Shooting Games · 33

Weapon spread is a balance dial disguised as inaccuracy; designers can make movement, crouching or short bursts matter by changing a few numbers behind the reticle. The category's past supplies the companion fact: DOOM's 1993 shareware release helped popularize both first-person shooters and a distribution model where a large part of the audience could try the game before paying. Nothing improves map knowledge like repeatedly discovering the same ambush from the victim's side.