Well obviously that isn't possible right now, or every time you shot your AR it would burn a hole through the ground; we don't have environmental destruction (yet).

That isn't my point, my point is - the plasma would be more of an instant-kill rather than a DoT.

Firing a massive chunk of plasma rather than small tiny capsules of ionised gas would be instant-kill... It is not physically possible to hold back that high of a concentration of plasma, whereas a small capsule of gas is withstand-able.

More volume =/= more concentration. Without the encapsulation it it far less concentrated; 10x more volume does not equal 10x more power.
Also the damage is much higher than the AR anyway; I intend for it do do 420 damage per second. If you took all the shots an AR fires in 1 second (12.5) and combine them into a big chunk, the plasma flamethrower would still do more damage in a second than that chunk.
EDIT: Made some errors in the post before, fixed now.

That statement is illogical, more mass fired (plasma mass requires a huge amount of energy to be heated) will definitely result in more energy (thermal damage), and subsequently more concentration...

go check out my idea of a flame thrower.... since you can walk through the burning structures on here anyway why should heat do damage? instead acid... its a few posts above this or below

go check out my idea of a flame thrower.... since you can walk through the burning structures on here anyway why should heat do damage? instead acid... its a few posts above this or below

Acid is awfully inefficient as a weapon.

Also, awfully rude to ask people on a suggestion thread to look at another suggestion thread that is newer than the one you are posting on to ask people to look at the newer one. Awfully rude.

Also not nearly as cool as plasma

go check out my idea of a flame thrower.... since you can walk through the burning structures on here anyway why should heat do damage? instead acid... its a few posts above this or below

The author went a great length to emphasize that plasma is different from flame. How exactly are flame and plasma different?

I explained in it OP that the plasma flamethrower shoots PLASMA. Plasma is not fire, its superheated ionized gas, the stuff that the stars are made of.
Assault rifles, shotguns, scrambler pistols, scrambler rifles (next build), plasma cannons (next build), blaster turrets and installations all shoot plasma, and they most definitely damage our dropsuits.

The author went a great length to emphasize that plasma is different from flame. How exactly are flame and plasma different?

well sorry i didn't see it i know what plasma is its 'almost' the fourth state of matter taking on qualities of a gas and a liquid i stare at linear condensed plasma every time i play using nova knives so i know what plasma is

the only problem is without the gravity slug all those other weapons use the "flame" will go straight up and evaporate a few feet from the barrel most likely roasting the person using it.... BUT if you use a conical like projection across the outer rim of the barrel it is a viable solution to making a "flame" with plasma

XD of course its going to be orangeish purple looking but thats better than actual fire... it is however still the most uncivilized horrible barbaric ways to kill someone... besides probably my knives

I explained in it OP that the plasma flamethrower shoots PLASMA. Plasma is not fire, its superheated ionized gas, the stuff that the stars are made of.
Assault rifles, shotguns, scrambler pistols, scrambler rifles (next build), plasma cannons (next build), blaster turrets and installations all shoot plasma, and they most definitely damage our dropsuits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics) Here, go read. Its not my job to educate people.

I'm pretty sure lasers are also heat based, you don't walk through lasers do you?

Take a physics class, or just "basic science for dummies".

You kids are cute.

Flames are not a from of plasma. What you see as "flames" is simply super heated little particles that are glowing because of the heat, those same particles then turn into "smoke" once they lose the vast majority of that heat.

The difference between the two is that simple flames do not have enough ionized particles to be considered plasma.

Some flames are plasma, but not all are:
http://www.plasmacoalition.org/plasma_writeups/flame.pdf