Flamethrower damage bug

[Urthrem]

Bug Description: Flamethrower damage doesn't update straight away, instead it stacks up upon usage of different weapon, causing that alien behaves as if nothing happened upon being hit by different weapon. As survivor such situation is rather painful due to fact that it being the only available weapon equals to clear death.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Find loaded flamethrower as survivor/marine
2. Find Sentinel/Runner/Drone
3. Fire your flamethrower at the stinking alien, watch as it laughs at you, spits at you and finally slams a facehugger on your face while shaking its head and dragging your sorry buttom back to their hive. Only thing you can do is to cry and prepare for painful death.

[Varnock]

While I didn't personally witness this, I was online when it happened and saw the aftermath. My guess was damage not updating, but we're unsure.

[MrJJJ]

it doesn't damage the alien if it stands for like 1 second and moves away unfortunately, however if it stood for like, more than 1 second and got no damage, i guess thats a bug then

[zskninoh]

Pretty sure the flame thrower uses ticks to deal damage as its a AoE DoT. Also,t is primarily used for area denial not for 1v1ing aliens. Correct me if I am wrong though.

[Varnock]

In this particular instance it died after having two cans of fuel unloaded on it, but only when hit by a taser after the fact.

[zskninoh]

Ohh wow, yea that's definitely a bug then.

[Dyne]

Bug or not, flamer can use some love.

[Infernus]

Fixed, but will be pushed later.