

If you are responsible for one of the above issues. Having an excessive number of banned accounts in a very short timeframe.Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as "personal use".Automated spam (advertising) or intrustion attempts (hacking).Using the super shotgun is a gamble and gambling is fun.Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following: A good hit deals you a shot of dopamine, a miss, well, you know what happens. The Super Shotgun delivers both the reward and penalty of the gamble. If you fire a frame too early or a frame too late, you’ll get the punishment associated with slow follow-up shots. Second, using one is a gamble that’s based purely on your skill. The reason we love shotguns in games is twofold.įirst, they are brutally effective at close range and deal tons of damage. It rewards speed and aggression and penalizes any form of failure. The Super Shotgun fits perfectly into the super violent world and allows for dismemberment and decapitation.

The reload animation has always been way too cool for school and carries on throughout the Doom games. Sure, it’s more stylish than effective, but Doom isn’t a tactical shooter. There is something about pointing two big barrels at something, and letting a load of buckshot fly will always be gratifying. The wood furniture certainly stands out in a game based in space, but hell, it’s natural.ĭouble barrel shotguns are a different kind of cool and always will be. Take a double-barreled shotgun, chop the stock into a pistol grip and the barrels down to whatever length you want, and call it a day. The original Super Shotgun was built off history's classic coach gun design. This isn't surprising, since the Doom SSG was based on the "Stoeger Coach Gun". It's also cut down, or "sawed-off”, which makes it more theatrical and doubtless causes proponents of the National Firearms Act much gnashing of teeth.įact is, it isn't terribly much different than the double-barrel flintlock shotguns designed by the "Father of the Modern Shotgun", Joseph Manton (1766-1835). Unlike the futuristic, higher-tech weapons around it, the Super Shotgun (frequently abbreviated as SSG is a break-open, side-by-side, double-barrel design that would have been familiar to (and operable by) people as far back as the John Adams administration.

Originally Doom 1 mods and such could add the Super Shotgun, it was a significant part of Doom 2, and in Doom 3, it was part of a DLC. The joke of Doom being exported to literally everything, including Samsung fridges, means it’s tough to say its official appearances and what counts.
