XM84 Flash

"Produces a non-lethal flash that blinds the enemy for several seconds."

- The Arsenal

The XM84 (known as the M84 in real life) is a 'flashbang' grenade that affects all players on the opposing team, unless friendly fire is on. After being thrown, it "explodes" into a blinding white light, blinding all players within its radius and very close to the blast as well as causing the screen to display inaccurate graphics for a few seconds after the blinding effect (it will be the last thing you looked at before being flashed). Depending on a player's location within the "explosion" radius, he can be blinded up to 10 seconds, it is arguably the most underrated grenade type weapon in the game and is hardly used.

This is a very effective tool to disorient enemy players. While they're blinded, other players can rush in for an uncontested kill. When blinded, a player's best bet is to use their minimap in order to make a quick escape to a safer location (no longer effective) or run around wildly shooting into the white abyss. Due to the XM84's wild unpopularity among players, it will put players under (perhaps the least expected) effects in the game. No other weapon shares any properties similar to the flashbang, and its power is untested if use correctly. However, its effects can easily annoy people if used in repetition, so many people believe that the flashbang is a "Noob" weapon, and label people who use it are "Flash Noobs" or "Flash FKS"

There has been a glitch in which players will experience a flash grenade hitting them whenever they are hit by incoming fire. Though this rarely happens, players should take caution whenever it does. Due to the rarity of this glitch, currently no one knows how to stop it. The best way to handle it is just either leave the game or stay out of the line of fire.

Tactics
Using the XM84 is actually harder than it seems, because it requires the user to throw it and have it detonate near enough any enemy to produce any effect. Using the XM84 while clearing rooms is plenty useful, especially if you have teammates to support you.

Be very careful when near blind enemies. They tend to spray thier weapon in random directions. Be cautious when that happens.

Also, this grenade explodes faster than any other. For example, an M67(default) grenade might take 4 seconds to explode, but the XM84 explodes much faster, almost on impact.

Trivia

 * In real life the flash effect would last about 20 minutes, but this is outright way too unbalanced if this were to happen on Combat Arms.
 * Goggles, Anti-Flash Goggles, Orange Anti-Flash Goggles, Metal Anti-Flash Goggles, and Ballistic Helmet protect against the XM84.
 * The XM84 can collide with rockets in mid-air causing them both to detonate, but this is obviously extremely rare.
 * The infected are immune to this grenade, it's NOT recommended to throw one, it's futile.