Currently, the flamethrowers deal a quit high damage, more than similar wepons on the current levels. They have limited shots, but people have begun to take several flamers into battle (I saw one mech with 4 flamers).
In combination with the high heat to cause a shutdown it is unbalanced. Therefore the damage the flamer cause should be lowered to a similar level of the other common wepons.

there is 1 flsamethrower that wache has that has unlimited uses and he rocks my heat shield when i face him with that alone. all he does is hook then flamethrower and it's really an annoying fight