Dual Fire Damage

 

“	The Dual Fire temporarily accelerates your weapons rate of fire by a factor of two.	”
—The Reckoning Manual

The Dualfire Damage is a power-up introduced in Quake II: The Reckoning. Once activated, your rate of fire will be doubled while its effects last, and you'll also switch weapons more quickly, the startup time of chaingun / hyperblaster is halved. The first opportunity to find a Dualfire Damage is in the Waste Sieve level in Unit 1. Its effects lasts for 30 seconds.

Dualfire Damage also appears in the Call of the Machine expansion released as part of the 2023 remaster.

Strategies

• Normally almost useless, but it can be very useful with Double Damage / Quad Damage - now you need one of them instead of two. In the final battle in the Uplink Tower with Dualfire Damage + Quad Damage you can kill everything with the railgun, getting 0 damage.

• It's best used for sustained attacks against stronger enemies, or when facing large numbers of lesser foes such as Guards. Ultimately it can be viewed as a less effective variant of the Quad Damage - it's a temporary boost to your damage output, but unlike the Quad Damage it won't reduce the amount of ammo you'll need to expend. The plus side is you can carry Dualfire Damage and Quad Damage powerups in your inventory together, and even activate them at the same time if you really feel the need. Against large numbers of weaker foes such as Guards, the rapid-fire might be just as good as a Quad Damage.

Appearances

The Reckoning: Waste Sieve, Outer Compound, Outer Base, Refinery, Strogg Freighter, Command Center (Medium only)

Call of the Machine: The Casali Effect, Give Me Back My Moon, Strogg Mining Intake, McGee Station

Trivia

• There is one weapon whose rate of fire is unaffected by the Dualfire Damage: the Chainfist. This was irrelevant before the 2023 remaster, since Dualfire Damage only appeared in The Reckoning and the Chainfist only appeared in Ground Zero. However, it is possible for a player to have both in Call of the Machine, a new campaign released along with the 2023 remaster.