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[Aetherspawn]

Flamers on a Raven after last patch are no longer something to teamkill over.




Discuss viability on lights.

[Vlad Ward]

Viability on Lights? Zero. A Light Mech should never be able to put a Flamer in another Mech's cockpit because that means the big Mech is able to see (read: shoot) the Light.

Viability on Assaults with eyebeam lasers? Extreme. Blind all your foes as you swoop in for the hug of death.

Edited by Vlad Ward, 10 February 2013 - 03:55 PM.

[J4ckInthebox]

the flamers are still as useless as they were before, you must have misunderstood some of the devblogs.

Still, TK'ing is unacceptable no matter the "reason"

[Aetherspawn]

I'm not so sure. They definitely feel much more useful than they were before, and I do recommend that you take them for a spin at some stage if you haven't tried them post-patch.

Ofcourse if you can fit a MPL on your mech, do that instead. I use them as hole-fillers on lights without good torso twist.

Edited by Aetherspawn, 10 February 2013 - 04:03 PM.

[Omigir]

in perfect honesty, I used to run two flamers on my Jenner F when I had one. Two flamers and four small pulse lasers.
I still do run flamers because they are good for DPS control on enemy mechs.

They dont cause allot of heat, but they do keep most mechs from cooling down too quickly (even one can do this). In this way I can prevent other mechs from spamming lasers at me.

further more, they blind the S*t out of other mechs and even do a little damage as well. Are they best weapon in the world? No.. they are as much a weapon as a Tag is.. they are a utility. :3 they have a time and a place

Edit: I still run flamers too, I have a spider that runs two medium pulse lasers and a flamer. Sure i could run another medium laser, but a flammer has so many uses i cant bring myself to get rid of it.

Edited by Omigir, 10 February 2013 - 04:08 PM.

[J4ckInthebox]

Aetherspawn, on 10 February 2013 - 04:02 PM, said:

I'm not so sure. They definitely feel much more useful than they were before, and I do recommend that you take them for a spin at some stage if you haven't tried them post-patch.

Ofcourse if you can fit a MPL on your mech, do that instead. I use them as hole-fillers on lights without good torso twist.

I will try them on my DK, haha.
Uselessness, here I come !

Edited by J4ckInthebox, 10 February 2013 - 04:09 PM.

[Vassago Rain]

Flamers are extremely viable. I recommend you run 9 on your hunchback for maximum heat control.

[Wolf Clearwater]

Re-tried them, still think they suck.

[hammerreborn]

Flamers are complete crap. However, there is no better weapon for enraging people and causing complete mayhem and distraction. "Look at me, follow the giant trail of fire in the sky. Completely ignore those atlases coming behind you, come get this free kill on a mech that has no damage!" And "haha fire to the face, don't you just want to kill me?"

Also, equip JJs, jump and fire at the ground while spinning, and be badass looking

Edited by hammerreborn, 10 February 2013 - 04:32 PM.

[Wolf Clearwater]

Don't forget to use your mach guns for maximum irritation

[Zynk]

Do they fix the bug? 2-10 flamers still only = 1.

[Vassago Rain]

Zynk, on 10 February 2013 - 04:37 PM, said:

Do they fix the bug? 2-10 flamers still only = 1.

I'm not about to blow 20k space dollars to find out for you, man. Sorry.

[Aetherspawn]

Just ran with another Raven 4X reading the thread, we had 4 flamers all up. Locked up 2 atlases to the point they couldn't move, 1 raven flaming on each side. Hilarious.