Shotgunside 2

[Thunderhawk]

As Light Assault, I almost exclusively use the Pandora (Auto shotty) or the Phobos VX85 (Pump Action), and my third loadout is the VX6-7.

I tend to hardly ever use the VX6-7 unless it's a fight on open ground, but I dont put myself in those situations very often, and limit myself to building fights, be it facilities, bases, towers or outposts.

It's about having the right tool for the situation, and frankly I have it down to:-

1. Base / Facility / Outpost : Auto Shotty (Pandora)
2. Tower : Pump Action Shotgun

Works out quite well.

[Twido]

Originally Posted by Snydenthur

New players are turned away from the game because they aren't ready to watch few videos to learn what to do. And if they aren't good fps players in the first place, they will die a lot and very fast to every weapon there is. After that they just return to bf3 or cod, since they are the most newbie friendly fps-games. And cod even has one-shot-kill snipers and shotguns. Bf3 has one shot kill shotguns (and sniper rifles in close range).

Be that as it may (even if it is rubbish), if we look down our noses at all the new players and have a "learn to play" attitude to things that cause them frustraition then this game will fail.

Fortunately I think most of the community are better than that so I have high hopes.

[Snydenthur]

Originally Posted by Twido

Be that as it may (even if it is rubbish), if we look down our noses at all the new players and have a "learn to play" attitude to things that cause them frustraition then this game will fail.

Fortunately I think most of the community are better than that so I have high hopes.

Only learn to play attitude there was that if you just jump on the game, you have no idea what to do and where to go etc. That's why there are a lot of good and not too long videos around the web. I watched a few of them before I started this game too. Otherwise I would've probably quit after like 30 minutes and never returned.

I only mentioned the new players dying to every weapon easily, since you brought it up. It's not shotguns that kill the new players, it's every gun if they are new to fps-shooters. The ones that have played them a lot, have much easier time to fight against everyone, including the shotguns.

There is place for learn to play attitude at gunplay though. If people knew that they can't just run into the rooms and around corners without a bit of caution, they do deserve to be killed. TTK on every weapon at close range is brutally fast, so there needs to be some cautious play. I know that by experience. Most of my shotgun kills are because of this. I either flank them and shoot from behind, they run in to the room without any concern or I bait them to come close enough. But I don't have any problems to do the same things with carbines either. They don't kill with one shot, but they are very forgiving about missing shots.