r/gaming • u/KH_Nakama • 16h ago
What’s a weapon or ability that instantly made you feel way stronger?
I always love that moment in a game where you unlock something and can immediately tell it’s going to change the rest of the experience.
For me, nothing tops getting the Blades of Chaos in God of War. It’s such an incredible story moment, but they’re also just ridiculously fun to use. Combat instantly felt faster, more versatile, and I remember thinking, “Yeah… these are never coming off.”
Another one for me is the Super Shotgun in DOOM Eternal. The second I got it, the whole game just clicked. Flying around the arena with the Meat Hook made me feel like I’d finally become the Doom Slayer the game wanted me to be.
What’s the first weapon or ability that comes to mind for you?
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u/10000Pigeons 16h ago
The Gravity Gun upgrade at the end of Half Life 2 where you can just start picking people up and throwing them was insanely fun
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u/PhoenixKA 16h ago
As a Fighter in Baldur's Gate 3, hitting level 5 and getting a second attack per round.
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u/notanevilmastermind 13h ago
As a fighter, paladin, ranger, monk, or any other level 5 get an extra attack feature in a 5e game.
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u/Books_and_Cleverness 9h ago
For Fighter it’s especially crazy because of Action Surge. You go from 2 attacks on your burst turn to 4 attacks.
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u/notanevilmastermind 9h ago
If you play 2024 rules, you can actually use the nick weapon mastery + the dual wielding feat to go bananas and have 4 attacks every round. Nick allows you to make your extra attack from dual wielding light weapons as part of your standard action, not as a bonus action. So that's 3 attacks per turn. The dual wielder feat allows you to take a bonus action attack with your off hand light weapon as well as giving you your ability mod damage to the bonus action attack. So that's 4 attacks per round. Without action surge.
You can even use this as a rogue to give yourself 3 attacks per turn. The problem is you can only use light weapons for 1d6 damage, and you can't use shields.
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u/Satan-o-saurus 10h ago
Yeah, every class gets significantly more powerful at that point. Yummy level 3 spells.
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u/FullZone6978 16h ago
Relatively obscure if you're not into older RTS games, any hoplite unit from Rome: Total War. Some context: You could play as Greek factions that had these units, ranging from militia hoplites, to the Spartan hoplites that are elite tier. While these units are good for offense, they are extremely OP on defense when you are defending cities. In order for the enemy to conquer a city, it needs to get the units to the center of it and hold it uncontested for 2 minutes. Usually 2-3 streets lead to the central plateau, and you can just block them off with any hoplite unit and just watch the AI throw everything into a meat grinder you made. Even the militia hoplite, a seemingly shit unit, is absolute top tier on defense.
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u/AnActualGameShark 16h ago
I never played Total War, but this also holds up pretty true in Civilization Revolution on xbox360. The Hoplites held up strong well into the next era and sometimes even beyond that.
You brought back some memories.
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u/Informal-Fix-9319 16h ago
Spartan hoplites had the limit to only be recruitable in Sparta and Syracuse I believe, armored hoplites was the main stay of most of my Greek state armies, the cheesing is something you could do as easily as described and made milita hoplites worth their weight in gold. Also for some reason the Germans got the same hoplites, as milita hoplites, which made them one of the stronger barbarian factions.
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u/Pkolt 3h ago
Historically the Romans came up with some really effective ways to deal with phalanxes to the point they were made obsolete but the AI never uses those tactics so meh!
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u/thenagz 16h ago
Screw Attack in several Metroid titles
Crissaegrim in Castlevania Symphony of the Night. SotN has many busted equipments, but the Crissaegrim is the most readily noticeable. Being a random drop of a somewhat weak enemy makes it even more surprising
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u/aft3rthought 16h ago
It’s hard to describe just how much Screw Attack and Space Jump in Super Metroid change how you play, it’s basically a fast forward button for all the old areas you’ve already cleared for when you’re re-exploring them.
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u/thenagz 16h ago
Screw Attack makes most of the games a power fantasy, you just plows through everything in your path, super satisfying!
