What's your favorite FPS weapon?
What's your favorite FPS weapon?
The shink ray from Duke Nukem 3D was a delight to use in deathmatches. Shrink your opponent and squish 'em!
Remote mines from Goldeneye for N64. Never felt more like a spy than when you bait someone into charging at you spraying bullets and you just press a button on your watch
The remote charge from Red Faction, cant remember the exact name but it was great for embracing my want to dig around and cause chaos.
The cerebral bore from turok 2.
Gravity Gun.
The Sigil of the One God from Strife. Like, the fully completed gun.
And also the Nuke from Shadow Warrior.
Mechanically, I love the uh... The rifle from UT that had the orb for the alt fire you could shoot with the primary fire for an explosion (I forgot the name). I liked it for rewarding the combo play; even now you don't see many guns like this.
ASMD!
Hypnosis from Withfire. Very satisfying sound with a beautiful reward of extreme damage
Torn between the classic Doom super shotgun and Marathon dual shotguns.
Voodoo Doll from the game Blood.
Just look, and poke!
Halo 2 BR. Sooo many kills, headshots, and memories with that thing.
Original Unreal Tournament shock rifle. Nothing has ever been quite as satisfying as nailing a perfect shock combo.
But close second is the Tribes mortar. Tribes 2 especially. The teamplay potential with the laser designator was an incredible bit of design.
I always liked double pistols in Serious Sam. They had infinite ammo and felt pretty good to shoot.
Favorite? Fuck if I know
But the Gauss Cannon from DOOM 2016? Siege mode? *CHUNK* *GUNK*\ *beedleedeep* BOOOOSCHHHHHGGRRRRZZZLLLKK baron gibs everywhere The ballista from DOOM Eternal got nothing on it.
Also, there were a ton of fun guns from Bulletstorm, the game about stupid but fun guns. The quad barrel shotgun stands out in my memory quite fondly.
It’s hard to forget the amazing times to be had with the duel-wielding in Wolfenstein: The New Order. Carrying two of those semi-automatic shotguns in that game meant you could liberate nazis quite enthusiastically from their skin, blood, and organs very quickly, and very cathartically. I need to replay that game.
On the subject of nazis, I can’t forget the Wunderwaffe DG-2 from Call of Duty. Yeah, I know it’s Call of Duty, but I got to watch a dozen or so nazis’ heads explode simultaneously while they were paralyzed. That was great.
I also think there’s a very strong case to be made that the greatest gun in any FPS game is the one that drives what is arguably the greatest video game ever created: the portal gun.
Thinking about multiplayer games is a slightly different beast though.
I got so much mileage out of the Cold War in Titanfall 2 - a burst fire, energy impact-grenade launcher. It was so much fun. But moreso than that, I think I loved the Double Take - a projectile-based double-barrel DMR. It took skill to get hits and even more skill to maximize damage by getting a hit with both bullets at the same time, and while flying around the map either jumping off a wall or Spider-maning around with the best-implemented grapple hook in any multiplayer game there was nothing that felt the same.
Man if you like guns and portals, your gonna love Splitgate.
The razorjack from Unreal 1 would have to be my favourite.
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.
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.
Came here looking for this
That's a deep cut and I'm so glad you said it
Does whatever the hell I can manage to scrounge on Mothergunship counts?
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
Hellstaff from Heretic, both with and without a Tome of Power
I'm kinda torn between Unreal Tournament's (ut99) sniper rifle, flak cannon and the instagib variant of the shock rifle.
I was just about to answer OP with "any ut99 weapon". Even the backup melee one was great in the right situation.
Though my favourite of them is probably the rocket launcher, but only by a thin margin. Mostly because my favourite map was always the small dojo one (morbias][), and that only has rockets and the occasional redeemer. Just pure death match all the time..
Ye. Ut99 weapons were pretty much all great. Personally I didn't really like the goo gun, but others made it an absolute beast. The sniper rifle ended up being hilariously good at range and stupidly deadly at close range as headshots seemed to trigger on any hit above belly. The buzzaw throwing thing was nifty for the bouncing shots, but iir the headshots with that required hits to the forehead... Which still cut the heads off from the neck. Felt weird that
I guess the default pistol was a bit weak, but dual pistols was decent upgrade to it.
Translocator kills were most satisfying for me, but flak cannon was most useful.
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.
Definitely the flak cannon. But I also really liked th3 disk gun, especially the sound of disks flying past you.
The flak canon was a ton of fun, but I have a special fondness for the slime gun. Primary fire leaving a bunch of slime balls around was hilarious, as was running around with the secondary charged up, just hoping to run face first into someone and fire it at point-blank range, killing you both. Strategic or tactically sound? No. But hilarious.
Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2
Soooo creative. Those saw blades were classic.
Undeniable classic. Not much more satisfying than hucking a file cabinet at a group of people who don't see you yet.
Also, the trip mines were fun to use in smaller games (just like the Duke3d ones).
railgun, red faction
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.
I used to play RF2 multiplayer on GameCube with my brother when we were kids. We'd go onto that space map and try to snipe each other from across the map with the railgun.
The early RF games are really underrated.
The cheat weapons from mercenaries. The portable air strike was a great way to kill an entire screen and yourself if you weren't careful. The street sweeper was aptly named.
The flak cannon from Unreal. It's just a more fun and innovative type of shotgun with grenade launcher.
Halo pistol, easy choice. Two to the body, one to the head
Tank beats everything, but unfortunately it's third-person, so I don't think it counts.
Still I don't know, I kinda wanna say I like the DMR better...
