Both the Lightning Gun and the Plasma Rifle are considered more long-range options (though experimenting today on stream, the Lightning Gun might actually be a pretty good close quarters alternative to the Super Shotgun...!). Honestly, the Plasma Rifle just isn't very good. The alternate fire is quite legit though!MJ79 wrote:It's fun, but as a noob, I get absolutely wrecked in almost every game. My main loadout is the plasma rifle and lightning gun because I can just hold the trigger and hose the area at close-range.
What are Your thoughts on the DOOM Open beta?
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Cardboard Marty
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The plasma rifle is great, IMO. I think I have more success with the PR/SSG loadout than the RL/SSG one sometimes. Plus, the altfire combined with the Siphon grenade makes for good AoE damage.
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TheMightyHeracross
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Since this appears to be ZDoom's Doom '16 thread ATM, I guess I'll drop this here.
New Snapmap and Single Player stuff coming soon!
New Snapmap and Single Player stuff coming soon!
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I really loved the multiplayer in Doom 4! The last time I played a game like this heavily was back when Quake 3 Arena still ruled the roost, after I completely lost touch with TCP/IP deathmatching.
I especially adored how much it feels like Quake 3 (quad damage, Haste, jump pads, health/ammo/weapon pickups) while modernizing and adjusting me to recent deathmatch gaming trends (loadouts mostly, which I never liked until now). I only ever watched my moron friends lose themselves in Call of Duty over the last ten years, so this was pretty refreshing to play.
Fast, lean, lag-free, and nowhere to camp! I am not quite as good as I was in the Q3/Dreamcast days, but that really did not matter. It felt like they brought the magic back from the old id multiplayer days and that is all I care about!
I especially adored how much it feels like Quake 3 (quad damage, Haste, jump pads, health/ammo/weapon pickups) while modernizing and adjusting me to recent deathmatch gaming trends (loadouts mostly, which I never liked until now). I only ever watched my moron friends lose themselves in Call of Duty over the last ten years, so this was pretty refreshing to play.
Fast, lean, lag-free, and nowhere to camp! I am not quite as good as I was in the Q3/Dreamcast days, but that really did not matter. It felt like they brought the magic back from the old id multiplayer days and that is all I care about!
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https://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-2016- ... ers-ahead/
Check page 3 for a link to a new trailer. Some employee must've posted it on Youtube too early, because it got taken down about an hour after it got up. Someone saved it, though.
Check page 3 for a link to a new trailer. Some employee must've posted it on Youtube too early, because it got taken down about an hour after it got up. Someone saved it, though.
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Whoever saved it had ended up with it taken down too.