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u/RokenSkrow 12h ago
The unparalleled mobility it provides gives an amazing sense of progress. You'd run through these halls for hours, taking it slow because of respawning enemies or do some platforming, and then next thing you know you're just flying through them without a care in the world. That cave shaft that took minutes to climb? 10 seconds now and you also annihilate everything in your path.
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u/betterthansex69 16h ago
Becoming a jedi in the old school Star Wars Galaxies mmo, before they re did the whole damn game. Was a grueling grind to become just an initiate. But once you built your saber and had some abilities, you could basically waltz into player made cities, and two man an entire army of other players, who fruitlessly defended their rebel or imperial base.
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u/Crowmanhunter 12h ago
In that same regard, becoming a Jedi in the first Knights of the Old Republic. You start off as a standard class for the first half of the game. And if you're like me, I accidentally "maxxed out" before leaving the first area, so I started thinking there really wasn't much reason to level up anymore.
Enter part II of the game where you learn you're force sensitive, and hooooly shit. Suddenly a whole other expansive skill tree that expands on your current class and adds force powers on top of it.
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u/Taita_sk 16h ago
Getting drones in Factorio.
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u/WraithCadmus 3h ago
"Yeah, that giant stack of 100 furnaces? I want them one tile over to the left"
*construction bot bweeing noise*
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u/Kimpak 16h ago
Getting the BFG 9000 and/or chainsaw in the OG Doom.
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u/Lightspeedius 9h ago
I was thinking the double barrel shotgun of Doom 2.
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u/Frontswain 7h ago
This! The Shotgun was obv already my workhorse but qhen DooM 2 came around and offered my this beauty in wood & steel i knew... i found my kin.
Almost nothing comes close to that extremely satisfying OOMPH CLACK-LACK sound while mowing down HORDES of Monster!
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u/AnActualGameShark 16h ago
Leveling up your strength in Crackdown.
You go from regular guy, to kicking vehicles a few feet, to throwing buses a quarter mile.
Smashing gangbangers into next year with one punch never gets old. And you gained power for leveling by punching more dudes so it was an endless cycle of hilarity.
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u/Stellar_Wings 16h ago
This but for Agility.
Once I was able to jump over buildings or just outright fly in Crackdown 3, I truly felt like I was playing a superhero game.
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u/kingofbling15 15h ago
Titanfall 2, the ending run. Wallrunning/ parkour with an auto locking fully automatic gun through a gauntled of bad guys is an absolute blast.
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u/TheOrangeSplat 16h ago
I loved Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy! Flinging people across the room with telekinesis was so much fun and you felt like such a badass
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u/More-Alps7348 16h ago
God that game was a gem. The bosses being built around each power was so cool. The telekinesis fight involving the cargo containers being tossed at you was such a blast!
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u/Malkryst 16h ago
That was such a good game! It's so good to see someone mentioning it! I used to tell gamers about it and they would just look at me blankly. That game needed a lot more marketing spend to make people aware of it, because it was superb.
That game made me feel more like a Jedi than any Star Wars game - and telekinesis was why - not just flinging enemies off gantries, but sometimes holding an enemy's body in front of you to take hits while reloading.
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u/Dr_Acula1897 7h ago
I know I'm late to the party, but thank you for mentioning this gem. I absolutely loved this game and have never found anything quite like it to scratch that itch again. Granted my PC is ancient by today's standards, so once I upgrade, Control will be one of the first games I get.
If you know of any way to play Psi Ops on today's PCs, please, someone let me know!
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u/nasgax 15h ago
Double Jump.
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u/j0llyllama 11h ago edited 11h ago
Bones of Eos- triple high jump in Destiny 1. Everyone got double jumps where the second was a different boost based on class. Warlocks got either a momentum based glide or a teleport, Titans a booster that sped you forward or up. Hunters had 3 choices. A teleport, two very high jumps with great control, or three normal jumps. BoE gave Hunters an extra jump, so either 4 normal jumps or 3 really big jumps.
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u/arvidsem 16h ago
The summons in XV were my favorite expression of power in any game. You couldn't call them whenever you wanted, but when they showed up they destroyed absolutely everything.
There's something about Ramuh manifesting because your battle went on too long and a nuking everybody including your party.
