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New Weapon: G521 Plasma Thrower
Inspired by the Phlogistinator and the Gluon Gun.

It's the flamer, but for a more aggressive playstyle:
- significantly shorter burn time except on eggs and biomass
- higher base damage
- damage starts at 50% and ramps up to full over the first second of sustained fire. ramps down at the same speed while not firing.
- no projectile travel time
- shorter maximum range
- instead of extinguisher alt fire it has tf2 pyro's airblast (we have friendly fire, so greatly reduced push on friendlies but it still does move them a little)
While Pulse Rifle's pushing altfire only applies a tiny bit of force to Tarnor's near-indestructible rocks (still enough to possibly get them lift a marine), Plasma Thrower's seem to disregard their weight and push them with the same force as small gray barrels.
Nulling the current magazine with altfire sometimes causes the auto-reload to be delayed by altfire's cooldown, and at other times the reload is correctly initiated right away. [Edit] Same with Ricochet Rifle.