In order to balance the staff why not reduced enemy penetration poll

Flame staff (flamers in generally really) should just get a hitmass limit to every tick of damage/application of burn stacks. It’s not even particularly hard to implement such a thing. I did it myself with a mod already. This is an old version that is number of targets, but I’ve updated it since …

This is probably the least amount of work Fatshark could do to balance it, and we all know that’s Fatshark’s favorite way of doing things.

I think by just reducing it’s cleave or limit the enemies it can affect at once, you just destroy the weapon entirely, which I’d still prefer to what we have now tbh. I think it would be better to rework it into something that’s good, but not spamable as it is now.

I know this might be all in vain but could you please make a seperate post strictly talking about how you would fix the Flame Staff so we can attempt to make it one of the most liked posts on the Forums. People collecting the feedback could see this and the amount of people who want to implement thi…

[image] Hammer_hold: I know this might be all in vain but could you please make a seperate post strictly talking about how you would fix the Flame Staff so we can attempt to make it one of the most liked posts on the Forums. I kinda already did that: Weapon Changes, Ideas, and Shenanigans Th…

I know which is why I’m asking for you to make a post specifically about the Flame Staff. Anything to get the devs attention to this specific weapon change of yours. If there are any of your suggested changes that would be implemented in the future, this needs to be the very first they do.

Up the clickbait on the title too Something like ‘the fire staff is kinda mid’ …with these changes

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