shotguns are not OP what gave you that idea?

[suprhero]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7rFGMatKLM

[JoshHardenburg]

LoL

[LovelessMemory]

Dunno why, but the USAS-12 seems to be one shotgun that tends to have balancing issues in Battlefield games, which I believe is largely due to the rate of fire compensating for any other deficiencies.

[Freelancer852]

Battlefield 3 specifically has issues with all of the auto-shotguns. Even the Saiga which is semi-auto is pretty crazy.

IMO, multiplayer games should only ever add pump or semi-auto shotguns as "common" weapons that anyone can use. It's hard enough to balance shotguns to be close-range killing machines but not be completely overpowered compared to other guns. Keep the auto ones for single player games where you need to mow down a bunch of enemies.

[LovelessMemory]

IMO, multiplayer games should only ever add pump or semi-auto shotguns as "common" weapons that anyone can use. It's hard enough to balance shotguns to be close-range killing machines but not be completely overpowered compared to other guns. Keep the auto ones for single player games where you need to mow down a bunch of enemies.

So....shall we give Recons here a shotgun? Personally, I've had fun playing "invisible shotgun" in other games, but not so sure that'll be fun for those on the other end of the barrel in this game.

[Compassghost]

The thing about GRO is that, technically they could be balanced by increasing pellet count while decreasing pellet damage, thereby making toughness capable of reducing a shotgun blast down to survivable levels a tad. 12 projectiles instead of 8 adds an additional 4x toughness in HP savings.

[Bugattiboy91]

*Looks at thread title*

http://xbradtc.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/facepalm.jpg

[chemzero]

trololololo

[oheric92]

penta-skillllllllllllll