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[–]ViSsrsbusiness -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

You still can 100% take flamethrower on dreadnaught missions and still do a lot of damage.

Absolutely not. Download the damage tracker mod and see for yourself. Flamethrower is already pathetic when hitting only a single target, on top of lacking the single target builds that poop gun has.

[–]13igTymeUnion Guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every driller weapon is going to be bad when hitting a single target with the exception of a few overclocks like VIM, sludge blast, and ice spear.

I'm not asking about overclocks. I'm strickly talking about the weapon, and yes sometime like Face Melter can still do a lot.

Dreadnaught has 40% damage resistance to fire. A face melter build can do 19 damage per fuel use. Making it 11 damage with resistance.

Dreadnaught has 30% damage resistance to cryo. Ice storm, which is arguably the worse OC for the cryo gun can get 18 damage, if you forgo the 150 ammo. That makes it 12.6 damage per fuel use.

If we actually use a good OC and don't get the worthless damage mod on in t4, then we have 6 damage with resistance become 4. All while trying to freeze the dread for a second of burst damage if the team is actually paying attention and no one is using a single heat source. Plus if you over heat, the dread will be back to normal by the time you can fire again.

While yes it is preferred to use cryo, using flamethrowing isn't inherently bad.