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>>9042509

>>8059820
The Volt ZM66 is a nicely lightweight rifle, there's a lot of them around, and ammunition is plentiful. Hits about as hard as an M16.

It's also a joke, the caseless 4.26mm cartridges are very sensitive to handling, and the magazines don't always behave if they aren't sealed from the factory. Volt's solution to this is to just institute a DRM scheme, so that the if you are using reloaded magazines, the rifle will refuse to transmit its ammunition count to your HUD. Also probably because they can make more money off of it.
Clearing malfunctions is also fun with the ZM-66, because it doesn't have any actual means for clearing the chamber, so your recourse is to simply smack on it and bang it around until the offending cartridge comes out.

>>7816561
Do what you feel like, Hideous Destructor isn't for everyone, because it's a very different game from regular Doom in most ways, but a lot of people here do like it.
It's the kind of thing which requires a bit of time investment, sort of like Dwarf Fortress, but once you've learned the basics and set up the needed binds, you have a gaming experience unlike much else, imagine ARMA or SWAT 4, except there's demons with evil bullshit magic, and the levels you play are still all Doom levels, and the way items spawn makes it slightly Rogue-ish.

Gotta manage magazines and ammunition, gotta keep track if which weapons you're carrying, how much bulk you've got on you, gotta handle and then manage injuries as they happen (like if you're on fire, take off your armor and then roll on the ground, ideally in water if there's any nearby). You can sustain really serious injuries which you can't really fix with medkits and stimpacks, however there are ways to heal yourself with magic, turning a bleeding and scorched wreck of a body with broken limbs, back into mint condition. You can also power yourself into a Fuck Machine with the use of Berserk.

Also, since the enemies aren't going to be fair to you, you don't need to be fair to them, shoot them through walls with high powered guns, set up machinegun turrets and grenade tripwires, climb pedestals to grab keys which are supposed to be lowered from elsewhere, and if push comes to shove, climb over a barrier or outright destroy it with the use of a demolition charge or anti-tank rocket, to then bypass either part of the level or the remainder of it.
You are still playing Doom levels here, so the new gameplay isn't necessarily going to be easily compatible with how the designer originally made encounters and exploration, thus improvising or bending the rules may often be practical.

>>6138728
The thing with the ZM66 is that there's a shitload of them, so if you start having problems, consider throwing it away and picking up a new to see if it's better.

>>5672838
First for go play Hideous Destructor right now

RIGHT NOW, MARINE

>>5643461
There's some steps to it, you gotta make sure to set up your binds first too.

You need to pick up guns and remove their ammunition, then ditch the empty guns. Magazines will need to be refilled to be reused again.
The ZM66 is a pic related and ammunition is usually pretty plentiful, so I would advise against trying to bother with manually refilling magazines and what not, unless you're direly lacking in ammo, because that will make the gun misbehave.

>>5236603
The ZM66 is a garbage rod though.

>>5225392
The ZM66 almost feels like a satire of the SPIW Program, the ACR Program, and to a limited degree the OICW Program.
As in, what happens when one of these crazy prototypes gets bruteforced into service in spite of flaws and problems, and in spite of the fact that what it replaces, though maybe not as advanced, works very well in its own right.
At no point, nobody stopped to ask "Why?", or "What about... ?", or if they did they were bribed or silenced.

The silver lining is that with the new caliber of the ZM66, the Vulacanette was also developed, and the Vulcanette is actually quite good.
This mirrors that for how retarded these military development programs got, something pretty cool did end up coming out of them, such as the idea of an underbarrel breach-loading grenade launcher to mount on a rifle (from the SPIW), or the idea of a 'smart' grenade (from the OICW).