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[Kanil]

So... i pimped out my shotgun with various mods (ammo, NV scope, slugs) and discoveded the ugly truth.

I knew you can't oneshot people with shotguns but i was chasing some guy at close range and he took 4 bullets to the chest before he dropped.

FOUR.

I was expecting being able to 2-3 shot people but...
Well i shouldn't have expected to get the god of guns for 480 certs and it's still better than the stock guns.

VR has slugguns killing in 3 up to 50 meters, and probably further than that. 'course that doesn't take into account nanoweave and stuff, but...

Meanwhile, the battle rifle takes 5. Outside of infiltrator, you're not going to find a harder hitting single bullet than a sluggun.

'course, if that doesn't hit hard enough for ya', just use shot. It is, after all, a shotgun. A hilariously effective one, at that.

Edit: The new Alert Alerts are clearly brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.

[Siquo]

Hmmm. NV is now useless half the time. That is unfortunate as I loved using it with my slug-shotty.

PS4 users will have their own servers, and better multi core support is coming up.

[DJ]

Slugs can 2 shot people if you do headshots. If the target is unaware, the first shot should always be a headshot.

[Sonlirain]

Hmmm. NV is now useless half the time. That is unfortunate as I loved using it with my slug-shotty.

PS4 users will have their own servers, and better multi core support is coming up.

Yeah it's kinda situational but sometimes it really shines.
Yesterday for example i had a purple latex sniper hiding on a tree in the leaves.
Pretty darn impossible to see (especially at night) but i grabbed the NV scope and he lit up like a light bulb.
Pew pew two hits and he hid behind a large branch.

He peeks out to find out who's shooting him and pew pew he's dead.
It also shows enemies who are in "easy" sluggun range (assuming you're not wearing purple latex).

Oh and it apparently helps spot cloaked infiltrators.

[Siquo]

Yep, it was and still can be totally awesome, but now it's often "AAARGHJ BRIGHTLIGHT! BRIGHTLIGHT!". Changing scopes all the time is annoying as well.

[Twiggie]

Man, my longshot is very disappointing.

I forgot to take into account the max draw distance on infantry. So at the longest range I can actually see enemy infantry, I need to aim only 1, 1.5 mildots above (w/ x12). So I have a massive amount of range where, if I could SEE enemy infantry, I could hit them reasonably easily. But I can't effing see them!

And if I use it in medium range I light up like a bulb for everyone to see thanks to the additional detection radius. SIGH.

So yeah, infils need extra draw distance. And being able to hack unoccupied enemy vehicles (probably not sundies, though) would be nice. Add a requirement to kill the pilot/driver first, use an action on their body, then use another action on the vehicle. For bonus points, make the vehicle appear as normal to enemies and allies.

I have a feeling that would lead to massive abuse though :<

[Sonlirain]

I have a feeling that would lead to massive abuse though :<

I'd love to see engineers being able to unhack hacked turrets/consoles (not hack just dehack hacked ones). It's so freaking annoying when a infil runs amok in the base and hacks EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE and no derp on your team decides to unhack them so the lone person on your team that wants to keep things in shape has to constantly change classes.

[TolyK]

I have a feeling that would lead to massive abuse though :<

I'd love to see engineers being able to unhack hacked turrets/consoles (not hack just dehack hacked ones). It's so freaking annoying when a infil runs amok in the base and hacks EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE and no derp on your team decides to unhack them so the lone person on your team that wants to keep things in shape has to constantly change classes.

Blow up and repair. You get 2x the XP.

[Darkening Kaos]

Is the Participation Bonus broken since GU10?
Just did a "All Domes on Indar" alert and was only getting +5% from population - was much more profitable to go to Americash, where it was +50% pop bonus.

[Sordid]

So yeah, infils need extra draw distance.

So the rest of us get shot at by something that doesn't render on our screen? No thank you. That's exactly what pilots complain about all the time with respect to AA MAXes and everyone agrees it's a problem. Putting even more of it into the game is a bad idea.

[Sonlirain]

I have a feeling that would lead to massive abuse though :<

I'd love to see engineers being able to unhack hacked turrets/consoles (not hack just dehack hacked ones). It's so freaking annoying when a infil runs amok in the base and hacks EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE and no derp on your team decides to unhack them so the lone person on your team that wants to keep things in shape has to constantly change classes.

Blow up and repair. You get 2x the XP.

But then i'd have to either have a AT mana turret or ton of C4 (Inf resource) OR run back and forth as a HA (takes ages to do).
Not to mention those turrets are pretty resiliant to basic rockets.

[forsaken1111]

So yeah, infils need extra draw distance.

So the rest of us get shot at by something that doesn't render on our screen? No thank you. That's exactly what pilots complain about all the time with respect to AA MAXes and everyone agrees it's a problem. Putting even more of it into the game is a bad idea.

I'd be okay with it if infiltrators always rendered for everyone at any distance.

[Satarus]

It is annoying when you own the forward spawn, but blowing up the hacked terminal doesn't revert ownership. 

[Neyvn]

So yeah, infils need extra draw distance.

So the rest of us get shot at by something that doesn't render on our screen? No thank you. That's exactly what pilots complain about all the time with respect to AA MAXes and everyone agrees it's a problem. Putting even more of it into the game is a bad idea.

I'd be okay with it if infiltrators always rendered for everyone at any distance.

Only if changing your visual settings doesn't make a cloaked Infiltrator stand out like a sore thumb...

[Sonlirain]

So yeah, infils need extra draw distance.

So the rest of us get shot at by something that doesn't render on our screen? No thank you. That's exactly what pilots complain about all the time with respect to AA MAXes and everyone agrees it's a problem. Putting even more of it into the game is a bad idea.

I'd be okay with it if infiltrators always rendered for everyone at any distance.

Only if changing your visual settings doesn't make a cloaked Infiltrator stand out like a sore thumb...

So... what visual settings i'm supposed to change?
I bought that NV scope just to have a chance against them on the ramparts but apparently it got "fixed" and cloakers are even more invisible when looking through it.