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u/horizon_games 16h ago
GRAPPLING HOOK in anything
And Rocket Launcher in a Quake 2 deathmatch
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u/JesseCuster40 13h ago
Grappling hooks instantly make me happy. I always bemoan the lack in games without.
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u/SIacktivist 16h ago
Making my own improved and enchanted weapon in Skyrim. Few things are more powerful than the weapon you chose for yourself.
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u/LostKeys3741 9h ago
No,... things get op when you exploit alchemy to enhance your enchantments and build enchantments that buffed your alchemy in a never ending loop. You could also enchant your armor to improve your smithing or brew a potion so you can craft a dagger that delt like 999 damage per swing.
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u/Satan-o-saurus 10h ago
Personally, the game just got boring to me at that point :c I’m a min-maxer by nature, so I would have the most ridiculous enchantments on them with the alchemist/blacksmith elixir buffs active when making them. Sad ADHD hyperfixation-to understimulation-noises
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u/SIacktivist 10h ago
I try so hard not to min-max with alchemy, blacksmithing, and enchanting, and I fail every time.
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u/UristImiknorris 16h ago
The Plasma Beam in pretty much any Metroid game that includes it.
Kind of an unusual example, but the hoverpack in Satisfactory.
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u/ZelphtheGreatest 16h ago
Moonveil pre-nerf in elden ring. Aside from the busted poise and health dmg, it just fulfills my magic swordsman dream.
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u/rikashiku 11h ago
I'm quite happen with Bloodhound Fang before finding Moonveil and RoB. Bloodhound carried me all the way to the Plateau. That was before I realized it had a second attack animation.
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u/lastepoch 16h ago
Finally getting an Enigma and/or Infinity in Diablo 2. Exponential power increase immediately.
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u/TheSmarkNebula 16h ago
Blasphemous Blade in Elden Ring: Starts off strong and can become stupidly OP with the right build, even after it was nerfed.
Katana in Silent Hill 3
The Cheater picto from Expedition 33. This lets your character take two turns. Can also be learned by every character of you put in the work.
Dual Wield + X-Fight in Final Fantasy 5. This allows a character to hit 8 times.
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u/boost_to_get_through 16h ago
There was a perk in Borderlands 4 that had a chance to return rockets to my rocket launcher on successful hit. If you up the chance high enough you could shoot them nonstop as long as the thing your shooting could take it. Also the longer you held the trigger, the faster you shot lol.
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u/Zero747 15h ago
There’s a lot of things to pick
* DS1, getting the black knight sword drop and suddenly oneshotting/two shorting enemies and bosses
* Cyberpunk 2077, the moment you get double jump
* Persona 5, getting your first SP regen effect after slumming it through dungeon 1. Again when you get auto party buff passives to start every fight buffed in everything.
* Silksong, Clawline. Boss runs away? You say no. Dodge far away to avoid something? Clawline back into their face.
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u/holeinmyboot 4h ago
Getting a black knight halberd my first time playing through the game was literally that meme of the guy digging the long tunnel and turning away just before getting the diamonds, but I got the diamonds by finding the BKH at a moment where I was about to give up forever, so frustrated with the game. picked it up, saw the strength requirement and almost gave up, but respec’d and…. Wow.
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u/Simple_Throat_6523 15h ago
That special rare armor set in Horizon Zero Dawn was epic.
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u/rikashiku 11h ago
Made a massive difference near the end there. Before the final battle, I went Dino hunting, and I swear it was so much easier to take down the big bird and trex machines(i've forgotten the names), than compared to my first attempts.
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u/Groftsan 16h ago
The Dragon Shout or Starborn powers that let you see enemies through walls. Whenever I can predict enemy movements, I feel like an undefeatable assassin.
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u/LongbowEOD 12h ago
And from that day forth, the Dragonborn whispered, "LAAS YAH NIR" to themself every thirty seconds.
