CRSPR Flamethrower

— Item Description

The **CRSPR Flamethrower** is the Driller's default primary weapon. It is a combat-ready flamethrower which gets its fuel from large tanks inserted into a cage on the side. The huge oversized nozzle on the end of the gun has two gas emitters to turn the weapon's fuel into a sea of hellfire.

The Flamethrower emits a stream of fire when the trigger is held, damaging enemies and quickly raising their temperature to ignite them. Creatures lit on fire take progressive damage over time.

The Flamethrower leaves behind "Sticky Flames" on surfaces whenever the fire stream touches a part of the world. Sticky flames will rapidly damage enemies who walk through them, dealing extra damage.

The Flamethrower also has several other unique aspects; it has minor armor piercing abilities due to not using bullets or explosives, and it can damage enemies through their armor plates (such as Glyphid Praetorians or Glyphid Grunt Guards) albeit at a reduced rate. The weapon deals bonus damage to Glacial Strata enemy variants due to its nature as a fire weapon, and also to Mactera enemies (as a trait unique to the gun).

## Modifications

There are five tiers of modifications and each tier has two to three upgrades. Only one modification can be equipped per tier.

## Overclocks

Overclock calculations happen after modifiers.

## Stats Breakdown

### Understanding the Weapon

#### Sticky Flames

* Damage (per tick): 15 Fire
* Tick Interval: 0.25-0.75s
* Maximum Damage Radius: 0.75m
* Radius: 0.75m
* Slowdown: 10% (x0.9 Movement Speed)
	+ 55% (x0.45 Movement Speed) with "Sticky Flame Slowdown" Mod
* Duration: 2s

 *Sticky Flame Duration* (Tier 4)

#### Sticky Flame Heat

The Sticky Flames have an Area Heat Radius of 0.75m, acting as an Environmental Heat Source with an Intensity value of 3. The total heat being applied to any given creature is:

* Heat per Second = [ Current Intensity Temperature per Second ] + 5 \* [ Nearby Puddles ]

Most of the time the amount of Heat will simply be 20 + 5 \* [ Nearby Puddles ]. The Heat Intensity can be reduced in the presence of Environmental Cooling such as the Blizzards that may occur in the Glacial Strata.

### Unique Modifications

* Maximum Damage Radius: 3m
* Radius: 4m
 **Targets Explode** | **Targets Explode** is a modification that gives enemies a 50% chance to explode if killed with direct damage. This damages enemies inside of the 0.5 meter radius of the explosion.

*This applies to creatures of any size, including small enemies like swarmers or maggots.*
* Maximum Damage Radius: 0.5m
* Radius: 3m
* Minimum Damage: 25%
* Friendly Fire Modifier: 0%

### Unique Overclocks

**Sticky Fuel** | **Sticky Fuel** is an overclock that adds a second Damage Over Time (DoT) effect to Sticky Flames with its own tick rate and damage.
* Tick Interval: 0.5s

## Mastery

Each modification that is purchased advances a mastery bar by one unit.

Mastery unlocks:

* Three modifications – **First Stripe** Weapon Paintjob
* Seven modifications – **Deepcore** Weapon Paintjob
* All (13) modifications – **The Company Special** Weapon Paintjob

## Skins

Full gallery of skins can be seen at Weapon Skins.

## Trivia

* The weapon's full ammo interaction consists of the Driller pulling out one of its fuel canisters and briefly twirling it around before putting it away.

* The CRSPR will melt the environment in Glacial Strata. They can also melt platforms if the Engineer who placed them has the Plastcrete MKII modification.

* "CRSPR" is a play on the word "crisper", referring to the weapon's ability to burn creatures to a crisp.

* The CRSPR will burn through Organic Material on Egg Hunt missions.

* The CRSPR can burn and remove web hazards.

* Mission Control, in his comments when the player completes the assignment to unlock the Colette Wave Cooker, implied that the CRSPR was once used in an attempt to cook food aboard the Space Rig (in violation of company policy), which likely ended poorly for everyone involved given how he called it "the Flamethrower incident in the mess hall."

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