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i read that the sappers carry two ied one a remote and one a proximity, any know how to use the proximity ied???

It's activated with button "9". Looks like an AT mine.

didn't work can you give me step by step instructions. I noticed if i tap mouse for ied then i place ied and can remote detonate it, but if i hold it it places ied and i can't call in to detonate it, wonder if this has anything to do with it

proximity IED = nade trap

corp_calqluslethal wrote:but if i hold it it places ied and i can't call in to detonate it, wonder if this has anything to do with it

That's why it's called proximity ied... it looks like mine and it works like mine (you just drive over and BOOOM!).

I figured it out, it is a mine. I guess that thing when you place ied and you can't call it in is a glitch, you get one ied and one mine. if you hold your ied button to long it becomes useless, correct me if im wrong.

corp_calqluslethal wrote:I figured it out, it is a mine. I guess that thing when you place ied and you can't call it in is a glitch, you get one ied and one mine. if you hold your ied button to long it becomes useless, correct me if im wrong.

I always thought it glitched when your tried to put it down when you were moving....then you couldnt remote detonate. Seemed to have better luck detonating them when i placed them while "not moving"....could be wrong though..maybe its from holding IED too long

I just clicked FIRE and it did everything else. You don't have to hold the button to place the IED.

I'm pretty sure its not a glitch but a gameplay feature. The IED will not work if you don't wait the few seconds (5?) for the placing animation to finish.

no its a glitch go play insurgency and pick sapper kit and get ied and place it somewhere, if you hold left mouse click when you place the ied will see this will take away option to use phone to dial it in and it will become useless and you waisted your ied. If you tap it you can use it but if you hold mouse you can't.

corp, thats a feature.

Its the same with C4s.

Try to detonate a C4 before 5 seconds and u lose the c4.

IED needs jut a few seconds ,less than 5 to activate, or you lose it as well.


To place an IED, you left click once without holding. Animation will show you dropping IED, then you take out cellphone automatically. Wait at least 2 seconds, and then blow IED by left clicking with the cellphone out.

To place proximity ied, which i think is the grenade trap you guys are talking about (better start calling it that, cuz everybody knows it as nade trap), you left click once, and wait, animation is long, it will make an animation of him cutting something off of the nade, putting it in a can, and then you will see nothing else happen. DONT MOVE. The nade trap will then fall down 1.5 seconds later. If you get up and start walking you will drop it along the way. It ALSO has an activation time of a few seconds. So you can walk right over it and it wont detonate, but like 5 seconds later, BAM! You can still get by this nade trap by going prone and crawling by it, it wont detonate.

Mine, is same thing, left click, let the animation do its thing, and it will also drop the mine after the animation stops, so wait till you see the mine actually drop. ONLY way to set this mine is to be in prone when you do so.

proximity ied is the mine. Look at the list when you scroll to chose weapons it says proximity ied right under the mine picture. A grenade trap is just that a grenade trap.

I apprecitate the help guys, i got it all figured out now.

50% of the time when I play as sapper and place the IED somewhere, the phone does not show up, even if i click the correct button again and again. So basically I am are left with no way to blow up the IED. Thats why I dont play as a sapper often. If there is a "feature" or bug when placing IED´s it needs to be explained to me because I havent figured it out.

When you hold the mouse button too long, the game thinks you clicked twice.

Since the IED does not explode if you trigger it within 5 seconds after placing it, the two clicks the game makes out of holding the mouse button too long will do the same: Nothing.

Click ONCE, wait 5 seconds, click again: Boom.
Click ONCE, don't wait, click again: Broken IED, no explosion.
Click, hold, game thinks you clicked twice before 5 seconds were over: Broken IED, no explosion.

Another reason the phone wont come out after placing an ied is placement. If you put it too close to debris, or a curb or other terrain features then I find the phone wont come out. If you place it about a foot away from obstacles on flat ground then the phone always comes out, works for me anyway.

I have actually NEVER had the phone not show up unless i accidentally pressed left click twice. So whoever is getting problems, is the fool making a mistake. Ur either HOLDING down left click, which you shouldnt, or ur left clicking right after the initial left click...

Yes, it's a problem you get when you're new and impatient, but you have to just learn to click once and wait to get out your phone, to make the big boom.