Some mystery dev is running around making ass-backwards calls like that and ruining balance.
Definitely needs to be undone and the mindset of changing stats for no reason other than to make them exactly match another similar weapon needs to end.
Yeah, I agree… we want our shotguns to be capable to kill and be an actual alternative (not downgrade as it is now) to backpack slot again!
Currently, it is more worth it to take a small backpack and use one more medkit rather than dragging a shotgun around for no reason since you can even fail to kill somebody with it in point-blank range.
Right now, pistols are far better and more reliable option than a shotgun, and that tells a lot.
Pistols are often very good weapons, which are better than rifles at short range.(except revolvers)
And the fact that they are better than shotguns is nonsense.
They are piece of shit.
At least double-barreled shotguns. Winchester is still more or less useful.(but it’s funny that you have to stand still to hit, at the slightest movement, you’ll miss)
In any case, they are worse than BA in everything, although they may potentially be better, but in fact they are not. Even at a short distance, they’re shit. I do not know what the problem is, just give the double-barreled the old characteristics of the beginning of the OBT (before the closed beta test of Berlin).