How are the shotguns?

[SphinxOG]

Struggling to find any gameplay where shotguns are used and i really want to go down the whole stealth/shotgun route but won't bother if they aren't effective enough

After playing many MMO's/Shooter/RPG's being up close to the enemy is how i like to play and melee is just not a viable option against tougher enemies

[technophebe]

Personally I thought they had too much spread and you had to get too close, but that's just me personally. There's an in game skill "cloak" that makes you invisible for a period; I didn't try the two together but it sounds like the two might fit your shotgun/stealth desire fairly well.

[Snowgoons]

Struggling to find any gameplay where shotguns are used and i really want to go down the whole stealth/shotgun route but won't bother if they aren't effective enough

After playing many MMO's/Shooter/RPG's being up close to the enemy is how i like to play and melee is just not a viable option against tougher enemies

They were quite nice in beta, you could shoot people and still get some buckshot on them from pretty far away. I didn't like the sawed off type where you fire once and both barrels went off or the other version where you fired once, then again, and had to reload. They did huge damage I just always missed.

Prolly cause my aim sucks :O

What was nice about the bigger clip shotty's is that they would set your target on fire if they had a fire effect quite often in my experience. It's definitely no pushover weapon!

Nothing matched the power of my VOT Plasma Pulser tho!!!

[RequiredField]

Struggling to find any gameplay where shotguns are used and i really want to go down the whole stealth/shotgun route but won't bother if they aren't effective enough

After playing many MMO's/Shooter/RPG's being up close to the enemy is how i like to play and melee is just not a viable option against tougher enemies

I never actually played the beta so take what I say with a grain of salt. However, after watching many Beta reviews on the internet, a lot of the guys were saying the shotgun you start with is terrible. Again, I don't know how long it would be until you ran across a new one; thirty minutes or three days.

Just throwin' it out there.

[FizzyMyNizzy]

Struggling to find any gameplay where shotguns are used and i really want to go down the whole stealth/shotgun route but won't bother if they aren't effective enough

After playing many MMO's/Shooter/RPG's being up close to the enemy is how i like to play and melee is just not a viable option against tougher enemies

During BWE3. There were shotgun with 19xx dmg. It 1 shot any mofo in pvp. =D lol. Next op weapon was grenade launcher, and heat seeking rocket launcher.

[DS Triggah]

they will be my choice of weapon with using secondary heal gun (dont know the techinical word for the gun lol) so yea found them great and id say im an above average player pve and pvp do it SPHINX!

Struggling to find any gameplay where shotguns are used and i really want to go down the whole stealth/shotgun route but won't bother if they aren't effective enough

After playing many MMO's/Shooter/RPG's being up close to the enemy is how i like to play and melee is just not a viable option against tougher enemies

[Xtheoneandonly]

from playing an outlaw in the beta I can say this firmly...Shotguns are just plain fun....

[DS Triggah]

so good man especially with the like anti matter mod on it and you blast a raider in the face and they disappear in a purple mist so great!

from playing an outlaw in the beta I can say this firmly...Shotguns are just plain fun....

[Komakala]

During beta I had a fantastic sawed off shotgun. It was a purple, and one shot was enough to kill pretty much any enemy. Problem is it fired both barrels at once and so I'd fire and run like mad while I was reloading. When it came to some of the bigger and tougher enemies like the big blue mutants one shot was sometimes enough to kill them if I was solo and landed a crit. But I found combat shotguns to be better for prolonged fights.

[Xtheoneandonly]

so good man especially with the like anti matter mod on it and you blast a raider in the face and they disappear in a purple mist so great!

Yeah, that's the siphon enchant, gives you back health. I had a 12-shot pump shotty with it....As I've said in other threads...I really enjoyed that gun...a lot...