They seem to be balancing PvE weapons around PvP.
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You want to know how nerfing shotguns affected PvE. The end boss, I kited him around with a Clustershot Shotgun, was too easy, lol. All the people who complained about how hard he is. I saw posts with people doing it with the grenade launchers, the sticky ones and such. It's pretty cake walk doing it with those weapons. Try doing it with ARs, SMGs, Pistols, and LMGs. A ton harder. Snipers would be near impossible IMO.
False, they just need to stop treating them as the same thing when balancing.
1 set of stats for totally different game modes simply doesn't cut it. You end up having to balance based on one of them.