I’ve heard many complaints about the bolt shot and have been killed from extreme distances with it many times. So I decided to test the bolt shot against the scatter shot and human shotty.
To my surprise the bolt shot has a greater kill range than both the scatter shot and human shotgun. I can’t begin to imagine why this would ever be considered a secondary weapon.
A gun that has the potential to kill with one shot should never be a secondary weapon, especially when it’s stronger than shotguns that you have to actually earn through ordinance drops.
People who defend it are those that use it as a crutch. Yes it has a slow charge rate and if you miss your basically screwed, but seriously, who misses from 5 feet away? The gun is overpowered, and needs to be nerfed or added to ordinance.
the boltshot is dumb, it needs to just be delted from the games code and forgotten about.
Congrats my man, you just proved to yourself how OP the boltshot is. If only everyone did this they would realise how absolutely moronic it is to have a secondary weapon that outshoots a pair of power weapons in those weapons respective roles (CQB weapons).
Yeah, I don’t argue a point unless I have solid facts to back it up. The bolt shot packs the biggest punch out of all the shotguns in H4. That is a statement that can’t be argued against.
I remember watching the H4 map videos on IGN, where they did the map walk through. I kept thinking to myself, why in the hell is that guy trying to use a shotgun (the boltshot) from 15 ft away? Now I know, lol.
It effectively takes 4 weapons out the game the lunge on the sword and toffee hammer are within the boltshots sniping range! It should be the mauler of halo 4 one shot beat down! That brings the other 4 close range power weapons back in to play
Fix the range and I’ll be completely fine with it.
> Fix the range and I’ll be completely fine with it.
Take it out of Loadouts, make it a map pickup/ordnance drop and then it doesn’t need to be nerfed, maybe slightly buff it if it’s to be a proper power weapon, although it’d do a decent job as a power weapon in it’s current state anyway.
So…
-The pistol of the third faction
-Supposed to be a mini-shotgun
-actually outranges the proper shotgun
-as abundant as any dual-wieldable weapon
-dominates the game on certain maps
Hmm… where have I heard this before? This might be a good chance to compare 343 and Bungie.
Be happy the range isn’t too small; Then the only time you’d see the enemy team is through Pro-Vis, where you’d see’em sitting behind corners with Boltshots.
Seriously, I don’t necessarily love it as I only use it on Objective because it’s easy for my to Defend/Attack with it, but in Slayer? (You’re bringing in Ordinance into the discussion) It’s not that hard to dodge or kill, for that matter.