SHOTGUN OP?

[Timothee]

Shotgun knockout ability needs nerfing, one shot knockout is riduculous. Understandable for maybe the Mosin or other high power rifles, but a civilian spawn weapon its too much IMO.

[BeardedHeathen]

Have you ever seen the knock down of a real shotgun?

[🆄🅽🅲🅻🅴 🅹🅾]

They used to be horrible, I don't even pick them up. One shot kill sounds realistic, were they updated?

[Timothee]

They're not one shot kill they knock you unconcious too easily for balance reasons in the game. I can shoot someone with a Mosin in the body and they can run/stagger off but clip them with the shotty and they begin to run but then pass out.

I'm assuming the KO DMG of the weapon is too high, not bleeding or health DMG.

Originally posted by RedNeck:

Have you ever seen the knock down of a real shotgun?

Yes i have one whats your point?

[Zippo]

Shotguns should be OP, at least in CQB.

[Finn ™]

I rushed a guy today with my bk-133 but missed the shot, got killed by him.
high risk, high reward.

[Elu]

Shotguns are OP at the distances they can be used. No idea what you expected.

[Sabel]

if they dont kill you in one shot at close range then they should be buffed. 00 buckshot is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane. fired from an 18 inch shot gun barrel youre looking at a lot of power. they dont need a nerf

[Timothee]

Don't get me wrong the shotgun should be one shot kill at close range, what i think is wrong is when you shoot someone from say 40 metres. You can see only one or two of the pellets hit the guy and he carries on running but then suddenly passes out on the floor. This is what needs tweaking. I've been hit at 35/40 metres and i'm still on full blood and white health and then pass out. Its a little too much IMO.

At about 40 metres or a little higher i can:

burst fire him with any of the SMG's (.380, 9mm, .45)
i can pop him with a high power rifle cartridge (.308, 5.56, 7.62)

and he will still be running, albeit highly damaged and bleeding but enough to get out of the fight for a second and reposition/bandage

or i can shoot him with buckshot and he wont take much damage or lose much blood but pass out on the floor allowing me to casually walk up to him and finish the job.

It seems too unbalanced to me

the rifles do cause this to happen, mosin is the best, but you must hit in the upper chest, because the shotgun fires a spread it happens each and every time making it OP.

A solution could be a third shotgun cartridge which would be bird shot. Deadly at close range but awful at longer distances and make buck ♥♥♥♥ rarer.

Just take a look on servers everyone is using shotgun, at close and medium range it is king over all other guns. It should, IMO, only be king at close range. Otherwise it makes the SMG's and pistols utterly useless. Especially beings as the shotgun is a low tier weapon available pretty much everywhere.

[Syntax]

Someone got rekt by a shotgun and can't handle it.

[BeardedHeathen]

When using a shot gun in game. Do a combat load. Buckshot then a slug, and repeat.

[Timothee]

Maybe damages are different on different servers? Anyone confirm this? Ive been playing a FPP server and it doesnt happen half as much. Shotgun seems to kill rather than knockout, which is as it should be.

[Grim Rainbow]

Originally posted by RedNeck:

When using a shot gun in game. Do a combat load. Buckshot then a slug, and repeat.

I like your style.

[76561198150586854]

I just oneshoted someone from 5 meters today with a shotgun LOL (its realistic tbh)

[Timothee]

I agree its realistic, but, the other guns should be the same aswell. If you'd shot him with the mosin he wouldn't have died. That's what i don't like. I use nothing but the shotgun. There's no point using anyother apart from for extreme range.