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>>4948909
>Surely you don't mean to tell me you found Duke's peashooter, Q2's blaster & shotgun or Half-Life's glock useful when you has access to any other weapon with a decent ammo supply?
All of those are still useful in different ways even after you get stronger guns, unlike the Doom pistol. Frankly, I wish they'd just given the player the Alpha rifle as a starting weapon with a faster rate of fire, while also buffing that same trait for the chaingun. Bullet weapons in Doom are kinda underwhelming in general, so I feel that would've made them more fun to use without going too far into OP territory.

>>4460601
Funny thing is that a playable rifle was in the alpha version of doom it never made it in the final version,pic related.

My guess is that they changed the rifle to chaingun because the chaingun "looks cooler".

It also explains why it fires so "slow" and is kinda weak in damage terms