Hi all,

The flare pistol is the most powerful hand gun short of the M-79 grenade launcher in the game. With the pyro pack that gives you 18 flares I believe? Which in turn makes it more powerful than the M-79 which only has at most 5 shots.
The flare pistol is what the flame thrower should have been in effect with the exception of distance. The flame thrower should have a much longer range, but not the range the flare pistol has.


Abilities:

If croutched firing a flare across a field will 99% of the time start a line fire from where you are to where the flare finally hits. Effect, huge brush fire, very effective enemy killer.

A direct hit of the flare on any vehicle kills all passengers. One shot, one kill, and the vehicle is still in tact.

A direct hit of the flare on any enemy instantly kills him. And if a buddy is right next to him the resulting flare burst 90% of the time kills him too.

The flare burst in dry areas creates a huge circular fire and tactically can lead to huge enemy deaths with one flare shot.

The flare gun is semi-silent and at night enemy swarming after the first shot is rare, and with the guaranteed fire patch usually further deters enemy swarming of your location.



Fuel sites are more numerous and safe house fuel buddy upgrade occurs before safe house explosives buddy upgrade.


On a note of reality and game patching. The flare gun is overpowered. The flare should stick to the enemy, and then "pop" on the person you hit. The enemy should end up in a "wounded" but not dead state where they only use their side arm after the flare finishes burning. Should they be in grass etc. they should end up dead due to the brush fire.
In turn the .50 Eagle sidearm should one shot kill with any upper body as well as a head shot, which it doesn't do. Shooting someone anywhere should put them in a wounded state and two shots anywhere should kill them. The recoil, likely via fire-rate reduction should be much higher.

Hope you found this info helpful.

Thanks for posting - I saw a YouTube of a person using the flare gun as a pistol, and other than having to lob the flare, it had devastating effect on the target. Although I've never used the flare gun for anything except starting fires, your post has energized me to try it!

iv never used the flare before, but now im going to buy it and use it.....back in a min

Shooting a real person with a real flare would set them on fire and kill them. Seriously go out,get a flare gun, shoot yourself in the thigh.
Betcha won't be back here to post.

When you shoot the vehicle the driver and gunner jump out of the vehicle while in motion, thats what kills them.

Shooting a flare in a field of dry grass in real life would be a hazard just like in the game.
There is the propellant which leaves the fiery trail,then the explosion.

Yes the 'bullet weapons' are under powered, but if they were realistic, Far Cry guy would be dead 200,000 times over. I mean we get hit with RPG's and Guided Missiles and just pump some morphine in us and live. We get pegged with headshots from hidden snipers, and just go "ow!".
If the game was realistic, it would be a very short game.

The play balance from the flare comes from it being slow to reload, terrible to aim, funky on distance, tends to arc so it overshoots things you aim at. For instance I tried to use it on the barge mission, and missed every damn boat I shot at. The flare arced right over the targets.
The rusty MGL from the north map saved my hide and the dart gun took care of the RPG bastard.

In Far Cry 3 I want modifiable weapons, I want to make an semi-automatic, silent, sniper, flare gun that holds 100 rounds. Woohooo!

In a way this actually exists in the life with depleted uranium coated sniper rounds that super heat, tear through tanks, and set everything around them on fire, then leave behind 8 million years worth of radioactive dust for the kids to grow flipper arms with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmspzh5_4rU

Lol, doesn't appear it's that effective, even when fired at the temple from point blank range.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmspzh5_4rU

That's point blank, and the guy rolled or got bowled over with the hit.
No time for velocity to kick in, or the flare to actually start its ignition.