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

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 13 minutes ago

Railgun, Quake II.

Rocket launcher, Quake III

ASMD, Unreal/Unreal Tournament

Any good stake weapons (Painkiller, FEAR?).

[–] dicksteele@lemm.ee 1 points 6 minutes ago

I’m gonna put forward an uncommon weapon. Counter strike’s Zeus. I have 5000+ hours in csgo/cs2 and I have enjoyed the times when me and some friends have Zeused the enemy team more than any other kind of gameplay. You can jump around inferno apps, out of windows, up through windows, in and around boiler, on balcony while boosting a mate. Hide on the boxes on site and jump down to short. Same with nuke.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 minutes ago

Unreal 2 black hole cannon

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 18 minutes ago
[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (2 children)
[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

In one match I got two air disc kills over 300m. I was a god damn sniper with that thing.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 12 minutes ago

A feel-good lifetime memory!

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I was hoping someone would mention the disc launcher!

We used to play the shareware version on the school computers whenever we had free time. Shazbot!

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 21 minutes ago

We still playin its free now

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Flak cannon from unreal tournament 2004.

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

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 hour ago

Proxy mines, complex, license to kill mode

[–] ving_thor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

The bolt thrower in painkiller.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Farsight from Perfect Dark

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What about the laptop turret, that was a fun one!

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour 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 6 points 2 hours ago

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

Flak Cannon in Unreal Tournament.

Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2 obviously.

[–] GTac@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

M1 Garand in the old Call of Duty games.

Love me a quick single shot rifle and the iconic ping sound when it reloads is just chef's kiss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lezq2l-Z_wc

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] f314@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 3 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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).

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Man I bought F.E.A.R. recently for like a dollar on GOG and I really want to play it, but I don't want SecuROM malware all over my system.

[–] anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 2 hours ago

Even that thread is full of mixed messages but I guess I'll just risk it.

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

Download a cracked version. You’ve already bought a license.

The graphics dated fairly quickly but I believe the ai, combat and atmosphere should still be excellent.

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 hours ago

Rise of the Triad's Flamewall.

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 5 points 2 hours ago

The kritzkreig from tf2. It does no damage, it actually does negative damage. But when you hit that switch, oooooo

[–] k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] breen@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

I definitely read that as Turok Tutu

Came here looking for this

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] ving_thor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] themoken@startrek.website 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours 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.

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I used to roll with the G3 in Battlefield 2.

Also the DMR from Halo Reach is a favourite.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

There's been a lot of fun ones. The battle for second place is bloody and impossible to call, but the number one spot belongs only to the BFG.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Force-a-Nature

[–] Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 hours ago

Super Shotgun from Doom 2, love the feeling when you shoot it.

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

If I could only pick one, it would probably be a simple shotgun

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago

The SH1900 from The Finals is one of the most satisfying guns I've used in a game before. Kicks like a horse but chunks away enemy health bars. High risk, high reward, high octane. And the audio just thumps you right in the chest with every shot, almost as much as the folks on the business end of the barrel.

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The sub-machine gun with grenade launcher in Half Life. such a vital tool.

[–] cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

SR8 in Urban Terror... used to have so much fun sniping people in that game

https://urbanterror.fandom.com/wiki/Remington_SR8

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