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There seems to be something wrong with the flamethrower monitor/the AI with flamethrower monitors I have noticed that it does not fire at other ships and only at buildings. Is this an intentional feature? Also the on fire debuff from the harbor flamethrower towers effecting steamships like battlecruisers is that also intentional? Being essentially disabled for 20 minutes seems like a hefty price for going in range of a flamethrower tower for <5 seconds.

over 1 year ago - Ubi-Thrupney - Direct link

Hey there @Danthelegend04 , welcome to Discussions! I really appreciate you reaching out. I've gone ahead and moved your post to a new thread, since we prefer to keep issues separate in their own thread, so that everybody knows what is in each thread from its title. My apologies for any confusion caused!

I can see our teams are aware that flamethrowers don't often attack ships. The reason for this is that the Flamethrower Monitor only attacks while it is stationary, which is unlikely to be the case for enemy ships, while they have more time to come to a stop for buildings. Our team have this noted as an issue on our end, but it could be that this is actually intended behaviour, and we'll report back once we have an update on this.

Let me know if you've any other thoughts or questions in the meantime!