Water

Water is an element found straight from the beginning in PB2's campaign, as well as custom maps. It has a light blue color by default and acts like a liquid, slowing down bullets, grenades and rays inside it, as well as offering the possibility of swimming.

This has been shown to be useful to avoid enemies and fall damage in the campaign, along providing more diverse gameplay. In custom maps, its colors can be changed, and it's been used by players as decoration, for combat purposes and even to defy physics, with ladders or water along walls to replace doors or walljumping.

Uses



 * In custom maps, it's often used as stairs.
 * In custom maps, it's possible to stop a water area from affecting physics, thus being more suitable for decorative purposes.
 * In multiplayer, swimming makes no noise unlike footsteps, boosting stealth. However, jumping in or out of water will make a lot of noise and give out your position.
 * It can be used as cushion to reduce fall damage, if not outright eliminate it, as seen in the campaign for example.
 * It can be used to get away from drones fired by the Drone Gun CS-Virus, as they sink in water and don't towards the player, unless he is close.
 * It can reduce explosions from weapons (other than the CS-BNG), which become smaller and weaker underwater.
 * It can slow down all projectyles, including railgun shots, thus helping with bullet dodging.
 * It can slow down enemies.
 * Since February 2014, players can change its color in custom maps.
 * There are two tactics involving water, these are water boosting and water skimming.