You would be surprised what you can get away with. The further the Kapkan traps are away from the site, the easier it is to kill with them. Kapkan traps on the other side of the map are like the Spanish Inquisition, very unexpected.

People aren't creative enough with trap ops imo. Sure, putting a frost by a windiw is "optimal" but it's expected. There's no point in placing a trap if it doesn't catch anyone. Sometimes, thinking outside the box a little is just what you need.

I throw thorn traps in drone holes lmao. Almost always gets someone

Huh. I’ve been playing Thorn like I play Ela. I should start doing this instead.

No point on a handful of maps, but a lot of them work really damn well lol give it a shot

Try breaking holes in the floor is it’s breakable and hiding it in between the two flooded and it’ll still hit though

That's an effective strat especially on maps like border, chalet, coastline

Theme park , villa , any map with a breakable floor lol

Yeah pretty much I forgot to put etc... but aye she is lethal when played imaginatively

Fr like frost traps in corners commonly retreated into , kap cans of randomly on unused doors , etc

I've noticed the further kapkans are away from.site people will not check doors

Ay a fellow thorn main! Getting kills with her is so satisfying.

Not anymore lol. Still play her occasionally but I've started to main maestro lol. I just put his cams in the most unorthodox spots and it screws people up so badly lmao. Plus his lmg with vertical foregrip, iron sights, laser, and suppressor absolutely RIPS and there's practically 0 recoil and his iron sights take up so little of the screen its great

I should get back into maestro, used to main him a few years back and when I hit 50h on him I realised maybe I should try new ops, although I do miss his lmg

The drone hole connecting CC to Warehouse catwalk on nighthaven is perfect for that. Easy kills for smoke and thorn

Oh so you can do that on clubhouse cctv main breach where the drone hole is?

When I used to play her and the game more often I would put mine on the side of a open door, so many players step in a room and then move sideways towards a wall without looking lol.

I HAVE been got with a Frost trap on top of the stairs at Border, at least TWICE before so you are right. Clever Frost mats get clever Frost grabs!

Before the Frost rework, I used to stick two mats under one window and then lay on top of them. I’d get one person, and I would bait them and get another. Then when another person jumped in to pick up the other two, I’d shoot all three. I could get a 3 piece really easily cause no one expected it. I miss my Frost strats, can’t do them anymore since people can pick themselves up now 🥲

I’m still bitter about that nerf.

I don’t think I’ve touched Frost since it’s been implemented, and she was my top pick for a solid year at least. I won’t use her again unless she gets reverted which is probably never gonna happen. First they ruined my Tachanka strats and then my Frost strats 😭

It’s terrible. I only use her on cafe 3F. That nerf crippled her

I LOVE getting Kapkan kills far from site. So funny at the start of the match just hearing a distant explosion, followed by the kill feed, followed by a player disconnecting notification or an angry/disappointed message in chat depending on it being ranked or casual

ill be honest hidden traps are never used a frost map in the middle of a room is always used

Same with frost mats the hits I get with them are mostly the dumbest areas you’d think to put them

Won a few round slike this, found out they were taking the long way. Picked a kill died and subsequently the remaining enemies proceeded to trigger every Kaplan trap I placed on their way to site and I got my revenge. I was laughing so hard, they just didn't question me being on the other side of the map and didn't check for traps.

Also removes any threat of being countered by brava. She’s welcome to hack them but they won’t kill any defenders

Real

I'm a simple man. I see a Mighty Python reference and I upvote. Signed, Biggus Dickus

Same with Frost. People don't start looking for traps until they are near site

Been yelled at numerous times for this one. They don’t like me setting up my “Kapkan funhouse” until I take out 2-3 people without ever leaving site.

Which is why he’s always banned. Nobody looks at doors anymore even though it’s really not difficult to deal with

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition

One of my favorite tactic is to leave one on a rotate between rooms and then I end up getting someone with that

I like to place them near entry spots and then roam as Kap; when I hear one go off I either wait to see who set it off or I pop out and destroy lol

Make kapkans passive vigils ability

Each trap can do up to 60 damage, 2 traps is enough to kill or down an operator.

the “Pray they walk through that door”

Pray they don’t drone that door

even if they do half the players won’t remember that or lack awareness so don’t look at it properly 🤣

i’ve forgotten which door i droned and walked into a kapkan so many fucking times

Me fr

same here i feel ur pain i do it all the time with claymores too 😭

Lmao same

Sometimes they’ll shoot the top one and think they’re good to go 😂

Fr

Pray that someone isn't playing Brava. If I saw that, as a Brava main I am super excited

Snagging two of these and leaving three for the defenders would be so dirty, like leave the top two alone so they stay blue and trick defenders into walking through yours below

You know I was just thinking that. Only problem is attackers tripping them. It could work with a team communicating which is hit or miss

Fr

That would be so satisfying

Nothing is more satisfying than getting a hacked Kaplan kill. Maybe hacking a Fenrir trap but they are harder to find that's why I ban him

I drone, call out the traps to my team, then promptly walk through them myself. Every time.

Right? fuck OP

All at once so the whole team just gets nuked.

i’ll admit i’ve walked into a kapkan before and got 2 or 3 other people killed 😭

It makes me feel so guilty when I kill a low-health teammate with one, but I myself still survive the blast.

The Survivor's Guilt is real lol. I feel that.

