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Considering how, between Kill It with Fire and Incendiary Exponent, fire has a habit of being portrayed as undistilled Rule of Cool, flamethrowers in Video Games have an odd habit of being Awesome, but Impractical at best. This tends to be down to a combination of Convection Schmonvection, Critical Existence Failure and a variant of Short-Range Shotgun; game flamethrowers tend to have a very, VERY short range, a narrow area of effect and do slow damage over time with very little disabling effect (or the disabling effect requires enough sustained fire you may as well use an instant-damage weapon), in many cases the effect is very temporary as well and wears off soon after. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This is in part because they tend to be based on Hollywood-style gas flamethrowers rather than real ones; typically their fuel acts like pressurized gas rather than burning liquid, creating a long flame rather than an arcing stream. Game limitations mean the flamethrower's typical use (destroying buildings) is rarely possible in-engine, neither is it likely to mask the firer's position with smoke and flames (or even create smoke). On the plus side, games rarely allow the fuel tanks to be targeted by enemies (though enemies seem to carry tanks of nitroglycerine rather than fuel on their backs if they have a flamethrower), or simulate how staggeringly physically debilitating it is to operate such a device. There are also additional issues, for instance, burning enemies frequently damage you when close, yet the Flamethrower requires enemies to be close to use it (bonus points if other enemies are not damaged by the flames). Also, games (especially Sci-Fi ones) frequently put you up against mechanical enemies and make fire useless against them, yet even the weakest pistol can do some damage; this is hugely unrealistic, since flamethrowers are dangerous to vehicles for the same reason molotovs are; the fire and smoke can easily cause the engine to overheat or choke, burn or melt most circuit boards, and cause immense discomfort for any crew. Finally, flame propagation effects are very rare in games, so fire instantly dissipates in places that would be a fatal inferno in seconds in Real Life, not to mention that fuel itself rarely acts like napalm, slicks of intensely burning glue that coat every surface fired at. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A flamethrower that doesn't suck is usually a BFG. If a mook has one, it will probably suck, paint a giant target on his back and make him that much more evil for having it. Even if you can pick it up and use it yourself. If you can, it is almost a certainty that it won't work on the class of mooks who carry flamethrowers. To an extent this is Truth in Television. Flamethrowers were widely utilized in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War to destroy thick foliage and take out bunkers full of enemy troops, but their weight, short range compared to other firearms, rapid fuel consumption, and tendency to give away one's position have since made them fall out of use in favor of incendiary rounds for conventional weapons. Subtrope of Scrappy Weapon. Has nothing to do with Video-Game Movies Suck. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })NOTE: Straight examples go into the 'Lame' section. The 'Flame' section further below is reserved for aversions and subversions only. Examples: |
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Wipeout Fusion has a flamethrower weapon. Not only does it feel out of place for a game about anti-gravity rocketships racing on various planets and mounting such weapons as instant kill laser beams, particle cannons and artificial black holes, it works as well as you would expect, which is to say not at all. Staying directly behind an enemy at 1000 kph is impractical, said opponent is likely to pack mines and send you careening into the wall with half of your shields gone, and its damage output is very low unless the opponent is a sitting duck due to a gravity magnet (in which case why don't you just overtake him?). Worse, it is an unlockable weapon and you cannot avoid unlocking it once you have completed a few races, after which you will start seeing it with annoying frequency, usually when you are in second place on the final stretch and all you wanted was a basic missile. | |
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Gunstar Heroes also goes both ways. The normal Flame weapon is very short-ranged (but powerful). Double Flame has only about twice the range, but when you let the fire button go, the flames fly off across the screen. Flame + Chaser is a fireball that is controlled by the player. Flame plus Lightning gives you a fully-functional Laser Blade. | |
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Vigilante 8 Second Offense has the Brimstone Burner weapon. Most weapons in the game are fairly balanced and all have their roles, except for this. It is turret mounted so you can toast enemies in any direction and deals decent damage, but lingering in close range makes you a target and there is the Bruiser Cannon turret which has a scattershot special attack that removes half of an enemy's health bar. The flamer's special attacks on the other hand consist of a pointless oil slick, a weak firewall created behind you and thankfully a ranged attack... a slow moving skipping fireball that only deals damage when it bounces off the ground, goes right through enemies, consumes half of your flamer ammo and doesn't even do a lot of damage. | |
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Company of Heroes features pretty nice flamethrowers as the first heavy weapon available for the Wehrmacht and the Americans, as well as the Crocodile flame tanks. Although they are unrealistically ineffective against vehicles (probably due to balance reasons associated with Short-Range Long-Range Weapon), they are nicely effective against infantry in cover and garrisoned infantry. This especially came into play with many of the stronger infantry units having a unit type that caused them to take extra damage from flames, putting it in a similar place to Battalion Wars. The aforementioned Croc Tanks (aka "Napalm NASCAR") can be a real terror for Axis players, since it's fast enough to flank and can fire on the move. " In the second game, they are effective against light vehicles and utterly murder infantry - only heavy machine guns and artillery have comparable killing power. However, opentopped vehicles don't take nearly enough damage and die from loss of health rather than crew death or a fuel explosion. Heavy vehicles are still largely immune - while being unable to burn through the armor is realistic, not triggering critical effects is not. In the winter maps, flamethrowers are amazing, though. Using the "attack ground" or "flamethrower sweep" buttons to attack a target on ice results in an instant kill on ANYTHING if it was where you clicked, as the flames melt the ice and send whatever was on it into the cold water below. |
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The Mechanic class in Maplestory averts this. The flamethrower has decent damage and covers up a wide range that can quickly roast large mobs of monsters at the same time. Sure, it is then overshadowed by more advanced and deadly skills available in further levels, but considering this is one of the first skills that the Mechanic gets, its a practical, reliable and awesome tool to use against your enemies. | |
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Brutal Doom doesn't have a proper flamethrower, but it does have the Mancubus' flame cannon arm, which you can rip off its corpse and use for yourself. Thing is, there aren't many reasons to do that - it's not a weak weapon, but the projectiles are slow and travel in an arc, and ignited enemies turn into human torches. This is more than a special death animation - they deal damage to anything they run into, be it other monsters or you, and they keep running around in a frenzy for a very long time (sometimes entire minutes. Depending on the map this can be useful or a huge pain in the ass. And there aren't really that many Mancubi around anyway, and it's difficult to actually remove the cannons from said corpses (hint: you have to gib them), so ammo isn't easy to come by - which prevents the sort of general spraying on masses of weaker enemies that a weapon like this would be suited for. Project Brutality has both the Mancubus Flame Cannon and the Secondary Fire of the Heavy Plasma Rifle. The Mancubus Flame Cannon can shoot both flame shots that travel just like how a Mancubus does as well as function as a flamethrower. It also can act as a acid launcher to serve as area denial/trap to lead in foes at the cost of much less range. The Heavy Plasma Rifle's Secondary Fire shoots a short-range burst of plasma that Doomguy spreads by swinging the gun from side to side, useful to clear space in front of you as well as dealing great damage up close. |
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StarCraft: Downplayed in StarCraft I, where the flamethrower-wielding Firebats are extremely useful, and the Terran's only melee unit: they do as much damage as a Zealot but are less expensive, do line damage, and can use stimpacks, which raises their attack rate to stupidly high. They stop being quite so useful against larger units, since they deal concussive damage—except against Protoss shields, which normalize damage types. Base-rushing with firebats can thus be somewhat effective. StarCraft II has this with Hellions (and Firebats in the campaign), which completely destroy certain early units and are very fast but tend to not hold up to stronger stuff. The Hellbat, an upgrade to the Hellion, is more useful as it has a much wider area of effect. The reason Firebats are campaign only in II is that the fumes leak into the user's compartment, guaranteeing they go insane after a while, hence their being phased out and replaced with Marauders. |
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The flamethrower unique weapon in Starbound has reasonable range, applies a burning DOT and has low ammo consumption. Coupled with the insane rate of fire and you can stunlock enemies. | |
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Cold Fear has a flamethrower with quite decent range, which is especially effective against humanoid enemies, and has a fair ammo supply. It only falls into this category due to being Awesome, but Impractical — it's not much better than the good ol' Boom, Headshot! against zombies. | |
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In Men of War, the flamethrower is one of the most powerful weapons. It sets any unit it touches on fire, with hilarious results, it can destroy any vehicle and its crew within seconds, can burn away nearly anything that can be used for concealment, and is a good weapon for clearing out buildings. | |
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While Killzone 2 had rather effective flamethrowers that were nevertheless considered useless because the two-weapon inventory system made arming yourself with anything situational a very bad idea, Killzone 3 had a three-weapon inventory system with the third slot made specifically for weapons like this which makes having a flamethrower a good idea whenever you can actually get it. You can ever only find the flamethrower in trench and jungle areas where you'll find them to be very effective, and you won't need to find chokepoints to try to funnel enemies into for maximum efficiency anymore. | |
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Endless Sky has a flamethrower outfit meant to be used on a starship, in vacuum no less. It does little actual damage and has short range, but it inflicts a ton of heat damage that can cause enemy ships to overheat and shut down for a few seconds, during which they can be boarded and captured even if their shields and armor are still up. It's also very lightweight and uses little energy because it uses hyperspace fuel as ammo, so you could kit a couple of fighters with them along with some fuel pods to create a mobile squad of sappers. | |
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In UFO: Alien Invasion, the Flamethrower can be more effective than conventional ballistic firearms against the aliens, because their armor is less effective against fire damage. Of course, it also has much less range than most of the firearms. | |
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In Team Fortress Classic the Pyro flamethrower (and their other fire weapons for that matter) does pathetic damage and is only useful for its view-obscuring effect, making them by far the worst class and a gimmick at best (although their flame-launcher can be okay at times). | |
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The Battalion Wars Flame Vets, while scorching infantry into ashes in mere seconds, can only hope for Scratch Damage at best to any vehicles except an immobile Recon. They're not going to even touch air or sea units, of course. | |
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Fortunately, Valkyria Chronicles 4 goes back to making flamethrowers as awesome as they were in the first game. | |
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Hyrule Warriors has the Fire Rod for Link as one of his optional weapons. One of the combos leads to him turning the rod around, and using it as a fan-spread flamethrower as opposed to a a rod that shoots fireballs. By the time you get to the combo, you've probably already blown away the mooks that were in front of you, and NPC's and Mook Captains have the sense to block your attack. This leads to a few seconds where Link is just ineffectually spraying fire a short distance, and not achieving many ko's. | |
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While the range of the flamethrower in The Last of Us is far from impressive, enemies you set on fire will die in short order, making it easily the best weapon in the game against any enemy you can get close enough to. | |
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While there are many disappointing fire-based weapons in Mega Man (Classic), the Fire Storm and Flame Blast are notable exceptions. The former is a decent projectile weapon, but also doubles as the game's very first shield weapon, as each press of the fire button also creates a brief wheel of flames around Mega Man that will damage anyone nearby, while the latter drops a fire glob that erupts into a pillar of flames on whatever wall or floor it lands on, and deals obscene amounts of damage. | |
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R&C 2 introduces the Lava Gun, that ironically acts more like a real flamethrower (a gun that shoots burning liquid), has a decent range and does good damage. Unfortunately, the devs made the bizarre decision to make it transform to a drastically different meteor shooting machine gun after enough use. Luckily, they bring the gun back in R&C 3 without that transformation: it now transforms into a Liquid Nitrogen gun. Go figure. The upgraded Lava Gun is practically useless for fighting crowds but when given a Lock-On mod, it becomes extremely effective against single targets. Like the final boss, for example. |
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FEAR 2's flamethrower fires silly slow-moving pods of fire rather than a stream. You get exactly three pickups for it in one level, its ammo capacity is pathetic, it's inaccurate combined with having splash damage, hard to use, takes forever to burn even the weakest mooks to death (granted, it usually only takes one shot to accomplish this), and stronger enemies have an alarming tendency to ignore the flames or be totally immune to being set on fire. It's the one weapon that doesn't even show up in the Reborn DLC, which otherwise goes out of its way to let several weapons that the base game treated as one-level gimmicks have a chance to shine. | |
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Battlefield 1's flamethrower has good range, unlimited fuel, and stupidly high damage output at close range along with heavy armor to make them immune melee and resistant to small arms fire. Which makes both the flametroopers in the campaign and the players who pick up the flamethrower kits to be high priority targets, especially with snipers as they can bypass their armor or shoot out their fuel tanks. If used well, players can take out whole squads before dying. | |
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The Flamesprayer from Bloodborne. On the Lame side, it has a VERY short reach, consumes quicksilver bullets at a continuous rate, deals a DPS kind of damage, has poor stopping power and, unlike almost all other sidearms, cannot riposte your enemies. On the Flame side, beast-type enemies are universally weak to fire, so its AOE makes it an effective crowd control tool against them, and its damage can be good enough against non-beasts to avoid making it a Crippling Overspecialization. Also, unlike almost all other sidearms, the Flamesprayer scales with Arcane instead of Bloodtinge, making it a lifesaver for Squishy Wizard builds... What puts it squarely in the "Flame" category, however, is its amazing compability with the Bone Marrow Ashes: for all other sidearms, the Ashes are a crutch meant to give firearms some extra "omph", and even then they're only good for one bullet. When used with the Flamesprayer, on the other hand, the Ashes' effect lasts for as long as your stream of flames goes uninterrupted. Throw an Oil Urn on top of that, and let yourself be intoxicated by the euphoria of purification. | |
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The X-Universe's Plasma Burst Generator is essentially a flamethrower IN SPACE!. It shreds fighters and can still put a hurting on capital ships. On enemy ships it can be a Boss in Mook's Clothing. This is mainly a result of the way Area of Effect weapons work: each blast has multiple hitboxes, and ships take additional damage based on how many of the weapon's hitboxes line up with their own. | |
