The pistol. Love it or hate it?

[Job]

It was best in Doom 64. I'm aware it utilized the PSX sound, but that being equal, it looked better than the PSX one too. 

Edited April 9, 2020 by Job

[joshthenesnerd]

there's a lot i think is great about the pistol. the sound is great, it doesn't spread, the sprite looks really good, it's great for shoot switches you can't reach but that good is weighed down by one big bad. the animation is so unsatisfying. like, the shotgun's animation is so satisfying and it feels smooth. same with the chaingun and the rocket launcher. but the pistol's animation is just a clunker and it just makes it feel like a slog to use.

[Billy Baron]

I think it is a good weapon overall. For DOOM and DOOM ][ it serves its purpose very well.

           Ha hah, last monster. Damn, out of shells. Only half a clip left. It's rippin time!

 

In DOOM 3, it is similarly awesome, if a little bit underused. There always seems to be a bit of an off opportunity. In RoE, it is actually in view way more, so the opportunities to blow someone or something away with it is.

 

I like to blow nukage filled barrels up with it, like in Barrels o' Fun from DOOM ][, switches, etc.

 

 

 

[Andromeda]

You mean the switch shooter?

[IvanDobrovski]

Useless weapon. There's nothing to make really not make it obsolete, unlike the fists (with berserk, if we exclude the god awful damage range thanks to crappy RNG) which may still be relevant even after picking up a chainsaw. As soon as chaingun comes to play pistol is long forgotten. Never existed.

 

Funny enough Quake repeated this mistake with the nailgun IMO. As soon as a super nailgun is picked the former became obsolete.

[Solmyr]

I don't have anything against the old pea shooter, it's useful for clearing small groups of trash, stun-locking chaingunners, dealing with cacos and lost souls, and shooting switches. It gets outclassed when i get any other weapon.

[Pirx]

On 4/6/2020 at 6:13 PM, TheNoob_Gamer said:

Hey, you can stunlock zombies (including shotgunners and chaingunners), lost souls and imps with it. Also 100% accuracy if  you can wait for the animations.

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Doom 5's pistol is actually the best one in any Doom game.

 

 

and save a shell if that imp didn't eat the full buckshot. and it helps with tyson runs.

 

 

[joe-ilya]

I don't even like the shotgun in Doom all that much, so the pistol is really not up my alley, hate the way it's implemented in the game.

I wish the pistol would fire quicker and precisely, all while giving the chaingun a downside, such as a cooldown, so to not make the pistol useless.

[Scrabbs]

could not care for it any less

[Faustrecht]

At beginning against weaker Demons its pretty useful but once i have a shotgun or Chainsaw its obsolete.

I wonder how long u need to kill a Cyberdemon with it :D

Edited April 17, 2020 by Faustrecht

[IvanDobrovski]

It takes 14 tics assuming you keep firing it. 35 tics is a second, so you spend 0.4 seconds per shot. Next, your average damage is 10, because the pistol fires a single bullet doing either 5, 10 or 15 damage. Assuming you keep dealing the average damage, and since Cyberdemon has 4000 health, you'd need 400 bullets and land all of them to kill one. 400 x 0.4 = 160 seconds. A little over 2.5 minutes.