Flare Gun

Flare Gun
Kill Icons
Basic Information
Used by	Pyro
Slot	Secondary
Ammo
Ammo loaded	1
Ammo carried	16
Loadout Stats
The Flare Gun Flare Gun 100% critical hit vs burning players This weapon will reload when not active "Send out a distress signal on behalf of that guy you just set on fire."

The Flare Gun is an alternative secondary weapon for Pyro. It is a plastic, team-colored flare gun with black grips and a metal sight on top. Enemies on fire will have their flames tinted their team's color.

The Flare Gun fires a team-colored flare projectile that deals 30 damage at any range, igniting whatever enemy it comes into contact with, causing them to suffer ten seconds of afterburn. Even though the flare itself is team-colored, the fire will always remain red. In addition, the Flare Gun will critical hit any enemy that is currently on fire, comboing with itself and dealing 90 damage. This includes enemy Pyros that have been (very briefly) set on fire. It is still able to randomly crit. The flare itself is decently fast and perfectly accurate, but suffers from gravity falloff, and can be reflected by enemy Pyros. The Flare Gun will also passively reload, meaning the user can switch weapons and still have a flare loaded. It will not fire underwater, but can damage underwater enemies if shot from above the surface.

Taunting with the Flare Gun will cause the Pyro to perform the Hadouken kill taunt, releasing a hitscan bullet (disguised as a cone of fire) from their hands and dealing 500 damage to any enemies directly in front of them, including those underwater. It will always face forwards regardless of where the user aims, can kill multiple enemies at once, and deal knockback to invulnerable enemies. It will not deal critical hits, but can deal mini-crits, and will damage buildings. If the victim somehow survives the taunt, they will not suffer afterburn. The fire is red regardless of which team the user is on.

Properties

Properties
Shot type		Projectile
Damage type		Bullet, fire
Ranged or Melee?		Ranged
Taunt		Hadouken
Damage
Base damage	100%	30
Critical		90
Mini-crit		41
Bullet count		1
Status Effects
Effect		Afterburn
Afterburn		3 / tick
Afterburn (mini-crit)		4 / tick
Afterburn duration		10 s
Ammo
Loaded		16
Reload type		Passive
Function Times
Attack interval		2 s
All values are approximate.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Bulgarian	Сигналният пистолет	Flare Gun
Spanish	Pistola de Bengalas	Flare Gun
English	Flare Gun	-
French	Pistolet de détresse	Flare Gun
German	Signalpistole	Flare Gun
Italian	Pistola lanciarazzi	Flare Gun
Brazilian Portuguese	Arma Sinalizadora	Flare Gun
Romanian	Pistol de semnalizare	Flare Gun
Russian	Ракетница	Flare Gun
Ukrainian	Ракетниця	Flare Gun

Update history

2.0.0

• Updated Rockets, Arrows, Syringes and Flares to pass through Teammates. (tf2c_projectile_ally_collide 1 to re-enable)

2.1.0

• Now enabled in medieval mode

2.1.3

• Raised afterburn condition duration for Pyros to 0.5s (from 0.25s)
  • This allows for Flaregun^(sic) combos in certain situations
• Damage over time conditions (bleed, afterburn) no longer apply on the very same tick as damage

2.1.5

• Increased deploy speed by 15%
• Fixed a bug that caused fizzling flares to attempt to move ragdolls across the entire map

Trivia

• The Flare Gun was added to Team Fortress 2 in the 2008 Pyro Update.
• The Hadouken (波動拳 in Japanese) originates from a special attack in the Street Fighter video games, where it is depicted as an orb of special energy rather than a cone of fire.