If this 8 unit trace ends inside certain entities (e.g. The explosion occurs 8 units past the backface of the wall, and the damage is roughly inversely proportional to the thickness of the wall, with a theoretical maximum of a 200 damage explosion. The beam needs to enter a wall, and exit the wall on the other side (backface occluded walls won't work). It needs to be at a perpedicular enough angle so it can't ricochet. It's complicated and counterintuitive, but basically if you have the gauss secondary fire charged all the way up, and shoot a thin wall, it makes an explosion on the other side. A lot of people abuse it to the maximum in hl dm, shooting walls or corners instead of direct hits for cheap splash damage hits, or kill freshly spawned people with it without any chance to fight back, not that it's hard to do direct damage hit anyway. It happens when you shoot wall or corner, the HUGE splash radius hitbox appears on the other side. And unlike satchel or any other explosive, the TAU splash radius damage had no fallout of any form, thus doing exact same damage on edge of explosion as if it was from center. The tau had INSANE huge splash radius damage, about as big as detpacks (satchel charges) if you hit wall. Why would need to use broken showel, only because it still can somehow dig, when you have a fresh new strong one with long metal grid? Thus, the broken showel is useless, even though it's still possible to do something with it if you really try.Īnd no I'm not. Actually, useless may mean that it's overshadowed in every way possible by other thing, what you're saying is 'not even functional'.

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