Things about Doom you just found out

[42PercentHealth]

1 minute ago, Piper Maru said:

For me it's Palsma rifle.

Was the misspelling intentional?

 

Here I am being a snob...

[Slimz]

On 9/25/2011 at 10:50 PM, Vorpal said:

That it's "Medikit" and not "Medkit"

Do you need "Medik"?

[scifista42]

7 minutes ago, 42PercentHealth said:

Was the misspelling intentional?

Yes.

[Linguica]

52 minutes ago, nxGangGirl said:

Same with "Plasma Rifle" instead of "Plasma Gun"

This is at least excusable since the manual / help screen call it a plasma rifle.

[Nine Inch Heels]

1 hour ago, Slimz said:

Do you need "Medik"?

I got this!

 

[nxGangrel]

I always figured the official name was "Plasma Gun". I just never liked saying plasma gun, and rifle came more naturally.

[Tracer]

I always thought that "super shotgun" sounded childish.  I rarely call it that.  I just say double barreled shotgun usually.

[Empyre]

It is called PlasmaRifle in DECORATE.

[42PercentHealth]

In the Descent series, it's called "plasma cannon." I accidentally called it a plasma rifle and got strange looks from my siblings, who are forbidden to play Doom and were wondering why I said that. :-P

[scifista42]

It's a gun, it fires plasma, "plasma gun" is faster and easier to pronounce than "plasma rifle", so it's plasma gun for me.

[Deleted_Account]

Am I misremembering things or does the Doom II manual refer to the super shotgun as the combat shotgun?

[damerell]

13 minutes ago, Piper Maru said:

Am I misremembering things or does the Doom II manual refer to the super shotgun as the combat shotgun?

I hope not; DoomRL uses "combat shotgun" to mean the single-barrel pump-action shotgun.

[Gez]

Strictly speaking, "plasma rifle" doesn't make much sense because why would a plasma weapon's barrel be rifled? Heck would it even have a barrel in the first place?

 

On the other hand, "rifle" kind of implies some sort of military weapon (rifleman, etc.) and it's not like weapon names in Doom are very accurate in the first place (cf. "chaingun"). So who cares.

[Tracer]

2 hours ago, 42PercentHealth said:

Will you change the way you pronounce it, or do you intend to keep saying "medkit?"

Funny...I always thought it was spelled "Medkit", but I pronounced it as Medikit because medkit sounded dumb to me.

[Bauul]

2 hours ago, nxGangGirl said:

I'm always gonna say and spell "Medkit". It's been like that for me since forever.

Funnily enough I'm the opposite.  It's always be "Medikit" to me in every single game, just because I got so used to the Doom naming.  Even in every other game where it's called a Medkit, I'll still add an "i" into the middle.

[damerell]

15 hours ago, Gez said:

Strictly speaking, "plasma rifle" doesn't make much sense because why would a plasma weapon's barrel be rifled?

One should always beware the argument from etymology, because it's usually wrong - it's entirely plausible in the future (maybe even now) there are "rifles" without rifling...

[Avoozl]

16 hours ago, Gez said:

it's not like weapon names in Doom are very accurate in the first place (cf. "chaingun"). So who cares.

I always thought the chaingun was supposed to be a fictional smaller handheld version of a minigun which fires 9mm bullets unlike a minigun.

[Gez]

Nope, chain guns (two words) are a real thing.

 

A chain gun is driven by an external motor instead of using energy from the cartridge's detonation to cycle the weapon. In a normal machine gun, the mechanisms to eject the spent cartridge and load the next are powered by the shot; which has the drawback that if the cartridge is a dud, the weapon gets jammed. On a chain gun, since it's powered by a motor, a dud cartridge just gets ejected normally.

 

Another thing is that chain guns have a single barrel. If you have a rapid-fire weapon with several rotating barrels, you're looking at a minigun. If you have rotating barrels and no motor to drive them, requiring the operator to hand-crank it, you're looking at a Gatling gun.

