/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4708041
I really kind of like Duke's pistol because it's actually not bad.

For Doom, the Chaingun just makes the pistol obsolete from practically every point of view short of desperate ammo conservation or maybe hitting a switch, since the ammo pool is the same and you really don't find yourself going back to the pistol for fighting if you have the Chaingun.

In DN3D, the pistol has it's own ammo pool, and a reasonably sizeable one, all things considered, so even if you burn through all your ammo with the Ripper, you have your pistol, and it can kind of give you some rapid fire, Duke just fucking magdumps with haste, the reload animation is basically to stop you from employing it like a machinegun, but even so Duke is pretty fast at swapping mags, so it's a very brief interruption.
It's got a good enough rate of fire that it can be used for some minor stunning while you maneuver, combine with kicking if you get up in their grill, and it can genuinely stunlock some enemies with good reliability, just keep pulling the trigger as you kick the dude in the cock over and over, and he likely won't get a window to retaliate. I find this works on octabrains and pig cops quite well, as long as they don't have an entourage.
Given that you find ammo for it intermittently, and it's the weapon you otherwise use the least, if you have to, you'll usually have a decent ammo pool to fall back to if you run short on other munitions.

It also has a satisfying POW POW POW sound effect, and I like to swap to it when I freeze enemies (particularly the Protector Drones), with a Hasta LaVista.
That it also vaguely looks like a Hi-Point kind of makes me chuckle; the idea that a macho badass with an attitude goes to war with a completely poorfag gun. They work, I suppose.