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Examples of That One Attack in First-Person Shooters include:

• Doom's custom boss or miniboss monsters from the add-on pack in standalone mod scoredoom have at least one. Here are several egregious examples
  • The Annihilator's homing missiles deal heavy damage, and are really hard to dodge, even in wide-open spaces (especially painful if said areas lack cover).
  • The winged goat demon Azazel's "stunned" state will make him shoot out ground-hugging fireballs that can rip through you, dealing incredible damage in a short amount of time. The fireballs are really fast as well.
  • The Demolisher's bfg cannon can outright obliterate you on a direct hit; however, he sometimes fires two shots, with the second one likely to finish you off; on top of that, the twin super gattling guns can shred you twice as fast if you don't hide.
  • Hellsmith's three-way explosive fireballs may as well be a One-Hit Kill on a direct hit, since each of said fireballs split into multiple explosions as well.
  • Every single one of Moloch's attacks are brutal, especially the hell grenades (very tough to dodge in tight spaces and deal massive damge) and nail barrage (these blaze through the map and rip through you for pretty large damage, and they rebound too).
  • Scourge's homing missiles can instantly kill you on a direct hit, and they're pretty fast to avoid as well. What's worse? He launches them in three sets of two. There's also that flamethrower attack of his that has a decent range but can quickly empty your health in seconds. Ouch!
  • The Dark Cardinal's homing energy ball nova attack is really annoying considering the mini fireballs home in on you and the attack goes off every time he flinches.
  • The Terminator's plasma grenade attack will total your health and armor on a direct hit, and it does severe damage if you're in the blast radius. It's a nightmare to dodge in tight spaces.
  • The Pyro Demon's teleport explosion attack is not only extremely damaging (splash damage ahoy) and a huge pain in the ass to avoid, he tends to do it pretty frequently sometimes. Mitigated somewhat in that he sometimes does it anyway even if you're not on the same level he is and he can't get down or up from there.
  • Thamuz's hard-to-avoid homing plasma ball can take you out instantly as well if it hits (that's without armor in this case); the ring of fire attack makes him invincible until he finishes the attack by sending the ground-hugging flames out (which only go straight, thankfully)
• The Charger or The Jockey from Left 4 Dead when on a level with ledges that kill you. A well placed charge from a charger can kill an ENTIRE TEAM.
  • Also, Smokers on a level with holes you go down but can't go back up.
    • Hunters and Jockeys are also the bane of the slow ponderous player in these situations too. Second chances are rarely given among survivor players and most players who don't "get with the programme" the first time around and fail to jump down the right hole at the same time as the rest of the team are often summarily booted from the game if they get pinned/snared and become unsaveable.
    • Likewise for infected players, it is extremely difficult to pin/snare a survivor player and kill them before their buddies shoot you and rescue them (you are vulnerable to other players when pinning one and cannot move until your pinned target is dead). Therefore pinning/snaring a slow, clueless survivor player who didn't jump down the one-way hole at the same time as the rest of the survivor team is seen as a Crowning Moment of Awesome for the infected side and a benchmark by which to measure a player's skill as an infected.
  • Anything from the Tank. On Expert, both of his attacks will incapacitate you in one hit, and he's scarily accurate with the cement throw. On any other difficulty, one of his punches sends you flying, which can range from being a minor nuisance to sending you flying off a bridge/rooftop to your instant death, and the developers love putting instant death falls on finale levels, the only place where you're definitely running into a Tank. And you don't respawn during the finale event. Punching cars/debris counts too since it's another instant incap, regardless of difficulty.
  • Any attack in the game that damages also causes flinching, the Common Infected will reduce your speed to nothing if three or more are hitting you at the same time.
  • For anyone playing as the Special Infected, the Survivors' melee attack will stagger you long enough for them to move away and kill you, or they could kill you using just the melee attack if they're feeling sadistic, which most people are in Online Versus.
  • It gets even worse for the Tank: if your Tank dosn't have access to cars or cover to get to the survivors, the survivors will simply shoot the Tank player from a distance. Each shot causes flinching which will slow the Tank; with all four survivors wielding machineguns in a wide open area without any cars to throw, the Tank usually dies in seconds when survivor teams do this.
  • One attack from survivor players annoy the hell out of Tank players: Fire. If they hear a Tank appear, survivor players will use their molotovs as soon as the Tank player is in their sights or shoot nearby gas cans as a substitute. Once caught on fire, the Tank will keep taking damage until it dies, frustrating the infected team to no end. If there's any water nearby, then you're not as screwed.
• Borderlands has the Roid Raged Psycho's Grenades. The boss seems easy and it's child's play to snipe his overly large head. And then he throws a grenade that will completely destroy your health and shields if it hits, leaving you open for him to kill you. To make it worse, he has a spread mod, so every single grenade will spit up into 6.
  • The Destroyer's shockwave attack. It's not very damaging, oh no. There are two issues: First, it pushes you out of cover, so it can get you with it's other attacks (Plus it's a pain to keep running back to cover) and two, prepare to throw your controller against the screen if you happen to be even remotely close to the edge when he uses it.

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