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Zigzagged in Factorio. The flamethrower is one of the few weapons capable of a One Hit Poly Kill, making it capable of taking on Zerg Rush attacks by the Big Creepy-Crawlies. However, its damage scales poorly as the bugs evolve and enlarge in response to your pollution, and it has a tendency to harm the user if they fire it while walking forward. Players have found the flamethrower very useful for burning down forests in the way of their expanding factories; you can even use it to burn down forests from the comfort of your coal-powered car! The flamethrower turret is arguably the strongest of the three defensive turrets in the game. It has the longest range, setting an enemy on fire dooms it to die in a few seconds, and it leaves pools of fire on the ground which ignite following enemies. However it has a limited firing arc, minimum range, and tends to miss the leader of a group of enemies, so it needs other turrets to support it. By contrast the tank's flamethrower is more like a blowtorch with no lingering fire. It instantly destroys trees but does little damage to bugs. |
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While the flamethrower (and blowtorch) in videogame version of The Thing (2002) might not have the range that of real life, it's still an absolutely required weapon to permanently put down alien enemies. | |
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Unfortunately, at least in Valkyria Chronicles III, they are much weaker than machine guns and are rarely ever capable of killing a target in one use. Even against covered enemies, machine guns will do more. Also, its is very rare to have multiple enemies clumped together in a way that can fully utilize the flamethrower's area damage, and even in those cases, its probably more effective to line 2 enemies up and let the machine gun kill both of them due to its superior range and firepower. | |
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Diablo II has the Inferno spell which is a flamethrower, complete with short range at low spell levels, low area coverage at all spell levels, no persistent damage, slow-moving flames and it takes a long time to cast and roots you to the spot while you channel and stops when you get hit. Between its weak damage and the danger factor of planting yourself in front of the onrushing enemies that will proceed to stunlock you, this is the worst sorceress spell in the game. The expansion provided the new druid class with an Ice thrower which was useful for no other reason than the very long chill length, providing some much-needed crowd control until players figured out that there's a passive area effect chill spell in the druid's arsenal and most enemies you want to chill are immune to it anyway. | |
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The flamethrower is easily the player's best friend in Alien: Isolation; it's not terribly practical against hostile human survivors and trying to use it on a Working Joe is an incredibly bad idea (since it takes several minutes for them to die from the flame, in which time they're very likely to strangle you), but after you've spent six to eight hours hiding from a bulletproof monster that will kill you in ten seconds flat if it so much as hears you breathing, having a weapon that can make it retreat with just a few quick bursts is a welcome bit of enpowerment. It works so well that after using enough, the Xenomorph will outright hesitate and keep its distance for a moment if you point the flamethrower at it. It's lit muzzle also doubles as a handy flashlight that, while not quite as bright as the real thing, also doesn't consume batteries and won't alert enemies to your presence. | |
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Valkyria Chronicles II has the flamethrowers still be short-ranged but they're very hard-hitting, ignores cover (and Armored Tech shields) and is the only weapon that can one-shot bunkers. This makes it a very good idea to invest in Commandos. | |
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In the "Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt" DLC for Borderlands 2, you gain access to Fan Boats, which have elemental secondary weapons - electrical, fire, and corrosive. The electrical weapon fires electrified "mines" that shock nearby enemies, the corrosive weapon fires acid grenades, and the fire weapon...mildly annoys anyone you were about to run over anyway. All of them have pretty mediocre damage, but the fire weapon's problem is that its range is so terrible you might as well use your Fan Boat as a makeshift battering ram. | |
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The flame thrower in Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising is an exceedingly useful weapon. The biggest drawback is naturally its range. It is a realistic 60 meters, but that is not all that impressive in a game which revolves around vehicular combat in wide open areas. On the plus side, it deals damage very quickly, and it can set just about any vehicle or structure on fire, which deals continuous damage until destruction. It is especially useful when you bolt it to a vehicle which is equipped with a cloaking unit. | |
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The Gargantua in Half-Life possesses two biological flamethrowers in place of hands. The short range works to the player's benefit as you can just avoid it, which is preferable as fire still burns. Remember, though, that Gargantua can and will outrun you, bringing you into flamethrower range. | |
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Half-Life 2 fan-attempts to add flamethrowers to the game vary widely, but the "SMOD" mod has an attachment that turns the Gravity Gun into a flame-spewing monstrosity. In lieu of the expected clouds of flame, it instead fires burning, arcing streams of napalm that cling to walls, floors, objects, and enemies, whereupon it burns all of them with equal vigor. It's quite effective against anything that you need dead and several things that you don't. Best of all, the ammo is technically infinite – it has a limited capacity to draw from, but its fuel automatically recharges when not in use. | |
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Even with the perk that makes flame-based weapons do more damage, the Crimsonland flamethrower (and its joke counterpart the blowtorch) is pretty awful. | |
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Alien In Alien Trilogy, the Flamethrower is the weakest of the advanced weapons, being only better than the starting Pistol and consuming ammo extremely fast. At least averted in both Alien³ games on Nintendo and Super Nintendo. The flamethrower has pitiful range and doesn't knock enemies back, but it has plenty of ammo, absurd damage output, and a wide radius that hit anything in front of you. The Genesis version has an even shorter range, but does enough damage to kill even a lunging Alien so long as your timing is good. The light-gun game averts this: the flamethrower does much more damage than the default rifle, and can quickly clear rooms of Xenos. |
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In Dawn of War 2, flamers for Imperial Guardsmen and Tactical Marines do less damage and have a shorter range than the baseline weapons they replace, but they hit in an area of effect and do a even more damage against units within cover or buildings, giving them a clear niche against opponents who you feel may be using larger squads. The burnas for the Slugga Boyz are the only weapon upgrade available to them, and are an obvious good choice with their area of effect attack, increased ranged damage over the pitiful pistols the Slugga Boyz normally use, and count as power weapons to do more damage against heavier infantry. | |
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The Caulk-and-Burn in Killing Floor 2 is kinda pathetic, with bad range and poor ammo efficiency. But then, no one expected it to be amazing, because every Firebug spawns with one for free to warm up in the first wave, so you can buy better guns later. It's also not a proper flamethrower, but an improvised mount for sprays cans full of fuel, so poor range makes sense. The flamethrower returns as the third tier weapon, but has grown quite a bit in usefulness since then. | |
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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard continues the series trend with the Burner. It has a fairly short range, and while it's good against bug-type enemies, which are only found in one section of the game, it's nearly worthless against the Molded, which make up the vast majority of the game's enemies. It's at least a step in the right direction as it's also effective against Marguerite Baker, and is also reloadable. | |
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Dead Space: The flamethrower in the original title is the one weapon considered to be completely useless. Given that the best way to kill Necromorphs is dismemberment (which a flamethrower obviously can't do) its uselessness even makes sense. The one practical use it has, that being burning Pregnants so their swarmers die in the flames, is something just as easily avoided with decent aim. Oddly, the flamethrower in Dead Space is actually one of the few chemical designs that could work in a vacuum, as described in supplemental material, but it doesn't in-game. It is intended as a tool for melting ice in the absence of an atmosphere, which might justify its relative weakness as a weapon. That the game does not allow it to function in vacuum is something of a gaffe. Dead Space 2 rectified the problem with the flamethrower not working in space, and gave it some much-needed offensive buffs, but it's still a poor alternative to other, much more powerful weapons. Dead Space 3 unfortunately backslides with the flamethrower being a poor option compared to almost everything else. |
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The original version of Shantae: Risky's Revenge has the Flamethrower spell. While it quickly deals a lot of damage, it also quickly eats up Shantae's Mana, making it Awesome, but Impractical. It's more useful in the Director's Cut when using Magic Mode, since the cut in magic consumption makes it a viable option for quickly killing the game's tougher enemies. | |
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Half-Life: The Gargantua in Half-Life possesses two biological flamethrowers in place of hands. The short range works to the player's benefit as you can just avoid it, which is preferable as fire still burns. Remember, though, that Gargantua can and will outrun you, bringing you into flamethrower range. In the third and final episode of the Half-Life Game Mod They Hunger, you get a flamethrower for the first time. Being a Zombie Apocalypse, it would appear to be useful, but there is a problem: it can't set anything on fire. Not even the enemies, who only take a small point of damage for every puff of the flames that hit them, each one with short range. It can be used to kill slowly walking zombies, but once you encounter the infected military, with their assault rifles and shotguns and helicopters, it's suicide to attempt to attack them with it. It also runs out of ammo quickly. |
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Even with the presence of flamers in MechWarrior 2, 3, 4, and their respective Expansion Packs, none of them ever approached a threat level any higher than that of 'gimmick' (particularly in 3, where Over Heating an enemy with a ludicrous number of flamers would result in them Going Critical, followed by a mushroom cloud). The lack of conventional infantry in all of the aforementioned games, as well as the often-slow speed at which fire traveled relative to autocannon fire or lasers, made flamers more of an easily ignored footnote than an actual weapon. Only 2 Mechs in all of the MechWarrior series ever mounted flamers by default: the Flashman of MechWarrior 2 Mercenaries and the Puma of MechWarrior 3, both of which had much better weapons available to them, mostly Beam Spam and the ability to blow off a Mech's head in one shot, respectively. | |
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The Blaster Master series has a notoriously bad flame thrower, though depending on who the player is using it may not be that noticeable as most handheld weapons are pretty weak and short range. It is pretty noticeable in the tank though, which otherwise has good rounds. This does not apply in Zero, where the weapon does gradual damage after contact, some enemies explicitly die because of this, and it can destroy ice chunks in Area 4 and melt the floor ice and ice spikes in Area 6. What keeps it from being the best gun in the game is that you get it at Level 7 out of 8, which makes it a bit hard to hold on to, and that the level 8 weapon is the Wave Gun. | |
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Nosgoth has Flamethrowers as an optional ability for the Alchemist. These zig-zag in that while the immediate damage (and over time) is pretty good and the range problem solves itself since Vampires use melee as their primary attack, smart vampires can and will outrun the flames since said range is also absolutely pitiful. | |
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In Aliens vs. Predator (2010) the marine's flamethrower is beyond useless: It makes the xenomorphs angry. Eventually they start crawling. Then they explode in an attack that will instantly kill you, but won't even annoy the other aliens around it. Oh, and when crawling they can grab your leg before exploding. So when you set one on fire, all you're doing is giving it a useful one-hit kill against you. Doesn't help that the flamethrower eats through its ammo in no time, and has all the range of the average loogie. | |
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Averted in Dead Space: Extraction: the flamethrower, indisputably the worst weapon in the first game, is one of the best in Extraction. It deals high damage no matter where it hits, making dismemberment a non-issue. It has slower ammo consumption, longer range and a larger ammo capacity than in the first game. Best of all, every single damage tick stops a Necromorph in its tracks, allowing you to either stunlock most of the enemies in the game to death or hold entire groups at bay. Dead Space 2 is a bit of a middle ground between the first game and Extraction. |
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Deep Rock Galactic: Sure, the Driller's CRISPR Flamethrower may have a notably short range, but when most combat is done in cramped caves against giant carnivorous insects most of the disadvantages aren't in play. And the advantages? High damage, especially so if you take it to the Glacial Strata, setting the terrain on fire for even more damage, good amunition, going right through physical armor and a huge slew of upgrades that improve both direct damage and the walls of fire you leave, avert Convection Schmonvection to set those mearly close on fire, and even causes chain reaction explosions among the bugs killed. Few things will turn a mass of furious Glyphids into a pile of guts like it. | |
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The Flamethrower subsystem for MEC Troopers in the XCOM: Enemy Unknown expansion Enemy Within is a pretty effective weapon: It deals 6 damage (upgradable to 9 to every organic target in its cone of fire – about as good as a light plasma rifle, but much more reliable –, makes the enemy panic if it survives (and better yet, unlike regular panic, units panicked by a Flamethrower never shoot back, and always run), thus making them lose a turn (even Ethereals, who are otherwise extremely dangerous and hard to neutralize without killing), though its range is pretty short. As a Tier 1 tactical subsystem for a MEC suit, it's even an extra that doesn't take inventory space. It has only one drawback: it competes against the Kinetic Strike Module as a Tier 1 subsystem, which deals more damage to a target on an adjacent square (12, or 18 that can be delivered twice with the Foundry upgrade) and provides a Boring, but Practical 3 tiles of extra mobility. You can only have one subsystem for each tier on a given MEC suit. | |
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The flamethrower from Marathon, humorously named the TOZT (Toasty, later used in Halo 3 as 7057), is one of the best weapons for burning up crowds, and in fact can overheat and destroy most mechanical enemies, however its range is ridiculously low, and if you're up against a shotgunner in multiplayer you only stand a slight chance if you strike first. On the plus side, people who are burned make the most over the top and hilarious scream, and the aliens sound like chickens being kicked. | |
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Call of Duty: WWII gets the M2 and Flammenwerfer 35, where they actually are useful, with decent range, powerful damage, and wide spread, making them great for blitzing Germans. | |
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In Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, the flamethrower is completely useless. It has a three-foot range, and is pitifully weak. | |
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Valkyria Chronicles has short-range flamethrowers that bypass cover. Guns outclass them if you can get a clear shot, but they're very effective if an enemy is hiding behind sandbags and you can get up close. Also hits multiple targets with a single sweep, while a gun typically only hits one target at a time. There's also a tank-mounted flamethrower, which is a very useful anti-personnel weapon. Valkyria Chronicles II has the flamethrowers still be short-ranged but they're very hard-hitting, ignores cover (and Armored Tech shields) and is the only weapon that can one-shot bunkers. This makes it a very good idea to invest in Commandos. Not to mention that Flamethrowers are the only reliable way of countering enemies in cover while leaving the cover itself intact. Meaning you can use it for yourself afterwards, which often helps IMMENSLEY. Unfortunately, at least in Valkyria Chronicles III, they are much weaker than machine guns and are rarely ever capable of killing a target in one use. Even against covered enemies, machine guns will do more. Also, its is very rare to have multiple enemies clumped together in a way that can fully utilize the flamethrower's area damage, and even in those cases, its probably more effective to line 2 enemies up and let the machine gun kill both of them due to its superior range and firepower. Fortunately, Valkyria Chronicles 4 goes back to making flamethrowers as awesome as they were in the first game. |
