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That still leaves ol' zappy in pretty poor shape against, well, anything. Quake's enemies by themselves aren't particularly strong (in the game, at least); Ranger can turn Fuzzfangs into a Furby with the super nailgun so quick he barely gets a chance to swipe- as long as the Shambler is alone, which rarely happens due to the level design making sure you've got other mooks to shoot and dodge while HRRARRRGHHHH flings lightning at you.

Doomguy has stuff way more powerful than Ranger has at his disposal, and still can't drop his own big bads like that unless he's got a BFG (which makes the Thunderbolt look like a pocket lighter, by the way), so it's not unreasonable to say for general enemies in a fight, Doom's beasties would mop the floor with Shub-niggurath's babies.


On the other hand, the only two bosses in Quake are completely immune to damage, at least in the typical sense- Chthon only takes damage from getting zapped by pillars in his room (which is at least something that could be reasonably harnessed), Shubby can only be killed by telefragging (but someone as comparatively small as Ranger can turn it into a fountain of giblets once that happens).

Also, Quake's enemies can't aim up or down. So maybe in Lovecraftworld they're too used to non-euclidean geometry to do so.