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Fire extinguisher vs. chem spray

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Kouhei Sakurai:
Just a quick question: for the different types of engineers, which firefighting tool is better? Also, are there any ships where one of the firefighting tool becomes significantly better? (E.g. due to ship layouts multiple components are clumped together and usually catch fire at the same time, etc?)

Alistair MacBain:
In almost every situation a chem spray is superior to a ext. Atleast imo.
For a Galleon you sometimes want a ext as lower deck engi. Similiar for the frontengi on a junker.
But those cases are rare ... A chem will never serve you bad if you can use it correct.
A ext might screw you over.

Indreams:
From my experience, which is very very shallow, any ship other than the Mobula and the Spire handles fire fairly well. However, every ship will have one or more components that is very hard to reach.

Goldfish's main engine is almost never reached mid-fight.
Pyramidion's top-deck components will almost never be worked by the main engi.
Junker has the top two engines that is hard to repair.
Squid's back gun is almost never tended.
Mobula's hull and balloons are hidden below deck.

so on and so forth...
It is a good idea to spray these components before a fire fight.

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When it comes to a comparison between extinguisher and chem spray, there's no clear winner, as their usefulness is situational.

Chem Spray will hard counter flamethrowers and other flame-based disables. With clever application, the spray will enable your ship for the duration of a skirmish. But if a component catches fire, the sprayer has no choice but to let the component burn out.

Extinguisher lacks the power of the chem spray, but with the extinguisher, the engineer can better focus on repairs and rebuilds.

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I think the general rule is to have one chem spray engi and one extinguisher engi.

By the way, never run extinguisher and spray at the same time. That is the mistake for a nincompoop.

Thank you for reading,   ;)

Replaceable:
Pretty much what alastair said.
But, if you remember to chem, chem is better.
If you don't chem then you may as well have fire extinguisher.
But a chem sprayed ship is better than a ship of all extinguishers.

On some ships though- where there is no time to chem, i request extinguishers.
(Like a spire. And a mobula [I'm re-evaluating this though] )

Ruairi:
In my opinion, it's wisest to gauge what guns the enemy is bringing. If they have flamers, banshees, or even hades especially in decent numbers then it will be wisest to take chemspray. However if the enemy doesn't have any fire based weapons extinguishers should be adequate. Another tip is to look at the enemy teams gunners to see what ammo they're bringing, mainly looking out for incendiary in this scenario.

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