I’m convinced the conversation went something like this:

“Hey we made these primary and secondary weapons that are mini flamethrowers, they don’t shoot as far but they’re still pretty cool, right?!”

“Cool, so you can kill a Charger with your pistol now?”

“Oh shit… Guess we’ll just nerf all fire damage then and say we’re doing it for ‘realisim’.”

“Sounds good, Chief.”