Flashbang Grenade

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The Flashbang Grenade is a non-lethal stun throwable in PAYDAY 3.

Flashbang Grenade
Stun your enemies with a blinding light! Flashbanged cops make the best human shields.
Gameplay
Unlock Level	Level 7
Inventory Slot	Throwable
Statistics
Damage	0
Armor Penetration	0
Throwable Capacity	3
Explosion Radius	8m
Stun Duration	4s
Fuse Activation	Thrown
Detonation Time	3s
Other
Internal Name	Flashbang

Overview

The Flashbang Grenade is a non-lethal stun and explosive device that, once thrown, will start a 3-second fuse that will go when it runs out. Upon detonation, it stuns enemies in an area of an 8-meter radius. Once thrown, the Flashbang Grenade can bounce off surfaces. By default, players can carry up to 3 Flashbang Grenades.

Against enemies, the Flashbang Grenade will stun all SWAT and specials except Bulldozers, with Cloakers suffering the most from the effects. When thrown at Shields they will face the direction of the Flashbang Grenade in attempt to block the blast. Standard SWAT stunned by the Flashbang Grenade can be taken as a human shield and used, however they will not act as a hostage and will return to a hostile state once released from being a human-shield. Against civilians, they will become intimidated once flashed and will stay in-place.

The Flashpoint Subtree in the Hacker Tree offers upgrades to the Flashbang Grenade.

Summary

Pros

• Effective area denial
• Effective civilian crowds
• Distracts Shields
• Staggers enemies not initially killed

Cons

• Non-lethal
• Ineffective against Bulldozers

Strategies

Additionally, Flashbang Grenades can be used as a method of large scale civilian crowd control. Throwing done a single Flashbang Grenade will already cause civilians in the area-of-effect to become intimidated.

Notably, both standard and heavy SWAT can be taken as a human-shield when they are stunned. This allows for a quick human-shield to be used and killed once no longer of use.

Skill Upgrades

Shine On	Hacker: Flashpoint	Tier 1
	Basic (1 Pt): For each point in this skill line, the stun duration of Flashbang Grenades increases by 7.5%.
	Ace (1 Pt): The range of Flashbang Grenades increases by 4% for every point in this skill line.

Flash Mob	Hacker: Flashpoint	Tier 2
	Basic (1 Pt): Flashbang Grenades are silent, making them undetectable to anyone outside the flash radius.
	Ace (1 Pt): Civilians caught by your Flashbang Grenades cannot flee or receive help from Hostage Rescue for 120 seconds.

Stockpile: Flashbang Grenades	Hacker: Flashpoint	Tier 2
	Basic (1 Pt): If your loadout contains Flashbang Grenades at the start of a heist, receive 1 additional Flashbang Grenade.
	Ace (1 Pt): You now gain 3 additional Flashbang Grenades at the start of a heist.

Spotlight	Hacker: Flashpoint	Tier 3
	Basic (1 Pt): Enemies caught by your Flashbang Grenades are marked for the entire crew.
	Ace (1 Pt): If you kill a marked enemy while they are stunned by your Flashbang Grenade, they will drop an additional ammo box.

Hypersensitive	Hacker: Flashpoint	Tier 3
	Basic (1 Pt): If your Flashbang Grenade hits an enemy before colliding with an object or surface, it will detonate on impact.
	Ace (1 Pt): If your Flashbang Grenade detonates on impact with an enemy, the Flashbang's stun duration will last twice as long.

Sunburn	Hacker: Flashpoint	Tier 4
	Basic (2 Pt): Enemies affected by your Flashbang Grenades take 10% more damage for every skill equipped in this branch.
	Ace (2 Pt): Enemies affected by your Flashbang Grenades will lose half their armor layers. This effect can only happen once per enemy.

Scavenger	Soldier: Grenadier	Tier 3
	Basic (1 Pt): Ammo pickups offer a 2% chance to restore 1 Throwable.
	Ace (1 Pt): The chance to restore a throwable from an ammo pickup raises to 5%.

Trivia

• The Flashbang Grenade is based on the M84 Stun Grenade.
• The visceral reaction from Cloakers when flashbanged can be explained by their night-vision goggles and highly specialized hearing equipment, making them more sensitive to things like the Flashbang Grenade.
  • Cloakers will have a similar reaction when a Nader drops their own flashbang near them.
• Flashbang Grenades thrown by the players and SWAT have noticeably different affects.
  • Flashbang Grenades thrown by players will not affect their own hearing or vision, but will show a spark particle going off.
  • Flashbang Grenades thrown by SWAT will affect player hearing and vision, while not displaying that same particle effect.

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