Ineffective Flamer

[popsofctown]

the flamethrower is always worth picking up.  if you pick it up, you are invincible for, is it 15 seconds? and the flamethrower is reasonably effective.  After it wears out, press 'q' and, wow, its your old primary.  The only time you are forced to use the flamethrower is while you are invincible

[CaptainHighpants]

Pfft, use it on R/S and you're superior.

You NEVER EVER EVER have bonuses in R/S!
I find the flamer to be teh same whenever, doesn't bother me...

Really?? I thought you could, at least as Realistic right? I haven't played R/S for months, but I could have sworn I was dominating one day with one. By dominating I mean camping in a bush catching people on fire.

Eh, maybe not.

[SadistAtHeart]

In a recent DM, I was playing close quarters 1on1 with sadist. I got flamer, and chased him around with it, the flame hitting him for about eight seconds of the immortality. Only about half his health got depleted. ?

I remember that. You ended up killing me anyway though (i think)


Lag can kill a lot of the game elements.. I've recently discovered that two grenades and a knife isn't enough to kill people anymore

[Death MachineX350]

Only the bots that don't know how to jet are flame victims.

[Mr. Domino]

Only the bots that don't know how to jet are flame victims.

Not true! I currently show 33 kills with the flamethrower, and I can usually get at least 2-3 victims per bonus.  I use the ten seconds of invincibility to dart straight into enemy camp to make it safely there and attack. The real problem with it as a weapon is the range and how the fire obscures your vision somewhat. I don't believe the fire binks, but ideally it would to make it a better weapon and help counteract the lag that can sometimes cripple it.

[Brock]

The flamer definetly needs a boost.  If anything, it can help you cap when you're invincible.  In combat, it's like useless.

[Bgretydews]

Pfft, use it on R/S and you're superior.

You NEVER EVER EVER have bonuses in R/S!
I find the flamer to be teh same whenever, doesn't bother me...

well you have them in R though

Bonuses do not work in any Realistic gametype.

[a-4-year-old]

Here's a tip, when the invincibility wears off, press Q

It was made sucky because now you keep it for forever.

[F3nyx]

The flamer is utterly useless now.  I remember the days when bonuses were actually, you know, BONUSES

[ArmedManiac]

Here's a tip, when the invincibility wears off, press Q

It was made sucky because now you keep it for forever.

Whenever I do this it always goes to my secondary so now I end up with a socom or saw and a flamer, and can't kill at all at any range, so now I just jump over it.

[FliesLikeABrick]

I just was playing in the soldatforums server and encountered this 3 times.  Once I had it, and twice they had it and it barely damaged me.  I'm 99% sure it isn't lag.

for what its worth, we were in a WM server.  Maybe it is a bug with flamers in WM servers?  were any of you guys in WM servers?


I highly doubt this is just lag

[SadistAtHeart]

I just was playing in the soldatforums server and encountered this 3 times.  Once I had it, and twice they had it and it barely damaged me.  I'm 99% sure it isn't lag.

for what its worth, we were in a WM server.  Maybe it is a bug with flamers in WM servers?  were any of you guys in WM servers?


I highly doubt this is just lag

me and charles were in a normal old pub server. both our pings were like 100-200 though

[Valorman]

I strongly agree. I hope this bug is taken into consideration in 1.3.2

[ArmedManiac]

I only play normal, and it never ever works so I'm like "Screw it where's my MP5"

[Ajnin Ezakimak]

The flamer doesn't really like do damage, until it burns.  When you face a flamer, you can pretty much stand there for 5 seconds or so, eating up the flames.  Then, some time later, you start burning, and your health takes a bunch of damage, but never enough to kill you.

[pinOi32]

whenever I have flamethrower, it barely hurts anyone I hit with it. and my connection is DSL.

[Twistkill]

It all depends on your ping. I was in the Soldat Conspiracy DM server, (Hosted on u13) and my ping was around 66. (No demonic number comments, please. xD) The flamer was actually quite effective. I then played on a server where my ping was around 125, tried out the flamer, and I barely killed anyone with it.

[Death MachineX350]

Only the bots that don't know how to jet are flame victims.

Not true! I currently show 33 kills with the flamethrower, and I can usually get at least 2-3 victims per bonus.  I use the ten seconds of invincibility to dart straight into enemy camp to make it safely there and attack. The real problem with it as a weapon is the range and how the fire obscures your vision somewhat. I don't believe the fire binks, but ideally it would to make it a better weapon and help counteract the lag that can sometimes cripple it.

What server do you play on? I was looking for an Inf or Ctf bonus server that ain't filled with too many noobs.

[ArmedManiac]

I can never catch anyone on fire, I sit there burning them for a long time and they just shoot me and I die, I was trying it the other day and I kept not killing anything.

[a-4-year-old]

I am able to get kills with it, I don't know why you guys cannot.