Flare Gun

Flare Gun
LP-265a Leuchtpistole Flare Gun
Item type	Weapons
Location	Sierpinski
Level	The Mines
Room	Mining Station
Description	A single-shot gun for firing 26.5mm emergency signal flare cartridges that incinerate targets.
Inspect	LP-265a Leuchtpistole While not meant for combat, can be used to set enemies on fire, incapacitating them and dealing a large amount of damage over time.
Alternate Descriptions
Alternate Description	A single-shot gun for firing 26.5mm emergency signal flare cartridges. Repurposed as a grenade launcher.
Alternate Inspect	LP-265a Leuchtpistole While not meant for combat, it has been loaded with highly explosive grenades instead.

The Flare Gun can be obtained in the Mining Station save room near the end of S-23 Sierpinski.

It can also be loaded with highly explosive grenades. To do so, use 'Combine' on a Grenade Shell, then select the Flare Gun. If a Flare Shell is currently loaded, it will be unloaded into an empty slot.

Damage Stats

The normal flare gun deals an initial amount of damage and then applies burn damage over time. Testing reveals its damage to be 18 initial +5 burn on Survival difficulty, 30 initial +5 burn on Normal, and 70 initial +5 burn on Casual.

The HE grenade flare gun deals 60 damage in a radius on all difficulties, with damage decreasing based on distance from the center point.

Datamining reveals these two guns have mostly the same stats, which read as follows: Damage: 15, Cooldown: 0, reloadTime: 2.5, magSize: 1, magAmmo: 1, fullAuto: 0, burstSize: 0, and burstSpeed: 0. However, the standard flare gun has stats of 100 in hurt and critical chance, while the HE grenade flare gun has 50.

Trivia

• The flare gun is the only weapon in the game with two interchangeable ammo types.
• The flare gun seems to be inspired by the GECO LP2, a 26.5mm flare pistol used by the West German Bundeswehr during the Cold War.
• The HE grenade variant of the flare gun is known in the game's code as the Flakgun.

Gallery

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  Flare Gun test sprite

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  Flare Gun pickup

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  Icon of the Flare Gun loaded with Flare Shells

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  Icon of the Flare Gun loaded with Grenade Shells

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