The shink ray from Duke Nukem 3D was a delight to use in deathmatches. Shrink your opponent and squish 'em!

  • @k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    The Cerebral Bore from Turok 3, Shadows of Oblivion.

    Honestly the whole weapon set was super unique and fun for deathmatch. Too bad the recent remake excluded multiplayer entirely… I’m still very sour about it.

  • @Malix@sopuli.xyz
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    2912 days ago

    I’m kinda torn between Unreal Tournament’s (ut99) sniper rifle, flak cannon and the instagib variant of the shock rifle.

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      Flak cannon all the way, but I spent many days in high school instagibbing my friends so the shock rifle does hold a special place in my heart.

    • Ving Thor
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      1212 days ago

      Definitely the flak cannon. But I also really liked th3 disk gun, especially the sound of disks flying past you.

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      812 days ago

      The flak canon was a ton of fun, but I have a special fondness for the slime gun. Primary fire leaving a bunch of slime balls around was hilarious, as was running around with the secondary charged up, just hoping to run face first into someone and fire it at point-blank range, killing you both. Strategic or tactically sound? No. But hilarious.

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      I was just about to answer OP with “any ut99 weapon”. Even the backup melee one was great in the right situation.

      Though my favourite of them is probably the rocket launcher, but only by a thin margin. Mostly because my favourite map was always the small dojo one (morbias][), and that only has rockets and the occasional redeemer. Just pure death match all the time…

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        Ye. Ut99 weapons were pretty much all great. Personally I didn’t really like the goo gun, but others made it an absolute beast. The sniper rifle ended up being hilariously good at range and stupidly deadly at close range as headshots seemed to trigger on any hit above belly. The buzzaw throwing thing was nifty for the bouncing shots, but iir the headshots with that required hits to the forehead… Which still cut the heads off from the neck. Felt weird that

        I guess the default pistol was a bit weak, but dual pistols was decent upgrade to it.

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      Undeniable classic. Not much more satisfying than hucking a file cabinet at a group of people who don’t see you yet.

      Also, the trip mines were fun to use in smaller games (just like the Duke3d ones).

  • Björn Tantau
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    The flak cannon from Unreal. It’s just a more fun and innovative type of shotgun with grenade launcher.

    • @manmachine@lemmy.world
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      211 days ago

      To quote Civvie:

      …it’s not important compared to The Super Shotgun. The ultimate demon slaying weapon, the pinnacle of shotguns. You think “why don’t they just call it the double barrel?”. Because it’s better. Because it’s super.

    • @f314@lemmy.world
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      Aww man, Red Faction was an awesome game! Didn’t the rail gun also have an infrared scope that could see through walls?

    • Chozo
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      I used to play RF2 multiplayer on GameCube with my brother when we were kids. We’d go onto that space map and try to snipe each other from across the map with the railgun.

      The early RF games are really underrated.

    • @PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works
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      Yesssss. I also loved the pistol in that game. It was one of the first games i came across where the pistol was just as deadly (in the right hands) as most anything else you could get.

      Side note, why the fuck don’t we have games with destructible environments anymore? I know BF4 has it, but the only other FPS I can think of that did it as well as red faction was ‘Black’ in 2006.

  • Majorllama
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    1312 days ago

    Flak cannon from unreal tournament 2004.

    Having a shotgun and a long range AOE explosive round was just too much fun.

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        412 days ago

        I’m a 93 baby. 2004 2as my first unreal game. I never went back and played the original sadly.

        • I Cast Fist
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          You should definitely play UT99, tho. Not as fast paced as 2004, but holds up incredibly well

          • Majorllama
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            211 days ago

            Oh I don’t doubt it.

            I just don’t play those types of games much anymore. Now that I’m an old man by gamer terms I prefer racing games or more relaxing coop games with friends. I’m less and less into fps games sadly. Used to be my bread and butter.

      • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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        512 days ago

        I almost said the Laptop Gun too. That game was full of cool and original weapons, second only to the Turok series

  • @amorpheus@lemmy.world
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    1112 days ago

    Compound bow in Crysis, I think it was the third game.

    Flak Cannon in Unreal Tournament.

    Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2 obviously.

    • BlackEco
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      712 days ago

      I especially like Heavy’s “bratatata” after a while hahaha

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    Unreal had a gun that shot saw blades that bounced off of surfaces. That was fun.

    The Goo Gun in Fortnite was also great it sprayed a sticky goo that exploded after a few seconds