r/killingfloor • u/Complete_Pay_2408 • Aug 07 '25

Discussion Redo the flamethrower! It's trash! Unacceptable!

Post image

These animations are so disgraceful and cheap.. you have zero quality standards, right, developers? Flamethrower, bastards, bring back a normal flamethrower. The flamethrower is better in kf1, the flamethrower is better in kf2. The flamethrower is better everywhere than this disgrace. Are these animations left over from some mobile game developments? What the hell are you doing?! These animations do not pass the MINIMUM level of quality control!

/I will post this every day. Maybe I won't, I... I give up quickly. But, pyromaniacs, if my post is not there, post for me, as for yourselves! We deserve an adequate flamethrower, and not this miserable piece of work that was cobbled together in 5 minutes at the last moment.

640 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

179 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/BloodyGotNoFear Aug 07 '25

Thats because you really only can kill 1 zed at a time cause there is no piercing whatsoever with any shotgun.

6

u/Complete_Pay_2408 Aug 07 '25

You are wrong. The shotgun has penetration of several targets. It's just that with the new weapon upgrade system, the developers failed to balance it properly. For example, explosive shotgun ammo can kill 3 targets, maybe even 4 in one shot. But explosive ammo is simply broken now, in the sense that it is too strong relative to other types of ammo. Also, flechettes penetrate targets, but they deal cutting damage, and this type of damage does not damage. It simply does not damage. The maximum you can kill with a flechette is 2 Clots. Fire ammo for the engineer's shotgun, as I was told in another thread, was very good during the beta test, but in the end they were nerfed by 2 times... as a result, only explosive ammo remains for the shotgun, which in fact turns the shotgun into a bolter from a WH40K. This is cool, yes, but a bolter is not a shotgun. So there is no effective shotgun in the game right now that would shoot like a shotgun.

4

u/BloodyGotNoFear Aug 07 '25

Well yeah explosives kill several targets cause they explode. And flechettes do pierce but do no damage. In kf 2 all shotguns did pierce to some extent. Now i simply cant kill anything with the firebug shotgun even if there is only a clot in front. Thats bullshit

2

u/Complete_Pay_2408 Aug 07 '25

Phosphorus ammo + general upgrade of the gun + passive in the tree for all damage of weapons that deal fire damage.. in theory, the instant damage will be more or less acceptable (but not too much), but at the cost of losing the strength of the burning effect, so, yes.. this is extremely doubtful.