Commando Archive

Posting a new one here becuase im concerened about this weapon and info is all scattered in a bunh of different forums.

After not using the flamethrower for a couple weeks I finally pulled it out again. Last night when I used the special attack Flame1or whatever it's called. I actually did more than the previous max damage of 27, and hit for 300 or so.

The problem I have with this is that by itself, with no special attacks, I hit for upwards of around 400 dmg every 5 seconds <- which is depressing but understandable when compared to rifles. I understand that the patch is coming out in a couple of days and is supposed to up the damage some. pfft... better be a lot. If flame1 puts a 'on fire' effect on the enemy, I would think that it would hurt a bit to be burning. Holding the mouse over the burn dot on the enemy, the description of the effect says something about rapidly burning/harming the target. If you're on fire, aren't you going to be feeling the pain pretty often? like a continious drain for, oh, lets say 12-20 seconds? atleast as long as the delay. I dont think I even saw any damage done to the enemy when it was on fire... Creatures that are on fire should take damage rapidly like the description says.

The word rapid makes me think something like damage every 1 second or faster. Damage every 5 seconds or whatever it is, ( i say this again becuase i haven't seen the damage to time it) doesn't seem too rapid.

Maybe I read something wrong and this is all a misunderstanding on my part though.