Is the flamethrower a worthwhile personal weapon?

[Yoda Nobunaga]

Or is it just there to tease me with a good time I'll never have?

I'm not talking about the turrets.

[PunCrathod]

It's an excellent weapon. You only need to tap space once and the target will burn for a while. If you are burning nests you just have to briefly spread the flame around and run and dodge while the nests burn down by themselves.

[Roxor128]

Way better than most games' flamethrowers. This one has a lot of range, the fuel stays in a narrow stream and lands on a small spot, and keeps burning for several seconds after it lands.

This makes flamethrower turrets a pretty good defence for your factory as the burning fuel from the first shots will burn the later enemies coming to attack you. Well, assuming you don't forget they're even there in the first place, like I usually do.

[Geirfinna Lieselotte]

It is one of the best personnal weapons.
You can do area denial and auto-kill biters that spawn while you take care of nest and worms. It seems it doesn't deal much damage to yourself, especially if you have shields, so i walk doing flame circles around me and getting through a base for pure hell.

[knighttemplar1960]

All the weapons in the game are worthwhile. Each one has somethings it does better and more or less range. Experiment around and see which weapons work best for you with your own play style.

[Jupiter3927]

It works great for clearing nests.
It also doubles as a tree removal tool.

Flamethrower turrets are amazing at stopping large scale biter attacks.

[Firestorm🗿]

The flamethrower is a god-tier weapon. There is a reason why one is mounted in the tank. get yourself some L E G and get kiting those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ while spraying your hot sticky fire on them.