Flamethrower

[Dart]

Just tried out Driller for first time. Driller was a favorite of mine on OG DRG and I mained the flamethrower instead of the other more "meta" weapons because the flamethrower felt nice in that game which honestly I found refreshing. Usually flamethrowers are total trash in games.

Well, I am severely disappointed by the flamethrower in DRG Survivor. Maybe with more usage I'll adapt and start using it but my god it feels really bad to use. Meanwhile the Sabata was just melting things. Maybe the flamethrower overclocks make it not as terrible? I hope so because if not, I may just never pick up the flamethrower in this one.

[Tyyne]

Flamethrower is terrible, no matter what you pick for it.

[Blurry Eyes]

Flamethrower is an okay support weapon with overlocks and additional beams (most I've had for it so far is 7, with extended range). I don't think you can make a build to have it as your main weapon but it should be alright as a secondary with the right builds. Driller builds are rough at the start though, you're going to need to grind for new weapons to make an OP driller build. For me it's the last class to find an OP build with.

[Dart]

Originally posted by Tyyne:

Flamethrower is terrible, no matter what you pick for it.

That's what I was afraid of. Probably just gonna avoid it.

[Look]

i had good runs with flamethrower, but only max difficulty 3. its not a bad weapon, you need more other weapons with the same weapon structure (other beam weapons) + a little bit item luck.

[seththemighty]

18 hours in and every time I've picked the flamethrower it's been godawful, whether it's the starting or secondary weapon. Pitiful DPS and hard to make good use of rotating beams.

I've had a couple runs when it was okay, when I lucked into some legendary upgrades for it (extra beams and one other, maybe damage?). But to me, "it's an okay weapon if you roll some lucky upgrades" sounds pretty much the same as "it's a bad weapon."

[Shinny]

Managed to actually make it work the other day on Haz 4! Unicorn run where I got something like +3 or +4 beams (hard to tell by the end), legendary upgrades for days, and tons of beam range and damage increases. By rank 21, it was functioning about as well as an average weapon taken to rank 12. Not great, but workable. With extra beams, range, and damage, it felt like the weapon was actually working as intended.

Then I lost horribly because I couldn't see anything onscreen through the beams and kept running into projectiles, magma popcorn mines, and even just regular enemies right in front of my face that I just couldn't see.

So yeah, if the bugs don't kill you for investing in flamethrower, flamethrower kills you for investing in flamethrower.

[Perplex]

For the flamethrower to work you kind of need the icebeam and acid beam also. At least in my experience. But it is in no way good.

[MadConsular]

IMO [Fire] weapons are one of those weapons u take as a (I am not leveling this past level 1) kind of weapon. The DoT is alright at base. But leveling it doesn't benefit it much

[Spyro]

Extra beams and high damage and fire damage upgrades make it insane. Then the overclock that doubles damage and reduce lifetime is really nice

[gauge]

On higher hazzards its very underpowered

[MAGA Slayer ⑨]

I wish Krakatoa power was put more into this one instead

[Dart]

I cannot stress this enough how bad the flamethrower is.

I already made a discussion about it but I honestly don't care to post in that one. I am trying my absolute best to see the benefit of the flamethrower on this game and it is just perplexing to me how bad it actually is. Even with triple beam and tons of damage upgrades, on hazard 2, I still tickle enemies meanwhile the Sabata just mows things the hell down with a few fire rate upgrades.

Seriously, I hope the devs just happen to glance at these forums. I know they won't but I can hope it happens.

I don't normally get angry at video games, and I'm not even mad about the difficulty of the game I fully accept that it needs to be tricky and difficult. That's not what I'm mad at.

As a flamethrower guy on original DRG, I am very angry at how unfathomably bad it is on DRG:S. It cannot be stated enough how bad this weapon is. It has garbage range, garbage damage, it requires a bit of effort to even use properly, doesn't go through walls, beams are too thin. It's like they made it bad on purpose. It's absurd.

I'm not even asking for help either, I know full well there is no saving this trash weapon in comparison to the driller's other weapons that require minimal to no effort to get things done in a more timely manner. The wavecooker just completely ♥♥♥♥♥ on the flamethrower, seriously. The fire turrets are way better than the flamethrower. The sabata is a monster in comparison to the flamethrower.

God I bet the other unlocks are better too aren't they, like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ devs what did you do to the flamethrower it's SO BAD WHY I WANNA KNOW WHY ITS SO BAD

[The Yeen Queen]

Originally posted by Dart:

I already made a discussion about it but I honestly don't care to post in that one.

Not a good opener to straight up admit you're so desperate for attention you'll spam multiple posts about the same topic.

[Ser Pounce]

Since you've opened two thread for the same purpose, I'm merging them.

[Skwerley]

Originally posted by Dart:

Just tried out Driller for first time. Driller was a favorite of mine on OG DRG and I mained the flamethrower instead of the other more "meta" weapons because the flamethrower felt nice in that game which honestly I found refreshing. Usually flamethrowers are total trash in games.

Well, I am severely disappointed by the flamethrower in DRG Survivor. Maybe with more usage I'll adapt and start using it but my god it feels really bad to use. Meanwhile the Sabata was just melting things. Maybe the flamethrower overclocks make it not as terrible? I hope so because if not, I may just never pick up the flamethrower in this one.

honestly driller is not really the "win the run" class, he's more for collecting the objectives like mining 2000 blocks in one run or collecting 300 nitra.