You litteraly have to be within spitting distance to do any significant damage and while previously it was a great crowd control weapon in close quarters, it’s newest itteration is about as useful as a thrown paperweight.
I really don’t understand why this dev team hadn’t figured out how useless they made the shotgun before launch.
I encountered 4 enemies within 15-20 feet of myself and I literally had to shoot the guy 3 times inside 12 feet before he died.
It used to be that 2 shots at about 17 feet was enough to kill someone and one shot insde 8-12 was enough unless you just clipped their shoulder.
This gun needs to have its effective range upped at LEAST by 1.5 because otherwise its just as uselful as throwing a chicken at someone.
FIX IT - you guys at 343 get paid Big Bucks but can’t seem to figure out simple stuff.
wake up 343. wake up.
P.S> - this is in reference to the Human shotgun, not the Promethian Scattershot which is a great weapon.
What are you talking about? It has had the same affect in each Halo game. Use it like an energy sword. Its one shot kill up close if you didn’t notice.
> > The shotgun has been the same in every Halo game except Reach.
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> The Halo 4 shotgun is NOT the same as the Halo 3 and Halo 2 shotgun.
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> I don’t remember how the reach shotgun was.
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> FYI - we are talking about the Human shotgun not the Promethian one, which is perfect.
You want the Human shotgun buffed, yet the Human shotgun destroys the Promethian shotgun everytime?
> > The shotgun has been the same in every Halo game except Reach.
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> The Halo 4 shotgun is NOT the same as the Halo 3 and Halo 2 shotgun.
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> I don’t remember how the reach shotgun was.
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> FYI - we are talking about the Human shotgun not the Promethian one, which is perfect.
Do you want the Halo 3 and Halo 2 shotgun that could only get a kill if the person was 3ft in front of you? Or are you saying you want a realistic shotgun that can get a kill from about 20ft?
> > It’s good. It should not be like the Reach “Sniper”.
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> > If you can’t time your movements, you shouldn’t be able to award a kill.
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> It should have been brought back to the way it was in Halo 3 and 2.
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> It is way weaker than either of those. They nerfed the effective range drastically.
I can see you haven’t played Halo 3 in a long time. The Halo 4 shotgun is a much stronger shotgun than the shotgun in Halo 3. However, the close-quarter weapons are so strong in Halo:Reach and Halo 4 to balance out sprint.
The Shotguns served my friends and I almost perfectly the range only needs a boost of about .25 due to the fact that sword lunges are twice as deadly now. Any further and people will be mid mapping with that thing.
> You’re annoyed because it’s actually a shotgun, not a sniper rifle.
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> Obviously not using it right.
I’ve been playing Halo since 2002 and just popped in Halo 3 the other day. The Halo 4 shogun is without a doubt weaker. If you want i’ll go test the range in a custom game in both halo 3 and 4 and we’ll see whose right…
I’m not really trying to be an MLG pro 1337zorz, but is this thread implying that there are people for whom the shotgun isn’t immediate series of easy kills?
Does OP really think he’s gonna get kills with shotgun by running down the hallway?
Shotgun isn’t for you to immediately go into CQC, it’s fore WHEN you get into CQC.