I hate shotguns now


(azz_abdr) #1

I hate to play with Shotguns now, devs must know that getting closer to kill enemy is a reward for shotguns player as they can be easily killed with Riffles or SMGs from medium and long range, Stark is nerfed but it stil can kill a merc with 2-3 taps at long range. Now what? They add leg damage penalty and reducing headshot multiplier, feels like I need at least 4 rounds to kill a mercs now at medium range combat, and before I did they already kill me. And seems all shotguns have bug since last update, it sometimes miss some rounds, like none of the shots/pellets hit even I am sure I aim at them.

Shotgun is a spread weapon, it’s impossible to make all shots hit head at medium range, it even impossible to all shots hit target, unless you fire it at very close range (less than 5m), if a shotguns player kill you at close range with 1 shot, it’s entirely your fault, just like staying at open area and get killed by headshot by a sniper. All the nerf they do to shotguns, make it like only deal about 50% damage than it was.

Please consider the change.


(GatoCommodore) #2

@azz_abdr said:
I hate to play with Shotguns now, devs must know that getting closer to kill enemy is a reward for shotguns player as they can be easily killed with Riffles or SMGs from medium and long range, Stark is nerfed but it stil can kill a merc with 2-3 taps at long range. Now what? They add leg damage penalty and reducing headshot multiplier, feels like I need at least 4 rounds to kill a mercs now at medium range combat, and before I did they already kill me. And seems all shotguns have bug since last update, it sometimes miss some rounds, like none of the shots/pellets hit even I am sure I aim at them.

Shotgun is a spread weapon, it’s impossible to make all shots hit head at medium range, it even impossible to all shots hit target, unless you fire it at very close range (less than 5m), if a shotguns player kill you at close range with 1 shot, it’s entirely your fault, just like staying at open area and get killed by headshot by a sniper. All the nerf they do to shotguns, make it like only deal about 50% damage than it was.

Please consider the change.

the shotgun is still fine to me, you just gotta use the short shottie because the rest are now useless.


(azz_abdr) #3

@GatoCommodore said:
the shotgun is still fine to me, you just gotta use the short shottie because the rest are now useless.

you mean the arnold?


(GatoCommodore) #4

@azz_abdr said:

@GatoCommodore said:
the shotgun is still fine to me, you just gotta use the short shottie because the rest are now useless.

you mean the arnold?

the remburg 7

the anhuld is the sniper shotgun with effective range of 8.5m and damage falloff until 48m


(azz_abdr) #5

@GatoCommodore said:
the remburg 7

the anhuld is the sniper shotgun with effective range of 8.5m and damage falloff until 48m

you might right, I usually play with Anhuld & Hollunds and with all the nerf both feels so weak, will try the remburg later.

hope devs read this.


(Guziol) #6

I had a lot of fun with hollunds post patch. I like the changes.


(Mr-Penguin) #7

I actually like the shotgun nerf/buff. With the increased range I can 1 shot 80 HP mercs from an even longer range than usual. Putting a 40 HP chunk into someone’s HP is also possible at longer ranges than before.


(kingbuki) #8

really i still manage to run over ppl with shotgun its about positioning and map knowledge but most of ppl dont want to learn


(Sorotia) #9

@Mr-Penguin said:
I actually like the shotgun nerf/buff. With the increased range I can 1 shot 80 HP mercs from an even longer range than usual. Putting a 40 HP chunk into someone’s HP is also possible at longer ranges than before.

Yeah if you can call it a nerf…lets be honest…who really gets headshot kills with a shotgun? Sure a few pellets may hit the head with spread…

This is a buff they tried to disguise in a small nerf so shotguns are even more effective…gotta keep the Proxy scrubs happy and constantly buff their weapons when they don’t need buffs.


(GatoCommodore) #10

@Sorotia said:

@Mr-Penguin said:
I actually like the shotgun nerf/buff. With the increased range I can 1 shot 80 HP mercs from an even longer range than usual. Putting a 40 HP chunk into someone’s HP is also possible at longer ranges than before.

Yeah if you can call it a nerf…lets be honest…who really gets headshot kills with a shotgun? Sure a few pellets may hit the head with spread…

i do headshot with shotgun like 90% of my kill

the spread arent really helping on CQC


(ostmustis) #11

placebo effect is strong with you


(GatoCommodore) #12

@ostmustis said:
placebo effect is strong with you

-placebo



this is a shot from a close range

in extremely close range, the spread is even more smaller, even smaller than aura’s head hitbox


(Sorotia) #13

@GatoCommodore said:

@Sorotia said:

@Mr-Penguin said:
I actually like the shotgun nerf/buff. With the increased range I can 1 shot 80 HP mercs from an even longer range than usual. Putting a 40 HP chunk into someone’s HP is also possible at longer ranges than before.

Yeah if you can call it a nerf…lets be honest…who really gets headshot kills with a shotgun? Sure a few pellets may hit the head with spread…

i do headshot with shotgun like 90% of my kill

the spread arent really helping on CQC

I’m bad with shotguns and generally avoid them, I took out this R13 special event card with Proxy’s new eye…figured I may as well try it…probably just lucky…but for hating the shotgun I did well enough.


(GatoCommodore) #14

@Sorotia said:

@GatoCommodore said:

@Sorotia said:

@Mr-Penguin said:
I actually like the shotgun nerf/buff. With the increased range I can 1 shot 80 HP mercs from an even longer range than usual. Putting a 40 HP chunk into someone’s HP is also possible at longer ranges than before.

Yeah if you can call it a nerf…lets be honest…who really gets headshot kills with a shotgun? Sure a few pellets may hit the head with spread…

i do headshot with shotgun like 90% of my kill

the spread arent really helping on CQC

I’m bad with shotguns and generally avoid them, I took out this R13 special event card with Proxy’s new eye…figured I may as well try it…probably just lucky…but for hating the shotgun I did well enough.

you must be good at aiming, because im bad with aiming i have to use shotgun like a melee weapon with extension and chuck it on people faces