Smoke Bomb
Returning
Smoke bombs throw up a cloud thick enough to blind and choke anyone inside it, giving you time to escape a fight, slip past guards or close in for a kill. They are part of Jacob and Evie's kit from the start and stay useful all game.
- Category
- Thrown
- New or returning
- Returning
Appears in
Freedom of the PressFreedom of the Press introduces Alexander Graham Bell, who turns Kaylock's broken launcher into the rope launcher on your gauntlet. As Evie you then test it on Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster, fitting fuses for Bell's independent telegraph line.- Gang War: SouthwarkThe Southwark gang war pits the Rooks against Octavia Plumb's Blighters, who accept the challenge only reluctantly. Win the brawl and defeat Plumb to claim Southwark.
Good to know
- Smoke bombs belong to the twins' starting equipment.
- Upgrade I costs £50 and 100 Metal with no schematic.
- Upgrade II costs £2,500, 50 Chemical and 150 Metal; the schematic comes from Gang War (Southwark).
- The Vanish in Smoke perk, for ending combat with a smoke bomb and vanishing 25 times, makes the cloud last longer.
- The Bomb Discount gang upgrade halves the price of all bombs.
In the story
Alexander Graham Bell gives the twins his smoke bomb formula after Evie helps him put up a telegraph line to break the Starrick Telegraph Company's grip. In the 1916 memories, Lydia Frye also uses them.
Tactics
Throw one to break line of sight and get away, or drop it on a group so you can attack without being hit back. Smoke is non-lethal, so you can avoid killing anyone if you choose. In a modern-day sequence, Galina uses a smoke grenade to close in on Sigma Team commandos.