This game is missing...

[Kyonye]

if they really wanted to put a flamethrower in then they would find a way to limit its ability.

[Mikedanad]

I agree with all the above reasons completly, but although I didn't play much of it, But 'Return to Castle Wolfenstien' I believed had a very beautiful and complex flamethrower which didn't ruin frame rates online...Im not positive so don't flame me.

[Nomikahn]

Mike is very right on that, the RtCW had a very advanced flamethrower. In games that take care into it, the flamethrower provides both advantages and disadvantages. The advatange is the area you can clear of infantry and the ease you can aim with the flames, while also reducing your visability and causing a massive explosion when taking a bullet to the tank. Flamethrower is something I would really like to see later in the game. However, I feel that grief points would rack up rather quickly.

[Bighoss]

good pun at the end

maybe they could severly limit the ammo like only could carry around 15 seconds worth of ammo. So u could clear out bunkers and stuff.

[OmnipotentKiwi]

I also think flamethrowers can be made fairly balanced.

The one thing you have to remember about well balanced flamethrowers is you HAVE to be at about melee range to hit someone with it.

[Zetre]

not really melee range, but yeh. I have always liked it in games when you could hit the napalm tank and blow the person to peices, but unfortunately with this game, there are no hit zones, so i can find no way they could balance the thrower unless you had to get really close.

[Nomikahn]

I find the burn effect on the plasma grenades, very supplimental for the flamethrower 'Nading has always been fun, and the small selection, which is sure to grow looks like fun already. I also like the concept of having the grenades loaded into the thumper.

[Bighoss]

I guess we'll need to give the interweb and computers more time to develop before they can make games with that much detail.

[Cao_Cao]

Good points so far no joke. Both ways, but.... not every body has a great comp, and like everquest i'm sure there trying to get every body to be able to play.

[MrVulcan]

if you guys remember, the devs in RTCW had huge problems with the flamer. During the oldold stuff, they had issues with dmg, then in the demo, early versions there were huge frame issues when 3+ people used a flamer at the same time in the same area. They were finally able to get it to work, but not after many issues (I think that they didnt find a real solution, jsut a good enough fake fix thing, ya know the ones). I think that with the scale of this game, that if you had a bunch of people using a flamer that you would have issues no matter what you did.

[OmnipotentKiwi]

Problem: Lots of troops with flamers cause lag.

Solution: FLAME TANKS

BURN BABY BURN!

[MrVulcan]

lol, do you play Renegade too? =P I just love flame tanks =)

But I still dont think that with the amount of people playing that it would work =( oh well, back to the air for me =)


-MrVulcan

P.S.
All i need is a bomber to be happy

[OmnipotentKiwi]

Well of course. BURN!



[Edit: On a side note, I think gameplay is going to be a lot like Renegade, nearly everyone in a vehicle except snipers and stealthers mainly (and the MAX for us), and the length of fights about the same. The only difference is the fact we have to take multiple buildings, instead of a base.]

[Supafun]

Team Fortress Classic, the pyros suck

[Kyonye]

they're not going to have flamethrowers, please get over it