BFBC2 Shotgun Slugs? Yay or Nay?

[TheMunster]

As I'm sure most of you know this is a subject very close to my heart - slug guns are easily my favorite primary weapon in the game. I fear DICE will go with the whiners and nerf them.

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/b...slug-nerf.html

Opinions?

[NickyBoyJunior]

NOOOOO don't nerf them!!! D:

Slugs aren't overused at all, so there's no need to nerf them whatsoever. Sure, they may seem a bit overpowered on the range-side but that's what slugs are designed for. The 870 and NS2000 are the most awesome guns on the game when you stick slugs in them

A lot of people have been saying that you can kill people with slugs from sniper range, which is partially true, but you have to hit standing targets with a headshot to do so - if they're moving it's much more difficult.

I hope DICE don't make any silly decisions. IMO, the game is currently balanced better than it ever has been.

Excellent quote that I completely agree with:

Why is that?

They have the lowest DPS of pretty much any primary weapon.
They have ~400 damage per mag as opposed to 1000 damage per mag on the SV98 or ~500 damage per mag on ARs.
The damage is just frontloaded like a sniper rifle. Do you cry about sniper rifles?

They have drop, as all weapons do.

They don't have optics so it takes effort to line up a shot.

Basically, quit camping in one spot and you'll get shotgun sniped less.

EDIT: I just noticed you're a Gustav and GOL "pr0." The sniper rifle without sway and the explosive sniper rifle? And you're hating on one of the few things in the game that takes skill?
Credibility shot in the foot right there.

[Oneleggedhaggis]

they dont need changing at all just people dont like to be head shotted by them and moan about it, its like when you run up to a sniper they one shot ya head. not nice but fair

the shotty aint exaclty all that easy to do the one sot heads kills from dsistance

[Weetabix]

They need an utterly annihilating nerf. I'm sick of the pathetic 1-shot crapness of this game. Fair enough, a shotty in the face at point blank, but from 100+ yards? The 'balance' in this game is the most dreadful of any game, ever.

[DOW]

Nerf them. They did the same thing to the M60 so it is only fair to nerf this 1 shot kill from across the map killer.

[ReaperRSX]

Can't say I've ever been killed with a shotty from any further than 3 yards, and I accept that any shot to the body/head is gonna kill me before i get my standard 2/3 bullets from a rifle out.

So no complaints from me, but wait for the first kill after posting this being a sniper shot with a slug - then i will be back.

[Vexx]

They don't need nerfing, ok so you can snipe with them, but anything over 50yards and you need more than one shot to kill assuming they are on full health. They can be a bit hit and miss at short range as well, there have been numerous accounts where I've fired 2-3 shots at point blank at someone only to see them mow me down.

[lard]

I have zero skill with shottie - perhaps in doing it wring ?!?

[fbh-]

Shotgun should be what it is in real life. Deadly close up and with slugs a good mid range damage. If the gun kills at long range then its not a shotgun.
Saying that this is not real life so the game needs another instant kill weapon but at close range, but thats as it should stay... CLOSE range assault weapon lol

[TheMunster]

Obviously I don't see any problem with them, seeing as it's the only weapon type outside the snipers that actually requires carefull aiming. If you've keep getting shotgun sniped (and I mean sniped, 100yards isn't sniper range) you stayed still too long. They are no where near as effective close range as the same gun without slugs selected and they don't have the optics to be as usefull as a sniper at ultra long range.

I don't understand how people think they're that overpowered when they run round with the AN94 or MG36 or Gustav which are all superior in everything but extreme ranges. I say extreme for the game, which is about 300 yards.