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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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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

I hacked the Super Shotgun in Quake II to autorepeat quickly and take clips up to 999 large instead of 20 at a time.

Gibs the Makron in about five seconds. (No not that French geezer.)

Edit: oh yeah, I did the same with the rocket launcher too. I'm not sure which of those two is my favourite.

[–] Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 31 minutes ago
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

The Seeker from Singularity is greatly under appreciated like the whole. It fires a steerable bullet and slows time down while doing so.

BTW, any smart asses that want to go "Well Ackchyually" that the gun shoots the whole bullet with the casing, it's based on gyrojet guns.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

AA12 in Killing Floor

[–] Gurei@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

The Farsight in Perfect Dark. Alas, I'll never be as good with it like I was back in high school.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 hours ago

The "huntsman" bow and arrow for the sniper in TF2.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Probably an unpopular opinion, but the Magnum in L4D2. For whatever reason, it's the most satisfying gun I've used in any game - the weight, action, recoil and sound all come together in a perfect package.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, that gun rocks. The magnum in Black Mesa is also pretty great, and probably based on the same feel.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Your comment just made me realize that I bought Black Mesa awhile back and never got around to playing it. Thanks for resurrecting a forgotten piece of my Steam library, kind stranger!

Have fun, it's fantastic!

[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Stuff that makes enemies explode in 1 hit, like bfg10k or the sniper ray in quake 3. As for more absurd things, armed and dangerous had shark guns, reverse gravity gun and others

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Railgun, Quake II.

Rocket launcher, Quake III

ASMD, Unreal/Unreal Tournament

Any good stake weapons (Painkiller, FEAR?).

[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Damn I remember crouching on painkiller so I could stake enemies to the ceiling

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 11 minutes ago
[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours 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 3 points 3 hours ago

We still playin its free now

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours 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 4 points 3 hours ago

A feel-good lifetime memory!

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Flak cannon from unreal tournament 2004.

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

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 2 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

Flak cannon on original UT was better, by my opinion.

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 2 points 33 minutes ago

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

[–] GTac@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago

I loved the kar98k even more. My friend and I would one v one on small maps only using this weapon. So much fun. And the single player sniper missions with it were great.

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 hours ago

oof good answer

[–] dicksteele@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours 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.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Farsight from Perfect Dark

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Unreal 2 black hole cannon

[–] k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (7 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.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago

The split screen multiplayer where one person would be a monkey while the others hunted it was so much fun. I can see the cerebral bore squirting monkey brains so clearly in my mind.

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[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 9 points 5 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.

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago (3 children)
[–] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 52 minutes ago

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.

[–] f314@lemmy.world 9 points 6 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?

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[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2

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[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 17 points 7 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 18 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] ving_thor@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

The bolt thrower in painkiller.

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 20 points 7 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.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] ving_thor@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours 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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