5 replies to this topic

[MechTech Dragoon]

I've made posts again and again about this, hoping and praying that it will get some traction.
The flamer is a useful, and underappreciated weapon in this game we all enjoy, but personally i cant stomach using the damn flashlight. Its a flashlight pgi, not a flamer. Its a big heat lamp strapped to my mech, not a weapon.

Give us back our old flamer visuals, and adjust the weapons function. Make it deliver less heat, generate more, and have high crit chance like the machinegun.

Edited by XkrX Dragoon, 10 January 2018 - 10:11 AM.

[Alexandra Hekmatyar]

YES PLEASE ON THE VISUALS!

[a gaijin]

2014 flamer visuals please. It actually looked like fire!

[SockSlayer]

I kind of want the original flamer back, visuals and the way it used to work, more damage, less heat giving, and no awful exponential heat generation...

[Kalimaster]

My vote is this. The old graphics for the current flamer, and add the newer graphics to Inferno Flamers.

[MechanicalWraith]

I vote no, same reasoning as I've given before on the topic.

The old visuals were blinding - not fun (and more advantage to anyone who uses 'cosmetic mods').

The old visuals were bad for performance - It's possible to create the same effect with better performance but that's not really PGI's style.

The old visuals were silly - art is subjective of course, but if you design a plasma based heat-transfer weapon it really shouldn't just vomit an erratic fireball, military flamethrowers throw burning fuel rather than flame to concentrate the energy on a target, if your energy source is contained plasma, you'll want to focus it into a jet (what we've got now) for maximum range and accuracy, and point that towards the enemy.