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In Broforce, two characters use flamethrowers, and both avert this trope. B.A. Broracus (an Expy of B.A. Baracus from The A-Team has it as his primary attack. It deals massive damage, scares enemies it sets on fire (preventing them from firing back) and is one of the best tunneling weapons in the game, its only limitation being its short range. Ellen Ripbro (an Expy of Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise) has it as her special. It fires a wide wall of flame that moves across the screen, dealing massive damage to anything it touches. It has limited uses, however, being her special and all. | |
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Resident Evil has a long, long, long history of pissing off its fans with crappy flamethrowers: Resident Evil and its Nintendo GameCube remake have a flamethrower only available to Chris, which he gets instead of the Grenade Launcher. It has only enough fuel for 7 seconds of firing, can never be reloaded, has pitiful range, low damage, and can only be used in the underground caves. Adding insult to injury in the 2002 Remake, if gamers decide to cheat it into their inventory, they'll find it has absolutely no effect on zombies: not only was it not coded to do any damage but can't even be used to burn their corpses. Resident Evil 2 follows suit with the flamethrower that Leon finds. It's even worse than the one above, since it has even less ammo and is found so late in the game that it is completely outclassed by the other weapons you carry. Again, Leon gets this instead of the Spark Shot that Claire finds which is a Lethal Joke Item that sucks against most monsters but absolutely slaughters the G Virus mutations of William Birkin and the Tyrant T-103. It's at least effective against the Ivy creatures that would otherwise soak up a ton of valuable ammunition (such as the upgraded magnum that outclasses the Spark Shot), but said creatures are also fairly easy to just dodge and not waste ammo on to begin with... worse, the flamethrower's range is ridiculously short - as in, not only is it just barely outside of the Ivies' melee attack range, it's outranged completely by their Zombie Puke Attack! To make matters worse, RE and RE2 also feature a grenade launcher (called the Bazooka in the original) which had flame rounds which, while rare, were still more abundant than fuel for the flamethrower. This weapon outclasses the flamethrower in every possible aspectnote Higher range, higher damage output, stopping power, and the weapon can also use other kinds of ammo and is only available to Jill and Claire, the characters who don't find flamethrowers. Resident Evil Outbreak has a flame thrower which can be made by David by combining the Insect Spray with the Lighter. Unfortunately you find said items in levels where they are of use, and by making the overall shoddy flamethrower, you lose the ability to kill insect-type enemies in one shot and reach hidden caches of items. Resident Evil 5 gives you an actually pretty decent flamethrower which would be an Infinity +1 Sword. However, you can only use it during one part of the game, against a boss that no other weapon works on, making its damage output a moot point, and doesn't get infinite ammo even if you legitimately unlocked it. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City's flamethrower would be okay, if you could purchase it, spawn with it, reload it, or customize it. It can only be found within levels, and has a pitifully low (and unreloadable) ammo stock. To really drill this trope home, Resident Evil 6 shows off some awesome-looking flamethrowers that seem to have unlimited ammo and are insanely effective at destroying Chrysalid Cocoons. Too bad you never get to use one; they're only used by soldiers in the background of one stage. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard continues the series trend with the Burner. It has a fairly short range, and while it's good against bug-type enemies, which are only found in one section of the game, it's nearly worthless against the Molded, which make up the vast majority of the game's enemies. It's at least a step in the right direction as it's also effective against Marguerite Baker, and is also reloadable. |
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In Sonic Forces, the Burst Wispon functions as a flamethrower, firing a long-range stream of flames, in addition to performing successive aerial jumps. While its functionality is basic in comparison to other Wispons, it is perfectly serviceable and very useful. | |
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The first R&C has your standard Hollywood flamethrower (the Pyrocitor) that has a very short range. It is good at cleaning up large swarms of small enemies in the beginning, but becomes useless in later levels. | |
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PAYDAY 2 introduced a flamethrower as part of its Butcher's BBQ Pack DLC. While it doesn't set enemies on fire to do damage over time, it acts more like a short-ranged beam of destruction, in that whoever it hits will have all of their health sucked away in short order. Its range isn't too shabby either, being comparable to that of the Pyro's flamethrower. The only Special Unit that can stand up to it is the Bulldozer, and even then if they're hit by the flames, it'll immobilize them. The only downside to all this power is that it chews through ammo like nobody's business and takes an eternity to reload. | |
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The Metal Slug series flamethrower is one of the better special weapons from the second game onwards. The flame is quite large, has moderate range,note except when shooting straight down and is capable of toasting multiple enemies in a single shot, burning even through vehicles with tremendous ease. The rare Big Flamethrower shoots a massive fireball that will basically clear out everything unfortunate enough to be standing on the wrong half of the screen. Interestingly, it used to be a terrible weapon in the first installment thanks to doing very little damage to vehicles. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas The game doesn't have quite as many flamers, nor the high-powered variants that Fallout 3 did, but it does have the perfect place to use such a weapon-type: Vault 22. An entire vault full of dangerous (but very flammable) plants. A flamer is conveniently provided there, and it doesn't seem half so sucky any more. There's also the regular Incinerator, which is much like the Heavy Incinerator except smaller. Unlike the Heavy Incinerator, the regular Incinerator has a much lower Energy Weapons skill requirement at 25, a lower strength requirement, less spread and weight, with the logical compromise of doing less damage, shooting slower and having less range. It's perfect for more casual energy weapon users to haul around the Mojave to light up their enemies before weapon switching to finish them off with something that spits lead. And you can get your hands on one as early as the second town you come across, Primm, in the first floor of the Bison Steve hotel, although it's in pretty bad shape. The Gun Runners' Arsenal DLC for New Vegas also introduces the unique flamer, the Cleansing Flame. The weapon is heavier than the base model and doesn't inflict a Critical Hit as often, but trades off those downsides for superior damage over time, a generously sized fuel reserve, greater durability, and perhaps most welcome of all, an extended range compared to the standard flamer. It also fires a very pretty stream of blue flames. The flamer becomes much more practical in Fallout New Vegas's hardcore mode, which adds weight to ammo among other realistic challenges. Flamer fuel is one of the lightest ammo types in the game, and surprisingly the flamer doesn't burn through it as fast you think it would. |
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While the Ignis flamethrower in Warframe used to be a straight example of this trope, subsequent updates have turned it into a respectable weapon. A large ammo capacity, high fire rate and considerable area of effect make it ideal for taking out hordes. While it still falls short against heavier enemies, clearing out the weaker mooks is often a matter of sweeping the reticle across the room once, then sweeping back for the occasional survivor. There's also an enhanced version called the Ignis Wraith. | |
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In Cave Story, none of the weapons are very realistic, least of all the Fireball gun. As the name implies, it shoots literal fireballs that bounce along the ground. It's something of a zig-zagged trope: in the early game it's your most damaging weapon for quite a while, but it quickly becomes obsolete once you reach the Labyrinth. Where, depending on your actions earlier in the game, it can be combined with one of your other weapons to be able to shoot through walls (the only gun in the game capable of doing so). | |
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Geist's flamethrower unsurprisingly, except it is not truly a flamethrower anyway, is only a prototype and does have a long range secondary fire. That long range secondary fire is not unique to it though and they insist on calling it a flamethrower, so it belongs here. | |
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In Assault Suits Valken, the secret Napalm Gun upgrade fires a flaming ball of death across the screen. Both the rate of fire and rate of travel might be low compared to the usual standbys of the Vulcan cannon or Laser cannon, but it basically annihilates most non-boss enemies in a single shot. Even a near miss can wipe out smaller units. | |
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Resident Evil and its Nintendo GameCube remake have a flamethrower only available to Chris, which he gets instead of the Grenade Launcher. It has only enough fuel for 7 seconds of firing, can never be reloaded, has pitiful range, low damage, and can only be used in the underground caves. Adding insult to injury in the 2002 Remake, if gamers decide to cheat it into their inventory, they'll find it has absolutely no effect on zombies: not only was it not coded to do any damage but can't even be used to burn their corpses. | |
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The Resident Evil 2 2019 remake finally gives the franchise an awesome example with the Chemical Flamethrower. It's still the go-to weapon to wipe out the Ivy monsters (who in this game, are not as easy to dodge as they were in the original), but it also turns zombies into toast and is invaluable against bosses as well. The major downside to it is that it burns through fuel pretty quickly, but there is a regulator upgrade available that reduces the fuel consumption by half. | |
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Resident Evil 5 gives you an actually pretty decent flamethrower which would be an Infinity +1 Sword. However, you can only use it during one part of the game, against a boss that no other weapon works on, making its damage output a moot point, and doesn't get infinite ammo even if you legitimately unlocked it. | |
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To really drill this trope home, Resident Evil 6 shows off some awesome-looking flamethrowers that seem to have unlimited ammo and are insanely effective at destroying Chrysalid Cocoons. Too bad you never get to use one; they're only used by soldiers in the background of one stage. | |
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In Midnight Resistance, the supercharged flamethrower was perhaps the best weapon in the game. The Commodore 64 version nerfed it by reducing its range. | |
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Path of Exile has the Scorching Ray spell, which creates a beam of fire that extends a good way across the screen. The beam applies a stacking debuff to any enemies it touches that not only inflicts burning damage-over-time but also lowers their fire resistance. One stack of the debuff is usually enough to kill basic mooks, while magic and rare monsters take only a few seconds longer. Even bosses melt surprisingly fast under sustained fire. The only drawbacks are that the beam must be channeled while standing in place and it slows down the caster's turning rate. | |
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In Serious Sam - The Second Encounter, the flamethrower is a very powerful weapon. Although it has a short range, the flames do as much initial damage as the minigun or laser gun, deal further damage over time to those on fire, and flames go through enemies, allowing it to damage several at once, especially melee-oriented enemies like Kleer Skeletons and Curcubitos; in the HD Edition, a puff can stunlock a mob of Beheaded Kamikazes and give you time to get away from them. To top it all off, you get the flamethrower very early in every chapter, the ammo is more or less everywhere and it burns out fairly slowly. | |
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The mine chapter in Wax Works features a chemical sprayer. Later on, you can fill its tank with gasoline to create an impromptu flamethrower. It can kill any enemy in one hit, while the rest of your weapons have only a microscopic hit chance and deal crap damage. Just don't run out of fuel... | |
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Zigzagged in Earth Defense Force 2025. Many of the handheld flamethrowers held by Rangers and Fencers just flat out suck - poor range and reach, really only work in confined spaces and you probably can get the job done better with a machine gun or a rocket launcher. The worst of this bunch is the Flame Revolver used by the Fencers - despite being Gatling flamethrowers, their recoil is insane as just firing it sends your aim going vertical. However, the version used by one of the Humongous Mecha is instead a walking wall of fiery death. | |
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In a few more modern Super Robot Wars games, flamethrowers and other flame based weaponry have the ability to lower the weapon power of enemy units - for instance, Dragon Gundam's Flamethrower in Super Robot Wars Judgement, and Golion's Flamethrower and three of Hyoryu's attacks (and one of Choryujin's) in Super Robot Wars W. In Super Robot Wars Neo and OE, there's a new type of status effect these and other heat based weapons can inflict called Fire, which causes extra damage (and at high levels has a very high activation rate) Older games had these fall fully into "suck", however, most flamethrowers (Like Layzner's, Combattler V's, and Voltes V's were one range, weak, and generally never worth using. |
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In Silent Hill 3, where a flamethrower can be found in a New Game+. It has infinite ammo and does good damage, but sadly has difficulty stunning enemies and only decent range. It's not a bad weapon, but an average New Game+ player will have the Infinite Submachine Gun as well, which is just so, so much better in every way. | |
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Red Faction's flamethrower, though with the typical short range and hazardous to wield, had the beneficial effect of instantly making all targets stop shooting at you because they're too busy running in circles and screaming in agony. An additional plus was the ability to chuck the tank (even if it's almost empty) to produce a huge explosion that sets everything on fire. | |
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The Vietnam War era sequel to Rising Storm, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam gives us the improved M9A1-7 Flamethrower for the Combat Engineer class, behaving in much the same way, except this time it allows for its users to sprint farther and faster thanks to its lighter weight. | |
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In Fallout 2, the flamethrower was pretty much a heavy waste of time. Its range is ridiculously short, the ammo is ridiculously heavy, and end-game enemies tend to resist fire. Fun for toasting lower-level random encounters, but that's about it. However, it was much better in Fallout 1 because most of the late enemies don't have any special resistance to fire. | |
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Fallout 3's DLC Broken Steel went above and beyond the job of adding viable flamethrower optios. Unlike the regular, short-ranged Flamer, the Heavy Incinerator is a very close simile to a real flamethrower, with the difference that the Heavy Incinerator fires globs of napalm instead of a continuous stream. Not only it is fully-automatic and lethal, it has a long range and can effectively be used as a bombardment implement, even outside of V.A.T.S. range. And it's semi-regular due to Enclave Hellfire Troopers spawning from when Broken Steel is installed. Also, due to their specialized Power Armor (which you can also loot, and it is very strong), they are resistant to fire, and hence, their own weapon. It is also affected by both Pyromaniac perk and the bugged Ghoul Ecology perk, which adds +5 unblockable damage to any enemy for every projectile fired. Also, like actual napalm, it explodes underwater. Broken Steel also introduces the Slo-Burn Flamer, which has all the drawbacks of the regular Flamer, but the addition of continuous burning damage for a very long time. Light an enemy on fire, and then run until they die (or you have to relight them, which you won't have to do more than once unless they have fire resistance). The Burnmaster, another Broken Steel unique variant, is a middle ground. It deals 150% of the Flamer's damage output if you don't have the Pyromaniac perk, which helps any player that doesn't play around with fire often enough to justify picking the perk. |