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u/heyfindme 15h ago edited 15h ago
doesn't/didn't make me stronger, actually made me weaker.. but the feeling of doing it makes me feel OP AF lol
the arcane "arcane pistoleer" in warframe at max rank gives a 60% chance on headshots to provide 102% ammo efficiency for pistols (so unlimited ammo while active) and the arcane "arcane velocity" gives 120% fire rate at max rank with a 90% chance to activate on crits.
this paired with the Pyrana prime (what i usually use it on) which is a full auto shotgun pistol with a lot of recoil, with fire rate mods and a fire rate/crit riven mod, will give me so much fire rate that the recoil of it makes me shoot behind my character.. lol
this old video pretty much shows what its like, the recoil in his video is much greater than mine but its pretty damn close lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vib0ChaXdCQ
watched this video then later the same day i saw someone post in the trade chat they were selling the pistoleer arcane, once i saw the effects of it i went "wait.. cant i do a build like that video on the pyrana with this?!" and dropped the like 200plat 5 minutes later to buy both arcanes to do it, and since then every warframe has this weapon/build on it just cause of how fun it is to use, especially when people ask how i have been firing it for 10-20+ minutes straight in a survival game lol
makes me want to download the game again just to use it in survival/defense modes again..
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u/ninjaplatapus94 10h ago
Warframe has "oh hey the build came together" moments and you just turn into a one-person war crime
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u/summonsays 14h ago
Man it's been 20 years but playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced, you get like 3/4ths the way in and get armor that reflects magic. Or the ring that will just automatically revive you. Fun, potentially cheese and game breaking, abilities.
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u/hlazlo 16h ago
I think, for me, it's the Monowire in Cyberpunk 2077
EDIT: How could I forget the Sword of Night and Flame in Elden Ring?
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u/Stellar_Wings 16h ago
For me it was when I actually figured out how to properly use magic in Elden Ring.
I dropped my idea of playing a Samurai and spent the whole rest of the game as a sorcerer/spellblade with the Moonlight Greatsword.
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u/rikashiku 11h ago
I did the exact same thing. WAs gonna go full Dex Samurai run, and ended up being a sorcerer with swords instead. At the end I had 80 Int and 60 Dex. I stopped there cause I needed to level up my survivability.
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u/Celtic_Crown 16h ago
Getting the shotgun in Atomic Heart. I eventually got good with pistols thanks to the DLC, but I love my shotties. And they just feel so nice in this game.
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u/Kedly 16h ago
Scarab Gun
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u/-retaliation- 11h ago
Ugh, I used to have a halo save where i was already part way through jacking the banshee. You could load it up, and have the scarab gun in like 30seconds. It was amazing.
Then one time a friend and me were playing, and as I was making snacks he decided to load up that save not knowing what it was and fucked up the checkpoint. 😭😭
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u/Kindly-Tax-4998 15h ago
In Half Life 2, you go through a field that removes all of your weapons, except it unintentionally upgrades the gravity gun, and it is OP as fuck.
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u/csward53 16h ago
When you get the minigun and that first set of power armor in Fallout 4.
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u/rigorcorvus 14h ago
Or any gun with explosive ammo. Trivializes the game in my opinion, I forgo using it most of the time. Also not good for collateral damage lol
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u/Qurety 16h ago
In hades 1 you have the spear weapon
One of the bonuses you can get for the spear is the non-stop hit that just make your spear a machine gun.
Everytime I got that upgrade I just felt OP
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u/rook24v 16h ago
Much like the repeater with the skulls in Hades II. You normally only get 4 skulls that do solid damage, but you have to either retrieve them or wait until they come back to you. There's a Daedalus upgrade that makes the skulls automatically return instantly meaning you effectively have unlimited, very powerful ammo. If I get that upgrade I know this session is going a ways.
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u/Crime_Dawg 16h ago
People used the spear for anything not casting? I straight up couldn't clear more than like heat 5 with the spear, unless it was a caster build. Every other weapon, no problem up to 20, but spear melee was so bad.
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u/Shartcastic 16h ago
The sword in Tunic. The enemies up to that point would take a few swings from the stick to die, but once you get the sword you start mowing right through them. Its pretty early in the game that you get it, but I remember feeling so much more powerful right away.
