@watsyurdeal said:
If a Shotgun doesn’t kill in two blasts, you’re dead.
You’re talking about taking over half a second to kill someone, where as the M4 and other >auto matics can kill super fast with good aim.
Thats sort of the point, shotgun will kill within two shots with @$!# aim, while it takes far more shots, even with a decent aim to kill someone with a AR/SMG…
Add all the bunny hoping and bouncing off objects, your aim has to be above ‘decent’ which the avg-to-above-avg players doesn’t have…
The balance is shifted heavily to the shotgun totting bunny hopper on meth!!> @6429F1740165 said:
@watsyurdeal said:
If a Shotgun doesn’t kill in two blasts, you’re dead.
You’re talking about taking over half a second to kill someone, where as the M4 and other auto matics can kill super fast with good aim.
Thats sort of the point, shotgun will kill within two shots with @$!# aim, while it takes far more shots, even with a decent aim to kill someone with a AR/SMG…
Add all the bunny hoping and bouncing off objects, your aim has to be above ‘decent’ which the avg-to-above-avg players doesn’t have…
The balance is shifted heavily to the shotgun totting bunny hopper on meth!!
lemme explain the logic of using shotgun to you.
Shotguns, as the stereotype goes, are high damage weapon that can kill enemies fast/with two shot within VERY VERY CLOSE RANGE. Its designed as a CQC weapon that actually still require aim if you want to kill enemies fast enough. The pellet spread is very high on medium range and barely giving any damage because the gun itself has very big damage drop-off.
while other weapons like Assault rifles and other medium ranged weapons can devastate enemies without requiring to close the range gap, that means no need to risk getting shot before you enter effective range.
while shotgun damage is very big (if you get all the pellets on target) it acts more like a secondary weapon, less killing potential (2 shots dead means the short shotty can only kill 2 and a half) and a long arse reload time.
so, Rifles and SMG are made to kill from medium-long range while shotgun is useless if operated for medium or long range.
shotgun owners are either very squishy, moderate or very slow, means high chance you can kill shotgun owners with other weapons even before they can damage you.
while playing shotgun, the main skill to have is flanking manuever because rifles are more likely to kill you too fast, so a good map knowledge is also needed when playing shotgun
you see now why shotgun is not better than rifles and SMG?
