Difference between Gas Damage and Fire Damage

[Alfred Kodani]

They act very similar. Beyond the animation, what's the difference?

[fruhead]

it was mentioned in the recent patch notes. Gas now does less DoT damage than fire, but will blind/disorient targets

[GlacierFreeze]

Originally posted by fruhead:

it was mentioned in the recent patch notes. Gas now does less DoT damage than fire, but will blind/disorient targets

Yep, less dmg but adds the confusion status effect and obscures vision (like smoke).

[EotB]

fire kills. gas stuns ( and kills too, but very slowly)

[Wutever]

Originally posted by Alfred Kodani:

They act very similar. Beyond the animation, what's the difference?

One does damage. The other tickles the enemies, but makes them run around and attack at random. Friendly fire caused by said attacks doesn't seem to do much on the bug front.

[Inky Mystery]

it also does not close bug holes, which is infuriating.

[Hariman]

Originally posted by Inky Mystery:

it also does not close bug holes, which is infuriating.

If it closed bug holes it would be broken... but that seems to be what you want... a broken ROFLSTOMP...

[darkblade]

fire kills enemys

Gas does damage but its not the main goal of gas weapons, if you spray gas on a bug, said bug gets a blind/disorient effect, that means if you run away or just move back from him, he will attack the air or other bugs, but i dont know if they do damage to each other.

but yeah spray him and run or move back the bugs attacks the air and not you, if you are too close they sometimes ignore that effect and they just keep attacking you

[Tahla]

Originally posted by Alfred Kodani:

They act very similar. Beyond the animation, what's the difference?

- Gas does half the damage of fire or less depending on what source applies the fire (ship upgrades)
- Gas blinds and confuses enemies now, they walk and attack in random directions
- Gas has higher armor penetration (5) compared to fire (4) so it can damage more types of enemies.
- Fire weapons leave fire fields on the ground, those fields will re-apply burning as long as the enemy stays in it. Gas weapons don't do this.

I think those are the major points.

[Inky Mystery]

my logic is if I put a bug bomb in a bug hole, it renders the bug hole worthless and dead, so in theory if I throw in a gas bomb, which does damage, should damage a bug hole thus closing it.