If you did not know about it, you do now. This is where I get all of my numbers.
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=430466813
HTML view: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GDpg2mN1l_86U_RaDug0glFx8cZCuErwxZLiBKl9SyY/htmlview#

You are the best trash killer in the game with insane crowd control on trash to boot with nothing but a caulk n' burn.

What this allows you to do is:

• Kill all the trash (obviously)
  
  
• Guarantee an escape route with all of that cc
  
  
• Pick up all sorts of different off-perk weapons, allowing you to partially fill any other roles the team might be lacking (this is no replacement for the real thing e.g. You cannot go without a medic just because you can fit the medic assault rifle and smg)
  
  
• Make the team tons of dosh with all of that dosh you don't have to spend
  
  
• Peel zeds off of teamates
  
  
• Become an indestructable door
  
  
• Permanently disable medium trash zed abilities

What you cannot do is fight large zeds. I get that you can cause microwave/flame panic, microwave pushback, and stumble; but unless you can kill it, or your teamates don't need to land headshots, you would be doing your team a disservice.

There is a 0.35 second period of time after tap firing where you can deal damage without consuming ammo. To emphasize the significance of this, let's do a bit of math. Spray-based weapons consume 857 ammo per minute. A tap fire will consume a minimum of 4 ammo (3 for MWG).
(857 ammo / 1 minute) * (1 minute / 60 seconds) * (0.35 seconds) = 4.999167 -> 5 free ammo every tap fire rounded up.

5 free ammo / 4 ammo = 125%
5 free ammo / (5 free ammo + 4 ammo) = 55.56%

TL;DR You effecively increase your ammo by 125%, and reduce your ammo costs by 55.56% by tap firing.

When you finish a tap fire, you quickly create a flame wall if you are sprinting instead a little spot. Very nice for creating lots of ground fire.

Handy dandy guide for that
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=754653243

You will deal impact damage and create ground fire this way. You will also not obstruct your teamates' view.

Scrakes and fleshpounds only take 30% damage from fire. All you are capable of doing to them is pi$$ing them off.

It is not a suicidal tactic. Remember: your heat wave skill gives you insane crowd control. Even though sirens and husks only take 50% damage from fire (this means that they are more vulnerable to fire than the large zeds), they won't be able to do $hit to you because they get perma stumbled like all other trash before they can do any real damage. They die reasonable fast against a firebug and are quite threatening to other perks. This also applies to bloats. Remember: ALL trash get perma stumbled by heat wave.

After you have consumed 125 ammo, it is cheaper to sell and rebuy the caulk n' burn.

You spawn with your entire loadout. You don't need dosh except for ammo and a medic pistol.

Originally posted by Abdelhazred:

Is Hans aware that he's weak to fire? He seems to actively try to walk around ground-fire (making him manipulatable.)

Great find. It also works when he tries to drain as well.

It depends on which weapon you have. You need 100 fuel in the tank, otherwise you can find yourself reloading while you are overwhelmed.

Ground fire (not the skill) does significantly more damage than afterburn or impact damage at a rate of 10 damage (5 for MWG) every 0.25 seconds. Ground fire (skill) will double that to 20 damage. Both the flamethrower and caulk n' burn deal the same amount of ground fire damage. As for barbecue, if you decide to stop firing, you turn off almost all of your damage. This isn't the godly afterburn from KF1 when the impact damage was $hit and when ground fire didn't exist.

Zed shrapnel has a 20% chance on zed kill to deal 10 damage in a 2 meter radius with linear explosive falloff (explosive falloff = 1). The explosion has cc values of 500 for knockdown, melee hit, and stumble. Basically means that you can knock down a scrake or an unraged fleshpound and screw up you sharpshooter, gunslinger, or demo. With napalm, zeds that come in contact with a burning zed will instantly take 7 damage and 35 more damage over 12.5 seconds.

All trash zeds can be perma stumbled by heat wave, guaranteeing an escape route for your team should you need to book it and allowing you to get into zed's faces without consequences.

Pyromaniac does not change the interval by which zeds take damage from spray-based weaponry. In other words: pyromaniac does NOTHING to your damage. Don't know why, I was super disappointed when I found out. Feel free to see for yourself on SomeTestMap. Might as well pick up inferno since it actually does something.

Damage: 10
Afterburn: 34 damage over 1.7 seconds
Fuel: 50
Ammo cost: 20
Ranges:
1 hit = 10.00m
2 hits = 8.80m
3 hits = 7.20m
4 hits = 6.35m
5 hits = 5.65m
6 hits = 4.99m
7 hits = 3.50m
Bonus: You do not take damage from caulk n' burn



Damage: 21
Afterburn: 57.12 damage over 1.7 seconds
Fuel: 100
Ammo cost: 83
Ranges:
1 hit = 11.50m
2 hits = 11.20m
3 hits = 11.00m
4 hits = 10.75m
5 hits = 10.00m
6 hits = 7.00m
7 hits = 4.50m


Flamethrower kills stuff faster, but is much more expensive to run. You would be better off giving dosh to your teamates, starting with the medic.

There is so much $hit that you can get away with using caulk alone. Sprint n' tap fire is all there is to it. You want to play the survivalist perk before it is released? This is it. You have so much space available to use all sorts of weapons without compromising your build that is the caulk n' burn.