10mm HV Penetrator from F.E.A.R
https://fear.fandom.com/wiki/10mm_HV_Penetrator
thunk thunk thunk thunk
Man I bought F.E.A.R. recently for like a dollar on GOG and I really want to play it, but I don't want SecuROM malware all over my system.
Download a cracked version. You’ve already bought a license.
The graphics dated fairly quickly but I believe the ai, combat and atmosphere should still be excellent.
Seems like SecuROM won't install from playing singleplayer:
https://www.gog.com/forum/fear_series/gogs_blatant_lies_regarding_securom_in_fear/page4
Super Shotgun from Doom 2, love the feeling when you shoot it.
To quote Civvie:
..it’s not important compared to The Super Shotgun. The ultimate demon slaying weapon, the pinnacle of shotguns. You think “why don’t they just call it the double barrel?”. Because it’s better. Because it’s super.
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!
We still playin its free now
In one match I got two air disc kills over 300m. I was a god damn sniper with that thing.
A feel-good lifetime memory!
The gravity gun in HL2 was a lot of fun
Pistol with a pocket full of coins. Uktrakill.
When i first played ultrakill, i thought: yeah, it's fine. I guess this is a okay game. Wait a minute... Coins? Is this the best game ever made?
Kar98k from MW2019.
Farsight from Perfect Dark
What about the laptop turret, that was a fun one!
I almost said the Laptop Gun too. That game was full of cool and original weapons, second only to the Turok series
Compound bow in Crysis, I think it was the third game.
Flak Cannon in Unreal Tournament.
Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2 obviously.
Pissing in postal
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
The Thumper from Tribes. Most people went with the Spinfusor because of the linear projectile, but once you learn to account for the arcing shots the Thumper was better.
Railgun, Quake II.
Rocket launcher, Quake III
ASMD, Unreal/Unreal Tournament
Any good stake weapons (Painkiller, FEAR?).
Damn I remember crouching on painkiller so I could stake enemies to the ceiling
Lol, same
The super shotgun in doom 64.
Rise of the Triad's Flamewall.
Ooooohhhh, the true connoisseur's choice.
I just got a classic FPS tattoo from my friend I used to play these games with. I got something from the original Doom. I've always wanted a mushroom tattoo though and I think it will be the mushroom powerup from Rise of the Triad.
The Heavy's mini gun is so satisfying to use. Just pick a direction and spray.
I especially like Heavy's "bratatata" after a while hahaha
The Seeker from Singularity is greatly under appreciated like the whole game. 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.
The sub-machine gun with grenade launcher in Half Life. such a vital tool.
MP5 I think. All the weapons in half life were very satisfying to use.
Unreal had a gun that shot saw blades that bounced off of surfaces. That was fun.
The Goo Gun in Fortnite was also great it sprayed a sticky goo that exploded after a few seconds
Force-a-Nature
Ooo, that's inspiring. Maybe my answer should be Sasha...
The bolt thrower in painkiller.
The "huntsman" bow and arrow for the sniper in TF2.
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.
The Boltgun from Boltgun.
It sounds right, it feels right, it purges right. There is something poetic about pulling the trigger and knowing whatever you direct your fully automatic rocket propelled grenade launcher at will explode in a cloud of gore.
You need to try Darktide. It's the best bolter in any video game ever. It is massive, it is chunky, the magazines are huge, it makes big clunky mechanical noises every time you ready it, and on full auto it feels like you are unleashing the holy wrath of the Emperor with every round fired.
The kritzkreig from tf2. It does no damage, it actually does negative damage. But when you hit that switch, oooooo
I used to roll with the G3 in Battlefield 2.
Also the DMR from Halo Reach is a favourite.
There's been a lot of fun ones. The battle for second place is bloody and impossible to call, but the number one spot belongs only to the BFG.
If I could only pick one, it would probably be a simple shotgun
Pistol grip pump from Soldier of the Fortune, or of course the super shotty from Doom.
The one that's the most fun and made me feel the most powerful is the VSS from STALKER. Learning the bullet drop and managing to head shot a moving target is very satisfying.
The Farsight in Perfect Dark. Alas, I'll never be as good with it like I was back in high school.
Proxy mines, complex, license to kill mode
Golden Eye is the GOAT
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.
Quake super nail gun
I played CoD4 a lot. As well as Halo 1. In both games I always liked the sniper.
A simple.handgun, I like to just take a moment to aim for the head
Particularly the rifle-like properties of the standard Halo CE handgun. That weapon was broken at distance.
My friend group made a DM variant that was just Pistols with no shields and health at 400%. The only shots that mattered were headshots
We quickly learned that the pistol was not hitscan and it was always cool when two players took each other out.
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.
Quake 1 HWGuy gatling. Tap, tap, tap to keep it spinning ... enemy appears at the bottom of the elevator shaft ... BZZZZZT.
I never played a lot of FPS, but I loved the Quake rocket launcher. It was fun to jump around with in multiplayer. But what I enjoyed most of all was the satisfaction of guessing when someone rounded the corner and having a rocket land at the exact same time.
Long barrel ksg. Many good memories trolling on Hijacked.
AA12 in Killing Floor
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
SR8 in Urban Terror... used to have so much fun sniping people in that game
The Kuva Bramma in Warframe. Just rains cluster bombs.
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.
Unreal 2 black hole cannon
The SH1900 from The Finals is one of the most satisfying guns I've used in a game before. Kicks like a horse but chunks away enemy health bars. High risk, high reward, high octane. And the audio just thumps you right in the chest with every shot, almost as much as the folks on the business end of the barrel.
Ks-23 from Tarkov (before it was nerfed) was the ultimate weapon for trolling the most serious of Marines. Blind them with flashbang shells before you melee them or just blast their kneecaps off!