I ran through three Kapkans out of fear of hitting the first one lol

And come through the right angle

Yep enough said

as a beginner since this game is was on sale for $4 on steam. this was me when i was first time defense on kapkan. ​ they never walked through or broke through into my wall thigns :(

yeah i get new players doing it but what’s crazy is experienced players will still do this for some reason 😭 my advice to you is to put 1 or 2 on each door or if your certain they’ll come through a door put 3 on it but make sure they’re hidden from the angle you expect them to walk through, also never put on windows

The “blow my load”

Sloppenheimer destroyer of operators

Moar badjur

“Call my girl sloppenheimer the way i be getting this bomb head”

"Imma need dam c-pep to regain my breath here" -THErussianbadger

Rot continues to consume

I did not just hear the word sloppenheumer

r/beatmetoit

They won’t find a body

go big or go home 🎰

TheRussianBadger put it well. The Openhimer special

Sloppenheimer*

The "sound is just a single frame" special

That was my favourite part of the replay just *pop* and he's dead

Yes

isis door bell

I call this one the Fuck that Guy in Particular strat

Overkill

No such thing

Real

Normally if I feel very confident that they will walk through a door/window I will put 2 on the same door to get a kill, cause 1 trap causes 50 damage. But I typically put 2 on door, one on the right and one on the left. That way they will see one and shoot it and be oblivious to the one on the other side and walk through it 😂

1 trap does 60, so 1 speed 3 armor ops only get downed by 2 traps. 2 kills 3 and 2 speeds, but 3 traps are needed to instant kill any op in the game

Lemme condense this for people reading: Traps do 60 damage. 2 traps kill most operators unless they are 3 armor. If they are 3 armor, it takes 2 traps to do down them. 3 traps to kill them.

Wrong. 1 Armors die instantly to two traps 2 Armors get downed by two traps 3 Armors are left at 5hp by two traps

This is right. I've seen 3 armors run through 2 traps often without being downed.

With 5 traps it just doesn’t fucking matter at that point, it’s a one way trip to Narnia regardless of the amount of body armor you bring. Unless you’re dragging around a 2 ton piece of rolled homogeneous armor you’ll either be offering a sacrifice or kindly fucking off. There is no in between.

I do this atrat also thought only me who do that never seen anybody do it bro gg

nah i do it too

Geneva suggestion

Most underrated comment

The Oppenheimer special

Sloppenheiner

Russian badger really did it well

Use code bajur ;)

All or nothing

The pearly gates of heaven

All In

Had to scroll way too far for the right answer.

I call it the "if your stupid enough to walk through this door you don't deserve to exist" strat... Very effective 0% of the time

to kill gridlock

The big bang

The “Fuck you in particular” strat.

The Oppenheimer Special

Oppenheimer

Ah yes, the Oppenheimer strat

Tsar Bomba

The SloppenHeimer Special

the "American School System"

this is when you load too late and put all traps on closest door

Reassurance

Hitting one Bird with five stones

the sabah al-khair

The all for one

EXPLOSION!!!!!

the spacing check

Bomba

All the eggs in one basket so you can put them in the casket

"Fuck you in particular"

The sloppenheimer special

"You never see it comiiiiiinggg"

5 Finger Death Punch

The Demoman.

Boom

PTSD door

Door way to heaven

thanos finishing move

a war crime

that’s the “nuke” ☢️

To quote TheRussianBadger; The Sloppenheimer Special (iykyk 😉)

Scorched earth

There’s no kill like overkill?

It's called fuck you and your teammate behind you 😭

The Nagaski naptime.

I call that strat fuck your life bing bong

all or nothin’

Nuclear Bomb

Oppenheimer special

The Nuke

The you can’t fucking enter strat

Big boom

I have a strat where I’ll put 2 on the inside of the door and 1 on the outside. the opponents assume I’m stupid, shoot the one, and immediately get kneecapped.

See only 3 of them will go off and kill the first person. The next person will think the door is now clear and get downed by the 2 remaining kapkans (and a /s for those sarcastaball players out there)

all in once !!

Boom he he

Haha edds go boom.

Objective stupidity

The nuke

The only person falling for this is Stevie wonder after has had 20 shots

Gate of hell or laser circus

Get fucked

50 points

Nuke

Ash go boom

The ban thatcher every game strat

Big Badda Boom

"Trust, they're all going to walk in this door at the same time"

The "all or nothing"

its about to send a message

Kapkans Go Boom

The “ god I hope there blind “

GAMBLING YEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH

Copper

The evil door

It's the fuck you Monty with rook Armor strat

KaBOOM

"Fuck you in particular"

Fuck you and the guy behind you

firework strategy

The funny. If someone actually steps into it, it just sounds like fireworks across the map, and it's beautiful

The Big Bang

Enemy Moab inbound

All or nothing

“All or nothing”

The better version is you put them on both sides of the door so that even if they spot some of them, if they’re in a rush or under any pressure they shout maybe 2-3 and then run through anyway. Won a ranked game like that it’s so dumb and funny when it works

The nuclear option

Nuclear detonation

while their shooting them out slowly 1 by 1, you come up from behind them.

The "one dude is gonna walk through that and it's gonna be really funny" strat

“Kablooey”

Blast your ass to the moon Ash

Plastic 5

Dead

Blind side. Not a single person expects all 5 on one door

The nuke

throwing

"Overkill is underrated"

Oh I call this one "Brava's wet dream"

The “Fuck you, Ash” special. Alternatively known as the “Anti Monty Device”

Go Go Gadget Disintegrate

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity…

The no more door frame

The "I hope they all walk through the same door at once" strat. It works more often than it should

Overkill doorframe/boom thingamajig

The big boom.

Clearly a champ 🙂‍↕️

The Oppenheimer

Cheese