One of the core tenets of Doom is that every weapon matters, from the pistol to the BFG 9000. It's a design philosophy that, despite the advent of looter shooters, id Software stayed firm on. Your arsenal throughout Doom (2016) and Eternal is carefully curated, with every weapon serving an individual and distinct purpose — even your fists have value.
Doom co-creator John Romero would "rather spend more time with a gun and make sure the gun's design is really deep" than play with "a million things you don't identify with".
But that doesn't stop fans deliberating over what guns are "useless", as we're seeing with The Dark Ages. "Accelerator is just not great," u/LowBrown posted to over 2,000 upvotes. "It's weak, its recoil is too hard to use besides close ranges and one shot with this equals one shot with Cycler, that has much more power in it."
Not everyone agrees, with some arguing that "the high rate of fire has been a godsend", and that it "fu**ing melts the enemies". u/MrSteeze3 went as far as to say that it's "the best for single target DPS". Regardless of where you land on Accelerator-gate, the post has sparked a wider...
