[quote=“Miloch, post:6, topic:11717”]I think this idea is honestly a bust. But thermite could be useful for other things. Fire traps and etc…[/quote]Gasoline is probably a better choice. Which means we should implement a new “fire trap” that sets the tile it’s on and a few around it in flames, of differing amounts depending on how much you’re using.
For thermite? I wouldn’t think traps. Phosphorus flammables are probably more readily functional for the really burny traps you’d want.
Uses for thermite however could include:
-Disabling vehicles and mechanical structures relatively quietly and quickly. The quietest way to put a hole through an engine block ASAP has probably got to be thermite, I’d think. A bit bright, sure, but that’s why you close the hood.
-Melting through metallic doors and walls, safes, reinforced windows, etc. There’s very little that can stand up to the sheer heat the stuff gives off.
-Welding, if you got the proper hardware, gear, and tasks for it at hand. Can even be used for underwater welding, too.
-Getting through something that has stupidly thick armor, assuming you have can force it to stay still long enough to actually let the thermite melt into it. An example could include some kinda “scrap [metal] hulk”, held in place by a gigantic electromagnet or smashed between two really heavy things. (throwing ideas at the wall at this point just to broaden horizons on usage, here.)
You could also use this to open a hole into power armor with a dead or incapacitated user, if the armor is locked down from the inside. Will at least prevent zombification or someone simply waking up from making a more surgical removal method difficult to perform later.
-Completely ruining whatever you burn it on top of. This can make thermite-burning a pile of zombies a neat disposal method, or if you just want to reduce your trash into an ashy pile. This quantity of burnination might need a lot more thermite though.
As it is, thermite is a sub optimal weapon. It needs really high temperatures to ignite (gasoline fires won’t burn it iirc), and in most weaponized cases, some kinda phosphorus based fires prove to be more effective for burn-purposes.
I suppose you could make a tile burn hot enough such that it bypasses virtually all fire resistances of anything in the game, but having enough thermite to cover a single tile is going to be extremely resource intensive. And is gonna leave behind a rather hefty hole.
