Corvinus
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Know your lore, heathen:"Grab the minigun, there are demons here to smite"
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UTTER DECLINE. There are no miniguns in Doom! It really should read:
"Grab the CHAINGUN" or even better, MUCH better: "Grab the SUPER SHOTGUN" Ideally it should also be a picture of the super shotgun, and not a Cacodemon.
...And that new artistic button is indeed superfluous. I would also consider it a negative rating based on how it looks - which probably isn't the intent.
"If the Doom chaingun is associated with real weaponry, it is a Gatling-style weapon with rotating barrels similar to a minigun. An actual chain gun only has a single barrel and uses an electric motor to drive a chain connected to the bolt assembly, moving it back and forth to load, fire, extract, and eject ammo cartridges.
The weapon's classic first-person sprites are based off of a toy minigun called the Tootsietoy Ol' Painless.
The weapon was originally an assault rifle or submachine gun-type weapon in the Doom alpha, but was redesigned into a slow-firing rotary-barrel gatling gun to give it immediate visual differentiation from other weapons, as well as to give it its own distinct style."
Indeed. But calling the weapon a minigun? I haven't been making hellspawn do the CHAINGUN CHA-CHA since 1993 with one, now that's for sure!