure the wick. Step 3, Throw at Soviets and Step 4, while awaiting reprisal, make more molotovs
Put styrofoam to make it sticky
@@MidnightfacilityPretty sure styrofoam wasn't a thing while the Finn's were fighting the Soviets.
@@clothar23 i mean if you are making it now
@@Midnightfacility If I as a person living in 2023 need to home build an explosive device I can do a lot better than a Molotov Cocktail. The drug store three blocks over carries 90% of what I would need . I can pick up the rest in your average hardware store.
30:48 that actually reminds me of the British WW2 sticky anti-tank grenades!
I could see that being an inspiration for it
19:30 plenty of household 'cleaning materials' can and are used to make improvised explosives - it's the sort of thing that will get you on an FBI watchlist if you make a video about it though!
Another well crafted video to fall asleep to. Thank you RadKing!
There are 2 types of Radking viewers:
-Those who like to watch him to sleep.
-Those who re-watch the same video from the part they somehow don't remember.
I'm both of them :D
Same lmao
Easy Pete: "Too dangerous... you'll blow yourself up, blow the whole town up"
Me: "Why can't i throw this dynamite far enough away from me with a sub-twenty explosives skill???"
He's not referring to that, he's referring to the fact that dynamite, if not stored or handled properly, can go boom without fire. Less of a concern with dynamite than some of its contemporaries, but enough you wouldn't trust a random mailman with it.
I can't wait for part 2 where we look at each nuke in the games
There is something i would love to see a video abaout the fallout universe. How the supernatural and eldritch horror affects some concepts of the world, like the entity that seems to be behind the atom cult or those almost magical things that happens
Baseball grenades are a real thing, and also impractical in real life. During ww2, the US made grenades the size of baseballs because they thought it would be easier for soldiers to throw since everyone played baseball. They stopped using them once they realized how hard it was to make, transport, and store perfectly spherical bombs. Since they were smaller than normal grenades, they were also less powerful.
Bos the homemade bomb could be cleaning products with a high alcohol content under pressure, the wiring would ignite the pressurized alcohol fumes but due to being just cleaning products the blast would be kinda small
no blast alcohol... bombs are all bark and no bite more likely its a mix of an oxidizer and maybe something else could be alcohol butttt doubt it
Your mentioning of the baseball grenade possibly being a spy weapon would actually make some level of sense when I think about it. Given the US never left the 50s in Fallout and 4 is set in Boston, seeing someone casually walking around with a baseball probably wouldn't have been too out of place, especially given the bombs fell on the day of the World Series. Plus, a baseball isn't as obviously deadly to a raider as the clear shape of a frag grenade. They might just be THAT dumb to think some settler lost their ball or something and don't bat an eye to it.
Just make sure the ball is upside down so your hand hides the pin.
I was about to watch your videos about food in Fallout but my dog decided to touch my phone screen with his nose and here I am, watching about explosives instead. 😂😂😂
Your footage is low key hilarious xD i love your sense of humor
W channel man. Thanks for providing me with this information. Saves me time from researching and going down rabbit holes.
I'd be willing to bet the mirelurk bait grenade was cut because they couldn't make it work properly. Also. I love that the new vegas firebomb design has the cloth TIED to the top of the bottle neck as opposed to just shoved haphazardly inside it. That's how a molotov cocktail is actually supposed to be made. I didn't even consider the fact that the adhesive could be an ingredient in the flammable liquid in the molotov until you mentioned it. Maybe like a fallout version of napalm to get the flames to stick where they land? Although if you really wanted to make homemade napalm, you'd need styrofoam... a shit ton of styrofoam, but that's what would be the most likely thing you'd have available if you found yourself making DIY napalm.
This is going to be fun. Love the vids, man, keep up the great work!
Regarding the baseball grenade, they remind me of something in the anarch*** cookbook with the tennis ball filled with match-heads.. which has existed for a long time
the Thermas can design actually makes sorta sense
i imagine that to "pull the trigger" you screw the cap, breaking containment between whatever is contained inside it and mixing it, building up plasma before exploding violently
also yes, id love a thermas with caution strips painted on too!
I wish you'd have mentioned the full story of how the Molotov cocktail got its name, its pretty funny. After the Soviets invaded Finland in 1939, because contrary to popular belief the Soviets weren't any better than the Nazis, Molotov said that the Soviet bombers over Finland were dropping food aid to the civilians rather than...well, bombs. So when the Finns created their petrol bomb, they did so with the slogan "if Molotov wants to send us bread baskets, we'll send him back a cocktail".
Look mom I'm in the news!!
I think that the reason they are so rare in the older games, was that oil was rare, almost impossible to find. So, could have to be alcohol, which most would rather drink.
Hell yeah, a new Radking video on my day off work.
Cleaning/ gardening supplies are common in bomb making, you can make loads off a Childs pocket change
13:28 "goodbye." *pulls holy frag grenade pin*
Fallout 3 I always collect every nuka cola in the entire game to put into my fridge full of Ice Cold :)
This video goes harder than trying to convince easy pete to part with his dynamite
Boom bug?
"-I want to pet this creature"
One issue I always had was hoarding the good stuff but never using it. Relying solely on the common stuff you can get through all of it. The issue is scarcity. Theres only so much if the good stuff and most bad guys respawn... so using the good stuff on respawning enemies is a waste. Its a hard balance to get right.
(Boom Bug)
Yeah, that thing is just a Creeper. It is a weaponized Creeper.
The holy hand grande (of Antioch) really painted a small on my face
Edit: oh god the holy frag granade had the counting thing too
10:14 I know the holy hand grenades can be found in Fallout New Vegas but I’ve never seen them in Fallout 2. I love such references
I suspect the Fallout BOS toxic grenade mentioned is designed after old Firefighter grenades. Basically fire extinguishers in a jar. The metal sphere is likely actually ceramic or similar and shatters upon impact.
