Gold Crates

Gold Crates are the objectives in Gold Rush that either the Attackers must destroy or the Defenders must defend in Battlefield: Bad Company. They act differently from the M-COM Stations in the sequel in many different ways.

Appearance
They are boxes full of Legionnaire gold marked with the Acta Non Verba logo and contain a keypad that is used to unlock it. Unfortunately, neither the US Army, the Russian Army or the MEC know the codes, so the only way they know to open it is to blow it up. Unlike the M-COM Stations in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, when they blow up, they don't completely disappear, only the bottom of the crate is left and some gold bars are lying around nearby.

Methods
Unlike Bad Company 2, the first game utilizes Destruction 1.0, so that means buildings cannot be destroyed completely, only walls and certain objects, so blowing up the building is not an option. One straightforward way to blow a crate up is to plant a special charge on it, although you must wait for it to blow up, which takes about a minute to happen. Another way is to use C4 on it, which does minimal damage to the crate, so you have to put a lot of stacks on it. Another way is to fire your rocket launcher on it, but you need to constantly resupply at a faraway ammo crate. The next way is to fire your grenade launcher at the crate, they have more ammo, but do less damage than rocket launchers, so you'll have to go a dangerous way to resupply. One other tactic is to spam grenades at the crate, but it's still like the two last tactics with the resupplying. But one unique way that makes the Gold Crate easier to blow up is that it's not bulletproof, so you can fire a normal gun on it, although the best gun for this tactic are light machine guns, since they hold a lot more ammo than most other weapons.