What i said… And yes, i use it and love it.
Why?
Cus it’s the best sec weapon in the game, and you get a **** of alot more kills with it. Ofc it’s OP, but still a great weapon for close combat and beeing a king in Regicide.
Its very easy to counteract, too.
It’s a great power weapon. You shouldn’t be able to spawn with a 1sk weapon so 343i should either nerf it or remove it from loadouts.
I think that the boltshot is a smart design at least however it has a huge effect on the flow of the battle and I think it would have been a lot smarter to either have the gun as a pickupable weopon or have it so when you shoot someone with the overcharge it doese significant damage instead of kills. so for example if my oponent had full health and I used the boltshot on him then a little more then 3 quaters of his sheild would deplete and if he was missing a little bit of sheilds I would be able to kill him. I dont think people have a problem with the ability or funcion of this weopon just the access to who uses it and the frequency to which it is used. at least thats how I see it.
It could be nerfed to a 2 shot but atleast it isn’t as game breaking as AC’s pain in the butt smoke bomb. So thumbs up 343 your over powered stuff isn’t as bad as the cheapest tactic in modern multiplayer gaming
You also have a loadout option for something called promethian vision.
Use it once and a while and you’ll never be surprise-boltshotted again.
People can’t go around blaming 343 for their own carelessness in matchmaking. 
> You also have a loadout option for something called promethian vision.
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> Use it once and a while and you’ll never be surprise-boltshotted again.
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> People can’t go around blaming 343 for their own carelessness in matchmaking.
What a wonderful post. Also, when a person is sprinting right at you, throwing up a Hardlight Shield would work wonders. Why do we need to tell people how to play?
BS+AC/PV = camper heaven that is why the hate…crouching in corners… makes for nice fun.
It’s hated because it takes Halo gameplay and butchers it into a “I happened to charge first I win” bull–Yoink- fest.
> You also have a loadout option for something called promethian vision.
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> Use it once and a while and you’ll never be surprise-boltshotted again.
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> People can’t go around blaming 343 for their own carelessness in matchmaking.
> It’s hated because it takes Halo gameplay and butchers it into a “I happened to charge first I win” bull-Yoink! fest.
Seriously, the game DOES reward players that charge out like idiots into the battlefield. One time in team slayer, This guy on my team had 15 kills 1 assist and 20 deaths, While I had 12 kills 1 assist and 2 deaths, and the guy gets like 100 more points than I do. And this kind of -Yoink!- happens to me all the time.
EDIT: Oops, NOW I get what you were saying. You were talking about the boltshot charging, not people charging out in to battle in general.
Does’nt matter. Boltshot needs a nerf, and people in this game charge out into battle like idiots and get rewarded for it.
You know what Stealth is…I use it often, doesn’t stop those from using a BS. Great for sneaking up on PV user, I have had plenty walk past me, then killed them.
Once again, if someone is rushing right at you all you need is to either Hardlight Shield in their face or thrust to the side. Its not that hard.
> It’s hated because it takes Halo gameplay and butchers it into a “I happened to charge first I win” bull-Yoink! fest.
Only if the extent of your strategy is to do exactly what your opponents are.
The whole point of a loadout system is so that you have a tool for each situation. I’d think that for all the complaining on these forums, a few people would have instead just spared one of their five loadout options to take care of boltshot spammers.
Literally just after I posted this, I boltshotted someone trying to bumrush me. His teammate was standing right behind him, saw what happened, and had the bright idea to bumrush as well. One double kill gladly accepted. I’ll bet both of them are typing out complaints to post to this thread as we speak.
Boltshot is an easy fix. Decrease kill range and make a shot take up the whole clip. I don’t mind being killed by it up close but I’ve been killed from like 10 ft away while the guy is camping across the room using active camo. It should essentially require you to shoot the person from 4 ft or less with high damage dropoff for any range further than 4 ft.
> it’s OP
You just answered your own question.
I bet idiot number two was immediately yelling “nerf the boltshot its ruining my stats! This is 343’s fault!”
Yeah I don’t get why so many people hate it. I rarely die from and get free kills from people who use it.
I dislike the campers using it… Walking into a base on Dominion or CTF… you find someone sitting there, half of them are using AC with it… others go running into bases with it using PV(scouts). Does it ruin game no, but I find the campers with AC/BS very annoying at times.
So apparently the way to counter the Boltshot is to have the ability to predict the future and just have the right Loadout at the exact moment you need it against someone who has a Boltshot.
Well damn ain’t that just dandy?
Or here is an alternate idea, why not have the overcharge take of an enemies shields and then you can kill the opponent with the primary mode of fire? No matter how you slice it, it is still a 1SK as it is and nobody should be able to spawn with a borderline power weapon.