where did you get that information ? (edit: oh missed the if in that question)
that would totaly suck imho, as the napalm gun isnt even very balanced, we dont need yet another new unbalanced weapon.
besides most players already had problems getting the napalm gun in their controls set.

because.

Q2's CG would suck. I thought it was ok for SP but it was way too overpowered for MP

why r u mod in this forum yet continually bash the game?

I didn't see the vote for "dead game, stick a fork in it"

Nuh uh. You'd be lucky to get 5 kills with that thing. It's a bit difficult to use considering the drag and that it chews up so much ammo, so it'd fit in well, I think. But I guess that would only be the case if they didn't make ammo get refilled every time you step over a weapon. In Quake 2 you actually had a sense of conserving ammunition, even if you were playing DM. In Q3 and Q4 I don't give ammo a second thought. I mean, It's not a terrible thing, but it'd be nice if ammo boxes were worth something.

The blaster is obviously already there and could easily be added into mutliplayer, however, I think it lost out to the gauntlet for a good reason. The Q2 blaster was completely useless. It was fun at times getting a blaster kill, but I do think the balance of the gauntlet (that being that it is useful but only at point blank range) is a good one and the blaster doesn't serve any decent purpose in multiplayer. Even in Delta CTF where you have a mod that is reproducing a CTF gameplay from Q1 and Q2, while we considered the blaster once you get over the novelty of it being the way it used to be, there's really nothing enjoyable about having it.

I miss the Quake 1 lightning gun, where you could shoot under water and it would zap people within a radius.

I would need a new computer to enjoy q4 with any decency, but in all accounts and opinions q4 is NOT worth upgrading for.

If there was any weapon to be replaced with the blaster, that would be the machinegun - this combined with the actual maps makes Q4 TDM a total joke of a cessfest.

If anything I would like to see some slight weapon rebalancing in Quake 4. The rl's rocket speed is far far to slow, (snail rockets). I would also like to see the rg's power toned down and longer recharge rate. Not sure if any of you have noticed this....

Moving on, I do like quake 4, and enjoy playing it. But it seems that nobody else really does. I hear it being used at LAN parties, comps and stuff but you get online and I struggle to find anybody online playing the fecking thing. Quake 3 on the other hand is full of people. Is everyone holding out for ET or is there something some of us have missed?

I also think that the machine gun should be a slightly more powerful weapon that you actually pick up, like in Quake 2. That seemed to work out better.

A supershotgun we have. The base shotgun has always been powerful, most say too powerful, in Q4 and it would be rather unbalancing to add a supershotgun (unless you weakened the existing shotgun like we did in Delta CTF).

Come to think of it, considering how ridiculous of a weapon an annoying machine gun is to start with, how about having everyone spawn with a significantly weaker shotgun, + the mg /gauntlet, while having the regular 100 damage shotgun maintain it's spawn points?

That seems to make sense.