Alright so I just finished a featured contract but couldnt possibly do it 100% so may I kindly request some consideration moving forward from the contracts creator and/or curator despite the fact i understand these are optional?
Edit: thank you for the input. I had a brain fart and mixed up penthouse guards with staff but you get the point. Ive seen it times again before.
The other one had no propane flask to be found, only a gas heater in plain public where the NPC didnt go to and no disguise where you could legally losen the gas valve (does that even exist?)
That was in dartmoor garden btw. I had the EMP charge with me but even propane flasks or those large ones you cant move or even the fuel barrels wont explode with it unless shot once ahead of time although ill experiment wth the taser like I did the EMP.
If you tell me the name of that Dartmoor featured contract i will try it later and see how I can do it and then I will leave a post here with instructions on how I did it if you still need help
Oh and i just had the same outcome, I just tried now: neither normal or micro taser will explode propane flasks, tanks or oil barrels unless you shoot once at it (or puncture or loosen valve but thats always illegal as far as i know), just like the EMP.
In Dartmoor there are two propane flasks in the kitchen.
You can activate it by throwing it somewhere. Like on the ground near you or the target.
Mind: not place or drop, but throw.
When it thrown it starts to produce smoke. In this case it can be blown by a smoker, by taser, by breaching charge, by throwing car battery near it.
Also, I recommend you to use hitmaps.com - very useful source of everything you need in the game
As far as I know there are only a few FCs that cannot be completed SA without glitches, the worst offender being “Media Blackout” in Chongqing (you need to trigger a really obscure glitch as the creator didn’t care about SA at all), and a couple of annoying ones that rely on the gun lure like “Uncool” or “I’m burning up doc”. Aside from that they’re all possible to do SA glitchless.
You can use a concussion explosive to trigger the propane/gas lamp explosion without needing to make it leak, just make sure the concussive explosion is far enough so it does not hit any NPCs.
For the featured contract in Dartmoor I used a piercing sniper and shot one of the targets when they were aligned with the gas lamp.
Good thinking but try this contract and youll see the conundrum placing a coin without others to see, or the target herself too soon, then run away in the bushes away from crowds then place that perfect shot last second