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Fallout: New Vegas Hints
C-4 Plastic Explosive Tips
1 of 5: If you find pickpocketing grenades and mines into someone's inventory to blow them up sneakily to be too much trouble, get yourself some C-4 plastic explosives and at least one detonator.
2 of 5: If you pickpocket a pack of C-4 into someone's inventory, it won't ever go off automatically, which gives you as much time as you need to move around to where you can't be seen before using a detonator.
3 of 5: You could also toss a pack of C-4 so that it lands near someone, then go hide before detonating it. Doing it that way avoids the chance of being caught while pickpocketing, but it has some disadvantages, too. One is that if the C-4 you toss hits anyone, they'll turn hostile. Also, detonating C-4 next to someone usually does them less damage than detonating it in their inventory, plus it'll throw their bodies a lot farther, perhaps even into an out-of-reach area.
4 of 5: Whenever you use a detonator, all the C-4 that you've set in the area you're in will explode simultaneously. This allows you to set up huge "chain reaction" scenarios in which lots of people get blown away at once, though the amount of C-4 needed for that kind of thing is usually prohibitive.
5 of 5: If your C-4 explosion wounds someone without killing him, your stealth indicator will probably go to "[CAUTION]." If that happens, stay hidden and unmoving. If you're far enough away and/or sneaky enough, your indicator will go back to "[HIDDEN]," and the injured people will probably stop being hostile. Don't count on it, though. Always quicksave before setting off a C-4 charge in a populated area.
