Is the Unmakyr worth the trouble on higher difficulties?

[Bill the Butcher]

I'm on ultra violence and I hear people who played nightmare say it's not worth it. Your thoughts?

[rambley enjoyer 73]

In my opinion, I'd say no. The slayer gates are extremely fun, but the Unmaykr isn't worth it if you ONLY want the gun. On Nightmare, I always found the BFG to be much more useful since it could clear rooms, which was always more needed than single target damage.

[CronoDragon]

I will say its up to you if you want to get the Unmaykr

BFG does massive damage, Unmaykr has better ammo

I normally use the BFG for room clearing and The Icon of Sin as he's a big target, As for the Unmaykr I use to deal with the Super Heavy or want to not waste a BFG shot

[the milk man]

Not really, but it's hella fun with the infinite ammo/overdrive/party mode cheats.

[Sad Pug]

I don't see much purpose in it.
It shares the ammo with BFG, but does less damage.
BFG clears pretty much everything in its path, while unmaykr is for disposing one enemy - not much point to it and it looks like the game feels the same way about it, becuse you have to swap it with BFG to get it and you won't pick it from the wheel.
Underwhelming, but slayer gates are A LOT of fun.

[JonteWhat!?]

Unmaykr is better VS Bosses/mini-bosses like the Tyrant but the BFG is king vs large amounts of demons.

[them4pples]

the unmakyr is a cool gun and is really good against super heavy demons, but since it shares ammo with the bfg, there's no reason to use it really. bfg is the better gun, so i use my ammo for that instead. you should still do the slayer gates though since they give you 3 weapon points and because they're just fun to do in general.

[hsf_]

It's really handy against the Khan Maykr. That is the only time I felt I could successfully use it properly, as the BFG utilises 30 ammo much more effectively than the Unmaykr against multiple enemies, unless you're exceptionally good at ammo conservation and aiming.

[Awesomesauce]

Quite good if you only want one specific demon out of the equation, such as quickly deleting an archvile before it does something annoying, or killing a few Whiplashes before they start their ♥♥♥♥. Unfortunately you are also given the Crucible nearly at the same time, which accomplishes the same goal, which is specifically for this job. If the Unmayker was a straight laser instead of having that massive spread, i'd use it a lot more.

[ImHelping]

Okay, hear me out.

While the unmaker is a huge disapointment no matter what difficulty you play? it IS worth taking on the slayer gates in the non gimmick modes.

Because of the REAL value of the slayer gates. Extra weapon points

Unmaker is not, in fact, "Better against single heavy demons than the BFG". Because you can one two combo kill the marauder the BFG, but he'll just pull out his shield in the middle of being shredded by the unmaker after a stun instead.

But, the weapon points are totally worth it. In particular as there are only about five? more than you need for everything. And 18 of your points are from slayer gates. That's enough to max out two weapon mods all by itself.

[Urza]

Playing Nightmare on Final Sin. Never used the Unmaykr once in a run with successful or satisfactory results. Someone said might be worth it on a few boss fights, which I could see.

I can't understand the design choice, honestly. A BFG pistol that uses 1 ammo shot to kill 1 of any non boss demon would've been a more useful design, despite the Crucible almost fulfilling that role.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

The Unmakyr isn't the kill everything button that the BFG is, or that the Unmaker in Doom 64 was. It does have one high utility function though even on higher difficulties, imo. And that is when you need to very rapidly kill a single heavy or super heavy mob at close range. (Assuming you have ammo, and don't have crucible charges, in which case the crucible is better.)

Of course, in such a situation, you will probably opt to use the BFG to thin the herd first anyway, so even then it kind of comes down to playstyle imo. I think it's honestly more a novelty and a nod to Doom 64 than anything else.

If I had my druthers, there would be a way to acquire the three demon keys to power it up and make it totally OP, as a reward for unlocking it, perhaps in a super secret, extremely difficult series of missions.

[Connatic]

Originally posted by CronoDragon:

I will say its up to you if you want to get the Unmaykr

BFG does massive damage, Unmaykr has better ammo

I normally use the BFG for room clearing and The Icon of Sin as he's a big target, As for the Unmaykr I use to deal with the Super Heavy or want to not waste a BFG shot

Is that a fact? Unmaykr is more ammo efficient for the damage it deals? I only used it a few times and couldn't figure out what situation it's good in.

[CzechKronner]

BFG is far better on Nightmare/UN.

[Xavi-Da-Imp]

It would be cool, if Unmakyr was using Plasma Weapon. Becouse as it is, getting this weapon is only worth in how much fun is getting it - I love Slayer Gates, those are so fun to do, not actually using it. BFG is better, becouse it works nicelly as a "oh s**t" button when something nasty comes along, like Archvile or Maruader.