That's not how claymore works

[rustic thunder]

The whole point of a claymore mine is that its blast is focused on one direction

these mines always have fucked up hitboxes and they damage you even if you are not in the blast area, it makes them way more effective than they should be

[upper snow]

you can still get hit even behind a claymore

[rustic thunder]

I'm pretty sure claymores in game don't even care where you are. The blast is not focused, it gives you damage within ~5m radius and thats it

[upper snow]

is there a problem with that?

[rustic thunder]

yes, the problem is that it is not how claymore works neither in real life, nor in videogames

[upper snow]

this game is not meant to be realistic

[rustic thunder]

it still should make sense, though

[foggy maple]

and there begins the argument between "fun" and "realism"

[rustic thunder]

claymores aren't going to be unfun if they stop killing people who are trying to disarm it

[upper snow]

but claymores still have a 360 explode radius

[foggy maple]

same with tank HE round, but they BOTH spread like hot butter

actually quite agree with OP here

[rustic thunder]

so make them damage you if you are too close

[upper snow]

in the image you provided, that was too close

[rustic thunder]

Its common sense, I cant remember a single game where claymore kills you when you're standing behind it

[upper snow]

but its an explosive, it will have a 360 explosion radius no matter what

[low musk]

now you can , its battlebit

[rustic thunder]

you run into claymore laser -> you die because you are not careful enough
you see the claymore before running into it -> you should be able to disarm it without dying

its not even the first time I die like this, when claymore is placed on staircase you often dont have any place to move from its damage zone

[low musk]

you can , if you arent right on it , the range for it not to kill you isnt big , you can still kill it at a reasonable distance

[late pawn]

If the claymores had any sense of realism, they wouldnt even have trip wires cause that is against the geneva convention or something. you want realism you might as well just use c4 cause that what you would have.

[last niche]

I dont agree the game needs to be realistic, but there is something to be said about expectations and "readability". Most players would expect that claymores work like other games, otherwise they'd just be regular mines, which we have, so why not make the claymores different.
Like imagine if you pick up something that is modeled after a bolt action rifle but then in game it works like an assault rifle, that's just weird.

[cursive hinge]

I agree

[woven granite]

Claymores would be fucking useless if they only damaged in one direction.

You'd have to make them trigger instantly if you forced that.
Otherwise everyone would just run over them, on purpose or by accident.

[last niche]

Just make them always damage whoever triggered it regardless of what happened, its not like you can really run into the wire through a wall. And then have a second instance of damage that is the actual 180º explosion that may or may not hit people nearby

[honest wigeon]

i am sure oki didn't sign the geneva convention

[late pawn]

Exactly, my point is that if they wanted realism they should look elsewhere.

[rustic thunder]

white phosphorus mortar, oki please 🥺 🙏

[versed cypress]

more like the geneva suggestion

[honest wigeon]

time to turn the smoke granades into mustard gas

[azure stratus]

What about the cluster grenades

[grizzled trout]

Thats not how Claymore works, yes sure.

But does not change, that you will still run inside of them, dying by one hit and crying about it.

Get Eyes, don't run into them, you still did, well it is what it is, move on.

Why are we talking about this.

[rustic thunder]

I never run into them and that is not what I'm talking about. The problem is the opposite, actually. You can die to a claymore even if you see it and try to disarm it. Did you even read the original post?

[woven granite]

Trying to disarm and successfully disarming are 2 different things.

[grizzled trout]

Play Tarkov or Arma if you want it more "Realistic"

[honest wigeon]

to many hackers in tarkov

[young remnant]

Me and my impact grenades say otherwise.

[woven granite]

I just place one of my mines and blow that up.
Explosions chain through walls, even if they wouldn't touch a player.

Same reason you gotta be careful with placement on stair cases.
Putting one explosive on every floor just means you waste everything with the first explosion.

[grizzled trout]

Become one of them.

[woven granite]

There's no hackers.
They're just cheaters.

[sinful mirage]

thats just a COD thing
since in COD you can go behind the claymore and melee/shoot it with no damage
real life it'll hurt
atleast 15m in a prone position
50m will still cause a concussion depending on the factors

and thats not even talking about ruptured eardrums