Freeze Device
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What does the Freeze Device do?
The Freeze Device is a rewired signal remote that throws a cone of cold in the direction you aim. Every infected in that cone, up to 42 studs away and in clear sight, freezes for 10 seconds (a Brute for 6) and loses a quarter of its maximum health. It recharges in 5 seconds and never wears out. Each survivor can claim one, once per server, from the nurse-station counter in Blackthorn Asylum.
- Type
- Gadget
- Range
- 42 studs, in front of you
- Freeze
- 10 s (Brutes 6 s)
- Damage
- 25% of max health
- Recharge
- 5 s
- Durability
- Never wears out
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Location
- Blackthorn Asylum nurse station
Getting it
Once Blackthorn Asylum is open and its residents wake, the Freeze Device sits on the nurse-station counter. Walk up and press E (Square on controller) to claim it.
- Every survivor in the server can claim their own. One player taking theirs doesn't take anyone else's.
- You get one per server. Dropping it, losing it, dying, rejoining or handing it to someone never gives you another, so look after it.
- A dropped Freeze Device is an ordinary item anyone can pick up.
How to use it
Equip it and fire (click or R2) where you're aiming. Everything in the cone in front of you freezes at once, so it's made for a group coming down a corridor or through a door. Walls and closed doors block it: only infected you can see are hit.
- Frozen infected can't move, chase or attack, but they can still be hit.
- Each shot takes 25% of each target's maximum health, once. An infected already at a quarter or less dies.
- Frost creeps over a frozen infected. Two seconds before it breaks free the ice pulses and cracks, then it shatters.
- Freezing one again restarts its timer, but nothing stays frozen longer than 16 seconds in a row.
- Firing again inside the 5-second recharge tells you how long is left.