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[Every Time I Die]

Why Hidden Path? IIRC the tec9 was fine for years before the update that had a decimal point error and made it a laser gun and extremely OP. It wasn't overused at all and whenever I would get one people would be surprised. In fact it was one of those guns people considered not worth buying but was actually decent.

First problem was most people didn't pay attention to the fact that it ignores head armor at close range. Hugely important. Second fact, and the sadder of the pair, is that nearly every pistol in CSGO was broken before they got to that particular bug you referenced (which was solved rather quickly). The deagle dealt scout damage without the need for a scope for a couple of weeks, the p250 had its time in the sun, and most importantly, the cz-75 was the de facto pistol on eco before the nerfs to its switch and movement speed.

 

[The_Poet]

Engineer turrent from Heroes of Newerth

 

[Phil-NeoGAF]

It can fix armored vehicles at an alarming rate.

It can destroy armored vehicles at an alarming rate.

It can burn enemies at an alarming rate.

It has a friend known as Mr. Knife who can cut through HUGE chain-linked fences in a single swipe.

 

[Lebneney]

LeBlanc's Scepter and Irelia's Blades (League of Legends)

Also from what I've heard.
Rosalina (SSB4)

 

[TriAceJP]

It's hardly the most popular game, and it's easily the least popular mode but ninja gaiden 3 and razors edge have an oft forgotten competive multiplayer component.

And in razors edge they introduced the Scythe

Which has an incredibly overpowered 360 attack that can be spammed endlessly providing you get the timing right, and the move comes with a tone of I-frames making skilled players borderline invisible when doing so. Here's some single player footage of it in use
http://youtu.be/fWFIhsoHeSE

So of course once this exploit was discovered tons of people spammed it online, which in turn made it bascily impossible to defeat anyone using it, unless you too are relentlessly spamming it. FUN!

Probably wouldn't have been to bad if it wasn't for that God awful sound. "HRAHHH!"

TIL There was a multiplayer Ninja Gaiden.

 

[ScribbleD]

No mentions of the 1.6 riot shield yet? That item was tacitly banned by the community because if one person busted out the riot shield, the whole server would respond in kind and nobody wanted that. It was essentially mutually assured destruction.

 

[K Clue iXi]

Pre-patch, it was like a sniper rifle.

Yup, running around with these bad boys pretty much made you invincible.

 

[DrKelpo]

Pre patch M 60 in Battlefield: Vietnam is the most ridiculous thing I´ve seen in my life! 100 rounds per magazine and you could headshot targets 2kms away with going full auto hipfire while jumping.

Everyone and I mean everyone was running around with it. The US team usually outmanned the Vietcong side by at least 2:1 and if you were unlucky or masochistic enough to join on the VC side and got a lucky kill you usually picked up the M60 kit from the dead guy.

Oh, and it was also the anti tank class as bonus.

this...so much this.

nothing ever came close. like haunted tank said, it often totally broke the matches. somebody fittingly named it "sniping minigun".

 

[diggmcbadass]

Die, die, die my darling...

Landing a secondary from halfway across the map was the most satisfying thing next to shock combos.

 

[Cowboy Dan]

Black Ops 1 Famas.

 

[Seraph_Nicholas]

Queen mode in AvP2. Was a killstreak reward, as I recall. Fucking horrifying for the other team. The whole race was balanced around the possibility of a queen wrecking everything.

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

Every time I see somebody name a Pyro weapon, part of me dies inside. It's like that time where pub players whined about the Axtinguisher even though the Powerjack was by and far the most used melee in higher levels of play, so they nerfed it and now Powerjack is used exclusively.

I've come to grips with the fact that, contrary to their stated desires, nobody wants Pyro to be useful for anything but guarding Engineers (the Reserve Shooter is banned in UGC for fuck's sake), but people need to at least complain about the right weapons. Degreaser is universally regarded as the best flamethrower. Backburner is useful in only a fraction of situations.

pls

I would have put the Pyro if I could.

Just does far too much damage without the semblance of much skill.

