Sticky Fuel

by Finny on 16/08/2020

Salutes 1

CRSPR Flamethrower

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+25 Tank Size
+5m Flame Reach
+4 Damage per Particle
+10 Heat per Particle
+3 sec Sticky Flames duration
+1.8 Flow Rate
Increases Sticky Flames' slow from 10% to 55%
+75 Max Fuel
Every particle fired by the Flamethrower (ammo consumed) deals 0.2 Fear to all enemies it passes through
+3 sec Sticky Flames duration
+75 Max Fuel
Deal 80 Fire Damage per second and 80 Heat per second to all enemies within 4m of you. The Heat/sec stacks with the direct stream and Sticky Flames' heat sources as well.
If the direct stream kills a Burning enemy, there's a 50% chance that they will explode and deal 55 Fire Damage and 55 Heat to all enemies within a 3m radius.
Sticky Fuel

Subata 120

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x0 Base Spread
+4 Magazine Size
+48 Max Ammo
+3 Direct Damage
-33% Spread per Shot, x0.5 Recoil
Changes the Subata to fire in bursts of 2 bullets at 20 RoF during the burst. If both bullets hit an enemy, the second bullet gets +350% Armor Breaking. Additionally, -0.25 Mass and -4 Rate of Fire.
-0.6 Reload Time
+75% Weakpoint Bonus
+3 Direct Damage
+48 Max Ammo
+50% Direct Damage dealt to Burning enemies. Bonus damage is Fire element and adds the same amount of Heat, extending the Burn duration.
+1 Blowthrough
Shooting an enemy that is afflicted with Corrosion, Sludge Puddle, or Neurotoxin will apply 2 Status Effects. The first one lasts 5 seconds, and each bullet that hits will increase the DPS by +3.2, up to a maximum of 30 stacks (96 DPS). After its duration expires, you must apply a new instance and start stacking it again. The second Status Effect lasts 4.5 seconds, and its duration can be refreshed. If an enemy dies while the second one is active, then they will explode and damage nearby enemies proportional to the number of active stacks of the first effect. The explosion does (60 + 20*stacks) Typeless Damage, and the radius is (0.5 + SqRt[stacks]) meters.
Automatic Fire

Reinforced Power Drills

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Satchel Charge

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Heavy Drill Suit

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Loadout Guide

The trick with using Sticky Flames is to unlearn the way you've been using the flamethrower. Instead of spraying the enemy directly, you instead anticipate the enemy's path, and pour some sticky fire there, so that when they walk through that flame, the die very quickly. Sticky Flame can delete swarms of enemies, using only about 20 ammo. It's unreasonably ammo-efficient if you use it right, despite not using a single ammo mod. For any enemy that manages to survive the wall of fire you put up, Subata with Volatile Bullets in T5 is there to finish them off.

Sticky Flame also works surprisingly well against Dreadnoughts, provided your team isn't braindead. What you do is you pour a line of flame in front of the Dreadnought and along its path (its path is to the dwarf its aggroed against) and it slows to a crawl, allowing your team to pump serious damage into it.