aka Flamethrower.





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Anways, what are everyone's thoughts on the new weapon? Personally, I'm not all that excited about it, but I have no doubt that the Scorcher will be the most whored weapon in Gears 2. It's a nice addition though, no doubt.

It will become a huge noob weapon and will ruin the game experience for everyone who likes to play without it. I can't wait.

The only real reason that I'm some what interested in the scorcher is that they say it provides some of the best fire graphics known to date. Besides that I could care less.

From the looks of the gameplay demos, it's not that strong, and it's pretty short range. It looks like it'd be easy to hit someone with though. I don't think it'll be too big of a deal. Unless of couse, people find ways to manipulate it, etc, into being an unstoppable weapon.

quote DragonMaster_Dyne

I have no doubt that the Scorcher will be the most whored weapon in Gears 2.

quote Jim Haslett

They'll play hard or they're not going to be here.

The only thing I hope for the weapon is for there to be good effects involving it. I hate to see people just yelp and fall over like they got shot while on fire in a game.

I didn't know that. If it only works twice that's good. But I thought a sort of volume bar would have been better, and you can only get say, 8-12 seconds out of it.


The Gears twist on the desisgn doesn't really seem apparent, but it still looks cool nonetheless, I hope it's only on a few maps, and not all of them.

It's gonna be the M16 of Gears

quote The Deck Ace

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quote Accord

It's gonna be the M16 of Gears

quote Cdemon

quote DragonMaster_Dyne

I have no doubt that the Scorcher will be the most whored weapon in Gears 2.

I doubt it. It has short range, only spawns once per round and can only be used twice.

quote Jim Haslett

They'll play hard or they're not going to be here.

I pretty much agree. The range is short and now that there's stopping power, it'll be pretty easy to down someone with a lancer.
I'm not that excited for the scorcher to be honest, I'm hyped for the other new weapons.

quote Cdemon

I doubt it. It has short range, only spawns once per round and can only be used twice.

It only spawns once per round, though, meaning there's no ammo for it. Once it's gone, that's it. It has a short range of fire, requires to be "started" before shot and slows the player down tremendously. It'll be sought after, no doubt, but since weapon spawns are random in Gears 2 (I believe), that shouldn't be as much of a problem.

quote Jim Haslett

They'll play hard or they're not going to be here.

Only thing I care about right now concerning the Scorcher is what its execution looks like.

When Cliffy switched to a pistol instead of using it to finish off the Brumak piolot when he played the demo, I groaned.

I hope the scorcher execution is as nasty as possible. Say, he rolls the locust over onto his back, jams the tip of the scorcher into their mouth and torches their head from the inside out.

They probably want to keep the Scorcher execution a surprise for now, knowing what Epic are like.

The weapon seemed pretty interesting from Cliffy's campaign vid, a reasonable ammount of ammo for the weapon too. Looks lethal in confined spaces, but with a little more room, looked quite easy to roll away from the flames. I think it'll be a fun weapon indeed.