The Pyro has not gotten a new weapon in some time, and has never gotten a weapon that is not a flamer for its primary.
Pyrophoricity
Level 1 Incendiary Shotgun
When cool, expels hot air to turn up the heat.
Minicrits when reflecting projectiles.
Afterburn is maximized when reflecting players or projectiles.
Shares ammo with shotgun secondaries.
Afterburn duration and damage based on how many pellets land.
Some other notes not described in the weapon description:
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The core weapon functionality is exactly that of a shotgun (six rounds chambered, 10 pellets, etc.).
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Afterburn duration based on how many pellet land (1s/pellet).
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Afterburn damage based on how many pellets land (1~3 pellets = 1/tick, 4~6 = 2, 7~9 = 3, all 10 pellets has it deal 4).
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Alt-fire fires a "Hot Shot" that fires a round and creates an additional airblast effect, it has the normal airblast ability cooldown. There may be a weapon animation with this as well, such as the barrel turning red.
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If the airblast effect knocks back an enemy or reflects a projectile, it causes afterburn duration applied with that shot to triple, and the damage from afterburn to be as if all ten pellets hit.
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Not only are projectiles mini-crits, but so is the shotgun's damage when performing a successful reflect.
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Fires underwater, however added fire and airblast effects do not work underwater.
I'm tempted to add a bunch of various suggestions, such as complaints about the Targe still having afterburn immunity despite the Axtinguisher nerf, or also posting a Pyro jetpack secondary since Soldiers now have parachutes but right now this is going to be all about the Pyrophoricity.
This thing has a good name, a solid concept, and I think its balanced with the other flamers.
There are a few tradeoffs here, you gain burst damage, but you then have to deal with reloading times. Additionally, aim to set something on fire becomes much more important, and spychecking becomes a bit harder.
If you're out of ammo in the chamber and you need to airblast, you're screwed until you reload. You can't just airblast with every shot because the attack interval of a shotgun and the attack interval of the airblast don't match up. Heckling with this thing also lowers your ability to airblast when you want to, since you'll run out of shells if you're not very careful, and reloads take longer than your attack interval as well.
You can actually fight other Pyros (and
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Oxygen decreases the ignition temperature of chemicals, so I was curious if in a pure oxygen environment does gasoline become pyrophoric?
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The Marshall Fire currently burning now covered in snow, known as "the most destructive fire in Colorado history," is directly over the top of known plutonium contamination, generated by radioactive waste leaking from barrels, courtesy of the Rocky Flats Plant. This facility manufactured the bulk of the plutonium pits (nuclear weapons triggers) in the height of the Cold War. In the past, strong wind events were known to spread radioactive particulates from this site and activists -- including the very FBI agent who led the historic raid on the Rocky Flats Plant -- have been sounding the alarm on this inevitability for years.
This story is a breathtaking example of the truth being stranger than fiction. In a series of events from the 1950s all the way up to the present day, there have been a series of cover-ups by the U.S. Department of Energy, its subcontractors Dow and Rockwell, the Justice Department, and at least two generations of property development powerhouses.
The clean-up effort was originally projected to take 65 years and $37 billion to do properly, but after only 10 years and $7 billion (most of which went to administrators), the clean-up effort was heralded as a success and the superfund site was opened up for both property development and recreation.
One might argue the clean-up effort was half-assed or even deliberately negligent. For example only the top 3 feet of contaminated soil was cleaned up, even though contamination is known to be much deeper and natural processes routinely bring up soil from 16 feet and below. This is the case even when excluding criminal dumping and incineration of radioactive waste clandestinely undertaken by the plant. (As an aside, uncooperative employees were known to have been deliberately exposed to "infinity levels" of radiation.) For nearly the last 20 years, there has been insufficient testing and monitoring of radioactive contamination in the area, which again is driven by commercial interests in th
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Google didn't give me anything immediately useful, and you guys are a lot more creative anyway. I know you can buy finely divided metal sponge that's pyrophoric on its own, but I'd like something that leaves a slag puddle behind it, in a true thermite reaction, that can be (somewhat) safely stored under inert gas or vacuum inside of a shrink wrap or something.
