Red Barrel

Red Barrel
Barrels filled with an explosive mixture that burn all in vicinity.
Main Stats
Rarity	Common
Health Melee Damage Fire Damage Explosive Damage Duration
Rage Cost	9
Abilities
Perks	Non-documented: Knockback resistance
Unlock Requirements
Price	700
Player Level	5

Red Barrel is a a red barrel with hazardous material markings to indicate its volatile and explosive mixture.

It can be unlocked after player level 5 for 700 coins.

Functionality

Red Barrel is a primarily offensive Support Item. It's a barrel that can be dropped on enemies to deal melee damage to them. Once it gets destroyed, it will explode in a small radius, and create a fire pool. It can also deal damage to human units and other support items. Once it's placed, the barrel acts as an obstacle – if it stands in an enemy's way, they will attempt to destroy it.

Being a support item, RB can be dropped on almost any spot of the battlefield, and has all resistances typical for units of that class. It can be manually detonated by tapping.

If a mission has rainy weather, Red Barrel's fire pool will be extinguished immediately.

Gameplay

Red Barrel is one of the best and crucial unit in the entire game thanks to its versatility and ease of use, being effective on both offensive and defensive uses as it can be used to damage or kill clusters of enemies, dispatching groups of running enemies with its explosion or fire pool and help to eliminate high health targets (being one of the best anti-tank support items early game), as well as serving as a fast and cheap durable shield for important units thanks to its high base health, low rage cost and short preparation time. It sees great use against the Charged Zombie, able to bait one attack and kill small groups of them easily with its explosion. At higher levels, a pristine Red Barrel can even survive one attack. Naturally, Red Barrel is not as effective in missions affected by rainy weather since it loses a considerable portion of its damage output from the fire pool, although it can still perform adequately as its explosion remains unaffected.

Red Barrel can be considered an upgraded version of Empty Barrel, having higher health, the same method of deployment, and significantly more damage output overall thanks to its explosion and fire damage. And while Empty Barrel has a much higher on-hit(melee) damage and costs slightly cheaper, this is a rather marginal upside overall, making Red Barrel better in practically any mission once it is available to buy. As such, players should replace Empty Barrel with Red Barrel as soon as possible.

Trivia

• Up to four Red Barrels can be found on top of the Bus which serve as a fuel counter. These barrels have a different cross marking on their yellow strip as opposed to the black droplet on the usual Red Barrels.
• Red Barrels appear as obstacles in a few missions throughout the game. Those barrels can be manually triggered, just like their regular counterparts.
• Red Barrel used to be the only stationary unit with a health bar to not possess fire resistance.