# Extremely salty over shotgun spam **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2015, 6:16am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702 "2015-07-17T06:16:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![firefalcon07](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@firefalcon07](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/firefalcon07)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 6:16am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/1 "2015-07-17T06:16:25Z")
Is anyone else over this shotgun spamming that started with the last update? Does nobody know how to play this game anymore that every single player on a team has to use a shotgun? this has completely ruined the game at this point. ---
**Author:** ![frewbozaurus](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@frewbozaurus](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/frewbozaurus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:24am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/2 "2015-07-17T11:24:16Z")
But again… Shotguns are part of the game, and shotgun players have a great weakness - they play with so called “tunnel vision”, and (atleast) I find it pretty easy to distract them with anything i have and are vulnerable at greater distances. Nothing’s impossible 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![newcontortionist](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8e7dd6/32.png) [@newcontortionist](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/newcontortionist)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/3 "2015-07-17T15:17:40Z")
It’s weird that I didn’t notice this until you pointed it out. I’ve seen so many shotguns over the past couple days. Did the update do something to make them more effective? ---
**Author:** ![narcedmonkey](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@narcedmonkey](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/narcedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/4 "2015-07-17T16:02:27Z")
noticed a few days ago i was constantly getting killed by shotguns but from way farther away then normal. Seems their effective range needs to be halved. ---
**Author:** ![vidwa](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/4bbf92/32.png) [@vidwa](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/vidwa)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/5 "2015-07-17T20:06:49Z")
I agree, im getting killed with two shots at an absurd in game distance. These shitguns make gears of war shotguns seem underpowered. ---
**Author:** ![biRdowneR](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@biRdowneR](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/biRdowneR)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/6 "2015-07-17T20:44:20Z")
They are basically mid range weapons now. The pallet damage was reduced but they increased the pallet count to up to 20 if I’m not wrong. As well they reduced the spread and made them way more consistent. Additionally they increased the damage drop off to smt like 10 m? Something like that. I personally enjoy the mixup. I’m sure they will get to that sooner or later but it’s not top priority as war as I know. They should rather get rid of the 100 m zeroing on the sniper rifles. =/ ---
**Author:** ![firefalcon07](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@firefalcon07](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/firefalcon07)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/7 "2015-07-17T22:13:38Z")
They gave the shotguns a major buff with the last update. I feel they made a mistake on the extent of what they did. Now the majority of player just run a shot gun and are even effective at mid-range. ---
**Author:** ![firefalcon07](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@firefalcon07](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/firefalcon07)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/8 "2015-07-17T22:16:01Z")
I’m not sure exactly what they did with the sniper rifles. As far as I can tell they changed the zero so it shows 100m instead of 0. I think it shots about the same though. an easy was to fix this is to run the range finder. ---
**Author:** ![firefalcon07](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@firefalcon07](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/firefalcon07)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/9 "2015-07-17T22:19:35Z")
At greater distance is hard to get while playing TDM. Yeah in conquest you can get the 300+ yard shot. As for trying to distract them it gets a lot harder when you have a squad in an area all packing shotguns. I just feel that it is taking away from the need for skill in the game. ---
**Author:** ![biRdowneR](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@biRdowneR](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/biRdowneR)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/10 "2015-07-18T01:58:23Z")
Problem is that you can’t zero it to zero anymore. That means in close range you always have to aim for chest shota or neck shots, if you want that 1 shot kill. Extremly enoying. I can tell you. ---
**Author:** ![firefalcon07](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@firefalcon07](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/firefalcon07)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 8:09am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/11 "2015-07-18T08:09:06Z")
Well in the programmers defense it us a long range weapon do to try and hit at close range should be a risk you have to take and learn to adjust to. As for a shot gun you should not be able to take someone out at 100 yards with buck shot. ---
**Author:** ![biRdowneR](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@biRdowneR](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/biRdowneR)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/12 "2015-07-19T01:23:33Z")
I don’t think that’s a defense. It was done to prevent headglitch sniping. That’s pretty much it. I myself , as many others as well, invested countless hours to get that close range sniping right. Now they just changed it and fucked all consistent sniper players over. ---
**Author:** ![Sasuke082594](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Sasuke082594](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Sasuke082594)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 8:52am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/13 "2015-07-19T08:52:32Z")
I was Assault auto rifles, then switched to Snipers and handguns. ---
**Author:** ![nomad1114](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/c0e974/32.png) [@nomad1114](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/nomad1114)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/14 "2015-07-22T00:18:02Z")
They did buff the shotguns on range and damage I don’t agree with it everyone is using them and getting 50 to 100 yard shots with them such bs… ---
**Author:** ![Zeris00x](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/73ab20/32.png) [@Zeris00x](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Zeris00x)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/extremely-salty-over-shotgun-spam/112702/15 "2015-07-27T00:25:43Z")
Shotguns are actually in a much better spot, in my opinion. They were all but useless before and even though I still used them, it was incredibly frustrating how inconsistent they were. Now, I can at least consistently kill people. I do think they could do with a dial back on how much damage they do at range, but I’ll take this over where they were before. I don’t see a ridiculous amount of them, but I see them a lot more than I used to. That’s not a bad thing, in my opinion. Not to mention, I’d much rather see people use shotguns over DMRs.