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The Plasma Thrower mod for plasma weapons in Fallout 4 is one of the most powerful short-range weapons available. It does high damage with multiple types, and due to a glitch, it gains the perk bonuses from either Rifleman or Gunslinger instead of Commando (it's treated as either a rifle or pistol weapon depending on which type of stock you've got equipped, both of which have better secondary bonuses from their perks than Commando). Equip one and watch as it melts all your enemies into green puddles of goo. | |
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Dynasty Warriors featured the infamously quirky Zhang Jiao, who was given a flame wand for most of his playable appearances. Unfortunately, said flames tended towards being extremely weak and hard to aim. His attacks that involved whacking people with the stick actually did more damage than the fire, which would usually just hit foes for a very minor damage-over-time effect and occasionally send them flying. This was just one of the many reasons he was considered an F Tier playable character for many installments. | |
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In the first Soldier of Fortune the flamethrower requires some sustained fire before enemies catch alight and are disabled, however, as there's almost no spread and ammo is rare using a direct damage weapon is far more efficient outside of the sadism value (the secondary is pretty powerful, but you may as well take a grenade launcher). | |
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The Nod flamethrowers in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars both resemble real world flamethrowers in action and are insanely awesome against most targets; the flame tank is considered the go-to vehicle for most NOD players, and its infantry equivalent also has its uses (being near immune to anti vehicle weapons helps). In addition to nearly instant killing infantry units, they also burn down structures in mere seconds. Flame tanks can even be cloaked with the right support power, hidden until they suddenly pop up in the middle of the enemy base, reducing it to ashes with unparalleled speed. Then there's the expansion, which added the Black Hand sub-faction, which specializes in flame weapons. They lack access to the stealth trick, but their flame weapons can instead be upgraded to do even more damage, to a point they become dangerous against even armored targets, and can take down a structure in the time it takes to blink. They also get Nod's standard top-tier walker with the otherwise impractical flamethrower upgrade right out of the box, in addition to the increased damage upgrade. Then there's the flamethrower upgrade for their even bigger walker... | |
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Definitely the case in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Vice City: the tendency for enemies to run directly at you when you light them on fire (leaving you completely helpless and vulnerable), the ridiculously short range meaning you could have killed the enemies with anything else in the game by that point, and that, since its technically classed as a BFG, you can't run and gun with it makes it all but useless. In the original overhead 2D games, this was downplayed. While it lacked range, killing enemies with the flamethrower gave substantially more points than with ordinary guns which was useful if you were trying to reach a points threshold to continue to the next chapter and had no missions left to perform. By collecting hidden packages in Vice City, you could unlock the Flamethrower at your safehouse. However, a glitch in the original PS2 version would cause it to only spawn with four units of ammo, leaving the pickup almost completely worthless. |
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Gunple: Strange World Gunman's Proof, an obscure Japanese Famicom game that was essentially a Zelda Clone with a western motive, hands you an awesome flamethrower after beating dungeon 3. Its range and ammo capacity are low, but both are moot points as most enemies attack at close range and ammo drops for it are very common. It also blocks enemy projectiles and kills most enemies in one hit. | |
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Halo: Halo 3: Powerful but extremely easy to burn yourself with it. Also poor range, and it counts as a turret so it wrecks your speed and mobility. It's also only available during levels with the Flood in them... but it's also one of the best weapons against the Flood, since a short burst can kill most of them. A good player can conserve their ammo for the whole level. After being cut from the Xbox release of Halo: Combat Evolved, the Mac/PC port restored it as a multiplayer weapon. It suffers from limited range, but has absurdly high damage, highly contagious burning, and huge amounts of ammo. |
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The flamethrower in Killing Floor certainly isn't the worst on this list, but it has its share of downsides. It's custom-tailored for effortlessly chewing through the hordes of weak specimens in the early stages; masses of Clots, Gorefasts, Stalkers and Crawlers will be nothing but ash before they can even reach you. After the first few stages, though, the enemy waves start to have much more sturdy and intimidating freaks mingling amongst the cannon fodder, and they laugh off anything short of being force-fed a full tank of fuel - pray that one of your marksman-class teammates is nearby and has great aim, or get used to being eaten. Bear in mind that Infernal Retaliation is in full effect. Plus, unless you're a firebug-class, the flamethrower is expensive, very prone to damaging yourself, and you won't be able to afford it until you're most likely better off using something else - and, to add insult to injury, the "Husk" enemies, one of the more dangerous types due to being the only one with a ranged attack, are almost immune to the weapon. If you are a high level firebug, you can spawn with it in the first round, and those first three rounds is where the flamethrower is the most useful. Because there are higher-level weapons that excel at taking out hordes of enemies or priority targets, it's a definite case of Tier-Induced Scrappy. However, keeping a tougher enemy lit up for some time (about ten seconds) will cause their skin to burn off entirely and they'll panic, making them unable to use their special attacks. The Caulk-and-Burn in Killing Floor 2 is kinda pathetic, with bad range and poor ammo efficiency. But then, no one expected it to be amazing, because every Firebug spawns with one for free to warm up in the first wave, so you can buy better guns later. It's also not a proper flamethrower, but an improvised mount for sprays cans full of fuel, so poor range makes sense. The flamethrower returns as the third tier weapon, but has grown quite a bit in usefulness since then. |
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In Far Cry 3, the flamethrower is an extremely potent weapon. It has realistic range, does tremendous damage (being one of the most reliable weapons for taking out heavy armor troops), can spread quite well, and ignite and clear out entire buildings near-instantly. The only downside is that it still doesn't have the long range of most guns, and that the flames can quickly catch up with you, especially if you're advancing into the brush or encampments you're clearing. | |
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In Victory Road, Ralf Jones and Clark Still are fighting on an alien world and they get a flamethrower that's fires a large cloud of flame that goes fairly far and hits like a beast. Compare that to the weak-ass machine gun in Ikari Warriors | |
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Mass Effect 2: The M-451 Firestorm heavy weapon is a case of "good idea, bad idea". It is certainly devastating at short ranges, especially against armored enemies (which are extremely common on Insanity difficulty), but it still suffers from devastatingly short range, and many enemies that try to get close to you have shotguns (which will make you flinch and stop burning them) or flamethrowers (which will make you flinch and stop burning them). The enemies almost never flinch from being set on fire by flamethrowers. It does fire a lot more than other heavy weapons, though, and will provide better DPS than shotguns without requiring reloading, only ammo to fire with. While less impressive against bosses than other heavy weapons, it is a useful weapon to a player who wants to get in their opponents' face a lot, and it tears up the enemies who just run up to you to hit you, lacking a gun (also likely having armour). The flamethrower is especially useful on levels with husks, especially on the Insanity difficulty. Combine with an Adept's Singularity power to instantly kill the husks after you melt their armour. It's much more fun to face enemies using flamethrowers and use a sniper rifle to blow open the fuel tanks, causing a massive explosion. On the other hand, Incendiary Ammo and Incinerate are incredibly useful: they burn through armor, stop regeneration, and can cause enemies to panic for several seconds. The flamethrower is also popular with Vanguards, whose combat style is based heavily around Biotic Charge. If you're going to be looking up your opponent's nose anyway... |
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Mass Effect 3: Several multiplayer classes (mostly Vorcha, but also the Geth Soldier) have the new ability "Flamer", a flamethrower that's tied to a power instead of a heavy weapon (and therefore has cooldown instead of ammo). Although short-range, Flamer is absolutely devastating against armored opponents; when properly upgraded for damage over duration and range, it can kill a Brute in a few seconds, and destroys Ravagers and their spawn even quicker. Although it loses some of its usefulness against Cerberus and geth forces (owing to their preference for shields over armor), it can be activated and then left to run until its duration runs out. This will kill almost anything short of the boss-type monsters in short order. Enemy Geth Pyros are nasty as hell, too. Because they have a constant stream of damage, they bypass Shield Gate. Combined with the fact that they have very high damage outputs, they'll put anything short of a raging krogan Vanguard down in short order if they get too close. |
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In the remake/prequel of Shadow Warrior, the flamethrower is a situationally useful weapon despite its short (even when upgraded) range: it can ignite and mark invisible enemies, the flames wrap around shields and armor to reach vulnerable spots, and if you seriously expend ammo it can hold a corridor against an enraged swarm better than a gun. The catch is that if you're close enough to use it, there's almost guaranteed to be something more useful you can be doing with your sword (your starting weapon), it does too little damage to make hit-and-run against the strongest enemies practical, and the nastiest fights tend to be at long range. | |
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BioShock's chemical thrower runs on actual liquid napalm and has an impressive range, not that you need much in this cramped underwater city. It also has alternate modes that allow it to fire liquid nitrogen and electric gel (highly conductive liquid), the latter of which replaces the pilot light with a spark plug. It effectively makes the equivalent plasmids redundant, even when fully upgraded — especially the electric gel mode, which actually deals damage as opposed to simply stunning opponents and is actually the most effective way to kill Big Daddies. It was so overpowered that they decided not to bring it back for the sequel. | |
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Phantasy Star Online has the Flame Visit and the Burning Visit. On paper, they're fairly strong Ranger weapons of one of the most useful class. However, they lack the trait that makes that class useful (hitting multiple enemies) but retain most of its weaknesses (slow as death firing animation) making them essentially worthless. The upgraded Burning Visit does have a few very, very specific uses, but they're both essentially worthless. | |
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Survival Crisis Z has a great flamethrower. It instantly kills every non-boss enemy, has good range, burns through ammo slower than most other weapons, and has relatively inexpensive ammo compared to other high damage guns. Its only flaw is that you must purchase its ammunition, and cannot be found in briefcases, backpacks, or corpses like you can with other weapons. If you have a partner with a flamethrower, however, the ammo for it becomes even cheaper, and you can resupply it by looting. | |
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Resident Evil Outbreak has a flame thrower which can be made by David by combining the Insect Spray with the Lighter. Unfortunately you find said items in levels where they are of use, and by making the overall shoddy flamethrower, you lose the ability to kill insect-type enemies in one shot and reach hidden caches of items. | |
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Paladins has Fernando, a Frontline character with a flamethrower call "Flame Lance". It might have a still fairly-small range as expected of a video-game flamethrower, but its damage and the additional burning effect it applies isn't too bad (as it burns for two seconds, it also prevents enemies from being able to Walk It Off for two seconds), and it uses an Overheating meter rather than having to be reloaded entirely. The weapon combined with Fernando's health, shield and Fireball ability makes him a formidable opponent that will probably kill or scare off any of the Damage or Flank champions that he gets close to. | |
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In Saints Row 2, the Flamethrower has short range, takes a long time to kill enemies (much longer than just blasting them with a shotgun or SMG), and while anyone's on fire, they panic and run around, setting anyone they touch on fire, which will probably be you. | |
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Star Wars Battlefront II: The First Order's Scorch Trooper is easily the worst Enforcer-type unit, simply because its main weapon has an extremely short range and does low gradual damage. Not helping matters is that the unit lacks the mobility to necessary to get close enough to its target without getting shot up repeatedly and it has no stagger or flinching effect so they can keep attacking you without interrupt after being set on fire. | |
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After being cut from the Xbox release of Halo: Combat Evolved, the Mac/PC port restored it as a multiplayer weapon. It suffers from limited range, but has absurdly high damage, highly contagious burning, and huge amounts of ammo. | |
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In Alien Soldier. Flame Force is Difficult, but Awesome; it has very short range and doesn't work against mechanical enemies or underwater, but it does such absurd amounts of damage to organic enemies that it's considered pretty much mandatory for Speedruns and similar. | |
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Fallout series: In Fallout 2, the flamethrower was pretty much a heavy waste of time. Its range is ridiculously short, the ammo is ridiculously heavy, and end-game enemies tend to resist fire. Fun for toasting lower-level random encounters, but that's about it. However, it was much better in Fallout 1 because most of the late enemies don't have any special resistance to fire. In Fallout 3, this is your regular flamethrower (though it has the downside of potentially igniting anything flammable you get close to while it's equipped). It's quite common enough once you start hitting medium levels and Raiders carry them. Fallout: New Vegas made the flamethrower more powerful but less durable. While it can hold its own at short range against even higher level enemies, it's an eminently Breakable Weapon that will require you to lug around either replacements or Weapon Repair Kits if you plan to use it for an entire dungeon. In Fallout 4 the Flamer is one of the absolute worst weapons in the game- heavy, exceptionally short-ranged (and upgrading its damage actually reduces its range), and prone to glitching so that it fails to register as having fired even though the firing animation plays. To make matters worse, there's the Plasma-thrower mode for plasma weapons, which turns them into plasma based flamethrowers, only they deal about five times as much damage as the Flamer and have a much greater range. Plus, due to a glitch, the Plasma-thrower is classified as either a pistol or rifle class weapon (depending on whether it's got a pistol or rifle grip), and thus benefits from their damage-boosting perks (which have better secondary bonuses than the weapon perk it's supposed to use). |
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Far Cry 2 features an extremely useful flamethrower, largely due to the developers wanting to show off the game's dynamic fire effects. A couple of short bursts can result in a raging fire that lays waste to a whole checkpoint. The FC2 weapon is actually more useful than it is in real life, since the real LPO-50 fires in fixed-length bursts and only has three shots. You even have to be aware of prevailing winds, because if you just start burning shit with the flamethrower, it can and will make the entire area burn up. Including you. Flames also kill the enemy ridiculously fast. As a bonus, when an enemy is on fire he stops shooting and tries (in vain) to put himself out before inevitably succumbing to it. They did balance it out by giving it quite a short range, though. You either have to get really close to someone or corner them with a brush fire to do any good with it. |
