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[Blaze]

Can anyone tell my why throwing several plastic bottles of random non-alchoholic drinks at a fire MAKES THE FIRE BIGGER???

[TheBronzePickle]

Plastic, being made of petroleum, is flammable as hell. The fire's probably counting the bottle and not the drink inside for flammability.

[Blaze]

If that was true, then liquor stores wouldn't go up like an elf in magma.

Also, bug: I'm getting the Glare penalty while inside a subway station.

[TheBronzePickle]

Then apparently the fire is so badass it doesn't give a flying fuck about something trying to douse it.

[Greiger]

Well isn't throwing small amounts of water on a really big fire supposed to just be a bad thing?   I was under the impression that it just causes oil and gas fires to spread.

Speaking of fire I recently discovered that throwing a molotov out a window in front of a building to stop a horde of zombies from reaching a building is a bad idea.  The molotov was aimed well enough to prevent the building from going up by itself.  But all the flaming zombies entering the building were not.

I ended up looting what I could and escaping through the window suffering only moderate smoke inhalation.  One less gun store on the map I guess.

[TheBronzePickle]

Using water against any kind of non-solid fire is generally a bad idea. It doesn't put out the fire and the oil or gas will flow over the water and spread.

Obviously, an electrical fire is even more dangerous to use water on since the water will act like a powerful conductor, and the metals in metal fires can just rip the oxygen out of the water, not only feeding the fire with more oxygen but creating hydrogen that adds to the fuel.

[jc6036]

Whales, could you add some sort of splatter effect when zombies die/get hit? It would add just a little bit of flavor, and I'm not asking for a 'blood' object, but just a recoloring of the tile to red/dark red. It's not really all that important, but I think that it would be pretty cool!

[G-Flex]

and the metals in metal fires can just rip the oxygen out of the water

I'm trying to figure out why this would be the case; do you have more information on this?

If that was true, then liquor stores wouldn't go up like an elf in magma.

Well, if the game were realistic, the majority of booze wouldn't work much at all in a molotov cocktail. It's just a genre staple.

[jc6036]

Yeah;gasoline works MUCH better. Not that I know that from personal experience or anything. . >.>

[CT]

I love realistic games, but I would rather it follow the rule of fun personally.

[Angle]

Theres already a blood splatter effect like what you're talking about.

[CT]

Is there a tile set for the new version yet?

[jc6036]

I know, when something dies, the tile under it turns red. I would like to see an effect where when something is wounded and walking around, it leaves a trail of blood. And blood spatter on walls from bullets, and generally pretty messy blood splatter whenever an enemy is hit. Maybe oil for robots. And bright green with triffids.

[G-Flex]

I love realistic games, but I would rather it follow the rule of fun personally.

Yeah, I'm not suggesting booze shouldn't work the way it does.

[CT]

Darn it why does no one answer my question