The more exotic it is, the better. Also the more toxic it is the better (which, again, should caution you against providing too detailed a recipe unless there's a really interesting paper or YouTube video about it).
I want a dude to boobytrap a book with it--I'm thinking Dante's Inferno but I'm open to suggestions here as well--so that whoever opens it gets a faceful of glowing heck. Copper or boron colored flames would be a nice bonus too. I could go with semi-standard formula, and just have him hide a disc of initiator in the spine that cracks when the book is open, but I'm looking for some razzle and dazzle here. Plus I don't wanna break the narrative to explain thermite redox and initiators just to lay the ground for a slapstick chemistry kill.
Any takers?
There was no sound as thousands of Terran drop pods streaked through space towards the weaver colony world below.
At least not in space. Inside the drop pods was another matter.
"Congratulations boys and girls, you are all going to be in the history books." said Sergeant Moore over their armor coms system.
"For what sarge?" asked a marine.
"You mean apart from being big damn heroes?" joked another.
"Because if I'm reading this right, our squad is projected to be the first on the ground. We get to be the first humans in history to land on an alien world." replied the sergeant, as the first faint rumbling began inside the pods from atmospheric drag.
"Something to tell the grandkids about for sure" said their lieutenant, patching into their squad's coms.
"Sergeant, Gamma squad is to relieve the weaver militia at the north gate of the shield generator complex at the edge of City Alpha." he said, transmitting coordinates to the Sergeant's armor.
"What about their shield? We aren't going to splatter all over it are we? I'd rather not be bits and pieces" asked Sergeant Moore.
"It's taken care of. The fleet's tactical AI is interlocked with them, and will be telling them when to drop their shields for a couple seconds to let our forces through."
The sergeant nodded. He had been wondering about that.
"The rest of the company will land surrounding the enemy column. Hold the line while we get their attention. Good hunting".
"Yes sir." said Sergeant Moore as the Lieutenant signed out.
"You heard him people, today's gameplan is 'hold what you got'. Everyone get ready, we're entering atmo now".
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As the drop pods entered the thicker parts of the atmosphere, their outer hulls became cherry red and began to ablate, the superheated metal particulates released helping foil attempts to lock on with radar guided weapon systems.
As the atmosphere became thicker, the drop pods deployed their grav-chute and aerobraking surfaces, gradually slowing down the pods. Once terminal velocity was reached, metal contr
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So I noticed that Amazon in the US has the audio language for GitS Arise AA PYROPHORIC CULT as English!
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Shell-Alternative-Architecture-Original/dp/B014WHE0B6
My understanding was that there was no English dub for Alternative Architecture. In fact ever episode is listed as English despite Amazon listing the series as Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture (Original Japanese Version).
Surely this is a mistake?
I'm in the UK so cant test as i don't have an American Amazon Account
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Pyrophoric substances ignite instantly upon exposure to air (atmospheric oxygen). A pyrophoric substance may be a solid, liquid, or gas. Most materials are not pyrophoric unless they are in a very finely divided state. Although there are some pyrophoric liquids and gases, most pyrophoric materials are metals.
I've been using VPN and searching through the Netflix catalogue of different countries but I can't seem to find these two (Ghost Stands Alone and Pyrophoric Cult) OVAs except for Japan which doesn't have subtitles. Anyone know where I can watch them?
China is known for being one of the few countries to still have flamethrowers in active service, what purpose do these have and serve? Would they be effective in combat?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
And is it particular to a specific type of oil?
First, does anyone have a link to watch or dl this with English subs? There are some videos on YouTube but they seem incomplete and don't have eng subs.
Second, I'm looking to buy this on bluray. Most versions are expensive but there is one that is affordable. It's the one with the red tachikoma on the front cover. Does anyone own this and does it have both Japanese audio and English subs?
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
They’re on standbi
Amazon only has the German version.
