In FBC: Firebreak, players will be doing all sorts of jobs throughout the Oldest House, and if you're doing jobs with active Corruption levels, you're guaranteed to run into some Corrupted objects. These cursed items will hamper your team in a variety of ways — some are pretty tame, while others can be absolutely brutal.

Corrupted items are essentially FBC: Firebreak's way of adding match modifiers. However, unlike in other co-op shooters, these modifiers can be disabled during the matches themselves, giving players more agency over how they play the game. Firebreak doesn't tell players how they can do this, though, so here's a guide to help with that.

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How to Destroy Corrupted Items in FBC: Firebreak

In order to take a Corrupted item down, you'll need to get a Black Rock gun from an active Ammo Station. Black Rock guns crush and fire shards of Black Rock, which have neutralizing properties. All Ammo Stations on Clearance 3 should have a Black Rock gun strapped in the lower-left corner below their ammo table, but if you're lucky, you may also find one inside a Shelter.

Black Rock guns have 90 ammo in total (30 in a magazine with 60 in reserve), and you can't resupply them from an Ammo Station. Thankfully, it only takes ~15 shots to neutralize a Cursed Object in FBC: Firebreak, and in theory, you'll only need one Black Rock gun to neutralize all three Cursed items during a job.

On Clearance 3, each job site is divided into three segments, and each segment will have one Corrupted object if you have level 3 Corruption selected during the mission select screen. Like in other games with rogue-lite elements, Corrupted items will spawn randomly somewhere in that map segment — some cursed items have a tendency to float and move around, which means you'll have to actively hunt them down.

Here are some of the Cursed Objects we've encountered so far:

  • Table Saw: Disables the team's Resonance Shields.
  • Crowbar: Sabotages mechanical devices like power breakers and generators.
  • Snare Drum: Significantly increases enemy speed.
  • Ramen Lantern: Interferes with light sources.
  • Wolf Globe: Weakens gravity.

Objects like Ramen Lantern and Wolf Globe are pretty tame, but Crowbar, Table Saw, and Snare Drum can blow the hinges off your FBC: Firebreak run. Snare Drum in particular can be a run ender, as the increased speed also affects the fire rates of ranged enemies, including the heavies wielding miniguns and grenade launchers.

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FBC: Firebreak
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Released
June 17, 2025
ESRB
T For Teen // Violence, Blood
Developer(s)
Remedy Entertainment
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Remedy Entertainment
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DIGITAL
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Engine
Northlight Engine
Multiplayer
Online Co-Op
Number of Players
1-3
PC Release Date
June 17, 2025
Xbox Series X|S Release Date
June 17, 2025
PS5 Release Date
June 17, 2025
Genre(s)
FPS