Finishing the game without the flamethrower

[Captain Krenon]

I played the game last year for the first time and I absolutely loved it. I started on medium but halfway through the game I started to feel that I was missing a big part of the fun in some levels so I switched to hard, which was a great decision.

After I finished the game I decided to play it again, this time on hard right from the beginning and with the goal of getting all the remaining achievements. This time around I found it noticeably easier, I knew where everything was and what to expect. I had also been playing the Survivor Mode so after that I thought that going back to the San Cristobal Medical Facility was a walk in the park.

By the time I got the flamethrower I thought that maybe it would be possible to finish the game without it, so I took it with me (in case I was wrong) but I decided not to use it.

And yes, it's perfectly possible to finish the game on hard without using the flamethrower at all. I would say that it's much more fun because some sections that are supposed to be tense and stressful are just too easy if you have the flamethrower with you, and there's just too much fuel available during the game.

So if anyone wants to play the game on medium or hard, here's my suggestion: forget the flamethrower, you don't need it :-)

I haven't played on nightmare yet but from what I read in this mode the weapons are so scarce that leaving the flamethrower behind is probably not a good idea.

[Antti-san]

Compared to hard, the amount of ammo and other stuff you can find on nightmare is much much scarcer, so you actually have to make an effort to conserve ammo. I'd say in comparison, hard is pretty "easy" compared to nightmare. Also, I think you always have to pick up the flamethrower to advance, you can't leave it behind in the Marshall office.

[Dayve]

Originally posted by Captain Krenon:

I played the game last year for the first time and I absolutely loved it. I started on medium but halfway through the game I started to feel that I was missing a big part of the fun in some levels so I switched to hard, which was a great decision.

After I finished the game I decided to play it again, this time on hard right from the beginning and with the goal of getting all the remaining achievements. This time around I found it noticeably easier, I knew where everything was and what to expect. I had also been playing the Survivor Mode so after that I thought that going back to the San Cristobal Medical Facility was a walk in the park.

By the time I got the flamethrower I thought that maybe it would be possible to finish the game without it, so I took it with me (in case I was wrong) but I decided not to use it.

And yes, it's perfectly possible to finish the game on hard without using the flamethrower at all. I would say that it's much more fun because some sections that are supposed to be tense and stressful are just too easy if you have the flamethrower with you, and there's just too much fuel available during the game.

So if anyone wants to play the game on medium or hard, here's my suggestion: forget the flamethrower, you don't need it :-)

I haven't played on nightmare yet but from what I read in this mode the weapons are so scarce that leaving the flamethrower behind is probably not a good idea.

Yeah it's possible to finish the game without the flamethrower - you could even say it's quite easy as long as you already played the game once and know where everything is. I'd still use it on the facehuggers personally because although you can kill them with any other weapon they can be a nuisance without using the flamethrower, especially in the reactor area where you sometimes can't even see them because they're under a shallow layer of water.

Nightmare mode is the true challenge, especially if you don't use the flamethrower. On all the other difficulty levels you find lots of scrap, components and other stuff all over the place. On nightmare it's a real struggle - there's barely anything anywhere. You'll be halfway through the game before you even have the components to build a molotov cocktail, and one short blast of the flamethrower uses like a quarter of your fuel, so everything is truly scarce.

[Captain Krenon]

Oh indeed, you need to collect the flamethrower in order to leave the Marshall bureau ...

I didn't have as many problems with the facehuggers as I expected, in some cases you can destroy the eggs with the shotgun and the rest you can normally kill with the maintenance jack.

The alien itself is almost always possible to avoid so the flamethrower is not essential. I did find at least one case where it would attack me, at the end of the reactor area, there I used a molotov to scare it away.

[Turambar]

I think that is possible in nightmare as well.

[RE.IO?Y1]

Everyone must be thinking to themselves at some point in the game that there is no need for a flamethrower until that one part in the game where you enter the nesting chamber and there are hundreds of them on your radar

[AlJackson]

How do you kill the facehugger jump scares?

[Captain Krenon]

Originally posted by AlJackson:

How do you kill the facehugger jump scares?

You can kill (almost?) every one of them with the maintenance jack. Are you thinking about any in particular?

[NinthElement]

Facehuggers can be killed with various weapons like the jack, revolver (tricky), shotgun (easier), stun baton (pros only). It's actually perfectly feasible to complete nightmare mode without using the flamethrower or even doing any looting, just using the base ammo in the other weapons you're forced to pick up.