 

[Christos]

Modern Warfare 2: The Thread

 

[KHlover]

This is the ultimate "I'm a dick" weapon. Nothing short of having a gun that kills everyone on a map instantly the moment the trigger is pulled is more OP.

Enter Omega Cannon from Metroid Prime Hunters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLY2GWahumo

EDIT: GIF

 

[diamount]

Shogun from gears 2 comes to mind, remember a lot of complaints about how bad it was.

 

[nowarning]

Glad to see the Redeemer got a mention, it could be quite easy to counter though if you were a good shot with the sniper rifle

 

[Marvel]

Retro Lancer

You can snipe with it by firing one bullet at a time quite quickly if you have good control (I did), great stopping power and ROF from full auto meant very easy downs. No hate here though, didn't mind being killed by it or using it myself.

 

[ChronoX]

Edit

 

[Novocaine]

I don't think I've seen anything more utterly broken than the knife in Syphon Filter 2.

 

[Shuggananas]

Modern Warfare 2: The Thread

you'd have to know nothing about FPS to think any call of duty weapon is the most powerful multiplayer weapon in any FPS (or game)

 

[Dictator93]

Some of my favorite "over powered weapons" are those that are overpowered, but balanced in their being rare, end game, or being hard to use. Though, their raw damage amounts and wepon characteristics are crazy powerful.

The HMG from NS1 is insanely powerful, has a massive magazine, ridiculous rate of fire, etc... but it only comes out in lategame matches. That and a number of characteristics about how the game plays makes it "balanced" while being "overpowered".

 

[Jackano]

Cool to see it first page.
That thing is an alien sniper rifle who see and shoot through the walls and have a seeking target function.

Also my favorite weapon period

 

[cyba89]

All these pictures that don't mention the game its from.

Come on, it's not that hard and not everyone recognizes every multiplayer shooter in existence.

 

[Übermatik]

Enter Omega Cannon from Metroid Prime Hunters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLY2GWahumo

EDIT: GIF

This gun was fucking awesome.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Splatoon. The dynamo roller and the aerospray, the charger is shit but ive seen people killing a lot with them so thats also OP.

Spoiler

/s nearly all the weapons have a clear advantage and disadvantage

 

[CTLance]

It's not overpowered per se, but my vote also goes to the Quake Railguns. Fighting a skilled opponent that uses this weapon class was utterly demoralising.

 

[Springy]

The Magnum in HL2DM was like some sort of sick joke.

One hit kill, easy handling, pixel perfect accuracy.

 

[Acinixys]

Battlefield 3 pre patch Famas

Battlefield 3 pre patch under-slung Shotgun

Famas was a 0 recoil lazer beam of death. Everyone who had it unlocked used it

Under-slung Shotgun (M26 MASS) was bugged for like 3 months. It shot 9? pellets and each one did something like 200 damage, even at max range (300m)

You could kill snipers with ease. It was amazing and I abused the shit out of it

Heres a pic. 3800 kills and almost 95% accuracy. Good times

 

[Sassen]

Obviously:

Golden gun, Goldeneye N64.

Definitely this.

 

[MGrant]

Paper fan in Smash Bros. Welcome to stunlock.

 

[Ashler]

Anything, with this:

You could untie your shoelace, throw it at your opponent and get an instant kill.

 

[KOHIPEET]

Landing a secondary from halfway across the map was the most satisfying thing next to shock combos.

And next to shooting someone in the face with a rocket mid-air.

 

[StayDead]

Enter Omega Cannon from Metroid Prime Hunters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLY2GWahumo

EDIT: GIF

Seeing this again makes me want them to put this up on Wii U virtual console with working online so I can play it again ;_;

In terms of most OP weapon it's most likely Farsight or Golden Gun when autoaim is on.

 

[Stallion Dan]

Modern Warfare 2 knife. Oh there you are 10ft away, let me just teleport to you for an instant kill.

 

[giancarlo123x]

Outside of Destiny the Hammer in Smash Bros also came to mind.

That thing is ass against anyone with a counter, the hammer is at a automatic disadvantage.

 

[BMX Bandit]

The Barman Shanker

Before weapon speed normalization this would just about one shot average geared cloth wearers in WoW PvP. It was stronger than most raid daggers for a while.

