The Flamethrower Kit or Flame Trooper is a kit featured in the Battlefield series.
Battlefield Vietnam[]
The Flamethrower kit is featured in the official World War II Mod for Battlefield Vietnam. Unlike other kits, it can only be taken from its designated spawn point, and exists solely to allow the player character's third person model to change to include the flamethrower tank.
One kit spawns at every control point on every map, and they always spawn inside a building.
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Battlefield 1[]
- This item has a Codex entry: Burning Man
The Flame Trooper is an Elite Kit featured in Battlefield 1.[1]
Singleplayer[]
Flame Troopers are the most common elite soldiers in Singleplayer. They appear on every level except Friends In High Places. They have higher health than standard enemies, but unlike in multiplayer, can be taken down more quickly if the fuel container on their back is targeted - gunfire can rupture the tank, which explodes, killing anyone nearby.
German Flame Troopers appear in the opening chapter of the campaign, Storm of Steel. One German trooper appears in Through Mud and Blood and is seen in the village, while searching for spare plugs for Black Bess.
Two Ottoman Flame Troopers appear in The Runner, in Fort Nöbet. Another two Turkish troopers appear in the occupied village in Nothing Is Written.
The largest number of Flame Troopers appear in Avanti Savoia!. About 10 Austro-Hungarian flamethrower soldiers are seen supporting their infantry while defending Monte Grappa from Italian offensive.
Multiplayer[]
The Flame Trooper kit is obtained via a wooden crate found in fixed locations on certain maps, similar to Battle Pickups from Battlefield 4 and Battlefield Hardline.
The kit is focused on attacking enemy infantry and fortified positions through the use of one of the most notorious weapons of the conflict - the Wex infantry-portable flamethrower. The user is also equipped with 3 incendiary grenades, and most importantly, a fire-retardant suit and a permanently equipped gas mask, which completely protects from incendiary and gas granades, significantly reduces damage from explosives and offers sentry-like armor all around the body, reducing received gunfire damage by around 83%, at expense of limiting the wearer's mobility and vision.
The primary weapon, while deadly at close range, leaves the operator vulnerable to attack from afar. It can also kill the user if it is activated too close to a wall or fired at the user's feet. Players are also vulnerable to takedowns from behind, a successful bayonet charge, and other situations that would normally cause death, such as roadkills and falls.
In the maps that don't have the Behemoth will offer a selection of elite kits—including the Flame Trooper kit—instead.
Locations[]
| Map | Game Mode | Location |
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| Suez | Rush | Inside the village 3rd sector. |
| Fao Fortress | Conquest | In the fortress on the wall near the tower by the crates flag F. |
| Rush | In the fortress in the tunnel last sector. | |
| Amiens | Conquest | It can be found at flag B. |
| St. Quentin Scar | Rush | Available to the British in the 4th sector |
| Sinai Desert | Conquest | It can be found at flag E. |
| Rush | In the village last sector. | |
| Monte Grappa | Operations | Near the trail leading up the graveyard and church on the first sector |
| Empire's Edge | Conquest | On flag D near the flag by the broken wall. |
| Argonne Forest | Conquest | Under the bridge at flag C. |
| Giant's Shadow | Shock Operations | Available to the Germans along with three other elite kits in the first sector in place of a behemoth |
| Soissons | Rush | Available to the Germans in defense of the 4th sector. |
| Fort De Vaux | Conquest | It can be found at flag C by the flag. |
| Verdun Heights | Operations | Available to the Germans along with three other elite kits in place of a behemoth. |
| Nivelle Nights | Conquest | It can be found in the ruined house facing the German trenches between flag C and D. |
| Prise de Tahure | Conquest | On the fountain steps at flag C. |
| Galicia | Conquest | Located in the trench at flag D. |
| Łupków Pass | Conquest | By the broken wall facing the Russian spawn at flag G. |
| Brusilov Keep | Conquest | Found at the house near flag D by the road to flag B. |
| Tsaritsyn | Conquest | Along the western block of buildings, midway along that side of the map. |
| Cape Helles | Conquest | Can be found near flag D. |
| Achi Baba | Conquest | Within the Operations objective of Mule Trench |
| Zeebrugge | Conquest | Within one of the blockhouses next to flag E. |
| River Somme | Conquest | On the north side of the arched railway bridge between flags E and F. |
| Passchendaele | Conquest | Within the trench line on flag B. |
| Caporetto | Conquest | Located on the overlook south of flag B. |
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Achievements and Trophies[]
| Image | Name | Criteria | Achievement Points | Trophy Type |
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Firefighter | Perform a melee kill on a Flametrooper Elite | 25G | 
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Battlefield V[]
Flame Troopers are an enemy type featured in the singleplayer of Battlefield V and Combined Arms. German Flame Troopers can be seen in the War Stories Nordlys, Under No Flag and Tirailleur, Their flamethrowers appear to be Wex flamethrowers with an M2 Flamethrower fuel tank. They explode upon death but do not if killed by a bayonet charge. Their flamethrowers cannot be picked up by the player.
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Battlefield Vietnam[]
- In
LexiconAll.datthere are stringsOLD_RESPAWN_ASSAULT_US_ALTandOLD_RESPAWN_ASSAULT_JAP_ALT, both of which are localized to "FLAME THROWER-GRENADES-BINOCULARS". This suggests that the Flamethrower could have been intended as the second Assault loadout, which currently contains a semi-automatic rifle. - The Flamethrower kit has no icon, and on the scoreboard, players with Flamethrower kits are shown with the icon of the kit that they had before picking up the current kit.
- Due to a bug with patch 1.2, if the World War II Mod is installed after the patch, the Flamethrower kits will not appear on singleplayer maps. The patch notes recommended installing the World War II Mod before patch 1.2, or reinstalling patch 1.2 after the World War II Mod is installed. However, the latter does not actually work as the installer does not allow installing the patch onto an equal or higher version.
Battlefield 1[]
- A bug currently allows the Flame Trooper to take damage from their own Wex (and possibly other sources of flame) after exiting a vehicle.[2]
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