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u/Imrtltrtl 13h ago
Grappling hook and then wings in Terraria. Energy Sword in Halo 2. Beam Sword in Smash Bros. Diablo 2 Frozen Orb on Sorceress. Getting a good psycaster in Rimworld.
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u/lightjunior 12h ago
God of War here as well. Being able to throw and recall the leviathan axe made me feel OP.
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u/mack-_-zorris 16h ago
Getting your hands on a shotgun in mist Resident Evil games. Just popping zombies heads left and right
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u/SgtNeilDiamond 15h ago
I played a good 100 hours into Cyberpunk when I found a shotgun that would just fucking launch people. I almost solely used that for the rest of the time I played it.
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u/mon_chunk 15h ago
Diablo games have this crazy difficulty scaling. For a while on a fresh character you're doing your best to climb torment difficulties. If you play it correctly and have a build in mind getting a full set of green armor or in D4 if you get the right weapon sets and charms you can jump from torment 1 to like 12 almost instantly.
D3 was like that, pretty sure D2 is but I have far less experience in it.
D4 is a bit more calculated since they dont use set armor anymore and it's based on your paragon, talisman set, and unique/legendary gear combinations.
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u/NoodleDoodlesocks 14h ago
Martini Henry in Battlefield 1. 1 shot kill between 30-80m and such a satisfying sound when firing.
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u/VinylJet 14h ago
Nothing beats that moment when a weapon or ability completely changes the way you play and makes you feel unstoppable
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u/filanwizard 13h ago
Warframe back in 2017, getting Rhino made be feel like the unstoppable force and immovable object at the same time.
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u/FeatherShard 12h ago
Picking up Alastor in Devil May Cry is such a huge upgrade that they had to throw a boss at you right after just to balance things out. And then did it again a moment later because fuck it.
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u/MyOtherAcctsAPorsche 12h ago
I think everyone is wrong.
The correct answer is the frozen orb from the Diablo 2 sorceress.
Perfectly nailing the blow up distance so it exploded right inside an enemies ribcage is the best feeling.
And it was a godsent against those blowgun little bastards in kurast docks.
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u/HA1LHYDRA 12h ago
In Super Metroid, the beam weapon you get when the baby metroid returns all grown up and gives it life to save you from Mother Brain was epic. It felt like angry mom rage.
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u/WhatWouldAsmodeusDo 11h ago
Bash in Ori. It changes everything. So much mobility, and completely changes how you see and deal with enemy projectiles
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u/Inexorably_lost 11h ago
Getting Harpoon in Silksong. Makes platforming so much easier, also great for getting in and attacking during openings. It's just a big game changer.
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u/rikashiku 11h ago
I can't remmebe rif it's the right name of the weapon, but in
Clair Obscur Expedition 33, Maelle can get a weapon called 'Medalum' that starts Maelle in her Virtuoso stance in a battle. Virtuoso gives her next attack 200% Critical Damage. The weapon also offers healing, protection shellm, and auto-virtuoso stance on damage, as you level the weapon up.
It's a HUGE game changer early in the game for a weapon that can be acquired early on.
I went from fighting enemies for over 3-5 rounds, to one-shotting them, and 3 shotting bosses.
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u/Generic_On_Reddit 10h ago
Unconventional answer, perhaps, but once you hone your ability to parry in Sekiro, the game feels like smooth sailing. I barely ever died to enemies/bosses in the later half of the game because the game beats the parry lesson into you so thoroughly that it's much easier to adapt to the rhythm of new bosses and practically never die. That is, until the fucking Sword Saint, of course.
It's entirely possible I died more times trying to fight Genichiro the first time because I just didn't get the rhythm of parrying when I first started than I did to Isshin.
So not a new weapon or unlock like many answers, but it might as well be. If you don't "unlock" your ability to execute parry, you might as well put the game down.
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u/RecognitionOwn4214 16h ago
In Mass Effect 2, you can collect exactly two shots for a devastating weapon, that when used on the suicide mission will be enough to bring down the end boss.
