History VideoGame / HideousDestructor

* HarderThanHard: It's not called "Sci-Fi Dark Souls" on the download page for nothing.

Hey, you! Did you think VideoGame/DooM was tough? Miss the good ol' days of classic VideoGame/RainbowSix and VideoGame/GhostRecon? Did you think "Gee, VideoGame/{{SWAT 4}} is cool, but I wish I could use this shotgun on demons instead of punks and terrorists"? Ever wished VideoGame/DarkSouls had guns?

Hideous Destructor is, of all things, a realism mod for VideoGame/DooM. You move and aim like an actual human being, and die like one, too - unarmored, you'll die in one or two hits - and if you don't, you're most likely bleeding to death. You're going to use cover, wits, and reflexes to keep the demonic hordes at bay - and the good news is that your enemies usually die just as easily. Usually...

* [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Establishing Gameplay Moment]]: Upon entering the first level, walking forward means you'll get shot from behind -- and killed almost instantly -- by a Zombieman standing on a ledge next to your spawn point, just to drive home [[NintendoHard what kind of a game you signed up for]].

** The Thunder Buster requires the operator to hold steady.

** Averted by the HERP. 100 rounds will mince most enemies easily.

* WeakTurretGun: While not exactly weak, the DERP runs out of ammo very quickly.

* HarderThanHard: The author warns that this will turn most maps into an unplayable campaign of tears.

* InstantDeathBullet: Played with. Most enemies will go down with enough damage, or eventually bleed out, but shotgunners will occasionally survive long enough to blast you.

** Firing around half a magazine rapidly with the ZM66 assault rifle will cause it to cook off and make the rest of your shots go wild, and inserting abother one without allowing the weapon to cool down results in the same thing. Then, there is the occasional jam, which has you pressing the reload key to unload your weapon in order to fix said malfunction.

** The bolt-action rifle can get its bolt stuck when pulling it back, resolved by holding the altfire key until the bolt is unjammed. This is caused either by short stroking said bolt or just bad luck.

* ShurFineGuns: As of the time of writing, the player's weapons can jam or malfunction in a multitude of ways:
** Firing around half a magazine rapidly with the ZM66 assault rifle will cause it to cook off and

* CripplingOverspecialization: The plasma rifle - now the "Thunder Buster" - was an attempt to make man-portable versions of anti-ship particle weapons. Unfortunately, said anti-ship particle weapons work a lot better in space, controlled by computers, and on inanimate objects, which makes the Thunder Buster only useful on slow-moving targets.

** Getting set on fire.

** Summoning friendly fallen via the talisman has flavor text quoted from Literature/TheLordOfTheRings.

* EmbarassingNickname: The SMG is called the "Sexy Manly Guy", after one of its funders, a politician, was caught with an intern.

** The reflexes of zombies vary from enemy to enemy - you may have one that'll take forever to aim and fire, giving you time to finish your reload and shoot him, and another that will erase your face with a storm of lead as soon as you're in sight.

* Triggering the Thunder Buster's primary fire.

* NoodleIncident: The SMG is nicknamed the "Sexy Manly Guy" after one of the funders, a politican, was caught with a hot young intern.

* HarderThanHard: The author warns that this will turn most maps into an unplayable

* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The developer nerfed the plasma gun and BFG into

* {{BFG}}: Of course! The titular Hideous Destructor, it's an enormous gun that requires charging and launches an ''enormous'' ball of green goo that gibs anything in its path.

* CriticalAnnoyance: Bleeding heavily is represented by a pulsing red screen, as well as your rifle shaking and grunts of pain. Bleeding to death is represented by a flickering black. Burning to death is represented by smoke clouding the screen.

* RegeneratingHealth: There, but don't expect it to be up to VideoGame/CallOfDuty levels - it takes quite a while, doesn't work if you're bleeding to death, and you're better off just finding a medkit.

Hey, you! Did you think VideoGame/DooM was tough? Miss the good ol' days of classic VideoGame/RainbowSix and VideoGame/GhostRecon? Did you think "Gee, VideoGame/{{SWAT 4}} is cool, but I wish I could use this shotgun on demons"? Ever wished VideoGame/DarkSouls had guns?

* CriticalAnnoyance: Bleeding heavily is represented by a pulsing red screen, as well as your rifle shaking and grunts of pain.

* MoreDakka: The Vulcanette has a fire mode that cranks up its fire rate to 2100 RPM. Useful for annihilating Cacodemons.

Hideous Destructor is, of all things, a realism mod for VideoGame/DooM. You move and aim like an actual human being

Hey, you! Did you think VideoGame/DooM was tough? Did you

Hideous Destructor is, of all things, a realism mod for VideoGame/DooM. You die in one

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* ArmorIsUseless: Surprisingly for a realism mod, averted. It (usually) helps you stop from getting set on fire by imps,

* CounterAttack: If you've got good aim, or are just lucky, you might be able to shoot the fireball

** Summoning friendly fallen via the talisman has flavor text quoted from Literature/TheLordOfTheWings