Lack of Shotguns?

[ned]

Why is there only 2 shotguns in the game?

[Hawk Firestorm]

You can mod em.

[Bearistotle]

Because it takes place around Boston, not Houston?

[Gamefever]

For one, you can radically alter those shotguns and two there are more base shotguns out there...I just havent found them yet myself but there is a combat shotty out ther seen it in YouTube.

[ned]

Originally posted by masterpainter78:

For one, you can radically alter those shotguns and two there are more base shotguns out there...I just havent found them yet myself but there is a combat shotty out ther seen it in YouTube.

There is only 2. the sawed off and combat shotgun.

[Aphala]

Because having more is retarded.

You don't need any more ♥♥♥♥♥♥ shot guns in this game.

[Nite69]

don't worry you will find many combinations of weapons to use, its simalar to borderlands, lots of gear to choose from.

I havn't bothered with the weapon modding or armor modding I just use whatever I find as I play.

[jmido8]

Weapon variety is very shallow in this game and it is setup so you only have a small amount of variety available at a time by locking certain types of guns behind levels. Unfortunately, guns don't progress with you and once you out-level a type, it's practically useless. Just take a look at pipe guns, you won't ever touch one again after level 10. And you won't ever touch a laser gun again after 20.

Sure, you can mod your gun and such which is pretty cool but there's still no reason for the base type guns to be so few.

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by nul:

Originally posted by masterpainter78:

For one, you can radically alter those shotguns and two there are more base shotguns out there...I just havent found them yet myself but there is a combat shotty out ther seen it in YouTube.

There is only 2. the sawed off and combat shotgun.

Combat shotgun can me modded into a full auto one.
Sawed-Off can be modded into a propper hunting shotgun.
So yes, there are two base shotguns but with different mod combos you can make them radically different.

[Mabs]

I'm pretty disappointed that not only isn't there a proper pump shotgun like FONV but they lazily used the combat rifle's model for the one we have.

[LHR_Olorin]

Originally posted by jmido8:

Weapon variety is very shallow in this game and it is setup so you only have a small amount of variety available at a time by locking certain types of guns behind levels. Unfortunately, guns don't progress with you and once you out-level a type, it's practically useless. Just take a look at pipe guns, you won't ever touch one again after level 10. And you won't ever touch a laser gun again after 20.

Sure, you can mod your gun and such which is pretty cool but there's still no reason for the base type guns to be so few.

Don't get your comment about laser guns. They're still useful as hell, or are you talking about switching to plasma?

[BOYCOTT S-T-E-A-M!]

Originally posted by masterpainter78:

For one, you can radically alter those shotguns and two there are more base shotguns out there...I just havent found them yet myself but there is a combat shotty out ther seen it in YouTube.

You can't really "radically" alter them actually.

With the double barrel you can make it stronger and add a sight to it. Thats about it. Can't change it to use slug or anything fancy... no matter what you do its going to be the same gun its just going to have a sight or not and do crap damage or decent damage.

The combat shotgun is essentially the same thing except you can add scopes to it, because a scope is great on a massive recoil wide spread non-slug shotgun. You can also make it be single shot or fully automatic.

Not much in the way of "radical" changes.

Originally posted by segfault*Choco Taco:

I'm pretty disappointed that not only isn't there a proper pump shotgun like FONV but they lazily used the combat rifle's model for the one we have.

Hell even the unarmed weapons have 4 types to them. Guess they hand shotguns over there.

Would have loved to see a pump action and "banned from war" pancor jackhammer.

As for mods I'd have loved to see some slugs as an option or the abilty to convert it into a grenade launcher, like those single shot break barrel ones.

[LHR_Olorin]

The lack of grenade launchers is pretty disappointing. I remember they were a real pain in the ass when raiders attack you with them :D

[PanicButton]

Originally posted by The_Pastmaster:

Combat shotgun can me modded into a full auto one.
Sawed-Off can be modded into a propper hunting shotgun.
So yes, there are two base shotguns but with different mod combos you can make them radically different.

No you can't. I have to fully agree with OP. The number of shotguns in this game is insulting. :D

No matter what you do with the break action shotgun. It won't change too much. Longer barrel and improved damage doesn't really change the weapon.

The combat shotgun can be turned into an auto shotgun, but again...that's all. (And I hate auto shotguns....those are soulless weapons :D)

Where are the pump shotguns? Hell, we should be able to find an old lever action shotgun in one of the museums :)

[omegazeda]

Originally posted by nul:

Why is there only 2 shotguns in the game?

no pump-action and no Russian auto-shotguns :(

[Kyros]

Originally posted by nul:

Why is there only 2 shotguns in the game?

The combat shotgun can be made like a Riot Shotgun, though you have to admit there isn't many interesting weapons/outfits/armor parts in the game. It's quite lacking while in contrast you have a very detailed environment.