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The same type of flamethrower comes back in Far Cry 4, and nothing has changed about it, but it is still slightly better than the one in 3 just for the simple fact that Ajay is no where near as allergic to fire as Jason is. | |
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Far Cry 5 runs smack into this trope. While flamethrowers are fairly good at killing things, their range is short, they ignite the whole area (and therefore typically you), and everything will respond to being on fire by charging the poor, dumb bastard who did it. | |
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Time Crisis: Crisis Zone has a flamethrower as an unlockable weapon in the PS2 port. However, it's a craptastic weapon with abysmal damage and pitiful ammo count. Oh, and the rate of fire isn't that great, and sometimes the flames bypass the enemies, leaving you vulnerable. | |
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The Pyros of One Must Fall has a unique advantage in its flamethrowers. While not any stronger than other power-type robot's attacks, it has the unique quality of having a projected hitbox without having an associated hurtbox on the flame sprite—this makes a flame-heavy strategy relatively safe, if uninteresting to watch. The Pyros got a huge upgrade by the time of Battlegrounds, where it got a noticeable agility buff and ridiculous area-of-effect crowd-control attacks—it is one of a small handful of robots that can damage or destroy multiple opponents with all its super attacks. | |
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L.A. Noire gives you a flamethrower for one of the last levels that's probably intended as an 11th-Hour Superpower. While it does kill whatever it hits very quickly, it slows you down to a crawl, is too short-ranged for the area you're fighting in, can't be replenished when its limited ammo runs dry, and worst of all, it can't be dropped to switch to a gun if the situation requires it. It's best you never pick it up and stick with a Browning rifle or something similar instead. | |
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It is, however, beautifully averted in Tools of Destruction; though it has the physics of an ordinary video game flamethrower, the Pyro Blaster has high damage, a decent range (which you can upgrade), the ammo consumption is quite reasonable, and it evolves into a double-barreled helix flamethrower. | |
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The flamethrower in The Mummy Demastered is like someone looked at your average video game flamethrower, wrote a list of all the reasons they tend to suck, and then set out to avert every single one. It has a decent fuel capacity, enemies drop extra fuel almost non-stop for it (especially if your other weapon is the Mercury Harpoon or the Plasma Gun, which don't get often ammo drops), it has a wide hitbox, inflicts ludicrous damage to many enemies and all bosses, and pierces enemies to hit multiple targets. It's only weakness is it has a short range, but since most combat in the game is close-range to begin with this won't set you back much. It's worth noting the moment you pick up this Disk One Nuke is when the game's combat gets notably easier. | |
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Kingpin: Life of Crime had one of the best-looking flamethrowers in its day (1999). It was fairly impractical to use, however, because while it set enemies on fire with one hit, the flames themselves (and the burning) dealt very little damage. It is mostly used for putting something on fire and then switching to something else for extra damage. | |
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Total War: Warhammer: The Dwarves' Irondrakes (heavy flamethrower-wielding infantry) and Flame Cannons (fixed artillery) are late-game units for their armies. They shoot burning gouts of liquid instead of burning gas, and do so over a respectable range, but their unit sizes are tiny for their price and their weapons are terrible against the heavy armour and flyers of most late-game units. | |
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Averted in Fire Shark. The flamethrower started out as a small stream of flame that did good damage, and them proceeded into this◊ at maximum level. 6 streams of fire, four of which sweep the sides and back of the player character. And it downs both the regular Mooks and Giant Mooks in seconds. In fact, the fully upgraded flamethrower is so broken, using it for too long will cause the game to flood the screen with other weapon powerups in an effort to force you to use something else! It's still considered Awesome, but Impractical however, since the Mutually Exclusive Powerups for it are exceedingly rare compared to the other two weapons. | |
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Final Fantasy XV has the Flamebreath Cannon, a machinery weapon (useable by Noctis and Prompto) added in the Royal Edition/Royal Pack which straddles the line between Lame and Flame. Statistically, it's superior to the Drillbreaker, the strongest non-upgraded machinery weapon in the base game, but weaker than the Auto Crossbow Plus, the weakest upgraded machinery weapon. However, every machinery weapon has a different auxiliary function, so statistics are (usually) not the deciding factor when picking your machinery. The flamethrower function can be maintained for as long as Noctis has enough MP to sustain it, which gives it the most flexible useability; all other machinery weapons' auxiliary functions activate under a set timeframe. However, enabling this results in a different control scheme from the other machinery weapons; most have the Attack button provide the airblast and the Warp button provide the auxiliary, the Flamebreath Cannon has it the other way around. Naturally, the auxiliary function offers fire-elemental damage, which means its damage output is variable depending on enemy resistances; all other machinery weapons' auxiliary functions are non-elemental or status-inducing. However, it also deals magical damage, whereas the others that are strictly damage-dealing are physical. Rangewise, it has respectable coverage (considering the typical size of a XV combat zone), which serves as a double-edged sword; the stream can be manually aimed, which the combat system is not designed for, so a slight turn will put the end of the stream much further away than you might want it. However, if you equip it as a Secondary Arm for Prompto (or use character swap to play as someone other than Noctis), the AI knows exactly how to aim that thing at the enemy. |
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Mech-mounted flamers are generally considered to be among the worst weapons in BattleTech. They have pitiful range and do trivial amounts of damage to armored targets including battle armor infantry, and while they can be used to inflict some extra heat on another 'Mech instead of (i.e., not even in addition to) damaging it, that amount is still (a) pretty small and (b) actually lower than the heat buildup on the firing 'Mech for using the flamer in the first place. Their main saving grace under Total Warfare rules is that they're potentially literally murder on conventional infantry if they're ever in a position to hit it; in at least some earlier editions they didn't even have that. | |
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Flamethrowers return in Command & Conquer: Red Alert with fireballs, and are remarkably more effective at their jobs, if still heavy on the friendly-fire. However, the cheaper and faster Grenadiers (whose grenades are incendiary in this game) serve much the same purpose, and Flamethrowers inexplicably cannot be built until you've constructed a Tech Center and rendered the poor fellow completely obsolete. | |
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Averted in Army Men. Plastic soldiers and fire don't mix. One tactic is to use a flamethrower to leave a forest burning so that any tan, blue and gray are left as bubbling puddles of plastic should they have been unfortunate enough to hide among the trees. | |
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Older games had these fall fully into "suck", however, most flamethrowers (Like Layzner's, Combattler V's, and Voltes V's were one range, weak, and generally never worth using. | |
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Time Shift zigzags a little on this with the Hellfire. It either operates as a normal video game thrower —short range, although it sets enemies on fire— or it shoots flaming bullets which also set enemies on fire. Its one of the better weapons, even including the exploding crossbow thing. | |
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The expansion to Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad game, Rising Storm, gives the US Marines and Army an M2 Flamethrower. While still a short ranged weapon, it has far more reach than most video game flamethrowers, often able to instantly kill targets 20 meters away. The flame effect is quite wide as well, making it very forgiving to fire from the hip. The flame also deflects off of surfaces, which makes the flamethrower one of the best choices in clearing out bunkers, since it can kill enemies inside cover without being able to directly see them. The Vietnam War era sequel to Rising Storm, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam gives us the improved M9A1-7 Flamethrower for the Combat Engineer class, behaving in much the same way, except this time it allows for its users to sprint farther and faster thanks to its lighter weight. |
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While Hawk's regular flamethrower in 20XX is Lame, she also has a fire flask that can be lobbed at the ground to create an advancing sheet of fire. This is vicious. It does a fair amount of damage, lasts long enough that a boss's Mercy Invincibility will only reduce it a bit, and since the fire sheet is affected by gravity, you can use it to pour mayhem down a vertical shaft by throwing it just a little short of the opening (handy when a shaft contains Flapps or a turret). | |
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Command & Conquer goes into both sections of this page, due to Dragon Tanks of the Chinese Army in Command & Conquer: Generals. Utterly devastating in all against anything they can get in range of except aircraft and tanks (they can moderately damage the latter though), two or three will tear down even the strongest structures in the game in seconds. For area defense, they can spray fire into a rolling wall of flame. While their frailty increases as the games go on, so does their utility - once garrison clearance comes into play, flame tanks instantly incinerate all occupants of garrisonable buildings. Then probably destroy the building as well so it can never be used again (which is something the equivalent units on the other side cannot do). The Nod flamethrowers in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars both resemble real world flamethrowers in action and are insanely awesome against most targets; the flame tank is considered the go-to vehicle for most NOD players, and its infantry equivalent also has its uses (being near immune to anti vehicle weapons helps). In addition to nearly instant killing infantry units, they also burn down structures in mere seconds. Flame tanks can even be cloaked with the right support power, hidden until they suddenly pop up in the middle of the enemy base, reducing it to ashes with unparalleled speed. Then there's the expansion, which added the Black Hand sub-faction, which specializes in flame weapons. They lack access to the stealth trick, but their flame weapons can instead be upgraded to do even more damage, to a point they become dangerous against even armored targets, and can take down a structure in the time it takes to blink. They also get Nod's standard top-tier walker with the otherwise impractical flamethrower upgrade right out of the box, in addition to the increased damage upgrade. Then there's the flamethrower upgrade for their even bigger walker... In the campaign for the FPS offshoot Command & Conquer: Renegade, the flamethrower is one of the single most useful weapons against enemy troops. It has a surprisingly long range, deals good damage to pretty much anything (whether infantry, vehicle, or smaller structure), inflicts damage over time, and best of all, it stunlocks every kind of infantry in the game except flamethrower troopers; even a passing wash of flame will stop the toughest infantry in their tracks and make them flail about while on fire. The only thing it isn't really effective against is the aforementioned flamethrower soldiers - but the converse upside is that they show up often enough that you won't ever be hurting for flamethrower ammo, either. The flamethrower will be your go-to close-range weapon for the first half of the campaign until laser weapons (which combine the longer range of every other gun with the flamethrower's ability to stunlock/set things on fire) become available, and even then it will remain very useful for the rest of the game. It's also even more effective against Tiberium mutants, where they take extra damage from fire weapons. The game also includes a version which instead uses Tiberium gas, which is much the same with even better damage, stunlocking flame troopers (but not chemical troopers, who are immune to it, or Tiberium mutants, which are healed by it), and getting a similar longer-range upgrade with weapons firing Tiberium shards, but at the cost of there being a chance that any enemy you kill with it will instantly mutate into a Visceroid which you will then have to use up ammo for a different weapon to kill, and becoming almost useless with all the other Tiberium-based weapons introduced near the end game thanks to the aforementioned Tiberium mutants becoming commonplace. |
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In Dragon's Crown, the flamethrowers only hit directly in front of you and deal pitiful amounts of damage. Their only real use aside from tricking the AI into using it is to damage ghosts...who are also damaged and stunlocked by merely holding a torch near them. Torches have a fixed spawn in every room ghosts appear in. | |
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The Ratchet & Clank series goes all over the place with this. The first R&C has your standard Hollywood flamethrower (the Pyrocitor) that has a very short range. It is good at cleaning up large swarms of small enemies in the beginning, but becomes useless in later levels. R&C 2 introduces the Lava Gun, that ironically acts more like a real flamethrower (a gun that shoots burning liquid), has a decent range and does good damage. Unfortunately, the devs made the bizarre decision to make it transform to a drastically different meteor shooting machine gun after enough use. Luckily, they bring the gun back in R&C 3 without that transformation: it now transforms into a Liquid Nitrogen gun. Go figure. The upgraded Lava Gun is practically useless for fighting crowds but when given a Lock-On mod, it becomes extremely effective against single targets. Like the final boss, for example. In Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, the flamethrower is completely useless. It has a three-foot range, and is pitifully weak. It is, however, beautifully averted in Tools of Destruction; though it has the physics of an ordinary video game flamethrower, the Pyro Blaster has high damage, a decent range (which you can upgrade), the ammo consumption is quite reasonable, and it evolves into a double-barreled helix flamethrower. |
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Zombie Revenge had a devestating flame thrower which did ridiculous amounts of hard-hitting, enemy-flinching damage that spelt certain doom for any enemy, bosses included. It's found once or twice in total as a result. | |
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Combat Mission also has potent but very hard to use flamethrowers. If you do manage to get them in range of an enemy tank, trench or garrisoned building, they'll make short work of them. Good luck getting to that point though; flamer teams are slow moving, they're usually only two man strong so suppressing or even destroying them outright is quasi effortless, and they can't safely fire from buildings or forests which makes ambush tactics hard to pull off. Now, flame throwing tanks on the other hand are lovely, if expensive. | |
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In the campaign for the FPS offshoot Command & Conquer: Renegade, the flamethrower is one of the single most useful weapons against enemy troops. It has a surprisingly long range, deals good damage to pretty much anything (whether infantry, vehicle, or smaller structure), inflicts damage over time, and best of all, it stunlocks every kind of infantry in the game except flamethrower troopers; even a passing wash of flame will stop the toughest infantry in their tracks and make them flail about while on fire. The only thing it isn't really effective against is the aforementioned flamethrower soldiers - but the converse upside is that they show up often enough that you won't ever be hurting for flamethrower ammo, either. The flamethrower will be your go-to close-range weapon for the first half of the campaign until laser weapons (which combine the longer range of every other gun with the flamethrower's ability to stunlock/set things on fire) become available, and even then it will remain very useful for the rest of the game. It's also even more effective against Tiberium mutants, where they take extra damage from fire weapons. The game also includes a version which instead uses Tiberium gas, which is much the same with even better damage, stunlocking flame troopers (but not chemical troopers, who are immune to it, or Tiberium mutants, which are healed by it), and getting a similar longer-range upgrade with weapons firing Tiberium shards, but at the cost of there being a chance that any enemy you kill with it will instantly mutate into a Visceroid which you will then have to use up ammo for a different weapon to kill, and becoming almost useless with all the other Tiberium-based weapons introduced near the end game thanks to the aforementioned Tiberium mutants becoming commonplace. | |
