http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=204596.0

[Freeze]

I said Flare Gun

as in, the weapon called "Flare Gun"

Thought, you meant just generally flare guns.

Well their is no incentive. The Detonator/Manmelter is superior in every way I'm afraid.
Other than the fact there's a strange flare gun, but no strange detonator/manmelter

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[Dnitro]

Well their is no incentive. The Detonator/Manmelter is superior in every way I'm afraid.
Other than the fact there's a strange flare gun, but no strange detonator/manmelter

Flare gun crits burning people, detonator mini-crits.

[Mega-Bear]

I used to use the Flare Gun all the time, but it got to the point where I needed a decent ranged non-fire weapon, so I switched to using the shotgun. I play much better with it.

[Freeze]

but it got to the point where I needed a decent ranged non-fire weapon

uh
why

[Mega-Bear]

uh
why

So I could damage enemies in water, plus the spread on the shotgun gets me more kills than the flare gun's single flare.

[BobSevenSevens]

uh
why

>enemy backburner pyros w+m1'ing
>shotgun's pretty effective against them

[Mega-Bear]

>enemy backburner pyros w+m1'ing
>shotgun's pretty effective against them

Yeah. If Pyros were affected by afterburn I would definitely use flare gun all the time, but as of now I really like the shotgun.

[BlockoCrafter]

Well their is no incentive. The Detonator/Manmelter is superior in every way I'm afraid.

I can actually kill with a flare gun, more or less burning them.

[Freeze]

I can actually kill with a flare gun, more or less burning them.

so can everyone else
it's just the other two are better

[Vegetarian Zombie]

Shotgun is nice in many situations, but the Pyro being a close-range class, I prefer the Flare Gun because you can gun down even Sentry guns if there's no Engie and you have enough space in between you and the gun. Shottie takes too long and the Engie might find his way back to his Sentry gun before you can take it down.

Or you could airblast, but I'm no good at that.

[naturemon]

so can everyone else
it's just the other two are better

I'm sorry but I STRONGLY disagree, I've tried both, they are beyond awful (manmelter at least) and the detonator is great...if you can't aim at all with the flaregun and need something to fall back on.

[Vegetarian Zombie]

I have yet to try the Detonator.

[Freeze]

I'm sorry but I STRONGLY disagree, I've tried both, they are beyond awful (manmelter at least) and the detonator is great...if you can't aim at all with the flaregun and need something to fall back on.

im talking about detonator/man melter bring better than the normal flare gun

[BobSevenSevens]

so can everyone else
it's just the other two are better

Depends on your accuracy with any of the pyro secondaries that shoot projectiles.

Flare Gun- For the ones that are really accurate, guaranteed crit if you can hit people who are already lit.

Detonator- For the semi-accurate, will mini-crit a burning player, also can light multiple at once.

Manmelter: Good if you can't hit stuff because of the increased projectile speed, can save up guaranteed crits by extinguishing friendlies with it. No auto-crits/mini-crits on already-lit players however.

I say they're all sidegrades because of the crit/mini-crit/nocrit, except for the detonator maybe because of the light multiple people on fire thing. Manmelter is an easy counter to that though.

[naturemon]

im talking about detonator/man melter bring better than the normal flare gun

I know that, and in my opinion and I'm sure in anyone else's opinion who can aim, they will disagree with that statement by a mile.