That weapon has no intelligent mode anyway so whats the diff?

Even when I played DM online, I lost interest in any map where that weapon was catered to.

Orph - the gun does have some interesting qualities, but you have to pay your dues (alot of gametime) before the real interesting gameplay emerges.

When it becomes fun, is when good players mix it in with normal dm fighting. Like all weapons, there are certain counter-tactics - most involving avoidance, or pushing the proximity between you and opponent: i.e. with the rpg, if you can't run, you should probably get as close as possible to the attacker.

Anyway, the GGun adds a couple of new elements to this - anticipation of the 'catch', improvization of environment, and reversal of attack. For instance, if somebody has the combine rifle, I will entice them to launch an orb - setting me up for a 'catch and reverse' before they even realize what happened. Same thing with hand grenades. This really is a new kind of gameplay for DM - a sort of baseball/hot-potato mechanic that can be very interesting.

Of course entering a 16 player server filled with phys objects and 16 grav guns will seem like sheer chaos, so I could see how some might frown on the gun at first.