Is face melter fun/good?

[StageNinjaX]

I have yet to unlock it and wanted to know if its fun :), fun > functionality for me. If it's not fun or good, I'd like to hear some other suggestions :D. Btw sticky flames is a nuh uh, it sounds like you just shoot at the ground and wait for the bugs to kill themselves, nothin' fun to that. :/

[ShugoTheRipper]

Maybe.

[Dwarfurious]

Eh, i often swap between it and sticky flames but i think i prefer sticky flames. FM good with explosive mod, excels vs jellies especially but i prefer setting somehting on fire and using my subata with fire mod to finish them off.

[GIRL]

Fun? Yes. Good? Not really. It's not bad, but other Flamethrower OCs are just so much more efficient that it's bad by comparison.

The flamethrower wants 2 things: Flame range, and any buffs to its sticky flames. Have high stats in both, and you can just tap-fire and shake your mouse around and create a burning field that kills everything that walks through it.

Face-Melter decreases both those traits, which is really bad for the weapon. The only real upside is that you can play like a M1+W Pyro noob and melt most smaller enemies. If you ask me, it teaches a bad habit of not using your sticky flames.

I'll say this much, though, it's really good on Haz 4 and below. Also really good on Solo where enemies have like 1/2 of the health that they'd have in a full lobby. Because at that difficulty, "optimal" builds don't really matter.

But, if we're talking maximum efficiency (ratio of ammo:kills), then Fuel Stream Diffuser or Sticky Fuel are the best Overclocks, and you shouldn't be taking Face Melter if you want to consistently win on Haz 5 with 4 players. Unless you're confident that you're so good that it doesn't matter.

tl;dr Do whatever is fun, that's the #1 rule. But is Face Melter good? no, not really.

[Dollop of Mayo]

Not a huge fan of Face Melter, I think it would go from "eh" to "pretty good" if the Targets Explode mod was 100% instead of 50%. And/or make the Face Melter mod like, entirely unable to set things on fire in exchange for more damage.

Sticky Flames is the way to go imo. Just bring a subweapon good at killing macteras.

[Cress]

Facemelter isn't very good, but it's serviceable. Depends on your definition of "fun". If you want to turn off your brain and just shoot enemies with a flamethrower, then it's probably fun for you.

I don't usually play flamer, but when I do it's a build aimed at setting things on fire asap (22221) and then either finishing with wavecooker (temperature shock build) or sabata (volatile bullets build). I use sticky additive OC, but you could use lighter tanks or compact feed valves as well. It's a bit of a hybrid sticky flame as you still get the slowdown and extra heat from sticky flames, but you're not just mindlessly shooting the walls to create ring of fire 99% of the time like with a pure sticky flame build.

[Ser Pounce]

Originally posted by Femboy Thighs:

The flamethrower wants 2 things: Flame range.

*Laugh in heat radiance*

[JeanneOskoure]

It's not as good as sticky fuel, but it's much more fun than it. Overall it's good.

[climbingeastofwinter]

Compact feed valves, with flamer range, extra heat damage, heat radiance, and ammo capacity. Having 75/525 ammo capacity and the ability to set everything on fire pretty much instantly isn't very thinky, but it's effective against Haz 5 megaswarms. The additional ammo and inter-bug ignition damage really make it a fun lazy build for me.

[ナルゴ]

Better than nothing but definitely not as good as the alternatives. You basically gain more direct damage at the cost everything else (range, utility, tank size)

I would prefer literally every other flamethrower OC over Facemelter; even contentious ones like Fuel Stream Diffuser and Sticky Additive.

[doomerinthedark]

Originally posted by JeanneOskoure:

It's not as good as sticky fuel, but it's much more fun than it. Overall it's good.

[Doctor Teo]

In the middle. It's the 'direct damage' option of Flamethrower, and having a 12 meter range flamethrower with extra damage and taking the rate of fire boost does let you chow through enemies, killing them before they get close instead of waiting on the burn.

That being said, I feel it doesn't keep up -- in comparison, I'm a much bigger fan of Ice Storm for the Cryo, as it does the same general idea but with more ammo, a larger 'magazine', and the huge benefit of Cold Radiance.

[BROLY 32]

FM is the worst flamethrower OC.

[Lowry]

i do enjoy the face melter :)

[Vault Traveler]

actually it's horrible the range reduction can make certain situations really horrible but its just fun to burn everything to ashes if it comes close.

[Silenzeio]

Controversial take: I literally could care less about the existence of sticky flames. Face melter is the best thing i've ever done to modify my CRSP-R.