Even conquest is unpleasant. I played several games today when literally every single player, bar maybe 10, was wielding the 10-A Hunter. The particularly great thing is that the 10-A Hunter is basically a sniper rifle, and you’re constantly getting one-hit at ridiculous ranges with that damn shotgun. It’s preposterously and game-breakingly effective at all but the longest ranges.
@crabman169 yep, they’re incredibly easy to use, admittedly a little inconsistent but how can you expect to kill folk at 20-30 meters in 1 bang every time, I’d be happy if they removed them from gaming entirely, they’ve never been balanced in any game I’ve ever played
The point is the shotgun is for close range , maybe todays modern “shotgun rifles” can have longer range then normal ones, but NOT IN WW1 !! hittin ppl from 50m away and kill em is just playin stupid. And i dont use shotty, i just picked one once on the floor, kiiled 2 ppl with such easy from 30+m away…its cleary broken, and if ppl dont see this or just beein ignorant fools, well then we have a problem and DICE won again by trollin us like pigs, good day
For someone who mains scout weapons I highly doubt you’ve used shotguns outside a few kills so you are incredibly biased like most people who complain in this thread. If you think they are so cheesy and easy to use post your stats on this thread of you dominating the leaderboards using the shotgun only on Conquest or Ops.
Shotguns are the crocodile of guns, the oldest surviving gun to my knowledge that still does the job, I bet you could take any of these WW1 shotguns into modern combat without being at that much of a disadvantage.
I’m not going to have time to complete the 300 kill task this weekend, and I’m not that bothered by it. I’ve already got a load of melee weapons, I’m not going to miss out in the game if I don’t have a new reskinned melee weapon…if it was a Chain axe though, that would be a different matter.
Last night match’s was funny on operation with a load of attacking assault players using shot gun trying to get across open ground, fish in a barrel to my SLR. Turns out the shotguns cant kill players from across the map
I did the achievement yesterday, and got fun. I got a Star with every gun/variant of the game, but yesterday I noticed again the huge difference between the 10-A Hunter and the rest of shotguns. Only maybe the Sjogren Inertial is worth to choosin too.
All this talk about honesty and thinking…
Here’s the problem with your rant, first you say shotties are broken, then you say they are killing machines with a 40-watt range, so which is it?
As V2Face pointed out (and saved me 15 paragraphs of typing) it is
out-ranged by every other weapon
Is a niche weapon which requires skill/guts to use.
Is high-risk/high-reward.
At the end of the day, it is just a skin for a melee weapon. And when the previous mission was 15 revives for halloween dogtag, people complained that it was too easy and not even a challenge. So here is where we find ourselves. You do not have to participate (except for the getting shot by shotguns part–you do have to participate in that–and if they are such killing machines, then fight fire with fire. But I suspect you will find out that it is not as easy as it seems, especially when you find yourself in an open field vs. 2 hellriegel hosers).
