Tiagoquix
commented
3 months ago Also noted on the TF Wiki:
While holding down alt-fire after having saved up charges, trying to fire while still holding alt-fire instantly depletes the Manmelter of all its saved charges, and the crits counter is reset to 0. The weapon does not actually fire anything while this happens.
By holding down alt-fire first, then primary fire, the Manmelter consumes it's critical charges without launching it's fireball. This happens once per frame/tick, until it's altfire is released. Presumably the crits are instead being consumed on the alt-fire? There's no error information in the console; a player can be flamed by a flamethrower and extinguished by the Manmelter and nothing new will appear in the console.