I've been called a shotgun whore during games by insecure kids and it seems like most people think it's so easy to get kills with a shotgun and I'm not sure why. I get killed all the time by people with the scar/scarab/feline/mk mod and I usually use the marshall or jackal. You have to constantly avoid firefights at long range and the rate of fire is much slower so if you miss one or two shots you're screwed. Anyway sorry I just had to rage a little bit about this.

Pick up a grendel, use aim enhance, visor enhance, and nano recharge, and never use stealth. Play 10 games to get used to it. Then play 10 games and take your average KDR. Now do the same with your shotgun load out. Is it not a relief to return to that? It is truly much easier to run about with a shotgun and shoot from 5m and throw in a melee.

Likewise it is also similar to spray and pray with an automatic gun and get results.

But the most rewarding style of play highlights accuracy. But the road is hard and not taken lightly, so people resort to run and gun strategies.

ya dsub i was going to say the same thing. there is always a weapon to conquer other weapon. if you want to know a good weapon in this game would be the K-volt gun. its a electro gun that disables cloak and armor mode in one go. thats if you have unlocked it. it may not have that much ammo so use that gun wisely.

Pick up a grendel, use aim enhance, visor enhance, and nano recharge, and never use stealth. Play 10 games to get used to it. Then play 10 games and take your average KDR. Now do the same with your shotgun load out. Is it not a relief to return to that? It is truly much easier to run about with a shotgun and shoot from 5m and throw in a melee.

Likewise it is also similar to spray and pray with an automatic gun and get results.

But the most rewarding style of play highlights accuracy. But the road is hard and not taken lightly, so people resort to run and gun strategies.

You didn't mention single shot, so I will use grendel how I like XD, challenge accepted. As usually you are fairly bias against shotgun users. When noobs use shotgun, they don't throw in a melee.

ya dsub i was going to say the same thing. there is always a weapon to conquer other weapon. if you want to know a good weapon in this game would be the K-volt gun. its a electro gun that disables cloak and armor mode in one go. thats if you have unlocked it. it may not have that much ammo so use that gun wisely.

I only like to use Kvolt because it svcks. Its more of a harassment gun, makes people rage quit if they are using the fy71 and you kill them with kvolt . I don't like the speed at which is rounds travel, apart from that its okay.

true the k-volt gun i would say is a last resort gun only if the player is really getting in your grill alot.

but with all the add-ons it could be a powerfull weapon. but like you said man dont use it unless you have no way out.

I find the shotty pretty easy to use?

ya man this guy was complain about the shot gun in the game. shot gun is for run and gunners. and is a close range weapon i mean you have to be dead in front of the guy for it to do anything.

I like using weapons with a learning curve such as the grendel, k-volt and jackal. I don't only use shotguns, but I don't understand why it makes people rage so much when they get killed by a shotgun user lol. Scar users piss me off the most, since it's obviously the easiest to use gun and takes almost no skill to get kills with it.

true that man. see you got it figured out.

a good weapon in this game would be the K-volt gun. its a electro gun that disables cloak and armor mode in one go. .
I beg to differ, the kvolt is nothing but a supercharged paintball gun, you polish a turd but it will never truly be considered a real weapon, i think Crytek should have made it a side arm, i can easily get more kills with a nova or a hammer than a kvolt, its inaccurate, the rounds are slow and the bullets are to weak, and its ammo runs fast, yes i use it, but for a way for self restraint and too make my life sheer impossible. Any gun in this game disables cloak in one go, i think you mean the kvolt drains energy.

But the most rewarding style of play highlights accuracy.
So if you miss one or two shots you're screwed.

So this isn't based on accuracy?

As for landing in melees, would you rather wait for the Marshall to play it's long, long animation.
And then try to kill the enemy once again?

Yeah, right. Might as well just try to get someone with an overcooked grenade.

and it does that too man. in single player mode it disarms armor because that needs energy to run off of and same with the cloak thats why i said it can uncloak and un armor and its the same in muiltplayer. i use this gun as a last resort. and its not a noob weapon at all if use right.

you know that paintball mod sound good right about now for cysis 2. change the color of the k-volt gun to make it have paint shooting out of it. and some paint ball maps plus a painball mode. hell if counter-strike can have paintball why cant crysis 2 have paintball. i get to work on that mod. i have the crysis 2 editor. give me a month and i have that mod ready in no time.

