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Elnar:
After a week of playing I see some major differences between this games:
1) Player can't move and shoot in one time.
2) Shotguns efficiency greatly lowered. In Doom shotguns in arms of skilled player can kill any monster, in doomrl high spread and fast damage decoy of the shotgun make them almost useless in ranged "duel". Only in pointblank range it can kill weak monster in one shot, Bigger enemies can take around 20 shots and live.
3) To fast some monsters: mancubus walks and shoots at imps speed, archvile can do douleshot in one second, Archnotron firing speed faster 2-3 times.
4) Weak BFG of strong some monsters, BFG can't kill baron of hell and archvile in one shot.
5) Archvile can raize enemies at distance, up to 3 in one time.

In result I has one question - its laws of a genre or special vision of developers?

ParaSait:
It's all about stability. If the BFG could kill the BoH's and Viles in one shot, it would be overpowered. If Mancubi moved slower, they would be too easy. See what I mean?

Elnar:
Balance, balance ... but BFG is a final weapon, and it efficiency very low in this game. It can be usefull only on Valuts level, for destroying wall without harming uself. In another places good old advanced rocket launcher, with 4-8 upgrades, much more usefull due it higher speed/reload and you can carry X10 more ammo in backpack.

ParaSait:

--- Quote from: Elnar on June 09, 2008, 12:47 ---Balance, balance ... but BFG is a final weapon, and it efficiency very low in this game. It can be usefull only on Valuts level, for destroying wall without harming uself. In another places good old advanced rocket launcher, with 4-8 upgrades, much more usefull due it higher speed/reload and you can carry X10 more ammo in backpack.

--- End quote ---

Yeah, you're right, I only use the BFG for cybie OR for critial situations as a last option. But the "balance-creators" of the game think like this: If it's too strong, Cybie will be too easy. At the other hand, it's too weak for normal monsters. So logically thinking, Cyberdemon should be given some more HP but then we get to the problem of players accidently skipping The Halls of Carnage or The City of Skulls, where a BFG is located, and they will have to fight him with a "weak" rocket launcer or plasma rifle, so that will be unfair for them. See how hard it is to balance a game?

Blade:
It's not nearly week.
1) Without any traits you need 1 second to fire Rl, 1 second to reload it, and 1 more second to fire again. You can fire 3 shots with BFG in the same time.
2) RL has much smaller blast radius. BFG has much-much bigger and it damages even enemies that are outside your LoS.
3) BFG do not always kill monster in 1 shot. RL do not either. BUT: BFG should not kill monster in 1 shot. It's not a sniper rifle, you know. It always was a massive killer, it's ideal for damaging/killing a really large group of monsters because it deals damage to every monster in it. And second shot is almost always enough to finish them all. In my recorded HMP run it really saved my life on level 20, nothing else could save me there.

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