Flamethrower

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Description:

A classic! Burn everything within reach.

Light your enemies on fire with this close range weapon.

Besides being a great weapon, it also serves as a ''parachute'' for when you're falling from a high place.

Ammunition:

100 flames

Statistics:

Pickup Type: Flamethrower

Damage (No Burn Effect): 5

Fire Rate (Flamethrower Only): 0.15 second
DPS (Damage Per Second) Without Burn: ~33.33
Effect: Burn
Burn Damage: 5
Tick Rate: 0.5 second
Burn Effect (Only) DPS: 10
Burn Minimum Duration: 2 seconds
Combined DPS: ~43.33
Ability: "Parachute"
Aim downwards after falling from a high place to slowly fall down by 20%? (needs confirmation) which acts as an alternative of slow fall.
Range: Short
Damage Type: Pierce
Ammunition: 100 Flames
Flame Velocity: Mediocre
Hitbox: Relatively Large

Pros:

Highly accurate.
Extremely effective when combined with jetpacks.
Burns enemies (extra damage)
Slows down the player's fall.
Will pierce through everything.
Massive hitbox.
Effective against Jetpacks, Hovercrafts, and Hamster Balls. Typically destroys jetpacks immediately.
High ammunition capacity and slow comsumption.
Auto-fire (no pun intended)
High rate of fire (again, no pun intended)

Cons:

Relatively low DPS
Low damage per shot/tick
Short Range
Useless against Sentry Towers, Ghosts, and Oculi.
Cannot activate targets.

Tips:

All NPCs (Ghosts, Fire Sentry Towers, Frost Sentry Towers, and Oculus) are completely immune to flamethrower which makes flamethrower useless against them.

Flamethrower is one of the most used weapons, others being Bazooka and Impulse Gun, due to its hitbox, fire rate, and the effectiveness against jetpack users.

Flamethrower synergizes well with Mouse Gun as it allows flamethrower to easily kill a player despite the size thanks to its hitbox.

Flamethrower is one of the few damaging pickups that does not knockback players, along with Mutanto, Cube Gun, and Rail Gun.
This weapon is great against Firefly, Hovercraft, Dragonfly and Hamster Ball as the fire is damaging both the said blueprints and the player.
It's terrible when playing against players with a long range weapons like Railgun unless you're close to them.

Configuration:

Game Coins:

0-10000 coins requirement.
Flame decreases depending on the time used.

Levels:

Your level or less level requirement.

Game Tier

0-3 Game Tier

Gold Cost

Free, standard inventory item.

Sounds

Flamethrower Sound Effect

Flamethrower Pickup Effect

History

The Flame Thrower was implemented alongside the Shotgun in Build 0.8.0, released June 22, 2012.