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u/FATDOG5618 9h ago
Terra blade in terraria is like a game changer for me. Makes the game so easy to just walk around and swing that green sword around. Or the Terra spark boots which just makes running around and exploring just a breeze
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u/thyrandomninja 16h ago
Not really “stronger”, certainly not in a combat sense, but Air dash in Jedi Survivor. Shout out to double jump in fallen order too, but the dash just felt so FREEING. Then only about 20 minutes later, they upgrade it go through certain barriers, and doing that *replenishes* the double jump and dash, and you get given a sequence chaining them together for a solid three minutes, which is largely agreed to be the best moment of gameplay in the game, and capstoned by a great plot beat
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u/blaiddfailcam2 16h ago
Crissaegrim, from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
It has a very slim chance of dropping from a Schmoo, but it's undoubtedly the strongest weapon in the game—especially if you equip one in either hand.
It creates a series of slashes in front of Alucard without him actually swinging the blade, allowing you to simply spam the attack while moving. Even the toughest enemies in the game get shredded to pieces before they can land a hit.
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u/Fluffy_Corgi_7209 16h ago
"Get off me abilities" take the crown IMO. Being able to create space will always make me feel powerful. Especially if they stagger the enemy and immediatly put you on the offensive. A lot of games have this ability shown in different ways but its the staple power move in any movie, game or fight to me.
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u/aura_enchanted 15h ago
I have only had one or two like really crazy power boosts in games. The first one that comes to mind is the DPRM in sto
The DPRM or dynamic power redistribution module is the fuck you I win anyway button. Functionally its a full heal + massive damage boost+ it resets all your cool downs + big damage resist for a period of time.
It made you feel like an untouchable machine, youd fly around killing shit and anytime you were even remotely challenged youd slap the button, fuck them up and move on.
It felt almost like cheating
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u/JahRoddenberry 15h ago
Getting the mortar in Assassin's Creed Black Flag. Everyone on the high seas is fucked now!.
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u/orphan_1991 15h ago
Getting the blasphemous blade in Elden ring. I’ve since tried almost every weapon, and while a lot of them are amazing, nothing quite compares to the BB
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u/Stellar_Wings 15h ago
KotOR 1+ 2
The lightsaber, obviously. Because it's a freaking lightsaber.
Mass Effect 2
M-76 Revenant. I'm a simple man, I play as Soldier Shepard, I want the biggest gun in the galaxy to kill as many aliens and robots as quickly as possible.
Fallout 3 + New Vegas + 4
The Hunting Rifle, or any sniper rifle really. The A.I in these games just can't properly respond to you attacking them from a certain distance away. I was able to sneak around and clear out all of Libertalia in Fallout 4 and did the same to the Legion troops in Nelson while using the Ratslayer.
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u/Nomadic_View 14h ago
Unlocking pumpkins in Disney Dreamlight Valley. I went from struggling to make 10k to becoming a millionaire overnight, then making a million a day.
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u/imapersonmaybe 14h ago
Old JRPG games like Chrono Trigger when you finally got a spell that hit every enemy instead of single targets. Being able to trash clear random battles just felt so good.
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u/Ha_eflolli Android 13h ago
Literally any Weapon Upgrade in Final Fantasy 9.
For some reason, Weapon Attack Power makes some massive difference in that Game. Like, even the very first better Weapon you can get for the Protagonist increases your Damage from like ~30 to ~70 Damage per Hit. To put that into perspective, most Random Encounters in the first two Dungeons only have around 70-75 HP to begin with.
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u/SuperWaluigiWorld 13h ago
The crowbar in Road Rash 3 and getting a better bike than the rat bikes that you start with. Get the crowbar and everybody is tasting the pavement.
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u/spiderglide 13h ago
When I got Skippy in Cyberpunk I thought "now we're talking". Popped so many caps in so many asses it was great.
Ran out of ammo as soon as I started fighting Odo.
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u/Dude__Fortune 13h ago
Every single custom spell I've ever made in Morrowind gave me a sense of power ranging from "HOA president" to "3.6 roentgen" in the sense that I'd overcome a problem and now had power over it, instead of the inverse. Whether my orc fighter had 1 point of levitate for three seconds to navigate Telvanni towers, or my archmage had a "drain health 100 + damage health 100 on target, max radius, resist magic 100 on self" to kill everything in that zip code, every spell solved a problem that had, at one point, pissed me off.
