Just to play devil's advocate here, in Space Hulk using the flamer leaves pools of flame for 1 turn. You use it to cut off access to specific corridors.

Looted Melta for Orks then; even if it only affects infantry. So we can be Burna Boyz!

Sooooooo... why didn't they just use the visuals for the Melta instead of particle-effects?

No.

Wait.

Let me guess.

A programmer trying to make it work his way despite what others say and then it doesn't work and gets scrapped and there's no time/money to give it a second try.


EDIT:
That happened once for a Mechwarrior-game. Everybody knows that Mechs don't have force-fields. But the programmers coded force-fields anyways and put a lot of effort in them to make them look good. And then they were disappointed that they couldn't add force-fields to the game because of lore.

Then it would just be a melta with a lower Damage and maybe a wider cone. Kinda lame in my opinion.

Needs to be a Salamander.

I believe the issue was having too many flamers in the match at once risking destroying everything. That's why they were looking into vehicle heavy flamers, because there was a limited number of tanks at any given time and that that number was much smaller than the number of players.

if u want u have to remove allies to allies kill. we are already killing our allies with bolters and meta. 98% player that use flamers will be kick from game