Rocket launcher (Doom Eternal)



The rocket launcher, also known as the Paingiver, returns as a weapon in Doom Eternal. It features an all-new appearance with a transparent barrel and a skull motif on its side. Unlike the rest of the weapons introduced in Doom Eternal, the rocket launcher has kept its weapons mods from the previous game fully intact, with different upgrades given to them.

Lore
Forged in the depths of the Golgothan smelting pits, the Paingiver is a demonic weapon, built at the command of Deag Ranak to make the weak suffer. It is said that the cultist-engineers of Golgotha who designed it refused to rest until their work was finished.

Trivia
The fins on the barrel of the rocket launcher seem to be inspired by the profile of the weapon's first-person view and pickup sprites in Doom 64, making this weapon's design one of several such references in Doom Eternal.