Haha and the best part about it was you could solo the instance\enemy that dropped it by sneaking in as a rogue and killing very few enemies. I used that weapon for quite awhile.

 

[ramparter]

Was wondering if someone would post it.

 

[mclem]

BFG9000 good times playing MP Doom.

When you understand precisely how the attack works it's quite avoidable.

 

[TasTokyo]

Bad Company 2 Shotguns with 12 Gauge Shells + Magnum Ammo.
http://youtu.be/vp7HQUqfvnU

Thank you!

I knew there were attachments and mods you could use on the shotgun in BC2 but couldn't remember what.

These things were insane. There were people using the shotguns instead of sniper rifles, picking people off at huge distances.

 

[SargerusBR]

 

[Troubled Bat]

The FarSight rifle is a Maian hybrid of an X-Ray scanning device coupled with a rifle that can shoot through solid objects. The scope can lock onto and track life sources, though the device does not pan as fast as a running enemy can move.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

pls

I would have put the Pyro if I could.

Just does far too much damage without the semblance of much skill.

Pyro has one of the worst primaries in the game, slightly above-average health, average running speed, and no special mobility (unless you equip the otherwise useless Detonator). The reason everybody carries the Degreaser is because actually flaming people does so little damage that the only way to be viable in combat is to rely on combos.

Regardless, the concept of the Backburner or all weapons being OP is absurd. You'd might as well name the Loose Cannon or some other useless weapon that can occasionally deal massive damage should the poor sap carrying it get lucky.

 

[fuzzyreactor]

Thread done

i remember getting in fist fights with my brothers over it

what were they thinking when they made that

 

[Zank Frappa]

USAS in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix.

 

[kingofthedead45]

Gnasher shotgun in Gears. Made a mockery of long range engagements with shots traded back and forth. Why bother poking in and out of cover when you could just gnasher someone to the face. Even if someone had a power weapon, the gun could rip them to shreds in an instant at the proper range. Made the machine gun almost completely pointless.

Literally shaped how the game was to be played. My vote goes here.

What a dman fine shape it was.

 

[Twin Tails]

Modern Warfare 2 knife. Oh there you are 10ft away, let me just teleport to you for an instant kill.

super op

 

[grandwizard]

First problem was most people didn't pay attention to the fact that it ignores head armor at close range. Hugely important. Second fact, and the sadder of the pair, is that nearly every pistol in CSGO was broken before they got to that particular bug you referenced (which was solved rather quickly). The deagle dealt scout damage without the need for a scope for a couple of weeks, the p250 had its time in the sun, and most importantly, the cz-75 was the de facto pistol on eco before the nerfs to its switch and movement speed.

Fair enough, I haven't played that much lately to see how it is, I just remember the decimal point bug and then the subsequent nerf. Honestly I was really happy with where the pistols were before the CZ. There was a good range of them to pick from, with the p250 being the best value. But the 57 and tec9 were still good, I especially liked the tec9 close range pushing corners.

 

[KDR_11k]

I don't think deliberate superweapons like the Redeemer or BFGs should count, they're designed to be hard to get and highly contested plus usually very ammo-limited.

 

[leeh]

Gnasher shotgun in Gears. Made a mockery of long range engagements with shots traded back and forth. Why bother poking in and out of cover when you could just gnasher someone to the face. Even if someone had a power weapon, the gun could rip them to shreds in an instant at the proper range. Made the machine gun almost completely pointless.

How dare you. The gnasher was gears, gears was the gnasher. Cover was very important to the gnasher play.

If someone was decent with the torque bow, or you had a boomshot, you wouldn't worry about a guy with a gnasher.

My vote, definitely goes to the GoW3 sawn-off:

YOU RUINED GEARS.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

It can fix armored vehicles at an alarming rate.

It can destroy armored vehicles at an alarming rate.

It can burn enemies at an alarming rate.

It has a friend known as Mr. Knife who can cut through HUGE chain-linked fences in a single swipe.

Might you be the guy in the tank I killed last night with one while it was ziging and zagging and firing at me with 2 other tanks around trying to shoot me as well.