K-volt is awesome. <3
On topic: I HATE the Jackal. Grab a reflex DSG 1 or Grendel, you'll know the difference.

Yeah, right. Might as well just try to get someone with an overcooked grenade.

I've got like, 4 kills with overcooked nades.

Yeah, right. Might as well just try to get someone with an overcooked grenade.

I've got like, 4 kills with overcooked nades.

So that brings us to a ratio of 1:1500, and it doesn't help that the grenade you hold disappears after you die.

If you understand my point, then I'm saying that it's practically suicide.

i like marshall. its a challenging weapon. jackal on the other hand, it's rate of fire has to be reduced.
i hav been called shotgun noob many times.
people complain all the time.
-if u camp and shoot from cover (long range).
-if u rush and use marshall(close range).

and it does that too man. in single player mode it disarms armor because that needs energy to run off of and same with the cloak thats why i said it can uncloak and un armor and its the same in muiltplayer. i use this gun as a last resort. and its not a noob weapon at all if use right.
Please............. i can make any gun in this game OP, i'm most known for dominating with the guass, yet i can never, ever win a firefight with that damn slingshot that throws defective batteries.

I am not sick of shotguns per se, but that crap noob class (Mobility Enhance / Stealth Enhance / Energy Transfer) with silencer Marshall PISSES ME OFF

Cloak of this game is one of the things that brings shotguns down to complete noob level.

I took the Dsub challenge. Though I quite like grendel, when I first started playing the game I was only using it with 600 dpi. When using grendel I had to halve my dpi.

Grendel TIA k/d 3 (5 games)
Shotgun TIA k/d 3 (5 games)

Grendel Crashsite k/d 3 (after game 5, it dropped a lot, 1.25, because of one dude with a shotgun, wasn't sure how legit he was)(5 games)
Shotgun Crashsite k/d 3 (5 games)

IA Grendel 1 (5 games)
IA Shotgun 2.5 (5 games)

Hmmm grendel kinda gets owned in IA, whenever I got a kill there would always be a shotgun hitting me from behind. For some reason with Grendel you really seem to be killed more by shotguns lol. Its like just by having a grendel equiped shotguners target you.

Setup
Grendel burst fire, extended clip, laser
Nano 3
Visor enhance 3
Aim enhance 3
No stealth.

Funny whilst using Grendel really hated shotgunners, its very satisfying to kill people in stealth with a grendel though. Lag seems to affect grendels a lot too.

Though interceptor, there are a lot of players that don't seem bothered at all by stealth.

Well i made an experiment of my own.

Made up 2 stupid shotgun classes. Tried them. Pwnt people from the first spawn. Got back to being assault.


nah, Shotguns are nub weapon

Though interceptor, there are a lot of players that don't seem bothered at all by stealth.
Like you, a player with enough skill, but still comfy being one of many CONSTANT cloakers

It's not like it is enough to get in the way of me doing well, it's that it's one of many things that brings the skill level of the game down for all, encouraging trends of frustrating cheapness.

I'd gladly run around outside of stealth..

..If I didn't die from 4 bullets, and came to a halt as soon as anything hits me.

If it was 9-12 bullets, and non-stop sprinting, however..

Though interceptor, there are a lot of players that don't seem bothered at all by stealth.
Like you, a player with enough skill, but still comfy being one of many CONSTANT cloakers

It's not like it is enough to get in the way of me doing well, it's that it's one of many things that brings the skill level of the game down for all, encouraging trends of frustrating cheapness.

I prefered the balance of wars, whilst I like the idea you can run in stealth, it would have been more dynamic if you ran even faster in just power mode.

I'd gladly run around outside of stealth..

..If I didn't die from 4 bullets, and came to a halt as soon as anything hits me.

If it was 9-12 bullets, and non-stop sprinting, however..
Yea, just my point, the game doesn't encourage bravery and skill building, it does the opposite by accommodating for noobs/easy tactics too much.
The result is, they don't get better as quickly or at all, and the game stays cheaper overall.