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Jack Burton Sep 20, 2023 @ 10:32am
Incinerator: impassable or no?
First play through, seeing some people say the incinerator will create an impassable wall of fire, but warriors still jumping through it and I had a situation where the Queen wouldn't go through the fire on my first try, squad was killed, had to restart and then the Queen was going thru the fire.

Is this a pathing issue or are the flames not impassable?
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Originally posted by Crypto Gamer:
Flame thrower flames last for 30 seconds.

Aliens will ALWAYS try to find a way towards you where there is no active burning including taking big detours eg.going from another door.

Usually during their detour you have extra time to shoot them.

However if there is only 1 valid path towards you and that is burning they will go through the flames but will obviously take burn damage.

I am not sure if warriors can jump through flame tiles.


So flames are passable but aliens will only choose them if there is no other way around it.
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Nathan Sep 20, 2023 @ 10:34am 
I think it's that if you leave some area open, then the AI will try to go around the flames, but if you blocked all paths, then they'll try to just run through instead.
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Crypto Gamer Sep 20, 2023 @ 10:44am 
Flame thrower flames last for 30 seconds.

Aliens will ALWAYS try to find a way towards you where there is no active burning including taking big detours eg.going from another door.

Usually during their detour you have extra time to shoot them.

However if there is only 1 valid path towards you and that is burning they will go through the flames but will obviously take burn damage.

I am not sure if warriors can jump through flame tiles.


So flames are passable but aliens will only choose them if there is no other way around it.
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ROE Sep 20, 2023 @ 11:50am 
Originally posted by Crypto Gamer:

I am not sure if warriors can jump through flame tiles.

Yes, they can, or at least they do on me.
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Haggis MechHaggis Sep 21, 2023 @ 7:08am 
Originally posted by Crypto Gamer:
However if there is only 1 valid path towards you and that is burning they will go through the flames
this
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Lofty Sep 22, 2023 @ 8:08pm 
They are passable....however there are still ways around this. Make sure 2 marines have flame units, and then just make 2 lines of firewall. Even if the xenos DO run through it, by the time they hit the second firewall they start popping :).
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Muzzy Sep 24, 2023 @ 2:22pm 
Everyone will prefer to take a different route instead of walking through the fire. If there are no alternate routes, the only option is to go through the fire, and they will do it.

You want to use this - say you are preparing for an onslaught and the room you are in has two doors, you can essentially seal off one door with fire, and all the aliens will funnel in the door you want (right into your sentry barrage).
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Jack Burton Sep 25, 2023 @ 9:51am 
Nice idea on the 2 flamethrowers and also blocking one door. Thanks kings
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