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AsadNonari's avatar
5 years ago

Shotguns

Well devs, shotguns are used on close ranges, so if someone jump on you, and you have shotgun, you must have edge, but let's talk about all shotguns, 

1- Mozambique : A useless gun, with 4 ammo clip, each bullet has 3 pellets and each pellet deal 15 damage so if you are lucky to perform a shot, it is 45 damage per shot, I think the damage par pellet must be increased to 25, so 75 damage per shot is enough to buff this gun, like mastiif it will be 2 shot kill if enemy has white armor or no armor.

2- Mastiff : Mastiff is one of the most hard shotgun to use, but decreasing its per pellet damage to 11 isn't a good idea, you guys saw that it's pick rate has been reduced many time, 11 * 8 = 88 damage per shot, pellets on the edge are much spread from 6 in the mid, so on my practice it's like 77 damage per shot of you land it at 4 to 5 meters, buff it to 12 damage per pellet, 12 * 8 = 96,96 is enough, because its kick when fire is enough to have skills to use it. 

3- Eva 8 : Well Eva shotgun has 9 pellets, faster rate of fire with almost no recoil, it deal 7 damage per pellet, its much fair to use because of its rate of fire, it is balanced gun I think.

4- Peacekeeper: Pk is coming in season 9 on loot ground with 11 pellets per shot, each pellet deal 9 damage so its 99 damage per shot, its a fair amount of damage, it is also balanced according to my view

BUFF IDEAS:

1- As I mentioned earlier, mazambique must deal 25 damage per pellet, so 75 damage per pellet is enough, it has less pellets that are launched some distance from each other so on 5 to 8 meters there are less chances to launch all 3 pellets, so giving it 25 dmg per pellet isn't a bad idea. 

2- I would talk about mastiff here, you must decrease its kick or increase the pellet damage to 12, that enough to kill someone in 3 shots if any one of the 3 shots isn't launched perfectly.

3- Eva and peacekeeper are balanced according to my view.. 

Hopefully we will able to see mazambique and mastiff buff this season.. 

6 Replies

  • @AsadNonari I hope we never see a mastiff buff again (at least not for a few seasons the mastiff meta lasted way too long but then again the peacekeeper meta may not be any better)
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    AsadNonari
    5 years ago

    Well boy, mastiff was at 13 dmg per pellet, so 13 * 8 = 104.. That was too much, but now it's just 88 dmg per bullet, pellets on the edges are far more spreaded, so I consider mastiff as 7 pellets gun with 77 dmg, they just increase per pellet damage to +1, this would make easier to fight against pk and Eva.. 

  • If anything shootguns need to be nerfed more. They are meta from day 1.

    Just like Apryze once said(before the nerf), if you don`t have Mastiff, you are trolling, and going to lose RP.

    Mastiff is still strong, but way better than it was before. And Mastiff was never hard to use, its the noobest gun in the game.

    PK is kinda the same.

    PK would be OP once again. The should have reduce the pellets on PK, aka the spread should have been lower, which will increase the skill gap on the weapon. And btw PK range should be nerfed big time. Being able to shoot in 30+ meter for that much damage is ridiculous. It was ridiculous on Mastiff as well. They range should be exclusively QC, and be exactly as Eva8.

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    AsadNonari
    5 years ago

    I think that mastiif should keep in balance with Pk, otherwise mastiff will replace Mozambique.. 

  • @AsadNonari The Mozambique is getting increased to 6 bullets and the spread of the bottom 2 pellets is being tightened. So this will make it better as a drop weapon and we will hopefully not feel as screwed if it’s all we get for the first few moments. I don’t think as many people will run it on purpose since no more hammerpoint but since we now have Peacekeeper back I think the PK/Mastiff will compete and the Eva is fine where it is, Mozambique should be in an ok spot as starting/drop weapon.

    I think PK will get used more initially since a lot of people are excited to use it as floor loot again but I’m curious to see whether Mastiff will be used as much later on.

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