Plasma gun



The plasma rifle is a fully-automatic weapon that fires blue-white plasma very rapidly. Upon releasing the trigger, however, there is a moment where the player cannot fire. It uses the same ammo as the BFG 9000: energy cells.

The plasma rifle first appears in the level E2M1: Deimos Anomaly in a secret area, and in fact appears in all the levels of Episode 2. It first appears in a non-secret area in E2M5: Command Center.

In the press release beta, the plasma rifle fired green and orange plasma balls, alternating between the two colors. This was similar to the BFG 2704, which fired 40 of the same projectiles. The plasma rifle was changed to fire blue plasma balls before the final release. The appearance of the plasma rifle itself also changed slightly.