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Tyranthraxus posted...

Range actually has no impact on damage in classic doom. The only thing that matters is that you actually hit them with the giant green ball for the massive damage.

But against bosses the modded shotgun wins out anyway because of rate of fire.

This is false. Range doesn't matter, but the green ball isn't what does the real damage. Basically, when you fire the BFG, it sets about 40 or so lines in a spread pattern in the direction you fire it, then when the ball explodes it launches an invisible projectile along each line. So if it's point blank, they're hit by all the projectiles launched, and it can one shot the spider mastermind.

It also means you can do weird things with the bfg, like launch it at a wall then strafe to the side and look into a room to nuke it without waiting on the projectile, or you can launch it then turn around and the projectiles will hit behind you. It's weird.