Shotguns need a buff. Obviously. Each shell should fire nine pellets which do 4.5 damage each in a tight cluster. The pellets should have the same dropoff as something like an SMG.
Furthermore, if 6 or more pellets hit a single soldier at a range of less than 20 meters, he should die instantly, from blood loss, shock, and a severe case of being torn to shreds by buckshot.
Finally, lethal limb hits from shotguns should cause a dismemberment effect, for visual purposes.
This way the shotgun can be the close quarter one tap monster it should be without overshadowing other weapons at range.
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Yeah, similar topic was here like 2 weeks ago lol. But keep trying.
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I had forgotten… But this used to be the case with some weapons. For example in Moscow, if I stormed a building while hipfiring a mg34, the poor guy I stumbled upon and fired at point blank often lost an arm… or more.
They removed it because ppl felt offended I guess… like that snowflake coldheat guy and his historical but “offensive” panther.
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Shotgun should have an advantage in front of Bolt action rifle.
- Higher dispersion: to be more effective in close range without aiming that much
- Higher damage: Sometime I hit, and i don’t even kill or down the enemy because he just got shot by one or two pellet.
- Higher damage drop: because it’s shouldn’t be effective at middle/long range
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“Keep trying”
Is exactly what needs to be done in this case.
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Shotguns are completely worthless in this game for no reason what so ever.
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You are very optimistic, lol. I like it.
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And you are very pessimistic lol, I don’t like it.
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I would say I am just cynical because I don’t even care anymore lmao.
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Well that is understandable, yet all you need to do in order to have some hope for something like shotguns is to know that they were once very strong, but some folk here on these forums kept complaining about them so they got nerfed into oblivion.
Which proves that the devs are listening, you simply have to convince them to change shotguns.
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same as mortars.
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Shottys are mostly ass unlike in COD that’s why nobody uses them. 
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I would like a “slamfire option” pls.
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Contrary to what so many of you guys are saying, I think the shotgun works just fine. I use them pretty frequently and don’t really have much issue.
My only thing about them is that engineers should be allowed to carry them.
Hopefully after the merge they will be a low enough BR option that you don’t feel like you’re shooting yourself in the foot by using them. I know I would take a shotgun over a grease gun.
And the aforementioned change to allow engineers to utilize them would also help.
I didn’t see a similar post two weeks ago. So I appreciate every topic created. I’ll pass the suggestion to the devs.
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I support a buff to shotguns, but
Pistol-like dropoff would fit better imo.
Imo shotgun need become an all class weapon, their are a good alternative to give to your non automatic-class soldier compared to semi-auto or BA, currently are wasted on assaulter because an smg is more suited for them than a Shotgun
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How were shotguns used in real wars?What was the range of engagement?
If we can know that, we can figure out what kind of capabilities we should give to the shotguns in our games to make them immersive.
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They are used these days as a breaching too mainly.
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