Do flamethrowers do damage around corners and through walls?
In order to avoid being gunned down by a sentry gun (especially one placed in the corner of a room), I often try to hide around corners, fire my flamethrower and gradually "worm my way in" to destroying the sentry. However, I often wonder: is this necessary? Could I simply stand around the corner and shoot flames?
The reason that I am uncertain about the answer is that, sometimes, when I blast my flamethrower around a corner, it almost "repels" against the corner of the wall, e.g. here:
and, other times, it goes through the (other side of the) wall, e.g. here:
In either of these cases, would the flamethrower do damage to, say, a Sentry in the corner of the wall (roughly where my flamethrower is aimed)?
Best Answer
Sometimes flames will curve off from the wall. Normally when you fire at a wall the game stops your flamethrower from using ammo, as you can only consume ammo when there is a sufficient distance between your position and the wall so that you can spread fire outwards.
If you are that far away from the wall, and have flames coming out as you hold down M1, they will deal damage to players caught in the path of the flames.
This is a trick pyros love to use against sentries. Find a ledge beneath the sentry, and fire towards the sentry. This will damage the sentry without exposing you to the damage, and a tricky way to remove Level 3s and minis.
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