Eddie and Pearl approve of your sermon.
30:20
the way that thing runs reminded me of naruto
the village hidden in the rads
I was hoping for this series, may atom bless us with the best sermons
YEEEEEE ANOTHER RADKING SPECIAL! MY DAY JUST GOT MADE
the MS cells are cobbled together and made to go on a runnaway meltdown. like an appropriate scaled down fusion cell ejection from fo4. or it could be taking all the sodium from three cells and making an improvised explosive based on the flaws in design, that sort of knowledge cones with the loss of fingers
You know. I'm not really invested in the Fallot franchise but I can't get enough of these. They are both interesting and relaxing.
Radking should do Starfield content as a House Varuum embassador or priest embracing the great serpent. Same energy as radking with atom, i would love this
Love that they made fire damage its own thing in Fallout 4 and 76, and introduced ways to counter it like the Asbestos Lined torso mod and the Fireproof perk card. This makes the mollies still a viable and dangerous weapon in late game, either due to the damage over time or against enemies weakness to fire.
I'm past level 100 in Fallout 76 now, so I rarely encounter enemies using them anymore, but I remember them being a royal pain in my butt for most of the way until I reached level 100, in large parts due to the instant detonation, often enough catching me when I was reloading behind cover.
It would've been cool for the Nuka Cherry Grenade to have two red mushroom clouds 🍒☁️
The baseball grenade not attracting attention could be played off as no one expects a baseball to explode
wake up babe new radking video dropped
Yes! I loves these types of videos, do throwable weapon next
I find it funny that Elliot learned Cryoscience, because he’s in the same battalion as Nate, who was put in a cryopod
>Bomb made out od cleaning materials
>"What the hell kind of cleaning materials are they using in this game?"
Oh boy you have a lot to learn about chemistry lol. Hint: HCB is a short for Homemade Chemical Bomb, which is a term made for bombs made without the usage of actual military grade explosives, 99% of HCB are made of stuff that you probably have in your home, mostly cleaning materials.
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Frank horrigan can’t stop us from getting out of here with fhese
That's what I immediately thought of too!
I can’t believe I just got bamboozled into learning something about Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel!
I've heard some pretty absurd things in these videos. But nothing compares to this wild concept if "funishing a game backlog" when discussing ladybugs.
Well talking about baseball grenades, the USA did design the BEANO T-13 grenade to be the size and weight of a common baseball because "The designers believed that by emulating a baseball, any young American man should be able to properly throw the grenade with both accuracy and distance", Which the similar principle also applied to a prototype anti-tank grenade that was just AN EXPLOSIVE CHARGE STUFFED INSIDE OF A HOLLOWED OUT NERF FOOTBALL
Were they expecting soldiers to kick the ball at tanks?
@@abdalln8554 Unfortunately not as funny, just throwing them at tanks
The adhesive is definitely for the fuel, something to make it sticky with a gel consistency similar to napalm.
My best guess for why the Enclave built in plasma resistance into their armor is because of the fact that they're the ones who mainly use them; wouldn't want to lose your men to friendly fire or accidental discharges.
2:20 desperation is a synonym for stupidity
"ladybugs that explode when bored"
A bit of an extreme way to "cure" boredom 😁
Love how many vids you been turning out lately but make sure not too burn yourself out
A note about the baseball ⚾.
The US army did design a grenade in the 40s that was smaller than the standard "pineapple". The only thing it had in common was the shape and size. Otherwise it didn't look like a baseball.
It was believed that since baseball was the great American pastime, anyone should be able to throw it better than a hand grenade. It did have the advantage of being easy to throw far but otherwise it had less "bang" than a typical grenade
“One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch……AND KABLOOIE!”
Gotta have Bloody Mess perk for this vid
the fo4/76 nuka quantam gernade has a bug with it where sometimes the radius of the blast is the same size as the gernade.
What about vertibird and artillery smoke grenades?
The firebomb in new vegas is likely reffered that way because of its tribal origins; tribals probably don't know anything about molotov.
The chemical composition of adhesive is similar to oil generally, at 5:40 you say it could go either way. Likely it is used in both ways, Since the fire sticks to the enemies and lasts more than a few seconds .
3:47 Butane is a gas which is in a liquid form when pressurized. Flip lighters primarily use kerosene or something similar.
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The nuka cherry grenade is actually recycled as an Automatron part for robots if you own both DLC's
It takes the Sentry Torso Shoulder Launcher slot, after you've met a corresponding condition. Its very useful for using launchers on trigger happy Automotrons without the threat of excessive blast radius and collateral damage that mini nukes and cluster bombs bring, and since robots have unlimited ammo, its the best way to use it.
4:57 having thrown my share of molotov-esque items, unless you hit something hard, and hit it fairly square, most glass bottles will in fact bounce. Many won't shatter whatsoever unless they hit pavement, brick, metal, etc. I've seen one deflect right off a house with vinyl siding.
MFG workings: think of the MF cells like a battery for energy weapons, short circuit a battery n it gets hot cos it's very rapidly releasing the stored energy, in theory all you'd need to do is short circuit the cell in such a way that it released all the contained energy instantaneously and you have a big boom =)
The idea of removing safeties from energy weapon's "magazine" to make it go boom has shown up in sci-fi from time to time. Luke escapes a trap in the Hand of Thrawn duology by remembering how this was an Alliance fieldcraft trick (which wasn't a retcon: That bit of information showed up in WEG's RPG material before even Heir to the Empire came out)
Presumably the reason you need three cells to make a MFG but only one is seen on the finished product that you're making a form of "overcharged" cell, which does require multiple cells.
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