Heavy Flamer best weapon for demolisher?

[Muster for Lupercal]

I've tried them all minus the rocket launcher and that's the only one I really like so far. Anyone have other preferences?

[Brother Sharazad]

Title Question anwsered - No Its not. its too situational.

Tbh, the weapons in this game are all pretty much "good." my Gunner build Uses the Pulse rifle and Hicks shotgun. My Squaddie Love the Smart gun for "open" Missions and Flamers for "closed in" ones.

[AMURKA]

rocket with added splash is EZ mode until you play higher difficulty and suddenly you can self-harm and also team-harm.... but it makes standard difficulty swarm easy up to level 20. Just need someone with a Gunner boost to melt the big boys.

[Blackdark]

I prefer the single shot rocket launcher. Great for taking out small stuff at range but make sure you switch weapons when you're going down halls or are in tight spaces.

[Setora]

The big issue of any flamethrower, they don't trigger any perks or addon you put on them, so on high difficulty you want stuff that slow down aliens, make them fall etc.

And like it been said, there is rocket/grenades launcher that really help on higher difficulty as it has a pretty good splash dmg, but hard to use once they get close obviously, but that's why you have two weapons.

[Mosey]

Basically, every heavy weapon in the game except the Smartgun can and will destroy your own team with just a single misclick on Intense or above.

So every heavy weapon in the game is basically terrible and assumes perfect play from the Demo to bring them along, or they assume you're playing on Standard. If you are playing on Standard, bring anything. You can just run through the map shooting the floor and win, no issue.

Since just about no one is going to play perfectly, the best bet is to just let the Demo advance alone until they TK themselves if they pull out anything except the Smartgun. And even then, stay behind them because they can still cut you in half it's just harder to do so.

[Mist of Majora]

Originally posted by Mosey:

Basically, every heavy weapon in the game except the Smartgun can and will destroy your own team with just a single misclick on Intense or above.

So every heavy weapon in the game is basically terrible and assumes perfect play from the Demo to bring them along, or they assume you're playing on Standard. If you are playing on Standard, bring anything. You can just run through the map shooting the floor and win, no issue.

Since just about no one is going to play perfectly, the best bet is to just let the Demo advance alone until they TK themselves if they pull out anything except the Smartgun. And even then, stay behind them because they can still cut you in half it's just harder to do so.

I actually find the Flamethrower the worst due to the way it tempts most pubs to use it. If you need to run ahead into the swarm to fry the baddies, leaving you and your teammates isolated separately, you're probably doing it wrong.

But just as was said earlier, its more about the player than the weapon.

[SOKETH]

Heavy Flamer is pretty great on Easy, Normal and even Intense if you are careful or you dont have halfwit players on your team who decide to roll into your flames. On Extreme+ it is pretty much useless, takes too long to kill stuff, this saying even Smart gun is crap on Extreme+ which while Demo is awesome for clearing out Normal and even intense, it is the 2nd worse class to take into Extreme+

Gunner, Tech and Recon are the Best for Extreme+, you can take a Demo with the RPG 1 shot, but you have to be VERY careful. Just remember that ABILITIES do not Harm team mates, so you can fire your Missile ability at point blank into your team mates and not do any dmg, same with the Flame Turret and the Gunners Grenade.

[GrizzlyBier]

smartgun for me the best bug destroyer. i cant see this idiots anymore.. using flamethrower and kill the team because they attacking everything they see with the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ flamethrower. Use the Smartgun and max out rate of fire with thermal explosion mod. You will see this thing is fine and your best friend in the game.

[Rilgar55]

Its good and fun until you melt one of your teammates cause he walks in the way of the flames.

[Ulfhedinn]

YES IT IS. by far.
I used it in demo mode with a flame turret on my side placed by a tech. Then the tech and the other player cover the oppsoitee side. NOTHING gets through. Flame is OP as hell, and is by far the best weapon in the game.
The grenade launcher and Rocket launcher have almost NO AOE. SO they become slow, single target explosives with limited ammo. You feel like you are having to snipe with a grenade or rocket. Its really badly designed and not worth it.
Currently, the flame thrower is his best weapon by far. Followed by the smartgun.

[Shurenai]

Big proponent of the impact grenade launcher here. Love it. It's splash area is smaller than I'd like, But I've gotten pretty good at nailing 2-4+ bugs with it.. And once I got the star upgrades it got a lot easier to hit multiple targets. Havent tried the normal grenade launcher yet.

Rocket launcher was nice too.

Smart gun felt underwhelming to me, but maybe it's because I only tried it at rank 1 before having any upgrades basically; Like yeah, it killed bugs alright. For about 30 seconds before being completely out of ammo with another 5 minutes of gameplay between you and the next ammo patch.

My experience with using the flamethrower basically amounted to my teammates going "My god I can't see anything when you're firing that" every time I used it, and attempting to spray down runners before they reached me, Only for them to reach me anyway and hit me before dying.