/v/ - Video Games

Flamethrowers in real life are massively overhyped. They're less for attacking single targets and more for drawing people out of buildings, blocking enemy paths, or clearing obstacles. you can't "aim" with them so much as you just point them in a very general direction and just spew fire at it hoping something happens.

>>14549594

How much of a factor would the shape of the "nozzle" be in "aiming"? I imagine, if you were to shoulder a ROKS-3's like a rifle and, yet, not take into account which direction the wind is blowing: you'd get a face full of flaming fuel.

>>14549623

Your only real options are “circle” and “flattened rectangle.” It would be between “hit a point at maximum distance and pressure” and “slightly broader–and more dangerous to you–close range band”, but you wouldn’t want a close range band because you don’t want to be near fire or enemy combatants when you’re carrying fuel on your back, and you can get a band simply by moving your sprayer back and forth with a circle exit. And besides, a wider aperture doesn’t mean a (significantly) wider AoE, due to the fire destructively interfering with itself once out of the nozzle.

>>14549594

> spew fire

But that's not how they work, they act like a hose but with flammable liquid.

>>14549691

Depends if it's liquid or gas fuel.

>>14549691

Are you implying hoses don't "spew" water? And besides, fire itself isn't as predictable as a stream of water, it wants to rise and spread

>>14549699

You can aim a hose pretty well man, and oil behaves exactly like water even on fire.

SS13 has oxygen systems and air temperature, so using fire-based weaponry, including flamethrowers, does eat up oxygen and can heat up the air to dangerous temperatures.

>>14549699

>fire itself isn't as predictable as a stream of water, it wants to rise and spread

True, but that's irrelevant because flamethrowers don't throw fire, they throw liquid that's on fire.

>>14549570

Rising Storm 'Nam has some pretty good flamethrowers. Answers pretty much all of your complaints, especially reaching through/around windows.

Best one I can think of off the top of my head was probably Killing Floor. Shot an actual stream of adhesive liquid rather than a cone of burning gas.

>>14549570

What's the name of that book?

Because they would actually have to balance it and that scares them shitless.

>Put it in the same category as LMGs and the like.

>Make it a viable threat to everyone including the user and his team (Enemy pops the fuel tank and he's close to others on his team, they risk catching fire.

>Shit like flame retardant garments reducing risk but not eliminate it.

>Make it heavy enough to burden the user in certain ways like a fuck huge and heavy metal tank on your back would. Banging on doorways or being slower standing up from prone as examples.

>RISK OF SUFFOCATION WHEN USED INDOORS! I can't stress this enough. Not that hard to do, map out the insides as a trigger and add a blurring effect to the player's screen.

>Fire needs to spread when appropriate. IE, learn fire behavior.

>I would also appreciate characters stop, dropping, and rolling to put the fire out.

>>14550018

Thanks

i am the only one that thinks that both rising strom1 and 2 makes japs and gooks too flamable? since the stream of ignited fuel just explodes in the game you just need to touch a weak flame to be covered in fire

>>14550018

based source poster

>>14549594

TRENCHES

>>14550005

Literally all they would have to do to balance it is limit it to 1 second bursts and only give to 6 chances to do 1 second bursts or one chance to do a 6 second burst. Ya know, like real flamethrowers

>stop drop and roll

You do know flamethrowers are almost never not filled with napalm right?

>>14550423

not relevant since Korea