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It got worse in Twisted Metal 3 and 4 where the developers decided to give the weapon to a very fast, but very fragile character, because this is exactly the kind of vehicle you want to carry a short ranged damage over time weapon, right? The flamer was dumped for Black, although there is a boss that uses a turret-mounted one at close range. Then for Head-On we're back to the Thumper incarnation. | |
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The Fire Wave of Mega Man X1 is generally considered to be that game's worst weapon. Low damage, a range of approximately two character widths, and does not work at all underwater. Oh yeah, and it "fires" while you are charging it, meaning you'll lose a chunk of your weapons energy whenever you attempt a charged shotnote (You can sidestep this if you charge up a different weapon, and then use the shoulder buttons to scroll over to Fire Wave). Its saving grace is that it does damage for every frame it contacts the enemy, meaning a quick tap does many hits and a few taps will kill most things short of a miniboss for almost no weapon energy. Plus it can destroy some obstacles that can otherwise only be destroyed with a punch from the ride armors. Unfortunately, the Storm Tornado ALSO does damage on a per-frame basis, and is a much larger weapon that travels the full length of the screen, AND has a surprisingly large amount of ammo (plus the game is relatively generous with ammo drops). The Fire Wave does have a few situational uses; because it can continuously fire as long as it has ammo, it's a good way to take out enemies while falling, or climbing walls, where it is otherwise hard to aim properly. | |
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Averted in Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch. Flame Sword, for example, can one-shot at point blank. Take that beast to Deathmatch and ninja kill EVERYONE. | |
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Interstate '76 has car-mounted flamethrowers that are some of the most effective weapons in the game. They don't do damage to armor or the chassis, but tear through systems like there's no tomorrow. The enemy can't do much harm to you if their engine is dead, their weapons can't fire, and they have no tires. Alas, compatibility issues can lead them to being an exaggerated version of this trope instead, where they can't even clear one inch in front of your car. | |
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Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City's flamethrower would be okay, if you could purchase it, spawn with it, reload it, or customize it. It can only be found within levels, and has a pitifully low (and unreloadable) ammo stock. | |
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein featured a somewhat useful flamethrower; while it was hamstrung by rare ammo and being a typical videogame gas-thrower, its flame was unusually tight before impact and long range for an aerosol weapon, making it somewhat possible to flood through windows and around corners. You also first get it in a close-quarters level with a number of nasty melee enemies, making it very useful at that time. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team averts this even more than in the parent game. As well as retaining the main game's automatic hits, the 2018 Kill Team rules make the weapon's short range less of an issue than in Warhammer 40,000 due to smaller playing area. In addition to this, the Demolitions specialist has access to the Level 2 skill 'Pyromaniac' that increases the likelihood of wounding with flamer weapons. Their main weakness remains that their lack of armour penetration. | |
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The flamethrower in Metroid Prime is by far the most useless beam combo (all of them but the Super Missile are situational at best, but the Flamethrower just plain sucks). It has a short range, is difficult to aim (as it only emits a narrow stream of flame), uses a huge amount of ammo, and you could just be using the charged Plasma Beam which is far more effective. And Prime's control scheme is partly to blame for its uselessness, since you couldn't aim and move at the same time. Trilogy fixes this, putting the flamethrower on equal terms with its beam combo brethren (situational but effective). The Flamethrower, though, is one of two weapons that is unaffected by the Beam Shields that the Elite and Omega Pirates use (the only other weapon that works are normal Missiles). Because of this, the Flamethrower is frighteningly effective at destroying the Omega Pirate's Phazon armor plates. |
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Unlike the 1999 and 2010 Alien vs. Predator games, the second installment makes the flamethrower quite useful. It's just as great against Facehuggers as it was the previous installment, but Aliens will also light up and drop dead fairly quickly now. It does burn fuel rather fast, but its high capacity of 600 units helps balance that out. | |
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Similarly, Tales of Hearts gives its characters a system where TP regenerates effectively forever, (it makes sense in practice), which means that the Flame Gun spell can effectively be spammed. Okay, it gets outclassed by other spells in its element eventually, but they're all of the Death from Above variety. Hearts focus on comboing means two things for the mid-range-reaching Flame Gun: First, it's a good way to put a few free hits on a large slice of the field, and second, it's really annoying if an enemy gets you in it while you're trying to close in, because each hit knocks you back slightly. |
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This is discussed in the web-novel Domina. There are three types of flamethrowers in the city: Flamers, which are standard "cone of burning gas" video game flamethrowers. Flamethrowers, which are more realistic, shooting a stream of burning liquid that has an unfortunate tendency to set an entire street on fire. And then there are the incinerators, which lob globules of burning napalm at a target, and cause far less collateral damage. Although not really a "flamethrower," there are also incendiary bullets for use in guns, including shotgun shells containing beads filled with pyrophoric dust. | |
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In Alien Trilogy, the Flamethrower is the weakest of the advanced weapons, being only better than the starting Pistol and consuming ammo extremely fast. | |
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Averted in Syphon Filter. In the first installment, one of the bosses, Anton Girdeaux, has a flame thrower, and any fire it creates stays throughout the level. Although his fuel tank is his only weak spot, it can easily withstand multiple shots (you will not be able to use grenades, as the shock it creates will detonate the bomb which Girdeaux is protecting). In the second installment, you use a flamethrower in one level, and it is pure carnage, although it is tied to a fuel truck, meaning you can't take it with you. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater gives us "The Fury," a man with a jetpack and a very powerful flamethrower. You fight him in a series of narrow corridors which are ideal for his flamethrower, his flamethrower tends to set fire to things in the environment, which makes it harder to hide, and most egregiously of all, his flamethrower can block your bullets. That's because it was modified to fire rocket fuel. The Russians you run into just before you meet The Fury also wield flamethrowers, though theirs are just normal. Still, they can do a lot of damage and tend to cause burns, which must be healed in the pause menu. |
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Generally averted in Warhammer 40,000 with flamers. Prior to the game's Eighth Edition rules, all weapons classified as flamers used an 8" long conical plastic template (with a much larger version in Apocalypse games) which was placed with the narrow end at the nozzle of the weapon and then turned by the shooting player to cover as many enemy models as possible. These models were automatically hit by the flamer's shot with no cover save allowed and significant reduction in armor saves depending on the weapon, along with other penalties depending on the rules edition in question. In 8th edition, the player has to roll one or more dice to determine the number of enemy models that are hit by a flamer shot, but they are still automatic hits. Flamers also ignore the 6+ Ballistic Skill limitation for shooting in Overwatchnote a special shooting phase in which projectile weapons have to shoot with the worst possible chance of successful hits. | |
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Downplayed in StarCraft I, where the flamethrower-wielding Firebats are extremely useful, and the Terran's only melee unit: they do as much damage as a Zealot but are less expensive, do line damage, and can use stimpacks, which raises their attack rate to stupidly high. They stop being quite so useful against larger units, since they deal concussive damage—except against Protoss shields, which normalize damage types. Base-rushing with firebats can thus be somewhat effective. | |
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In the 2009 Wolfenstein the flamethrower can be quite deadly, however, it has barely any ammo at all, such that you are mostly forced to buy ammo if you use it, so you tend to be better off using an equally deadly weapon (most of them) that doesn't require you to waste money on ammo. Although if you pre-ordered it from BestBuy, you can get it at the beginning of the game, making this the only "heavy" weapon you have until you get the Particle Cannon. | |
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Rogue Trip, a Twisted Metal clone by the same developers, features its own failthrower. It is a pick-up weapon that deals little damage, forces you to keep the fire button down (so you cannot launch other weapons) while still having a maximum duration and its range is minimal, making it only useful against stunned enemies; the reduced power of stun missiles compared to Twisted Metal freeze missiles weakens it even more. One of the characters does have its own flamethrower special weapon, although the napalm isn't actually lit and you are supposed to soak an enemy in the stuff and then shoot him with any weapon. It is fairly effective and would be even better if the vehicle carrying the weapon wasn't a glacially slow tanker truck. | |
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Empire Earth has flamethrower soldiers (during the WWII and Modern eras) with shorter range and slightly higher cost than normal infantry. Their strength is that they do the same damage to any type of target (infantry, tanks, buildings) making them a Jack-of-All-Stats in the Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors the game's units are based on. | |
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In Team Fortress 2. The Pyro has a much better flamethrower than its classic counterpart (its incredibly short range is also justified: it blasts propane and not gasoline). It has afterburn damage, a Damage Over Time that can finish off your enemies even if they escape the Pyro's range. However, it provides a way to rebound projectiles, put out burning teammates, and push enemies off cliffs or into corners with its compressed air blast secondary fire. Plus, you can light arrows for your friendly neighborhood sniper if he's using a bow. The Backburner has a more expensive compression blast in exchange for instant Critical Hits when attacking enemies from behind. Or, by equipping the Degreaser, some of the direct and afterburn damage can be traded for super-fast weapon switching. The weapon switching is handy for using the Axtinguisher, which deals guaranteed Crits to any burning enemy. All three flamethrowers are the core weapon of the Pyro class. Played straight in 6v6 competitive play, where the Pyro is considered a Master of None. Quick reflexes and the rather unusual manner used to decide how much damage is donenote It's based on how long the fire-particles are out before colliding. Since they gain no velocity from the Pyro even when he's moving, other players can take less damage by just running in the opposite direction even if the distance between them stays the same.. makes direct damage rather unreliable, while attentive Medics reliably make the afterburn moot (the latter has even started being true for non-competitive play with the number of ways to put out fire). The Pyro is not immune to fire, but is immune to afterburn damage. On the other hand, in 9v9 Highlander competitive play, the Pyro is an incredibly powerful asset in defense; an Ubercharged Pyro on defense can stop an enemy Uber dead in its tracks, reflect/defuse explosives away from Engineer buildings, and not least to keep Spies away. The Pyro's flamethrowers comes a little closer to replicating the "flame propagation" effect, at least in regards to the players. One common strategy is sneaking in and lighting a crowd of players on fire, dealing damage to multiple enemies at once. The flames linger on the player for a period of time and are used to pick out cloaked spies. The Pyro was given another flamethrower in the Jungle Inferno update. The Dragon's Fury lacks the ability to simply spread flames everywhere, but in return it is given the ability to deal fast, consistent burst damage to any opponent under the crosshairs. It also does triple damage to buildings and opponents who are on fire...and fires so quickly that it can even achieve this against other Pyros. Oh, and every successful hit allows the next shot to be fired even faster. The end result is something resembling Metal Slug's Flame Shot, with similarly detrimental effects to anyone facing it. |
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Have fun using Wave Burner in Mega Man & Bass. | |
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Lunar Knights has the Dragoon, Ernest's trademark Solar Gun, fulfill this role. When fighting Stoker, it spreads out in front of him a ways and ignores Mercy Invincibility, but isn't that damaging and is by far the easiest attack to interrupt. Then again, what did you expect? Stoker's a vampire. On the other hand, when Aaron gets his hands on it, it proves more valuable; its range increases along with its rank, it's a damaging weapon in its own right, and it goes through enemies up to its limit, allowing you to damage more than one. If you pair it with lock-on and dash about (an advanced technique where you double-tap the cross pad to spurt a short distance), you can reliably barbecue every Vorn in the vicinity with minimal harm to yourself. Ursula would be proud. | |
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While the Call of Duty series tends to play this straight (see the Lame folder), Call of Duty: Black Ops III has the rather infamous Purifier, Specialist Weapon of Firebreak. Extremely long range, surprising amount of fuel and damage so high it basically counts as an instant kill; if the stream even grazes you, you will inevitably drop dead from the immense afterburn damage. Despite its disadvantages note last Specialist Weapon to be unlocked, small window of time to use it, must be charged up first, vanishes on death and basically useless if used underwater, the Purifier is generally considered the most broken of the (already poorly balanced) Specialist Weapons and it and Firebreak are near universally despised by the Black Ops 3 community. Call of Duty: WWII gets the M2 and Flammenwerfer 35, where they actually are useful, with decent range, powerful damage, and wide spread, making them great for blitzing Germans. |
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The Gun Runners' Arsenal DLC for New Vegas also introduces the unique flamer, the Cleansing Flame. The weapon is heavier than the base model and doesn't inflict a Critical Hit as often, but trades off those downsides for superior damage over time, a generously sized fuel reserve, greater durability, and perhaps most welcome of all, an extended range compared to the standard flamer. It also fires a very pretty stream of blue flames. | |
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Alien Swarm: Now that the Tesla Cannon is no longer the undisputed King of Weapons, the Flamethrower has mostly taken its place. Why? A single puff of fire ignites an enemy (only prolonged fire ignites teammates, thankfully... but when it does, it isn't pretty), making it highly ammo efficient. Each puff is weak, but the burn damage is high; a single flamer sweep can turn a horde of drones into a staggering, flaming mess: no squad members injured. Only an idiot goes into a nest of Parasites without one. Oh, and its alt fire extinguishes fire... how's that for handy? This is also something of a reaction to the flame thrower in the original Alien Swarm mod. The flamethrower there was quite useful as an ammo-efficient way of sweeping for enemies, slowed down whatever it set alight while the flame ran its course, and did a great deal of damage to anything it hit. However the danger of setting teammates on fire was high if used in a crowded area by a jumpy player, which lead to players who choose to use it being rather unpopular with their teammates. |
