The thing is that as an engineer, you need something you can use for close range especially, and while a bolt action CAN do that, I’d much rather have a shotgun.
I’m not looking for more full auto spam. It’s unnecessary. With a shotgun, you are rewarded with high damage without having to spray down the enemy. Essentially looking for something I can quickly put down close range targets without full auto spray.
genuinely a great suggestion
They shouldn’t have access to those, honestly.
I agree
They should have them otherwise nobody but a few would want to use engineers with underpowered and useless guns (shotguns are beyond useless). Even right now barely anyone builds stuff.
Shotguns are great when you get people pushing at you through a choke point of your own design. Catch them coming around a corner blind and its one tap kill, EVEN if they have vitality perk on. That doesn’t seem useless to me.
Even if they are “useless”, why fight having them as an OPTION for engineers?
Perhaps removing them is exactly what is needed then. If even fewer players make use of fortifications, perhaps they would focus on buffing fortifications as a means of improving engineers, rather than giving them access to more full auto spam weapons. Then it would still solve the issue overall.
then say good bye to even a single spawn beacon near the point, they had stronger sandbags but nerfed them for no reason, barbed wire is completely useless if single he can destroy multiple
Right.
Maybe people need to learn how to use engineers how they were supposed to be used then instead of expecting them to get full autos and treat them like any other riflemen.
Fortifications definitely need buffs, but there are also some set-ups you can use to make better use of them as is. Like trenching barbwire. It takes time and premeditation to do, but is most definitely worth it.
If somebody is stupid enough to follow this list, he should rethink his life choises.
I have no idea why many ppl can’t cope with idea of things having advantages and disadvantages.
Interesting suggestion, forwarded)
historically shotgun were issued to engineers yeah, not assaulters
why? the shotguns are trash anyway
in World war two Historicly they were not. After world war one they were considered a warcrime
shotguns? IDK i dont play american so it is really just buffing american. USSR and german shotgun are useless. It will be much useful to allow engineer to carry sub-machine guns
Hopefully they will change the Drilling shotgun to allow you to use the rifle mounted underneath by using the same button as you would use to switch firing mode or grenade launcher.
The point is to get away from full auto spam, and give them something that gets them to focus more on the building of structures rather than using like a rifleman or assaulter. Shotguns do that.
I will only agree to that if german can get captured american shotgun and USSR get american shotgun from lease act
Sounds like a decent and mostly harmless idea. It certainly won’t break anything.
Shotgun use in the game is totally fantasy. Its should be changed drastically .
