Very high rate of fire, stray fire can hurt multiple opponents.This makes it only very good at very close ranges, so consider carrying a Shotgun with you to deal damage at mid-range where the Chain Gun struggles. The Chain Gun is essentially a modified Machine Gun that fires faster and has less accuracy.Other class power-ups like Ammo-Regen or Scout will increase its fire rate by 25% (40 bullets fired per second) making it more fierce at close quarters but at the cost of punishing missing shots more.

Chain Gun's best damage per second potential can be taken out with Doubler class power-up.

When going against somebody that has the Chain Gun, stay away from him! The Chain Gun will destroy you if you get anywhere close to it, so get far away to reduce the amount of damage the Chain Gun user can do.

If you're in an open area, try to lure the enemy into a small room with another, semi-expendable weapon (such as the Machine Gun), then take out the Chain Gun and open fire when they get into the room.

As always, prediction skills will be very useful for this weapon especially for the defense against the opponent that are stealing the team flag.

Invisibility is a great powerup to use along with this weapon, as it makes surprise attacks very easy to do. Surprise attacks can make the CG very effective, even though it emits a lot of sound when it fires.

If you can, try get close to your target before firing.That also makes you a primary target when you try to hop into team fights carrying a CG without proper positioning or restocking. Especially if they are packed up with extra ammunition. In a team fight a CG carreer can be a troublesome to take out without focusing.At longer ranges, the Chain Gun is still effective, but quite a few of the shots will miss the target. Even armored opponents will quickly fall to it. The Chain Gun works best at close range, where it can tear apart enemies in a matter of seconds.

Quake 2 weapon mods