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Contra: Shattered Soldier has a flamethrower among its weapons. Its normal shot lacks range and spread, but has the high rate of fire, since it's a constant stream of fire, making it possible for skilled players to chew up everything up to bosses in half the time it would take with other guns. Its charged shot is ball of fire, that not only has the highest damage per shot, but also pierces, making it possible to hit several targets in a row. The flamethrower is not just useful, but is good enough to be your main weapon, as a highly precise, controllable weapon, while leaving the Machine Gun and Spread Gun for situational use. The original Contra games (up to Contra 3) also feature a very useful Flamer. It shoots to a consistent range, about two-thirds of the screen, and fires continuously, following the movements as you aim up, down, left and right. Absolutely nothing beats it for swarming enemy situations, and when effectively used against bosses, absolutely devastates them (as long as they don't have Mercy Invincibility). In the first Contra, the flamethrower was a useless corkscrew attack. In Super C, it was a chargeable blast that exploded and spread on contact. In Contra 3, it was a constant-damage stream, and invaluable in many levels. |
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In the Gundam Vs Series, there's a specific kind of stun caused by fire-based weapons like napalm and flamethrowers, which makes them quite useful (especially for stringing together combos). They're used primarily by the Dragon Gundam and Altron Gundam; the fact that both Gundams are melee fighters mitigates the flamethrowers' relatively short range. | |
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In Deus Ex, one touch of its flame can turn most enemies into screaming balls of terror and pain, who continue to take damage while they burn. Of course, it doesn't have that much ammo, and it's heavy, and takes up 8 slots in the inventory, but it's a can of whoop-ass. However, even though you can kick ass with the flamethrower, so can your enemies. Catching on fire will burn away your health until it wears off, or when you find a extinguisher, or a source of water. Some players carry around a fire extinguisher at all times just for this reason. | |
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Diablo: Diablo II has the Inferno spell which is a flamethrower, complete with short range at low spell levels, low area coverage at all spell levels, no persistent damage, slow-moving flames and it takes a long time to cast and roots you to the spot while you channel and stops when you get hit. Between its weak damage and the danger factor of planting yourself in front of the onrushing enemies that will proceed to stunlock you, this is the worst sorceress spell in the game. The expansion provided the new druid class with an Ice thrower which was useful for no other reason than the very long chill length, providing some much-needed crowd control until players figured out that there's a passive area effect chill spell in the druid's arsenal and most enemies you want to chill are immune to it anyway. There is a very cheap runeword that averted this by giving a massive bonus to all fire spells, and to the Inferno spell in particular; like most spells, it could become much more effective as you pumped its effective level up beyond 20, making it a cheap and effective tool that could be acquired by the end of Act 1 and remained useful until everything becomes immune to fire. The first game contained Inferno. At least you didn't have to channel it, but it was a very slow moving flame that crept along the ground, had a very short range, almost always missed if cast at an angle due to the game being grid-based and its only benefit was that it could hit multiple targets if they were right in your grill. You would probably get a book of this spell at about the point where the first Lightning Bolt staves started to show up, which had the same line damage effect, unlimited range, a much wider area of effect and did about five times as much damage. |
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Total Carnage the flamethrower is easily the best weapon in the game. It does a lot of damage and is rapid-fire. But best of all it generates a huge cloud of flame that takes up a good chunk of the screen and unlike most video game flamethrowers, it has good range. | |
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Flamethrowers in Star Wars: Battlefront II have got the same range problems as most videogame flamethrowers, but everyone who can use one has a way to mitigate the short range (Bothans turn invisible, Boba and Jango have jet packs), and they actually do a horrific amount of damage (one complete burn from ambush is likely to kill whoever you're shooting at as a Bothan, the Fetts do a bit less damage but can hit multiple people and leave them burning). | |
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Far Cry Far Cry 2 features an extremely useful flamethrower, largely due to the developers wanting to show off the game's dynamic fire effects. A couple of short bursts can result in a raging fire that lays waste to a whole checkpoint. The FC2 weapon is actually more useful than it is in real life, since the real LPO-50 fires in fixed-length bursts and only has three shots. You even have to be aware of prevailing winds, because if you just start burning shit with the flamethrower, it can and will make the entire area burn up. Including you. Flames also kill the enemy ridiculously fast. As a bonus, when an enemy is on fire he stops shooting and tries (in vain) to put himself out before inevitably succumbing to it. They did balance it out by giving it quite a short range, though. You either have to get really close to someone or corner them with a brush fire to do any good with it. In Far Cry 3, the flamethrower is an extremely potent weapon. It has realistic range, does tremendous damage (being one of the most reliable weapons for taking out heavy armor troops), can spread quite well, and ignite and clear out entire buildings near-instantly. The only downside is that it still doesn't have the long range of most guns, and that the flames can quickly catch up with you, especially if you're advancing into the brush or encampments you're clearing. The same type of flamethrower comes back in Far Cry 4, and nothing has changed about it, but it is still slightly better than the one in 3 just for the simple fact that Ajay is no where near as allergic to fire as Jason is. |
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The Flamethrower in Jet Force Gemini is a classic example of this trope. It performs more like a very large blowtorch. It has a ridiculously short range, ammo for it is rare, it runs out of ammo incredibly quickly, and enemies who run around wildly while aflame can damage you. The only upside is that it actually deals quite a bit of damage. | |
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All Gunners in Dungeon Fighter Online get access to the M-3 Flamethrower, which is strong but suffers from a short range. Launchers get an upgrade to it called the Flame Pillar which makes it one of their strongest skills, by the simple fact that it enables them to move while holding the flamethrower. | |
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Averted in Abuse, where the flamethrower is possibly the most powerful weapon in the game, capable of clearing half a screen of baddies with a single shot. The only downside is the incredibly sparse ammo; you aren't likely to find more than 10 shots through the normal course of the game. | |
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Blood's Aerosol Flamethrower has an extremely short range, but also deals a ton of damage. It also fires rapidly, making it ideal for dealing with large groups of weaker enemies. The secondary fire, where Caleb ignites the tip of the can and either throws it like a Molotov Cocktail or leaves it on the ground as a time bomb, is absolutely devastating when applied correctly but costs 48 ammo per use and can risk a lot of self-damage if you mess up and there's no water nearby. There are few better ways to deal with Bloated Butchers than this weapon, especially groups of them. | |
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Rise of the Triad features both aspects of this trope. The useable weapon Flamewall is easily one of the best in the game, sending out an expanding wall of moving fire that instantly kills any enemy in its path leaving behind a charred skeleton that crumbles into dust. On the other hand the flame throwers that adorn the levels are of the gas variety and take away health only while you are directly being seared by them. The weapon has one other niche which guarantees it's frequently found: one of the many weird bonuses you can get upon completing a level (and the Bonus Bonus, which requires getting that one) requires you to have used a projectile weapon to hit yourself (and have survived, of course). With the projectile, not the explosion. This is the only weapon which can be reliably used to do that. |
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Halo 3: Powerful but extremely easy to burn yourself with it. Also poor range, and it counts as a turret so it wrecks your speed and mobility. It's also only available during levels with the Flood in them... but it's also one of the best weapons against the Flood, since a short burst can kill most of them. A good player can conserve their ammo for the whole level. | |
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The tabletop game Axis And Allies Miniatures has Flamethrower-equipped units that have very powerful close-ranged attacks (and infantry tends not to have much in the way of medium or long ranged attacks anyway), ignore cover, and can possibly deal a One-Hit Kill against infantry or vehicles. | |
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The flamethrower from Odium has a very short range, but does quite nice damage, and doesn't use up ammo (though it needs to recharge for a few turns after each use.) | |
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R-Type Final's "Principalities" and "Dominions" fighters utilize flamethrowers as both their primary weapons and Wave Motion Gun; they're not particularly good ships, being outclassed by others in every conceivable department. They generally reach across the screen, and function in space, but not underwater. Erm... | |
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In the 2008 Turok reboot, the flamethrower has considerable ammo, is almost an insta-kill against some enemies and has the awesome addition of a grenade launcher that can kill all but the largest enemies with one hit. Yes please! | |
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The Flamethrower in XCOM 2 and its upgrade the Hellfire Projector received a nerf from the genuinely useful one in the previous game and are generally considered the worst of the heavy/powered weapons. Mediocre damage, range and area of effect, doesn't destroy cover, doesn't pierce or shred armour. They can set enemies on fire, dealing damage over time and disabling special abilities, but there are other sources of such and some of the most dangerous foes are Kung Fu Proof. Their one unique advantage, making enemies panic, is bugged and doesn't even work, so much for that. | |
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There are situations in Worms where the blowtorch is the best weapon for the job, especially if you want to push a large group of enemy worms into a hole in one turn. It's primarily a tool for digging tunnels through the ground though. Yannow, if you're that sort of player. Worms: Armageddon features an actual flamethrower that squirts napalm over a short-medium range. It's highly effective in torturing worms cornered in tight spaces, less so in windy circumstances. In the open, worms tend to just skip and bounce over the burning fluid. |
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The ion blaze rifle in Gun Bros smokes enough to conceal incoming enemy fire, which means you get blasted more because you can't see it and therefore won't dodge it. It's also hard to aim and quite inaccurate. | |
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In a mass combat example, the RTS Rise of Nations also features a flamethrower infantry unit at Industrial Age and later. The unit is not particularly effective against enemy units, but in a nod to its actual battlefield role, it is extremely handy against enemy structures, forcing all garrisoned units inside to evacuate. Provided you can keep it alive long enough to get within its short attack range, the flamethrower can reduce an enemy building bristling with combatants to an abandoned shell instantly. | |
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Zig-zags in the TimeSplitters series, where catching on fire does serious DOT, can be caused by the smallest spark (including another burning player) and is very hard to extinguish (although this makes it less useful in story mode, where being set on fire is likely to be a death sentence). The flamethrower is tremendously deadly, but has a ridiculously tiny range. So tiny in fact, that it's a miracle if anyone you set on fire doesn't run into you, spreading the flame and almost certainly killing you too. In Arcade Mode in Future Perfect, and possibly the previous games as well, the flamethrower seems to render bots helpless, as they will run around screaming until they die. Player characters have full control while ablaze and can still attack. In the story mode, the Mansion of Madness level gives you a flamethrower from the start, but it only works when it is necessary—which is to say there are three times where the enemies are only weak against fire, and none of them are the zombies you are fighting the rest of the level. The flamethrower CAN kill the zombies, but it seems to take several minutes. There are flamethrowers in an entirely different level, where it can kill human enemies in one hit, but mutants are immune. Not to mention that its ammunition is scarce. |
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Steel Panthers: World At War has a flamethrower that's relatively short range (1 hex/50 meters), but devastatingly effective against whatever's in that hex. It will set whatever terrain's in that hex on fire, which is useful for screening (smoke blocks line-of-sight) and area denial (it's hard to convince infantry to move through flaming forests, and even tanks will think twice). | |
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Flame Blast tries to follow the idea of flamethrowers firing an arcing stream of fire, but all it really does is fire a single flaming blob that travels a short distance before falling to the ground, which bursts into a small (one Megaman-height) short-lived column of fire on the floor or wall. If it hits an enemy before it reaches a terrain object, it simply damages the target. Against bosses specifically weak to it, it can be handy, but it's an underwhelming weapon otherwise. | |
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Pretty decently averted in Postal 2. Although the "flamethrower", dubbed a "napalm launcher", in the game is closer to a man-portable Livens Projector (albeit with projectiles which trail napalm as they fly forward/bounce around before exploding), and most of the flammable liquid the player has access to is simply pourable. The damage effects flame has on your in-game opponents are... let's just say, very thoroughly planned out. The A Week in Paradise mod and the Steam version of the game also adds the Blood-esque "aerosol can + lighter"-style flamethrower, which shoots somewhat slow-moving puffs of flame. Very nice for area denial (though not as good as the can of gasoline) or when you want/need to burn somebody quickly. | |
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Played mostly straight in Resistance: Fall of Man: the flamethrower might be ridiculously deadly, but ammo is excessively thin on the ground, the range is short, and in multiplayer it barely scratches humans. Oh, and you have to have already beaten the game once before it appears. On the plus side, its secondary fire mode creates a cloud of flammable gas, allowing you to make choke points and small rooms into burning death traps for large numbers of chimera if you have enough time and at the expense of nearly all the ammo. Resistance 3 replaced it with the Cyrogun, a short-to-mid range freezing weapon very useful for melee enemies. |
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The flamethrower in The Punisher both averts and plays this straight. On the one hand, it's very useful for killing the nameless mooks that you have to fight, especially in stages with small corridors. Enemies take a while to die while burning but they run around screaming in pain and can set any other mooks on fire that they bump into. However, it's next to useless in boss battles. You can spray a boss with fire for 20 seconds straight and they just sort of run in place with their health meter only slowly dropping down. In real life, a person would be burned down to the bone if you did that. The trope itself is played straight. The latter problem stems from introducing 'bosses' into relatively realistic shooter and making them tougher by simply cranking their Hit Points absurdly high (they are able to withstand several dozen penetrating hits from a machine gun with no ill effects even though one hit is usually enough to kill a regular enemy). |
