These weapons are thrown, and each is capable of its own brand of destruction. You can only carry one hand-tossed weapon at a time, so take this into consideration before picking one up.
If you already have a hand-tossed weapon in your inventory, it’s automatically dropped when a new one is picked up.
These weapons are often randomly placed by the director, but large stashes of them can usually be found at finale locations.
Molotov Cocktail
These crude incendiary devices are little more than a bottle filled with a flammable liquid and a piece of lit cloth serving as a fuse. Simply throw one at a target or at the ground to create a large wall of flame.
The infected show no fear of fire and will charge headlong into flames while trying to reach you and your team. But even the infected can’t survive fire and eventually fall to the ground engulfed in flames.
Creating fiery barriers with molotovs is very useful during finales, when your team must hold a fixed position.
They’re also great for halting pursuers. For best results, toss them in narrow choke points, offering the infected no other way around.
Pipe Bomb
The pipe bomb is a metal cylinder capped at both ends and filled with an explosive compound such as gunpowder.
These particular pipe bombs are equipped with an electronic beeping device and a flashing red light, designed to attract the infected.
Simply toss one of these and watch the common infected rush to it and vaporize into a red mist when it explodes. These are great diversionary devices best employed during swarm attacks or when your team is trying to make it to a rescue vehicle at the end of a finale.
If you or a teammate gets vomited on by a Boomer, immediately toss a pipe bomb away from your team to divert the incoming horde.
Unfortunately, these explosives are only effective against the common infected—the infected bosses will ignore them completely, but they can still be injured or killed if within the blast radius at detonation.