Most underwhelming weapon in Doom

[Gaia74]

for me the weapon I use less is the chainsaw, I rarely find it use

 

and the plasma rifle.... This:

19 hours ago, xvertigox said:

Plasma gun is the shit, I prefer it over the BFG. The BFG is very situational for me (cybers, SMM, hordes of stronger enemies) where as PG fucks shit up pretty much all the time. It's great for crowd control and it's great for focus firing. If a map has copious cells I'll use the PG way more than the BFG.

 

Chaingun is awesome too, it fucks up anything with a high painchance and it's function as a sniper makes it invaluable.

Edited December 5, 2019 by Gaia74

[[Vitz!]]

Of all of the weapons in the classic Doom? The Chainsaw.

I never ever want to use that thing. Sounds badass in concept, but in practice it's very underwhelming.

[nrofl]

I feel like when I first used the fists when in berserk. I was expecting a more satisfying sound. So it would probably fist even though it was meant to be a beginner weapon. I guess in that respect maybe it should be since its supposed to be one of the two starter weapons.

[Maximum Matt]

5 hours ago, nue said:

I was expecting a more satisfying sound.

Yeah, now that you mention it - it would be way cooler if it had the punch sound from Indiana Jones

[VGA]

11 hours ago, [Vitz!] said:

Of all of the weapons in the classic Doom? The Chainsaw.

I never ever want to use that thing. Sounds badass in concept, but in practice it's very underwhelming.

Yeah and it doesn't help that vanilla has some bugs that make the chainsaw unreliable. But it's good for maps where you need to conserve ammo...

[Ichor]

On 12/4/2019 at 8:11 AM, Gez said:

The wand in Heretic is stronger than the pistol.

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Elven_Wand

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Pistol

 

Numbers and tome of power aside, the biggest thing the wand has over the pistol is that impact sprite. Especially at long distances, you can clearly see where that wand hits and make aiming adjustments accordingly. The dragon claw is even better since the it's different if you hit a target rather than hitting a wall. The pistol just has the much harder to see bullet puffs and a bit of blood when you hit something.

[Poncho1]

I was not aware Doom was, in-and-of-itself, a weapon...

[Nembras]

When I finally got my hands on the BFG for the first time, I was quite underwhelmed. Delayed fire, low rate of fire, and unreliable "splash damage"... very inconvenient for a newb playing with keyboard only.

 

Once I got more expierenced, I learnt to see a use case for each and every weapon, even if it's very niche. The pistol could be a tiny bit more powerful, but I don't think the game suffers much from it.