The flashlight controversy was a real kerfuffle at the time, in as much as the 2004-era Internet would get up in arms about a design decision. In order to preserve the atmosphere, these new lights are much narrower (and a little brighter) than the standard flashlight, and are only available on the basic weapons." "Under the crazy presumption that a roll of duct tape has to exist somewhere on the Mars facility," he wrote at the time, "the Duct Tape mod sticks flashlights to your machinegun and shotgun. ![]() (Even if that means flipping the toilet paper direction in Fallout 4.) Though a number of modders developed solutions, the Duct Tape mod by Glen "FrenZon" Murphy was the most popular. ![]() Whatever id Software's intentions were, if there's a demand, inevitably a modder will fill it. "I love how you need to use your flashlight to move around and then when you turn in a room it highlights a monster all of a sudden and then you gotta run and switch to your weapon, it adds to the atmosphere." "The flashlight's separate use was designed for gameplay purpose," wrote one Doom 3 player on the gaming message board NeoGAF, way back in 2004. ![]() Other players saw it as a deliberate design decision to introduce risk/reward. Some folks thought it was annoying, irked by the burden of swapping between them.
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