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u/A_Curious_Citizen 13h ago
"Rapid Fire" in Battlefield 2: Modern Combat. Stomp everything: infantry, AFV's...choppers and tanks!
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u/blkguy3rd 12h ago
Recently played through Stranger of Paradise. We played through coop so I gave the mage classes a try. Once you unlock Sage and can cast Ultima its like a different game lol. Just clearing rooms once you finally get it off.
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u/CrespinMoore 12h ago
Maxed Jedi mind trick in Jedi Survivor, having a purge trooper at your beck and call was a liberating experience
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u/therabbitssing 11h ago
Spread Gun in Contra Arcade
Assembling Heavy Barrel in Heavy Barrel
Double Ships in Galaga
Rocket Launcher in Metal Slug
Red bullets AND Red Grenades in Ikari Warriors
Free Range in Thunder Force V
Becoming Super Sonic in Sonic 2
Knights of the Round - Final Fantasy VII
Hulkbuster in Marvel's Avengers
Gjallarhorn in Destiny
Backpack Grenade Launcher Helldivers 2
Devil Trigger in Devil May Cry
The Requeim in Resident Evil Requiem
I could go on and on...
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u/JakeDavis2007 11h ago
Crysis 1 modded for infinite armor power. Hilariously yeeting bad guys at each other or punching a bale of wire so hard that it takes down a helicopter.
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u/mkay1911 11h ago
Crissaegrim
Also: double welding Crissaegrims.
Once you do this, the rest of Symphony of the Night is your bitch.
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u/Skeletonzac 11h ago
The mask in far cry 6 that lets you perform take downs on aware enemies. Went from a shooter to a hack and slash immediately.
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u/strange_bike_guy 11h ago
The "Unlabored Flawlessness" in Ninja Gaiden 2008. Intentionally keep Ryu's health as low as possible and you can one hit almost everything. You can fell a boss in a few hits. But it's instant death for Ryu upon merely a single scratch because you're at 1 hp basically.
THWACK
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u/StephJamz 11h ago
Far Cry 5 and 6 when you unlock the mini copter and can fly hooligan style to any shenanigans you feel like.
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u/ReferenceTraining226 11h ago
Rapier of a thousand cuts in Windrose.
Most mobs are at best annoying, and the first boss practically impossible, but once you get that weapon with bleed on it, the world is substantially easier.
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u/Rokushakubo 10h ago
OG Gjallerhorn in Destiny. Your life changed when it eventually dropped for you.
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u/asiangontear 10h ago
In Zone of Enders 1 and 2, you face this boss that can teleport around and he was imposing because of it.
In ZoE2, you get this ability. ZERO SHIFT!
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u/Sean2257 10h ago
The Gjallarhorn in Destiny. It was so ridiculously strong that almost every raid LFG post back then literally required you to have it, with descriptions constantly demanding "Gjallarhorn only."
Sucks that it took me almost 900 hours of grinding just to finally get one to drop lmao.
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u/wegotthisonekidmongo 10h ago
Back when firewall Sorcerers were a thing in Diablo 2. The first time I got the skill I felt in the power
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u/noesser 10h ago
Xcom enemy unknown.
Shivs. Holy crap shivs.
In xcom you (genrally) command soldiers. They need cover and take damage easily until you get late game armour. They deal little damage relying on weapon upgrades and crits. They heal slow and you generally want a lot of them for backup and redundancy. They panic in firefights wasting turns and making dumb decisions. They have a million draw backs.
Orrrrrr. Shivs. These remote control tanks can't take cover (meaning you simply walk to the enemy and unload), have ridiculous armour, heal quick, can't be poisioned, fear nothing, and generally wreck shop well into the midgame before upgrades. There is a wonderful feeling in sending 6 tanks with galling guns in to do the job of soldiers. Its truly beuatiful
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u/Pman1324 10h ago
I'll give you the opposite.
Every time I hear somebody cast Winter's Wrath on Warlock in Destiny 2 Crucible, a fear like none other chills my blood, and I know my time is up.
