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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I’ve spent a lot of time with Halo 3’s Battle Rifle, it remains a favorite to this day and I was overjoyed when I finally got to combine it with a mouse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 minutes ago

The gravity gun in HL2 was a lot of fun

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

a pretty modern and mundane response but at the moment, the RM68 in Battlefield 2042. mostly because of the odd sound it makes and how solid the hit markers for it feel. it's certainly not the best gun in the game (or any game) but it's just nice.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

AA12 in Killing Floor

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Have fun, it's fantastic!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Railgun, Quake II.

Rocket launcher, Quake III

ASMD, Unreal/Unreal Tournament

Any good stake weapons (Painkiller, FEAR?).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

We still playin its free now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

A feel-good lifetime memory!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

oof good answer

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Farsight from Perfect Dark

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 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.

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