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Can you blow up a robot with flares?
Also can you blow up the Destination Saturn big bad boss with flares?
I think you can't or can you?

it would take soo many flares........at least a 1000 or so

In D3, at least, you can kill robots with flares; it'd just take at least 50 hits per robot--not an easy feat to accomplish.

You could use them as weapons, albeit ineffective ones, in D1/2 as well. I remember seeing my one friend reduced to flares and ramming in the middle of a D2 level; not a pretty picture.

i forgot about something



the modded "Flare-Driver"

has the destructive force of a Mass Driver round, yet is as innocent looking as a flare

in D1 and D2 flares do 1 point of damage with one point of energy.

No clue in D3.

Before I figured out how to fire, I beat lvl 1 and 2 of descent 1 with flares

D3 flares also do one point damage. The easiest way to figure this is to watch your shields when Guidebot pegs you with one (he does, and he will as long as he's out).

(One time Guidebot pegged a Stinger right on the nose with a flare. And in D3, they stick, so I've got this robot with a flare sticking out his nose. LOL! )

i think the flare driver is a blast. fire one and watch them chase it, then while they are chasing that first flare, blast em with another.

In D3, the flares do a menial amount of damage, taking quite a number to really cause any effect other than lighting up the robot. I assume they do actually do one point of damage, but then again, one point doesn't do a lot in anything Descent-related.

A flare can kill a ship at 0% shields...which is rare. (Usually a ship that hits zero points shield is just half a second from being atomized, anyway.)

But I can't help but like the way they made the flares stick to the bots instead of just hit them and explode. Now you can do all sorts of fun stuff with them!

I killed a scrubber with one. I tried it on a monster scrub but it didn't work...

Destination Saturn... if that is the same as the level 7 boss - I really have no idea - you are looking at, I believe, 4000 flares, but it could be done if you had the energy (I mean in a physical sense, not your ship).

I once mapped flares to my fire button before logging onto PXO for some D3 action (so that when I hit fire, I would fire my regular weapon in addition to flares). The flares, if they hit the windshield just right, can actually obstruct other players' views. But everyone was whining and complaining, so it was especially worth it.

Heh, that's actually rather funny.