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The Pyro Blaster is a weapon in Tools of Destruction, All 4 One and Full Frontal Assault. It is a kerchu-manufactured flamethrower sold by GrummelNet Industries, which blasts a stream of fire in front of it, that deals damage over a spread area and over time.

In Tools of Destruction, it can be upgraded to the Incinerator with use, which fires twin intertwining streams of plasma.

History[]

The Pyro Blaster was engineered by the kerchu,[1] and sold by GrummelNet. GrummelNet advertised selling smore kits that accompany its upgrade, the Incinerator, separately.[2]

Characteristics[]

Pyro Blaster gameplay

Ratchet firing the Pyro Blaster.

In Tools of Destruction, the Pyro Blaster is a yellow and black weapon with a long nozzle. The Incinerator upgrade is a bulkier, orange weapon with two shorter nozzles, and two visible green fuel cells on its side.

In All 4 One and Full Frontal Assault, the muzzle of the weapon is significantly larger, and the rusty color scheme was changed to a more colorful style.

Gameplay[]

Overview[]

The Pyro Blaster is a standard flamethrower which fires a wide stream in front of it. It is a close-to-medium range weapon that deals high damage spread out over time. Although powerful, its limited range makes it not as useful against common enemies, especially due to its lack of stopping power. It is therefore best used against mobs of small enemies in close range, or against slower or disabled targets.

Tools of Destruction[]

The Pyro Blaster is available to Ratchet for 100,000 bolts upon reaching the Kreeli Comet. It can be upgraded with raritanium, and despite its very high rate of fire uses only one ammo per second. With use, it upgrades to the Incinerator, which doubles the direct damage output by adding another stream of fire, a clear and direct upgrade.

Raritanium upgrades for the weapon include More ammo, Longer range, More damage and More raritanium. Longer range addresses the more immediate shortcoming of the weapon, and is thus the most useful upgrade. The Superheated Fuel Injector special raritanium upgrade makes its fire stream much wider (an increase of 50%). This further increases its effectiveness against groups, though it does not make it a more versatile weapon.

A useful tactic is to pair it with the Mag-Net Launcher to kill large targets very quickly, as targets that are stuck in a trap are easy to hit with the weapon as they cannot evade it.

In challenge mode, the Omega Incinerator upgrade could be purchased for 4,500,000 bolts.

All 4 One[]

The Pyro Blaster is available upon reaching Magnus. It can be given an ammo upgrade for 5,000 bolts, a power upgrade for 10,000 bolts, and an elite upgrade for 30,000 bolts.

The Elite Pyro Blaster is the upgraded version of the Pyro Blaster. Any enemy it burned would catch fire.

Full Frontal Assault[]

Pyro turret

The Pyro Turret

The Pyro Blaster is available as a weapon to collect at weapon pods and as a turret. As the Pyro Blaster, it functions as a standard flamethrower, and can be upgraded to the Alpha Pyro Blaster at V3 with use.

As the Pyro Turret, it can be deployed to defend bases. It has the smallest range of the turrets, but deals stronger damage than most of them.

Behind the scenes[]

The Pyro Blaster appears in 8-bit Mini Mayhem.

In the re-imagined game the Pyrocitor uses the model of the Pyro Blaster albeit colored orange.

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