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Despite being one of the first ever First Person Shooters to include a flamethrower, Strife does better than many. Due to the limits of the game engine (based off that of Doom, another early game that had avoided a now-common trope), flamethrowers acted somewhat more like "napalm squirtguns" than the useless cloud of flame seen in modern games, and had better range than most examples. Still less potent than a real flamethrower, but overall far more effective than the flamethrowers seen in today's games. Doom game mods which include flamethrowers (at least those made before the advent of source ports allowing weapons that act differently from the vanilla game's) often also avoid the usual game-flamethrower problems by way of just making it a reskin of the plasma gun, complete with the un-flamethrower-like range and fast, powerful projectiles. Brutal Doom doesn't have a proper flamethrower, but it does have the Mancubus' flame cannon arm, which you can rip off its corpse and use for yourself. Thing is, there aren't many reasons to do that - it's not a weak weapon, but the projectiles are slow and travel in an arc, and ignited enemies turn into human torches. This is more than a special death animation - they deal damage to anything they run into, be it other monsters or you, and they keep running around in a frenzy for a very long time (sometimes entire minutes. Depending on the map this can be useful or a huge pain in the ass. And there aren't really that many Mancubi around anyway, and it's difficult to actually remove the cannons from said corpses (hint: you have to gib them), so ammo isn't easy to come by - which prevents the sort of general spraying on masses of weaker enemies that a weapon like this would be suited for. Project Brutality has both the Mancubus Flame Cannon and the Secondary Fire of the Heavy Plasma Rifle. The Mancubus Flame Cannon can shoot both flame shots that travel just like how a Mancubus does as well as function as a flamethrower. It also can act as a acid launcher to serve as area denial/trap to lead in foes at the cost of much less range. The Heavy Plasma Rifle's Secondary Fire shoots a short-range burst of plasma that Doomguy spreads by swinging the gun from side to side, useful to clear space in front of you as well as dealing great damage up close. |
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Touhou: Marisa's flamethrower is one of the worst shot types in Double Dealing Character. It has unimpressive power (unless you're very close to the enemy, which you usually won't be in a Bullet Hell game) and is the only forward-focus shot that can't even reach the top of the screen. And using it forces you to fight Benben, who's hard to hit without homing shots. | |
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The flamethrower in Super Crate Box is one of the high-to-mid tier weapons, able to utterly wreck smaller enemies, and while it still takes some time to wipe out the big ones, the flames also stick around on the floor to deal continuous damage to anything that walks through them. The only major downside is that walking into the flames yourself causes you to bounce up and down and prevents you from jumping. | |
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Haze has an absolutely terrible flamethrower; the range is woeful, it's hideous to look at, the fire effect is comically 2D, ammo is fairly rare, and all told you might as well just pack a shotgun. | |
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In the early Armored Core games, the flamethrower was generally useless— the range was little better than that of a Laser Blade, and until Armored Core 2 (the fourth game in the series), the "heat" mechanic didn't exist, meaning that there was no damage over time for overheating an opponent. The later games improved this, but there are still better weapons. | |
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While not useless in BattleTanx gameplay, the flamethrower tanks still don't hold a candle to their real life counterparts in any area besides maybe ammo and effectiveness against the Rhino (a tank with a fixed gun and frontal armor that is nearly-impenetrable by anything else in the game). | |
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In Battlerite, Iva's Flamethrower costs 2 energy to activate (unlike most EX abilities which only cost 1), but if you oiled your enemies with her Jet Pack first, it will inflict Burning Oil, dealing hefty Damage Over Time on top of the good damage of the flamethrower itself. And it's an area-of-effect, meaning it won't activate counter attacks. | |
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The flamethrower in the Battletech videogame is by far the least damaging weapon in the game, has a measly five ammo (which is integrated into the weapon, so you can't add any more) and as a support weapon can only attack at point-blank range or as part of a melee attack. That said, the flamethrower increases its target's heat on top of its pathetic damage. One flamethrower is weak tea, but a Firestarter or Grasshopper mounting six of them will often bring its target right into overheating and potentially shut down the entire 'mech for a round. Flamethrowers are, however, completely useless against vehicles and turrets who do not have heat gauges. | |
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Gears of War: In Gears of War 2 the flamethrower usually can't kill the wretches before they get to you making it just as effective to melee them. The flamethrower is actually useful against armed enemies because you can accurately fire from cover without crosshairs (just watch where the flames go and adjust your aim accordingly). Unfortunately the level you get the flamethrower on has almost exclusively melee enemies. That being said, the flamethrower is still useful on that particular level: because it features almost exclusively melee enemies, they will get burned getting close to you, and considering it would otherwise take more than one punch to kill the wretches, you're doing better than you would be otherwise. Until you get overwhelmed by wretches... In multiplayer, closing to flamethrower range brings you into shotgun range. Bad move. The flamethrower shines, however, in the Co-op Horde mode of Gears of War 3; the flamethrower is the best weapon for taking out the super armored Berserker Boss monsters, and is also fairly effective against the Lambent version as well. The Scorcher Flamethrower in the series should belong in the other category, as it's a perfectly fine weapon on its own merits: It has decent range for a video game flamethrower and good damage, as well as an awesome Finishing Move where you press the barrel directly against the downed enemy's chest and pull the trigger, causing flames to spew out of their mouth. Against the Gameplay Derailment of "bounce off the walls like you just drank your own weight in Red Bull and hipfire shotguns at each other until one of you scores a One-Hit Kill", however... |
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While upgradable, Dead Nation's flamethrower only does a fraction of the damage one would expect, but it does have a decent range. It does however, open the zombies up to further attacks. And it spreads like, well like wild fire. It's also completely useless against firefighter zombies, natch. | |
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From Bayonetta 2 the Undine are magical flamethrowers that can be Dual Wield in the titular character's hands or heels with both Kill It with Fire and Kill It with Ice settings. Generally though, its just a very average weapon, the ice-setting is really the only worthwhile option because it can encase enemies in ice, and even then, it can only do so semi-reliably on smaller, weaker enemies. That being said, the leg version can be useful for closing out combos with Wicked Weaves, but there are just better options in the game to choose from. | |
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StarCraft II has this with Hellions (and Firebats in the campaign), which completely destroy certain early units and are very fast but tend to not hold up to stronger stuff. The Hellbat, an upgrade to the Hellion, is more useful as it has a much wider area of effect. The reason Firebats are campaign only in II is that the fumes leak into the user's compartment, guaranteeing they go insane after a while, hence their being phased out and replaced with Marauders. | |
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In Call of Duty: World at War the flamethrower has poor range, but is an instant kill and only overheats rather than having an ammo limit. The thing that sucks about it is the flames seem to move inexplicably slow towards their target allowing the enemy to shoot you a few dozen times before they burn to death. In the multiplayer, its effectiveness is similar to a shotgun, killing enemies quickly but not instantly with a slightly better range (once hit by the flamethrower, players are immune to damage from it for 0.2 seconds, allowing a short burst of flame that manages to hit an enemy player entirely to definitely die). The flames take time to reach their target, but it does allow you to back into cover while attacking an enemy. However, it is a perk that is not unlocked until the highest level in the game, so most players will never use it for very long before prestiging, and in return for it being a perk rather than part of your normal two-weapon limit, your character model is one with a large tank on their back, leaving subtlety an issue. The Expansion Pack to the original game, United Offensive, features a startlingly useless German flamethrower that barely shows up in the campaign, has next to no ammunition on pickup, no sights, and is a waste of time to pick up. The way it's implemented makes it seem more like the developers forgot to dummy it out completely. |
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Mega Man: The Fire Wave of Mega Man X1 is generally considered to be that game's worst weapon. Low damage, a range of approximately two character widths, and does not work at all underwater. Oh yeah, and it "fires" while you are charging it, meaning you'll lose a chunk of your weapons energy whenever you attempt a charged shotnote (You can sidestep this if you charge up a different weapon, and then use the shoulder buttons to scroll over to Fire Wave). Its saving grace is that it does damage for every frame it contacts the enemy, meaning a quick tap does many hits and a few taps will kill most things short of a miniboss for almost no weapon energy. Plus it can destroy some obstacles that can otherwise only be destroyed with a punch from the ride armors. Unfortunately, the Storm Tornado ALSO does damage on a per-frame basis, and is a much larger weapon that travels the full length of the screen, AND has a surprisingly large amount of ammo (plus the game is relatively generous with ammo drops). The Fire Wave does have a few situational uses; because it can continuously fire as long as it has ammo, it's a good way to take out enemies while falling, or climbing walls, where it is otherwise hard to aim properly. Have fun using Wave Burner in Mega Man & Bass. Averted in Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch. Flame Sword, for example, can one-shot at point blank. Take that beast to Deathmatch and ninja kill EVERYONE. Flame Blast tries to follow the idea of flamethrowers firing an arcing stream of fire, but all it really does is fire a single flaming blob that travels a short distance before falling to the ground, which bursts into a small (one Megaman-height) short-lived column of fire on the floor or wall. If it hits an enemy before it reaches a terrain object, it simply damages the target. Against bosses specifically weak to it, it can be handy, but it's an underwhelming weapon otherwise. Flame Shower (from the rare Wonderswan Rockman and Forte game) is an extremely short ranged flamethrower like Fire Wave, being about as wide as Mega Man himself. Contrary to what you may expect from the name, it also fires upward when released. It's also the weakest of the special weapons available in that game. |
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Dead Space 2 is a bit of a middle ground between the first game and Extraction. | |
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Dead Space 3 unfortunately backslides with the flamethrower being a poor option compared to almost everything else. | |
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The Unreal Tournament 2004 mod Ballistic Weapons shows why it's generally a bad idea to invert this trope, especially in competitive games. The RX22A Flamethrower added in the mod functions more like a real-life flamer would, with a realistic distance on its stream of flame. The problem is that many maps, including almost all vanilla deathmatch maps, were not designed with this in mind, so you have a weapon that allows you to Kill It with Fire at impressive distances (including outside the effective range of many shotguns added in the mod), without much recourse available to opponents besides finding something longer-ranged (and being able to see through the bright, disorienting flame effect), or just fighting a battle of attrition and waiting for the enemy to run out of ammo or die a Death of a Thousand Cuts. In more open maps, however, using it is very risky, as if the fuel backpack takes a single hit from anything, it will rocket the user up into the air and then explode, invariably killing them. | |
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In Duke Nukem II the flame thrower proves to be more effective than the rocket launcher, which is advertised as the best weapon. Not only does it deal a fair amount of damage, but if pointed at the ground it jumps you up in the air, making it very useful. | |
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In Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, the flamethrower has two down sides: it has short range, and it uses the same fuel as your jet pack. But its also very powerful against regular enemies, and easily the best way to get rid of the most dangerous enemies, Bando Gora cultists. They normally gang up on Jango with melee attacks and can kill him in seconds. But with the flamethrower, just light em up, fly to a high spot, and watch them burn. | |
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Terraria averts this. The flamethrower has a very good range, deals a lot of damage (though a single flame doesn't hurt that much, it fires a lot of them per unit of ammo), sets enemies ablaze for even more damage, and its ammo is ridiculously easy to find and hoard. 1.2.2 introduces an even more potent flamethrower in the form of the Elf Melter from the Christmas themed Frost Moon event. |
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Wolfenstein: In the 2009 Wolfenstein the flamethrower can be quite deadly, however, it has barely any ammo at all, such that you are mostly forced to buy ammo if you use it, so you tend to be better off using an equally deadly weapon (most of them) that doesn't require you to waste money on ammo. Although if you pre-ordered it from BestBuy, you can get it at the beginning of the game, making this the only "heavy" weapon you have until you get the Particle Cannon. Return to Castle Wolfenstein featured a somewhat useful flamethrower; while it was hamstrung by rare ammo and being a typical videogame gas-thrower, its flame was unusually tight before impact and long range for an aerosol weapon, making it somewhat possible to flood through windows and around corners. You also first get it in a close-quarters level with a number of nasty melee enemies, making it very useful at that time. In Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, the soldier class may opt to start with a flamethrower and full ammo. It is okay at very short range, but even the basic SMG (that any class may use) is more than a match for it. The only time it proves to be useful is indoors or in closed spaces where the person you're trying to kill can't simply take a few steps back. |
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The flamethrower in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines seems like it should suck. It is expensive and acts like an oversized blowtorch in range and type of flame (it even sounds like a propane flame). However, because it deals aggravated fire damage it is the premier anti-vampire weapon in the game. A pity it eats ammo like something that eats ammo very fast and can only be acquired right before the endgame, making it something of a Too Awesome to Use weapon. The flamethrower is the best and perhaps only weapon to use against the antepenultimate boss for non-combat focused characters. However, for characters with Celerity, it is very easy to run into your own flames and perish. |
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In Cyborg Justice, the Flamethrower hand is not the best hand weapon. It has pathetic range, stuns for a very short time and does next to no damage especially compared to the two other projectile weapons, both of which are one hit kill. Its only saving grace is the fact that it starts up faster than all other hand weapons, allowing you to throw flames at enemies very quickly without stunning them first. If you can combine it with trapping an enemy in a whirlpool trap, it's a safe way of killing without taking too much damage, but it's situational at best. | |
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Age of Empires III expansion The Asian Dynasties gives the Imperial Chinese faction a flamethrower unit. While the range is far shorter than that of any other field artillery unit, its splash effect and damage bonuses against infantry means it sweeps away pikemen and skirmishers faster than anything else. They're also pretty effective against buildings. | |
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| Video-Game Flamethrowers Suck / int_ffe96c37 | comment |
In Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, The Soldier's flamethrower can reach almost a screen away and kills even heavies in a single shot, making it the strongest weapon in his arsenal. As a downside, it rewards less points per kill and can't fire through glass. | |
| Video-Game Flamethrowers Suck / int_ffe96c37 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Video-Game Flamethrowers Suck / int_ffe96c37 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Video-Game Flamethrowers Suck / int_ffe96c37 |
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