Flamer (Fallout: New Vegas)

The flamer is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The flamer is a heavy weapon that ignites a plume of vaporized fuel, producing a cone of fire from the nozzle for several meters, capable of hitting multiple enemies or allies simultaneously. Additionally, it is capable of hitting multiple body parts and inflicting widespread damage. Unlike the Fallout 3 variant, this is considered an Energy Weapon instead of a Big Gun. With a high enough Energy Weapons skill, the flamer is an extremely effective weapon at killing all forms of unarmored and lightly armored enemies (insects, most humans, and spore carriers).

It can fire 996 flamer fuels from full condition before breaking. Interestingly the incinerator and heavy incinerator also fire exactly the same amount of fuel before breaking.

Modifications

 * Flamer expanded tanks, increases fuel tank capacity by 60.

Variants

 * Cleansing Flame, a more damaging unique flamer that projects a distinctive blue flame.

Locations

 * Gomorrah - Has a chance of appearing in a weapon's crate in a locked room in the casino's lower level.
 * Silver Rush - on the counter by Gloria Van Graff.
 * Ultra-Luxe kitchen - there are two men frying meat with flamers.
 * Vault 3 - some fiends may carry them.
 * Vault 22 - in the common areas, inside a room with generators.
 * Carried by Cook-Cook.
 * Carried by Blister.

Bugs

 * There are many bugs associated with this weapon. One such bug causes the handheld part of the weapon to not disappear when put away; waving around as if an extension of the hand.
 * Another glitch (possibly caused by modding the weapon) is when the tank part of the weapon appears to fall off and bounce, much like when you drop a weapon, in third-person. When the player returns to first-person the tank disappears from the ground.
 * Also when upgraded, the flamer tanks may permanently appear on your back, even if you drop the weapon. Exiting and restarting the game will fix this. It appears that this bug is triggered by traveling between areas while wielding the weapon. Also switching To another weapon with a pack will fix the bug. Getting your weapons taken at a casino or similar place will also fix this. An easy fix is to equip another weapon *without* a pack, then equip the flamer, then finally unequip the flamer, and the pack should be off.
 * Sometimes if you equip the flamer, the flamer tanks will not appear. To resolve this problem simply re-equip it.
 * The flamer can shoot through walls and windows.
 * When hot keyed this weapon is incorrectly labeled with the explosive weapon icon.