Black Mesa – Deathmatch Weapons Guide

Let you know which weapon is powerful and which weapon is useless.

All Weapons Overview

All credit goes to MXYLR!

Crowbar

• The best start weapon.
• Fast speed and great damage.
• But crowbar is not shotgun.

Glock Pistol

• Attack2 (right mouse by default) has 6x fire rate but it will decrease accuracy
• .Attack (left mouse by default) has high accuracy but low fire rate.
• Super low damage, do not use after picking up other weapon.
• Well but it is still a gun after spawning.

Grenade

• Everytime you spawn, you will have 3 (sometimes are 2) grenades.
• You cannot pick it up on multiplay.
• You can cook grenade before throwing but be caution the explode time of grenade is 5 seconds.
• Throwing grenade will do nothing while you and your enemy are face to face.

Revolver

• Good damage.
• Use toggle_zoom rather than +attack2 zoom.
• The second choice for snipers.

Crossbow

• The only choice for snipers.
• Attack2 then +attack for quick scope.
• Well +attack explosive bolt still has good damage if you hit player’s body.
• You can use explosive bolt to do damage boost.

MP5

• Not just a grenade laucher.
• It has good damage.
• Well the grenade also has good damage.

Shotgun

• +attack – fast but little low damage.
• +attack2 – super high damage but super slow.
• choosing +attack and +attack2 depends on your situation.

Tau cannon

• You can do tau cannon jump on multiplay.
• Tau cannon jump + long jump module can make you fly.
• High damage with full charging.
• You can do wallgauss thing like half life 1 deathmatch (not the same, watch my wallguass guide for more details).

Gluon Gun

• Highest DPS.
• We call it “noob gun”.
• “Noob gun” means its powerful.

Hivehand (hortnet)

• Toy gun do not use!

Satchels (C4)

• Left mouse to throw it and right mouse to explode it.
• You can press +use (E by default) to pick it up.
• Be caution while picking up others’ satchel.
• Your satchel will explode after you die.

Tripmines

• Gives other player surprise.

Snark

• Useful while you cant use grenades to kill others.