 

The real-world weapon the closest to Doom's chaingun is probably the microgun. It was a commercial failure; they should have used Doom for their marketing.

[damerell]

1 hour ago, Avoozl said:

I always thought the chaingun was supposed to be a fictional smaller handheld version of a minigun which fires 9mm bullets unlike a minigun.

I think so too, from the art, but that's not what a chain gun is.

Also, a Gatling gun's multiple barrels are mostly there to prevent overheating; firing high-energy rounds at a high rate of fire makes a lot of heat. You don't need that to fire pistol bullets at moderate speed - an ordinary submachine gun does it. (And, while I like the art, Doom's chaingun basically is an ordinary submachine gun).

Edited April 12, 2017 by damerell
apparently wrong but what do I know about guns?

[Avoozl]

59 minutes ago, Gez said:

Nope, chain guns (two words) are a real thing.

But I was only referring to the game one not the real life one which is why I named it one word just like in the game, but what I said was poorly worded as I didn't mean to imply there's no real chain gun.

 

On another note the Doom comic is surprisingly accurate to the game version of the weapon:

 

Edited April 12, 2017 by Avoozl

[Slimz]

I found out SSG (Super  Shotgun) Is a sawed-off shotgun and its very powerful.

[Slimz]

19 hours ago, Tracer said:

Funny...I always thought it was spelled "Medkit", but I pronounced it as Medikit because medkit sounded dumb to me.

Medik is here!

[42PercentHealth]

5 minutes ago, Slimz said:

I found out SSG (Super  Shotgun) Is a sawed-off shotgun and its very powerful.

Sawed-off shotguns are actually a bit less powerful than their full-length counterparts. The only reason people saw them short is for the purpose of hiding them in their clothing, vehicles, etc., usually for less-than-honorable purposes. So they're illegal in most (all?) US states.

 

I don't think Doomguy is concerned about hiding his weapons. I also don't think the US government is concerned about Doomguy using an illegal weapon to save the earth from invasion.

[Slimz]

4 minutes ago, 42PercentHealth said:

Sawed-off shotguns are actually a bit less powerful than their full-length counterparts. The only reason people saw them short is for the purpose of hiding them in their clothing, vehicles, etc., usually for less-than-honorable purposes. So they're illegal in most (all?) US states.

I don't think Doomguy is concerned about hiding his weapons. I also don't think the US government is concerned about Doomguy using an illegal weapon to save the earth from invasion.

I think US Goverment gave GUN LICENSE!!! Fuck where the fuck is my keyboard? *Grabs another keyboard.* Well then ten or thirty zombiemans (Pistol zombies or shotgun zombies) Can be killed by one hit sawed-off shotgun.

 

[42PercentHealth]

2 minutes ago, Slimz said:

Well then ten or thirty zombiemans (Pistol zombies or shotgun zombies) Can be killed by one hit sawed-off shotgun.

I was talking real-life, of course. :-)

[Slimz]

2 minutes ago, 42PercentHealth said:

I was talking real-life, of course. :-)

Oh lel, I gonna test does 30 zombiemans gonna die by using super shotgun.

[42PercentHealth]

2 minutes ago, Slimz said:

Oh lel, I gonna test does 30 zombiemans gonna die by using super shotgun.

No, it only fires 20 pellets, and each zombie requires 2-3 pellets to die. If the RNG really loves you, you might get 8, but I think 5 or 6 is more likely.

[Slimz]

10 minutes ago, 42PercentHealth said:

No, it only fires 20 pellets, and each zombie requires 2-3 pellets to die. If the RNG really loves you, you might get 8, but I think 5 or 6 is more likely.

Took 40 seconds to kill them.

[Slimz]

14 minutes ago, 42PercentHealth said:

No, it only fires 20 pellets, and each zombie requires 2-3 pellets to die. If the RNG really loves you, you might get 8, but I think 5 or 6 is more likely.

Even took 20 damages and etc... Let me get link

[Slimz]

2 minutes ago, Slimz said:

Even took 20 damages and etc... Let me get link

https://streamable.com/fyjt7