Boltshot vs other CQC weapons

Games Other Halo
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Boltshot beats all and needs to be toned down. I’ve had various scenarios with all CQC weapons and found that the Boltshot is the cheapest.

I’m using a DMR in all situations.

Automatic weapons: Guy pops around corner and starts spraying. No biggie, I pick him off with a 5 shot, and have little to no shields. If the enemy is in melee range we might trade blows, but I finish it off with a headshot. I find cover and regenerate.

Shotgun or Scattershot: Depending on the distance, I will either die, or he will. Most of the time, it is somewhat CQC but their first shot doesn’t get my shields down all the way because I don’t bum rush everywhere. I managed to get a kill 75% of the time, but sometimes the distance is too small so I die.

Boltshot: Someone pops around the corner, hits me with a boltshot. I either die… or I die. If only my shields go down, they finish it off with a headshot. If my shields are barely there, a couple of quick shots and a headshot finishes me off. Unless I’m a good legitimate distance away, which wouldn’t happen if the camper waited long enough, then I wouldn’t win.

The Boltshot is a 2 in 1 gun. Headshot capability, CQC shotgun capability, and Shield dispersing capability depending on the distance. Lets compare this to other sidearms:

Magnum: Only had headshot capability. It is stronger than the boltshot x2 per bullet, but this does not matter when it comes to headshots.

Plasma pistol: Good at taking down shields and vehicles. Cannot headshot.

How are they going to fix this one.

The last Halo was the Fall of Reach.

Halo 4 is the Dawn of the Noobs.

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I’ve come to the conclusion the more we hate this noob power weapon, more losers begin to use it. If you use the boltshot as your primary weapon, stop playing halo, You are part of the problem.
I wonder how many sweaters will try to defend it and say it’s not OP.

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if they make the other options better, it would even out. magnum needs more bullets in clip and should have less bloom, plasma pistol the noob combo is still great.

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I love H4 but the boltshot is severely OP. The thing that irritates me the most is the range that it takes out the enemy shields. It is blasphemous how much effective range it has.

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> if they make the other options better, it would even out. magnum needs more bullets in clip and should have less bloom, plasma pistol the noob combo is still great.

NO!

Buffing anything is never the answer in Halo.

The boltshot just needs to require the ENTIRE charge time in order to actually fire the burst, simple as that. Like the laser, get it?

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> if they make the other options better, it would even out. magnum needs more bullets in clip and should have less bloom, plasma pistol the noob combo is still great.

I used to hate the Plasma pistol noob combo. Then I started getting killed by the Boltshot. Now when I get killed by the Plasma Pistol combo I don’t actually fins it as frustrating, at least I know the person who killed me has some skill.

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I totally agree. Today i was doing some regicide and 3 or 4 people were just camping with that Boltshot it’s just frustrating.
They should change it by or making it slow as the laser or takin the shot kill off.

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i agree boltshot is ridiculous
but halo reach was most definitely a noob game. didnt even have a real ranking system and they already added those horrid AA’s

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Whenever I get killed with it, instead of coming here and whining, I think “Well, I walked right into that one, didn’t I?”. Because I usually did. So did most of the people complaining about it.

I will say that it feels ridiculously easy to get kills with it (which I do often, admittedly) when people come into CQC. But it seems like a 50/50 chance of them outmaneuvering me or simply backpedaling to disperse the blast. Using the Boltshot often gets me killed in situations in which I would have lived had I just not tried to use it.

Reevaluate your tactics if you’re getting regularly murdered by the same weapon via the same tactic. I can see why people would think it’s overpowered, but it hasn’t been too much of a problem for me. The only “fix” I can see not being complete BS is making the charge time longer while decreasing the window of opportunity to let go of the trigger.

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> Whenever I get killed with it, instead of coming here and whining, I think “Well, I walked right into that one, didn’t I?”. Because I usually did. So did most of the people complaining about it.
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> I will say that it feels ridiculously easy to get kills with it (which I do often, admittedly) when people come into CQC. But it seems like a 50/50 chance of them outmaneuvering me or simply backpedaling to disperse the blast. Using the Boltshot often gets me killed in situations in which I would have lived had I just not tried to use it.
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> Reevaluate your tactics if you’re getting regularly murdered by the same weapon via the same tactic. I can see why people would think it’s overpowered, but it hasn’t been too much of a problem for me. The only “fix” I can see not being complete BS is making the charge time longer while decreasing the window of opportunity to let go of the trigger.

I don’t get regularly killed by a boltshot. But when I do, I know that the user is a noob with no skill. ESPECIALLY when they use Camo. I mentioned this in another topic, but I played a game where an entire team used camo and boltshot. There is not much you can do there when you see an entire mass of clear blips on the radar in a certain area. You end up just avoiding it because the players only knew how to camp and boltshot. The one time we managed to flush them out when the rockets spawned, they attempted to out dmr us and couldn’t get half our shields down, which is pretty embarrassing with all the aim assist.