i thought the bulldog was supposed to be the new shotgun but i have shot people from close range more than twice and it doesn’t kill them? am i wrong or whats the purpose of this weapon?
Its been said at every step along the way that the bulldog is not a power weapon like previous shotguns, its a 2 shot kill point blank and 3 shot close.
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“its a 2 shot kill point blank”
Not only is it not a power weapon, its a worse weapon than just meeleing someone. Which doesn’t take a weapon slot to do.
Bad game design
Anything you pickup on map should be as good as your starting loadout at least in some situatoins.
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Why would they do that? There’s literally no need to do that.
Something about being better for cqc playstyles was their reasoning I believe, would have to look up the clip to make sure.
Honestly should have just kept the old shotgun and brought back the mauler and reworked it to function like the bulldog does. Banished get another weapon, and we get to keep classic shotty while eliminating the problem of people trying to use the bulldog like it.
Basically they took the OG Shotty and removed every attribute that made it good/unique.
- Dominates at close range? Gone.
- Now it’s better at mid range. Why??? Use an AR for that.
- Single shell reload? Gone.
- Slow rate of fire? Gone.
- Glowing iron sights? Gone.
Bulldog has no reason to exist. At best it should be treated as an alt-shotgun for mode/maps where a 1-shot kill CQC weapon is too dominant.
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Actually the mauler already functions like the Bulldog:
- 2-shot kill, even at point black
- Reloads entire drum
- Fast rate of fire (sort of… i think)
Mauler doesn’t have the range of the Bulldog though. Also the mauler benefited greatly from Dual-wielding. Actually it is, in my opinion, the only DW weapon that actually worked.
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You all missing the point… Its not the Shotgun from previous games, its not a replacement it is an additional weapon to the game. A power weapon shotgun more a kin to previous games will be added this has been confirmed so many times but nobody has the brains to do 10seconds of research before ranting about something they just have completely wrong. The bulldog is for people who want a more consistent way to play CQC less powerful but easier to get your hands on. it is NOT a REPLACEMENT for the og power weapon shotgun it is an addition to the sandbox.
Fire rate is actually slower than what I remembered it being, might be as fast as the bulldog but I’d have to look at a side by side to really tell. Range is really the big difference between the two though.
Yeah Mauler was definitely the best working dw weapon, aside from Plasma Pistol and Magnum in Campaign.
Honestly the BullDog is unnecessary like several changes within the sandbox and gamemodes this is another instance of 343i’s change for the sake of change. The Halo shotgun has worked fine in the sandbox for two decades. I dont see the reason to fix what isnt broken.
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Yes, totally agreed. Since melee is a more effective option that the dang shotty, why pick it up? We essentially spawn with a shotgun at that point.
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bro, you don’t have to be a -Yoink!- about everything. not everyone has time to research a videogame. calm down nerd.
Yeah, there’s almost no reason to pick up any weapon aside from the Assault Rifle most of the time. All of the other weapons either have greatly inferior tracking, are just piss-weak, or both.
Even some power weapons are basically useless in certain situations - I don’t ever want to see a single Spiker in a non vehicle map. The ONLY thing that is good for is taking out vehicles.