Well making it equally hard to use in close combat would not demolish the purpose. It would require the same amount of skill to land the shots and use these effectively, making it a choice to use, not a necessity to come out of fights as a winner. Making weapons useless is what happened to the prowler or the triple take, or what is happening to snipers now. Snipers should work good from long range. Now beyond 200 meters they are pretty much useless due to the slow projectile speed. Requiring pure luck to hit your target. That is what useless, not what would happen to shotguns if they halved the reload speed. Right now you just can't do anything about someone with an EVA8 and a purple bolt unless they are blind and drunk at the very same time. They can miss 2-3 shots, while you don't have that luxury with a 99 or a 301, or even with a havoc. And let's face it, the havoc barely have more effective range than a shotgun. And that is with the turbocharger. I see a huge bias from everyone, since it's much easier to melt someone with a shotgun from close range than really having the tracking and aiming skill. That would be fine in a PVE game, but this is a competitive game. Balance SHOULD exist and not only for using one type of weapon.
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