Burning Patty

[TheCasanova]

Did they change something with the flamethrower?
Before the DLC the flamethrower would work okay on the Patty. It would do quite some damage with a lvl5 Firebug and constant firing. The Patty would burn for a few seconds after the last hit and then extinguish the flames.

After the DLC I kill the Patty mostly as Firebug. I just give him my 150 mag from the flamethrower, he runs away and then as me and my team wait for him to come back suddenly we see his death animation. He burned to death!
The flamethrower seems to make Zeds a lot longer be on fire than it used to be. Especially for the Patty that is bad luck Since he walks away and won't attack for quite some time - but will still take damage.

This works awesome on normal and hard. Haven't really been playing suicidal since the DLC.

 

[Evilsod]

Yeah i've noticed zeds seem to burn for longer. After the DLC i went onto solo Suicidal Farm in an attempt to find out how much the Pipe Bombs did to Bloats and it only took 1 burst from the Flamethrower to drop them whereas it normally takes a 2nd to finish them off.

And yesterday on a Hard game the Pat burnt to death after running away ><

 

[KON_Air]

Yep, specimen burn till die and seems take damage a bit quicker. That's entirely from an experimental sucidial solo with Medic using bloated mutator things maybe different in multiplayer. I was wondering what to do with all the money bought a flamer, set a large group on fire, ran away, after a while about 20 of them arseploded at once.

 

[rckrdude]

Yea I noticed the Pat dying twice while healing recently. I remember seeing fire around him both times but thought it was just a glitchy death, instead of one caused by the flamer.

 

[SpurryMoses]

This is good news to me, since I thought that Firebug had become almost irrelevant.
Especially on suicidal where the experienced players would ask people to choose something else ;-)
Thanks for letting us know.

 

[Katana]

His name is Patrick!

 

[Evilsod]

This is good news to me, since I thought that Firebug had become almost irrelevant.
Especially on suicidal where the experienced players would ask people to choose something else ;-)
Thanks for letting us know.

It is definatly interesting. Although whether that still makes actually using Firebug useful rather than simply having a Flamethrower on the ground that you could use just to light him i dunno.

 

[9_6]

It's like they make fire work like in a certain game that starts with an 'L' and ends with a 'eft4dead'.
Tankmolotov anyone?

 

[Pluberus]

Anyone know if this is intended?

 

[KON_Air]

It's like they make fire work like in a certain game that starts with an 'L' and ends with a 'eft4dead'.
Tankmolotov anyone?

That's how should flames work anyway... And Patriach extinguish himself on heal. And it happens purely by luck to have Patriach stuck somewhere long (or some clever welding) enough burn to death before he heals.

Unlike Tank which you just set on fire and run away untill it dies.

 

[Nanostrike]

That's how should flames work anyway... And Patriach extinguish himself on heal. And it happens purely by luck to have Patriach stuck somewhere long (or some clever welding) enough burn to death before he heals.

Unlike Tank which you just set on fire and run away untill it dies.

Not luck. He doesn't heal properly if he's burning...the damage interrupts the healing...

 

[Pseudointellectual]

Had this happen yesterday the second time the patty ran away. Made me really glad I went Firebug.

 

[Exterminatus]

I once saw Patty burn to death in GasStation. He ran up to the second level door (which was welded) and literally stood there in a constant loop. He would insert a rocket, get interrupted, and had it repeat ad-nauseum. It resulted in the whole team laughing as he burned a painful death.

It went somewhat like this.
"One in the--
Ow
One in the--
Ow
Stay there I'--
This hardly--"

Now have it repeat until death.

 

[Pseudointellectual]

Almost seems to make him too easy.

 

[brick_top1982]

Tried this the other day, had 6 level 6 firebugs on him and it was just as bad as 6 level 6 supports with aa12s.

Stay there this wi..
OW..
Look what yo...
OW

LOL till he died.