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HouseCat:
Hey all. Yeah, I've only just started playing the DooM RogueLike today...uhh...yesterday...Damn midnight, making days change...Anyway...A complete newbie's opinion...

The combat shotgun works pretty well, holds five shots, In the arena i was 'lucky' enough to have pinkies (the demons, nickname taken from the novel) first, so it was stand-shoot-reload for the most part. Managed to pull off arena champion on the first try using only the Combat Shotty. The basic shotgun...I dunno, it was actually a nice surprise to have it with plentiful ammo early on...But reloading a new shell after every shot, instead of just pumping a new round,  annoyed me

I've noticed shottyman hanging around, but never used it. I instead went for son of a gun, expecting this to be more like classic Doom1 and 2, where i relied pretty heavily on the pistol for the first few levels....Also the idea of a DooM marine packing dual pistols appeals to me for some reason...mew...

I havent really gotten that far, so i cant comment on ammunition difficulties

Again, Just started playing. I prefer the shotgun and chaingun over the Rocket launcher...Mainly because i do alot of 'panic range' combat...where the splash damage would probably kill me.

DisaffectedBeta:
On shotguns vs. chainguns, one of my strategies have been to rely on both.  I up my juggler right at the beginning, and have a top level shotgun (double barrel preferred) as my sidearm.  I use the chaingun most, especially when I'm trying to do pinpoint attacks to avoid blowing up barrels (or to purposefully blow them up), but if an enemy gets too close, or a group gets really close together, I do the switch to shotgun and grind them to meat.

They're sorta like chocolate and peanut butter for me, although my tactic leaves me vulnerable because I've used up skills that I could be putting into defense.  If I survive long enough, I also build up the damage bonus until I get the two extra shots perk.

In general, I've not been able to build my guy up as much as I did in the previous game because I die before I really get enough exp. to do much good. :)

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