Flamethrower

The Flamethrower is a tier 4 tank that upgrades from the Minigun, Foam Gun and the Naturalist at level 45.

Design
The Flamethrower has an average-size barrel with a unique pointed tip at the end. This barrel shape is only found with the Flamethrower's branch.

Technical
The Flamethrower has a barrel that fires very rapidly with some spread. The flames do not travel very far, but they have high speed, penetration, and damage. The barrel does not suffer recoil.

As the Flamethrower

 * Despite the intimidating name and cool barrel, this tank is ultimately not much more than a souped-up Naturalist. Be careful while using it as it does not have as good as a damage output as you would think.
 * Your short range and lack of particularly good movement speed to is a large detriment. Go for vertical ambushes when on the offensive, as it is the easiest way to ensure a target remains in useful range.



Against the Flamethrower

 * While the bullet storm looks threatening, it is quite simple to remain out of their useful range.
 * High DPS tanks such as Twisted Hybrid could easily penetrate trough Flamethrowers bullets, as it has low bullet health.

Trivia

 * The used to upgrade at from the Flamethrower at one point, but it was moved down to Tier 4 so it could upgrade to . This put Flamegun and Flamethrower on the same tier, eliminating the branch between the two, albeit this sparked the creation of the.