Matryoshka Doll

The Matryoshka Doll (pronounced as "Ma-Troosh-Ka") is a new weapon available in the zombie map Ascension. It replaces the player's special grenade slot, and the player gets three of them. When thrown, they act as a cluster bomb, exploding four times. Most often, one doll will explode into three dolls that fly out in a random direction. Matryoshka Dolls are always an instant kill.

Its usefulness can be hindered by its random nature of explosions, resulting in the possibility of the grenade thrower harming him or herself; however, this is remedied by using the PhD Flopper perk, which makes a player immune to their own explosives.

If a player already has the Gersch Device in their inventory, the Matryoshka Dolls will replace them, and vice-versa. Therefore, one single player cannot have both the Gersch Device and the dolls since they are both special grenades.

Trivia

 * The Matryoshka dolls could possibly be a toy of Samantha's as in one of the radio messages created by Yuri Kravcheski says, "Is that a matryoshka doll? Who let a child in here?!".
 * There are four Matryoshka dolls scattered through Ascension. These dolls are caricatures of the four Zombies playable characters, and will respond when the player presses the 'use' key with a comment in a high-pitched version of the appropriate character's voice. These comments differ when different characters interact with the different dolls. The locations of the dolls are:
 * Takeo - Can be found on the shelves next to the PhD Flopper.
 * Dempsey - Is found on the flaming barrel to the left of the Claymore buy point on the wall.
 * Richtofen - Is in the room directly below the Stakeout, and can be found on a large table in a corner.
 * Nikolai - Can be found on top of the mesuring and recording equipment, next to the Speed Cola machine.
 * When throwing a doll, one of the 4 character's dolls will pop out of the first one.
 * Space Monkeys can throw back Matryoshka Dolls, as well as Frag grenades.
 * After the second Matryoshka explodes it will start to chase the closest zombie.
 * Richtofen said he crushed these when he was a child. Oddly, since Richtofen is a German and the Matryoshka Dolls are Russian, they could not be sold to Germany. However he might not be specifically refering to Matryoshka Dolls but simply any kind of doll.

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