Evonus said:
Run like hell, bounce off wall, roll, shotgun shotgun, repeat. That wasn't stop-and-pop. You just got used to doing it. Maybe you were really good at it.
What you prefer comes down to your own preference, and no one should be attempting to claim universal superiority for their own opinion on which inevitable perversion of whatever Epic claims they "intended" is actually better. Exploitations exist in both systems.
On a technical level, you can complain about matchmaking being borked, or you could whine about the terrible level of host advantage in the first game.
Give-and-take.
wrong. I was actually really poor at using the shotgun up close. I used it ok for blind fire ambushes or if I had an active reload one hit kill aka the way its probably envisioned to be used, but my internet's shitty latency (and the fact I mostly played with Aussies/Americans) means I sucked at up close circle shotgun battles.
If someone is rushing you with a shotgun, you unload your weapon of choice into them, almost any weapon you have should be able to massively hurt them or down them before they get to you. Hammerburst, lancer, pistol, magnum - maybe not as its in the same family, power over speed/range. Torque, sniper, boomshot, hammer of dawn, they could all stop a guy running around with a shotgun.
Furthermore if someone has a shotgun, you could just get into cover and avoid it, if they get close, switch cover, evade etc. You could also just run away. Now, I don't get the chance to because people throw a smoke, get me down and then shotgun rush me. There are lots of ways to counter a shotgun rushing lunatic, how do you counter that?
Yeah ok sometimes teams would be really dull and rush around shotgunning for endlessly, no mind for tactics or anything else, thats when I leave the game. But I still found teams rushing around with shotguns immensely more enjoyable (and stoppable) than teams running around with grenades and chainsaws and mortars creating unstoppable death. there is no real paper to those stones.
I find it funny that I bitch about the smokes and chainsaws and people say I'm wrong and am just a Gears 1 old timer who can't adjust, then you have people posting about how awesome grenades are and how people get insane amounts of kills with them and how grenades are the key to victory etc.
Boring. What saddens me most is I can't see Epic switching it up so that the smoke grenades aren't so powerful or frags don't respawn so fast on MP. If anything I see them getting worse as the hardcore players find all the little advantages and grind out every little bit of performance so you don't even get a chance anymore unless you play to the same tune.
Thats what I call UNBALANCED.
If I don't want to resort to grenades/chainsaws etc I should be able to pick any other weapon and still stand a chance. I shouldn't be held to ransom by the games rules.
Just so everyone is clear:
ITS NOT THE NEW SHOTGUN I AM COMPAINING ABOUT
but enough of that, I've said more than enough on the topic! Will try to play some more and see if I unearth some useful counter strategies but I'm not hopeful.
