In the air-filled environments on the colony, you can use the flamer easily and light up enemies in the dark (the fires are a light source).Įnemies who are on fire will try to put themselves out (or contort in pain). The flamethrower, unlike last time aboard the Ishimura, is more useful on the Titan Moon Sprawl since there are fewer vacuum areas. Look for laser tripmines that indictate their position. Ammo Schematic is in chapter 9, where Ellie's old crew barricaded themselves on a balcony of the fuel tower. Weapon Schematic is in the last classroom before the school playground in chapter 6. Ignited enemies continually take damage until they are dead.

The flamethrower is a handy weapon on Normal and Casual difficulties, but lacks power when enemies charge you. Otherwise, the slow and methodical Javelin Gun is probably more your weapon.

Accuracy is an issue with the weapon as well - if need to kill several enemies at once and in a hurry, use the Line Gun. With the shock-spears, you can also set up an ambush for enemies if you know where they appear, but you will be limited to using that one spear. The Javelin Gun does damage twice with one shot (first impales, then shocks) giving the weapon mroe damage potential. Both are good buys, but both also require different mindsets in battle. The first store will offer this weapon for sale along with the Line Gun. Ammo Schematic at the Unitology plaza, end of chapter 3. Impale the Slasher to the ground and shock the parasites who congregate down the main aisle. You can also try doing this in the middle of Chapter 4, at the funeral parlor. Spear the head of the Crawler, and gather three enemies around. Try the crawling necromorphs in the TST Elementary School.

Finding a group of enemies to do this isn't hard. Impale an enemy with the Javelin Gun and use the alternate fire mode to kill three other enemies (SP only).

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