Am I crazy, or is the flamethrower actually good?

[Quadsword]

I was surprised by how much utility the flamethrower has. It's great for lighting up groups of necromorphs to weaken them for easy cleanup with the ripper, it's fantastic for dealing with swarmers (and those weird severed head things that I'm sure have a name that's currently escaping me), and the firewall insta-kills those... wall necromorphs? I don't know how else to describe them.

[Khanjima]

Its so chaotic I love it, Great for crowd control and burns the flesh off necros so it's easier to finish them off in the event I'd need to swap guns

[cel]

i like using it but i think the ripper is more ammo efficient

[Ghostvenger92]

good certain degree but its best for smaller threatening enemies and with ALT fire you can use it and then use stasis and you can watch them die slowly

[Iban]

It is very OP when used with line cutter, but make sure to watch your ammo count

[Derrame]

yes, it's great, alt fire against guardians or groups or brutes

normal fire for normal enemies

[mello]

it's strong and very versatile for both tanky targets and smarmers, but you can't use it in a vacuum.

[Eze]

It's great at what it does, specially creating Area denial. It's pretty cheap to use too.

[hipernemesis]

It is great against most enemies. Excelent at crowd control with the alternative fire. It was my favorite weapon for dealing with mobs.

[DanteBrane]

Very good weapon. It used to be so bad in the original

[V I D A L]

Best weapon in the game.

[John Boltgun]

Originally posted by mello:

it's strong and very versatile for both tanky targets and smarmers, but you can't use it in a vacuum.

Pretty sure they fixed that didn't they? It was an issue with the OG game but the remake allowed it?

[Negra Jesus El Savior Christ!]

The Flame Thrower is the best weapon in the game.

The Alt-fire stuns everything short of a Splitter (is that what those things are called? The ones that wail and break apart into little appendages.) for the entire duration of the wall. With full damage + duration upgrades (including the special one) anything weaker than a Twitcher - including enhanced slashers - that you hit with the initial alt-fire will be stunlocked to death. This even applies on hard / impossible.

Primary fire is not effected by body-blocking, meaning that even without the alt-fire you can pump out damage to mass amounts of enemies, and stun them, with impunity.

Really though, the alt fire is why it's good. You can bait an entire room's spawns into a choke point - including the shooters via LOS - and make sure everything that comes through will get stun-locked and probably killed. Anything that's too tough can be leisurely dispatched while they're standing there, flailing in between, for 10+ seconds. So one alt fire + 1 ripper saw will clear almost every room in the game.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Yes, it is good.

I would argue that basically every weapon in the game right now is good. The Contact Beam is slightly overpowered (since the ammo is too easy to come by, mostly), and the Pulse Rifle requires a lot of upgrades to get the most out of it, but everything has a good purpose.

The Flamethrower in particular does a great job at dealing with smaller enemies, tentacle guys on the walls, and the flame wall can buy you a lot of time in a pinch. I tend to use it as my initial weapon a lot of the time, switching to my Ripper or Line Gun to finish off enemies that have been burned sufficiently. The flames can outright kill, but their real strength is in stripping the flesh from enemies so they are more vulnerable to other attacks.

[HongCong]

The Wall Necros are called Guardians. They also spew out little pods that also shoot at you. but you are correct about the Flamethrower. The Flamethrower became one of my preferred weapons with the Plasma cutter as the other weapon I used in my run. Besides the parts where you're in a Vaccum, the Flamethrower is king. 10/10

[maloce]

I'm going to dedicate my next playthrough to using that and another weapon I haven't used yet.. I think I used everything else.

This run I am using ripper + line gun.

I might just go plasma cutter/flame thrower. The flames look pretty awesome in this game, I used it long enough to know that. The firewall or whatever the secondary was called, was awesome.