Anyone else have a strange feeling the reason the boltshot is so overwhelmingly powerful and unbalanced, is because 343 wants it to remain so ?
Honestly it would’nt be very hard to patch the overpowered instant kill shotgun overcharge, or the guns amazing range. It almost seems like 343 is ignoring all the complaints (and there are plenty) about this weapon purposely.
I think 343 is leaving such a massively unbalanced weapon in the game so they can throw a bunch of unbalanced weapons into the Halo 5 sandbox, with the arguement of “Halo 4 had the bolshot, and it turned out fine.”
There isn’t much you could do to nerf the weapon without making it useless.
Automatic weapons kill faster than it takes to charge, and it has nearly no range. All of the secondary weapons are meant to round out where your primary is lacking.
You may as well accept the BS and stop running blindly around corners.
If it’s not a Boltshot… it’s a shotgun… or a scattershot… or a crouching campsnipe… or an incineration cannon… or a team of swarming Spartans.
Who the -Yoink!- runs blindly around the corner and doesn’t expect to run into trouble? After about five games I stopped doing it. Ny K/D ratio (and blood pressure) are much better for it.
> There isn’t much you could do to nerf the weapon without making it useless.
> Automatic weapons kill faster than it takes to charge, and it has nearly no range. All of the secondary weapons are meant to round out where your primary is lacking.
Just have it mirror the plamsa pistol delivering a shield bursting shot, or killing them if their sheilds are slightly gone.
It charges faster than you can empty 1/4 of the AR clip.
It has the range of close to 4 feet away (which is OP for a shotgun)
And I should not be able to spawn with a shotgun to make up for my 5 shot DMR
> You may as well accept the BS and stop running blindly around corners.
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> If it’s not a Boltshot… it’s a shotgun… or a scattershot… or a crouching campsnipe… or an incineration cannon… or a team of swarming Spartans.
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> Who the -Yoink!- runs blindly around the corner and doesn’t expect to run into trouble? After about five games I stopped doing it. Ny K/D ratio (and blood pressure) are much better for it.
Not every one camps with the Bolshot. Some people rush teams killing 2 or more people not expecting the enemy to spawn with a shotgun.
> It’s there to lessen the skill gap
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> Same with Regicide, all the new one-shot weapons, etc
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> Previous Halos had a really bad problem where new kids would just get stomped out constantly by veterans.
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> personally, I think the skill gap is what made Halo so great. Bad for $$ though.
How does that make sense if vets can spawn with it and kill new players who are not aware of it yet ?
Of all the things I will defend 343i’s decisions on, this is not one of them. And I say this as a man who loves the hell out of the idea of the underpowered-per-shot weapon that charges into a deathblaster, but I think you should have to find/pick it up.
NONE of the other weapons, including the Primary ones, are capable of a one-shot-kill. I understand a need to have a Forerunner sidearm, but this is slightly ridiculous.
Perhaps if the overcharge took a whole clip instead of half I’d be happier. I dunno. The idea of being able to spawn with something that can briefly become a shotgun just annoys me.
On the other side of the argument, this has only happened to me a small few times because unlike most one-hitters it has to charge and can’t be held in charge for very long before it releases and it’s practically useless as far as I can tell against full shielded foes when used as a pistol.
Lol I’ve been killed by the boltshot like 3 times total. You probably complained about this right after you played on Abandon on you kept running up to the top middle lmao.
I prefer to play against bolt-shotters because of how easy they are to kill. You make them miss once, its over, even with the reload glitch. Get a DMR or BR or AR, and run backwards, not towards them rofl
i rarely get killed by the boltshot so i just dont see it as a big issue. you gotta use your wits and be aware of your surroundings.
if you die more than once in a row from a boltshot then you need to rethink your strategy. slow down, wait for a teammate, use your nades in tight spots, avoid the areas where shotty campers might hide.
i find avoiding all those little hiding spots will eventually force the hiders to come out, and they dont do as well when they can play sneaky.
The thing that bugs me most about the Boltshot (and all other Forerunner weapons except the Incinerator Cannon and maybe the Scattershot) is how damn boring it is to look at. Yes, really.
They have better things to do than yield to complainers such as yourself about how much they die because of a gun that they can’t use properly and do good with.
Once again it irritates me that people will sit around and blindly bash a weapon and cry for nerfs for it when it’s not needed.
The REAL problem with the Bolt Shot is the glitch that lets you auto-reload it and reset it’s fully charge cool down after each shot in half a second, allowing you to fire the fully charge shot more often.
But so many people seem ignorant of this bug so they just complain about the weapon.
If you’re going to come around the corner chasing after a kill I will bust that boltshot out and lay you down. No I do not camp around corners waiting for enemies to come by.
The boltshot does take a little bit of skill to use. If you miss with it you are guaranteed to die.
> There isn’t much you could do to nerf the weapon without making it useless.
> Automatic weapons kill faster than it takes to charge, and it has nearly no range. All of the secondary weapons are meant to round out where your primary is lacking.
I think the only true solution to the Boltshot is to make it so that the trigger has to be held until it auto-fires, much like a Spartan Laser. It’s far too easy to get kills with when you have a full second or two in which to release the trigger.
I don’t know how a Pocket Shotgun that you can spawn with made it past test. The thing is more effective than the freaking Scattershot is…and the Scattershot is a PW!
If it has to stay, it should take the full magazine to fire the charged shot, and it should have a firing sequence like the SPARTAN Laser.
> It’s there to lessen the skill gap
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> Same with Regicide, all the new one-shot weapons, etc
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> Previous Halos had a really bad problem where new kids would just get stomped out constantly by veterans.
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> personally, I think the skill gap is what made Halo so great. Bad for $$ though.
Not really, previous Halo’s had dual wieldable maulers, swords, and longer range shotguns aplenty on maps. Halo 1 and Halo 3 especially. It’s basically because the designers wanted to bring back the mauler, and give a secondary fire feature to make the Boltshot feel distinct. People are overthinking this. They should just readjust the range and find to make the shotgun useful by either damage/range to compete with the scattershot.
> > There isn’t much you could do to nerf the weapon without making it useless.
> > Automatic weapons kill faster than it takes to charge, and it has nearly no range. All of the secondary weapons are meant to round out where your primary is lacking.
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> I think the only true solution to the Boltshot is to make it so that the trigger has to be held until it auto-fires, much like a Spartan Laser. It’s far too easy to get kills with when you have a full second or two in which to release the trigger.
> I think the only true solution to the Boltshot is to make it so that the trigger has to be held until it auto-fires, much like a Spartan Laser. It’s far too easy to get kills with when you have a full second or two in which to release the trigger.