Today Bungie revealed a new weapon and the final grenade type: the infamous flamethrower and the incendiary grenade. The flamethrower will be significantly more balanced than in Halo:CE, and far more realistic. The flamethrower wont merely spout flame, but actually release flaming fluid that will act and react like real fluid would. Frank O’Connor explained the principal of the flamethrower to IGN.

“If you shoot a pillar, the liquid in the flamethrower will adhere to it and burn there. Likewise with the floor and with bad guys. It will cause continual damage to a vehicle. When the flames start to cool down and evaporate, it stops causing damage. If you’re lucky enough to keep it on a Warthog, then you will in fact take it down with a flamethrower.”

The flamethrower also came with a new QuickTime VR that the Bungie team seems so fond of, and I have to say that the game is looking really, really, good graphically. If your connection can’t handle the VR, we’ll have multi-angle images of the flamethrower, and one of the incendiary grenade after the jump. The incendiary grenade operates like the flamethrower, but players throw it. It is designed to act as more of a defensive “tool” then as a weapon.

“You can block an exit by throwing down a couple of fire bombs. It will create a small wall of flames that it’s not smart for someone to walk through.”