Flame Thrower

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Huddah huddah huh! Click to listen — The Pyro on extreme cooking

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The Flamethrower is the default primary weapon of the Pyro. The body consists of a long metal pole connected by a pipe to a propane tank. The tank is attached to the pole via fastening bands. A continually lit pilot light can be seen at the nozzle. The trigger is made out of a gas pump handle that is team coloured appropriately.

The Flamethrower fires a stream of large flame particles, at roughly 22.5 particles of flame each second, in what is roughly a narrow cone. The range of the particles is much less than the range that the graphics suggest, but, unlike most weapons, is not obstructed or changed by enemies or buildings owned by the opposing team, making it ideal for attacking multiple enemies. Its range is very limited but it is able to deal heavy damage at close quarters. Firing consumes 12.5 ammunition per second. The fire particles carry momentum from the Pyro who fired them. At its maximum range, the Flamethrower is not accurate enough to put a constant stream on a single target.

Apart from the direct damage, the Flamethrower also sets targets on fire, causing the target to continue to burn and take additional damage for a short time after being dealt fire damage. Pyros themselves are immune to this due to their flame-retardant suits. The afterburn can be extinguished by the Medic's Medigun, a Dispenser's healing stream, contact with water, friendly Jarate, friendly Mad Milk, a compression blast or any type of Health pack.

Secondary fire causes the weapon to fire a compression blast which can deflect enemy projectiles and push enemies away. The compression blast can also be used to extinguish the fire effect on allies.

Damage

See also: Damage

• Base damage is based upon range (or, by extension, particle lifetime), and is rounded at the end of all calculations (after Critical multipliers, et cetera).
  • From 0 to 200 units: 6.2 per particle (139.5 per second).
  • From 200 to 384 units: linear decrease from 6.2 to 3.72 per particle (83.7 per second, 60% of max) (384 is maximum range)
    • There is very slight variability (±0.08 per particle) because some particles are at an angle, slightly varying their travel time.
• Afterburn damage: 3 damage every 0.5 seconds for 10 seconds (60 damage total)
  • Mini-Crit afterburn damage: 4 damage every 0.5 seconds for 10 seconds (80 damage total)
• Mini-Crit: 1.35× base damage, then round to nearest whole
• Critical hit: 3× base damage, then round to nearest whole
  • DPS at <200 units: 427.5

Note: Damage-Per-Second values assume all particles find victims.

Base damage changes over particle lifetime, instead of distance from player (all other weapons affected by distance measure from player to player). Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

• Attack Interval: 0.04
• Ammo Consumption Interval: 0.08
• Compression Blast Interval: 0.75

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Related Achievements

General

64px	Flamethrower Set 5 opponents on fire in 30 seconds.

Pyro

	Hot on Your Heels Kill 50 opponents with your Flamethrower, from behind.		Hot Potato Reflect 100 projectiles with your compressed air blast.
	Hotshot Kill a Soldier with a reflected critical rocket.		Makin' Bacon Kill 50 Heavies with your Flamethrower.
	Freezer Burn Provide enemies with freezecam shots of each of your taunts.

Soldier

Backdraft Dodger Kill a Pyro who has airblasted one of your rockets in the last 10 seconds.

Trivia

• The Flamethrower has Developer weapon variants.
• Beta builds of TF2 featured a hose connecting the Pyro's back canister to the Flamethrower, and the hose is still visible in the Pyro's HUD icon. Currently, the hose is re-routed to the tank on the underside of the Flamethrower.
• Before the Pyro Update, the Flamethrower had no airblast.
• Reflecting a Black Box rocket into an enemy heals the Pyro 15 health.
• The Flamethrower's damage rate has been lowered several times since the release of TF2. The Backburner unlockable initially had its damage lowered in the same way, but it was then raised again so that its damage is roughly the same as that of the Flamethrower's pre-reduction.
• The Flamethrower's pilot flame does not go out when underwater, as it is part of the model.
• If one counts the kill icons given by compression blasts, the Flamethrower and Degreaser are the weapons that possess the most kill-icons.
• As of the Mann-Conomy Update, the Pyro was given new effects for the Flamethrower and the flaregun, making flames look more realistic. This also makes flames easier to see so it is good for spotting cloaked Spies that are ignited.
• When firing any Flamethrower underwater it just comes out as gas bubbles.

Gallery

• Flamethrower 1st person cropped.png

  1st person view.

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  Full 1st person view.

See also

• Backburner
• Flamethrower strategy
• Compression blast
• Fire