A weapon who's delay is after firing, such as an SSG, leaves players very open much more often than that BFG, despite the BFG not being able to attack instantly. Something I've noticed as well from many players: popping out from behind a corner, shooting immediately, and running around waiting for the cool down to finish is far more common than firing as they duck into cover. Coincidentally when you use the 'plasma saver gun' and try to save the plasma, you wind up losing a good portion of potential damage you can cause by firing the PG in short bursts. The PG also has a short time span which prevents attack. Play Brexec, that'll get you some good BFG practice DĪbout charging/cool down times, the BFG's charging time can be done in anticipation, or from cover, negating its vulnerability. I remember somebody breaking down the BFG vs PG against AVs and stating that against single AVs, even if the PG saved a few cells, the speed and guarantee of the BFG killing the AV still make losing a small few extra cells more worth it than going with the PG to "conserve." With the exception of bosses I don't use the bfg that much, and even for bosses it's overrated because of the charge up time which makes you vulnerable. Again, the plasma rifle is better than the bfg in these situations since it can both fire instantly and is also a better suppression weapon than the bfg since it can keep on firing as long as there is ammo for it. In addition, the fact that the bfg has to charge before it can fire means that it's also not that useful as a panic gun because the monsters will either kill you or seriously injure you before the weapon has fired. In fact, once you have fired 2-3 bfg balls into a room to kill everything there you could easily make the case that the damage to ammo ratio is garbage compared to the plasma gun. It's a powerful gun to be sure, but it's not even remotely able to just clear out an entire room full of powerful monster. For starters, the bfg isn't even as powerful as popular culture makes it out to be. But is the BFG deserving of the reputation it has? Because frankly I don't even find the BFG to be that useful 90% of the time. The BFG 9000 has earned itself a reputation as being the ultimate video game gun, being nicknamed "the big fucking gun".
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