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[Kanil]

Shotguns are pretty useless beyond point blank. The pump action ones can one-hit people if you get most of the shots on the head, though, and can one-hit Infiltrators, which is nice, but beyond that, any other weapon is most useful in 90% of the situations you find yourself in. At best, they're good for those tooth and nail CQC fights, but even then there's usually not a lot of room for error.

I think you've got your numbers backwards. 90% of the fights in the game are tooth and nail, CQC, could use your knife if you felt like it fights. They're definitely a situational weapon, but their situation is a pretty common one.

Sadly the slugs do not work as well on the auto shotties what with the poor accuracy on consecutive shots. The slug ammo much more favors one accurate apha shot. I just hope they nerf slugs somehow, it's silly when the choice is a no brainer as it is now.

My testing in the VR shows pump-shot slugs two hit out to around 30 meters, unless you hit the head. The auto shotties three hit pretty much up until point blank range. Not unlike standard ammo, the pump-shot works better if you're accurate enough to hit every shot, and the autos better if you're not. I found the accuracy penalty to be somewhat irrelevant, by the time you've corrected for recoil it's basically gone anyway.

Slug ammo does seem pretty neat, I'm keen to try it out.

[majikero]

VR? Is that where you can test weapons? Where is that?

[Jopax]

Go there by following the magic link trail at the bottom of the continent select screen in your WG terminal.

[Knight of Fools]

I think you've got your numbers backwards. 90% of the fights in the game are tooth and nail, CQC, could use your knife if you felt like it fights. They're definitely a situational weapon, but their situation is a pretty common one.

According to the Devs, most infantry fights occur at 40m, well outside of the range of shotguns. I'm sure that varies from player to player, but even in fights less than 10m the shotgun's low capacity magazines and need for precision put it at a disadvantage.

[Haschel]

I've been using the auto-shotty almost exclusively on my medic since it was the only weapon onhim that I already unlocked upgrades for... And I'll be honest, it's a pretty bullshit weapon. I usually keep slugs on it, the VS still don't have any bullet drop with the slugs soooo... Yeah, I've two-shot people from a distance with a 2x scope where an auto-rifle would require at least a 4x to keep a decent train. The slugs don't even have a downside in CQC for the auto-shottie, you can't realistically one-shot a person even without them on so putting the slugs on basically has no downside. Combine that with the extended magazine and you've got a high ammo capacity weapon excels at close-range and is decent or sometimes better than other options for mid to long range.

[kaian-a-coel]

Yeah, shotgun snipe is pretty ridiculous in this game. 

[ductape]

yeah i do the shotgun sniper thing, I use the sweeper on a light assault. Gotten pretty good with it, and I can jet into hard to reach spots.

[Darkening Kaos]

Three nights this week, during prime playing time in Australia, Briggs has been shut down for around three hours.  So frustrating.  Went to Matherson, but being 3 AM server local, very few players.  Gonna give up on Planetside 2 for today and hope they get their shit together by tomorrow when I expect to put in a solid, uninterupted, crash-free 30 minutes.  FFS.

[Reudh]

Good thing I don't play Briggs during primetime.

Anyway, I have a question: is there ANY weapons I can get without having to spend real life cash?

[Darkening Kaos]

If you have the certs, you can unlock any weapon.

[miauw62]

If you have the certs, you can buy any weapon.

This. SC just lets you get them faster and lets you get decorative items. If this game was very P2W this thread wouldn't have survived this long.

[Duuvian]

If you have the certs, you can buy any weapon.

This. SC just lets you get them faster and lets you get decorative items. If this game was very P2W this thread wouldn't have survived this long.

Yeah. It's a very well designed system as well as being an extremely fun and innovative game due in part to it. My hats off to Sony for this one and I think it will have a very long and successful run.

EDIT: Mattherson NC has it going on today.

[Rowanas]

I'm on the verge of buying my first shiny with certs. I'ma rock the PS1 TR quintuple launcher, because I hate aircraft, and it seems pretty solid. It sucks arse at close range, but one of those and a Burster max can down aircraft at any range.

[majikero]

I finally got my brick of C4. My suicide runs are now more effective.

[Reudh]

Ah, I thought the price display was Certs + SC,  not Certs OR SC.