Shotguns nerfed?

[Carrenal]

Is it just me or did the shotguns get nerfed or some armors for Civil Res buffed? Went to do the revenge mission, normaly it goes quite well at least in the first areas but I got wrecked by enemies as soons as I explored (sneaking) the first few rooms as they were not downed after 3(!) shotgun bursts.

[Vultan]

Are you shooting them from 1-3 distance with the bursts ?
Have not seen anything survive a taiga burst from within weapon range :S

[Carrenal]

It was directly at the door, so shotgun range. + the usual range improvements of clone and class.

[phoagne]

Check enemy's resistances. People Front armor has a lot of cut res.

[Carrenal]

Yup, ran into the same enemies. Brigadier with full on People Front armor. 12 cut res. Funnily enough, setting the guys on fire worked- not in getting through as fire res was 44- but kept multiple enemies stunlocked.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Yeah, shotguns were indirectly nerfed by having worse ammo and the armors themselves being buffed.
The jeffhammer is not as good as it used to be out of the box.
Now its almost mandatory to have 2 types of damage

[Red Bat]

IDK, I personally find they work about as well as they always do. Cut damage type from the default shotgun ammo seems to be a weak point for a bunch of common enemy types like ARs, although if you want to only use shotguns you'll likely want to pick up some slugs for the few enemies with high cut resistance or just high armor all around.

Automatic shotguns are also probably the best weapon for those rare situations where you want to shoot an enemy on the other side of a wall.

[pgames-food]

Originally posted by Neyreyan_Youtube:

Now its almost mandatory to have 2 types of damage

1 good gun i got from the tutorial mission is that red civil resistance NakHjir rifle,
in the first few missions, i was taking in about 20 Rubber bullets, and the Piercing ones, and swapping between them :) i ran out of rubber bullets and couldnt see how to make more (unless i missed it), but maybe there is a blue chip for that :)