The sound of that super is horror incarnate. IYKYK
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u/Kohjiroh 9h ago
The flamethrower in Alien Isolation. It gave an immense (depending on usage rate easily false) sense of security. Always highly entertaining to see people get it and immediately proceed to overuse it.
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u/LostKeys3741 9h ago edited 8h ago
In a RTS game, units/soldiers are weapons.
In Homeworld: Cataclysm, when the Bentusi finally transmit the blue prints for you to build their Super Acolytes, it instantly made your armada feel way stronger.
For those who have never played this 1990's game. Let me explain why this was a big deal game changer.
Regular Acolytes are your basic jet fighter class intercepters. Imagine a basic small 1 seater pilot plane armed with basic machine gun for aerial dog fighting. 2 small Acolytes can join together to form a corvette sized space craft called an ACV.
What is a ion cannon? An entire frigate sized space ship is built around this ion cannon and it is used to kill larger capital ships. These ships are slow but big and tough. There is also a multibeam ion frigate that uses smaller ion guns in short bursts in the anti-interceptor/corvet role.
Now what is a Super Acolyte? It is a corvette sized craft with the speed and agility of an interceptor or even faster and is even more armored than average corvettes, and it is armed with frigate class ion cannons. Not short burst multi-beam ions guns, full on Cyclops ion cannon frigate class weapons that keep shooting a stream of ion with no cool down until the enemy explodes.
You now have corvetts that easily out muscle enemy interceptor jets and corvettes in 1v1, and a squadron can kill larger frigates, carriers, capital ships, destroyer, and dreadnaught class ships in seconds.
TLDR: Super Acolytes is like having a bunch of flying Cyclops from X-men shooting their optic blast 100% cutting planets in half.
Also in the same game, Siege Cannon on your mothership was a game changer.
"There are things you can't fight, acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you have to get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win."~Pacific Rim.
In the game Homeworld: Cataclysm story mode, you spend the entire game running away from The Beast, imagine John Carpenter's The Thing infecting entire capital ships and pumping out smaller infected crafts to assimilate and infect other ships. The Beast mother ship is armed with a bounching beam that spreads infection to other ships like chain lightning.
It is only once your crew finds a derelict Siege Cannon, a planetary bombardment class weapon and salvages it. This weapon is 1/3 of the size of your mother ship and was never meant to be used on a captial ship, it was meant for even larger space craft, think like a gun emplacement of 4 other siege cannons on wh40k's Black Stone Fortress that Abbadon dropped on Cadia to destroy it.
Upon initial use, the cannon was so powerful it nearly destroys your mother ship from the feedback and although it severely hurt the Beast mothership, the Beast was able to immediately regenerate heal itself from the immense damage. You are once again forced to retreat. Later in the story you finally build upgrades to your ship to handle the Raw power needs of the Siege Cannon, and calibrate the frequency and attune it to neutralize the Beast's regen ability.
Now you can fight the hurricane and win. Truly epic.
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u/ReisorASd 9h ago
Getting Whirlwind Axe at lvl 30 in wow as a warrior. You need some help to get it that early, but if you do, it is amazing.
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u/LostKeys3741 9h ago
66 strength in any DarkSouls game. Two hand that weapon to apply a 1.5x multiplier for virtual 99 str scaling damage for your heavy scaling weapon.
Most souls duals was at soul lvl 120. 66 str meant you can spend 54 points else where like Vigor.
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u/LostKeys3741 8h ago
Your 1st powerfist or super sledge in fallout game. You can now one shot weak/mid enemies.
You just need power armor to go toe to toe with a death claw.
Sure you can stay far away and shoot a gun at a Death Claw, but it feels so good to triump in power armor and a powerfist/super sledge.
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u/LostKeys3741 8h ago
Unlocking the Karasawa plasma grenade rifle in pre Armored Core 6 games (AC1—>AC5).
It has it's own signature howl when firing.
Also in the same game series, the Moonlight beam saber.
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u/Relevant_Elk7494 8h ago
The RYNO II from Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando was like godmode just activated
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u/Mindless_Entry_3302 16h ago
Levitation in Control