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It's alot easier to make stuff for NPCs than players. You, for example, don't need to make a viewmodel nor UI icon etc.
That would be the case.
We actually tried to put skiing in Firestorm from the Single Player, but without a team of animators working on the 3D model that other people would see, it looked incredibly weird.
Flamethrower is the inverse of that, other people would see it fine, but the person controlling it would see their elbows inside the eyeballs.
I'm sure some people would enjoy skiing in MP, especially on Fjell. Frankly, I just want my flamethrowers please. I'm so bored of every other gun in BFV, they all feel the same across their respective categories.
I know everybody on this forum is asking for this, or that, or a fix here, or an addition here, or tossing an idea there. Whatever. But since it's obviously come up with the devs before judging from your reply, what was their actual response to adding flamethrowers for MP? Was it basically yours?
I haven't a clue. I'd be speculating, but my belief is that its simply because we've done it before with BF1. If we were going to bring it back, it would feel like we just doing the same thing all over again and I don't feel that this is the purpose of BFV.
If I bump into anyone in the corridors who might know I'll find out, but this isn't something I'd expect.