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CrashA321
5 years ago

How many more topics do we need to create to NERF OR REMOVE THE SHOTGUNS?

I mean seriously, EVERY SINGLE fight ends with some noob shotgunning the whole squad, because they are too OP, no aiming required, no precision required, just point to a rough direction and that's it...
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alexi507's avatar
alexi507
5 years ago
@CrashA321 you can out DPs a shotgun with an r99 , don't miss your shots then. But a shot gun is more proficient in close quarters. An r99 has more versatility for longer range then a shot gun. People need to learn how the game works and how gun works before yelling at the devs everytime something happens to them
CrashA321's avatar
CrashA321
5 years ago

Look, I know how this game works. Shotguns were fine up until season 5. Then we got that cancer mastiff and everything wend down in the drain. YOU might need to learn how games work, and what is an imbalance. Why people use shotguns all the time? Because it's easy, thanks to the game mechanics, it's pretty easy to jump on someone's face, and you can't avoid getting face-to-face with your enemy. This is how the game works, and this is why shotguns have too much advantage. How come every other game have balance regarding shotguns vs. every other weapon except Apex. If I want less than a second TTK from body shots, I'll play CS:GO. Why is it so hard to understand?

  • alexi507's avatar
    alexi507
    5 years ago
    @CrashA321 it is possible to avoid having cqb fights face to face, play characters that promote mid range fights. Or use weapons that are effecient to prevent them from moving up on you.
    The shot guns are meant for heavy damage close range, it's up to you to play differently, you wanna rush point blank you'll pay the price.
    You put yourself in an apepable position, you pay the price.
    I'll say it again, stop blaming devs for your miss fortunes and modify your game to counter shotguns if that's a problem for you. It's a common gun (shot guns) in every game and is an one shot insta kill point blank. The fact that it takes 2-3 shots is already a good balancing act. A shot gun is a death sentence in cqb , learn from it.
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    heme725
    5 years ago

    @CrashA321 Fine until season 5? I'm pretty sure the PK existed before then and it was a much bigger problem than the Mastiff.

    Also every game has pretty much the same balancing ideas for shotguns. OP at close range but tickles opponents if they're more than 10 steps away. If anything Apex just gives shotguns more range and less dominance at point blank than other shooters do.

    • alexi507's avatar
      alexi507
      5 years ago
      @heme725 And if that's the issue I could agree to nerfing the range, but in doing so the point blank shots should increase to 100 damage for a mastiff , and maybe the pk without a choke, (the range Nerf wouldn't work in this instance with the 100 point blank damage due to the choke on the pk) and the Eva 8 hits 8s and 16s at mid range on most accounts, not something I'm worried about.
    • CrashA321's avatar
      CrashA321
      5 years ago

      Problem is that 3 times more shotguns spawn in loot areas than anything else... More likely to find a shotgun when you start looting than any other weapon, and then 20 meters from there you find a purple bolt. Looted for 20 mins till I found a longbow last game. Coincidence? No. Devs force us to use the cancer shotguns just like that. And no, thank you, I won't use them.

      Before season 5, less shotguns spawned in the loot pool, and therefore less people used them, therefore the game was way more diverse, not just all players run into each other's face and shotgun them down.

      • Peri_Longbow_pl's avatar
        Peri_Longbow_pl
        5 years ago

        Well, actually... I did have a thought. Considering all those threads about some of the same weapons, clearly some change is needed. So, this thought... When it went through my head, I was like "wow, I think I might have just revolutionized game development altogether!"

        Well, it's a complicated system. Actually, it might just require the full expertise of every developer ever born. But let me explain: Just try a change.

        It's not like changes are set in stone. If a change turns out to be too much, a small value change can be made. If a change didn't do enough, it can be added. If a change had the desired effect, it can be kept. It's not like every change is instantly a doomsayer for the next season. It only has been that way because most major balancing changes are being made season-wise.

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