- Anton P Nym
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Yeah, it's a "noob gun", just like the FRG, the rocket launcher, the Warthog's bumpers, the Banshee, the pistol... you get the picture.
I personally like the flamethrower IN THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES. It's an excellent base defense weapon, as Shishka points out, and it's good in tunnels or other confined spaces. It's what S.L.A. Marshall called a "nerveless" weapon; you can still use it effectively even if startled or panicked. It can make persistant effects, too, so you can use it to deny an enemy a doorway or passage just by giving it a lick of flame. It also makes a most gorgeous sound... you can almost taste the marshmallows when you hear its basso "whoosh".
It has some serious drawbacks, in that it takes time to kill (I've exchanged kills more than once by toasting someone who blasts me with a rocket just before they die) and the backwash can set YOU alight. I accidentally flamed myself and my entire Warthog crew from the passenger seat when trying to crack the enemy base in Ice Fields... the driver made a turn to ram my target and entered the plume! It's also brutally short ranged; if you can't see them on the tracker, they're out of reach. As a result, when carrying a flamer you've got to carry a long-ranged weapon (needler, pistol, sniper rifle, etc) to back it up.
All in all, I like the flamer and hope that it makes it into Halo2.
-- Steve is imagining what the flamethrower would do to destructable environments, heheheh...
[EDIT: correcting the map name from Chill Out to Ice Fields... I remembered the wrong name for the map.]
[Edited on 6/19/2004 3:08:41 PM]