Close-Up and Personal: SMG's vs Shotties vs Pistols

[Warspawn]

Your favorite, and why? Obviously you're going to carry all 3 for the extra/different ammo types, but what's your "go-to" weapon of choice when all hell breaks lose and you need to put the bad guys that are swarming you down quickly?

Shotgun for me; nothing like it for running 'n' gunning...near misses count! Played with the SMG and it was nice for using behind cover after my first few headshots from my sniper rifle; was a crit monster with headshots on full-auto. Had a pistol with knockdown ability...THAT proved useful on many occasions

But..once I grabbed ahold of that auto-shotgun, a double-tap from that ended things pretty rapidly. Had a 20-rd mag, quick reload time...pure adrenaline fun!

[armedpoop]

Auto shotties all day.
And the magnum with knock back was bugged on ps3 for me. Shooting enemies with it would make them go into a fall animation for a few seconds and then just be standing there firing again.

[Saroc]

Shotguns for me as well. Partly because i'm a lousy shot and partly because it reminds me of Tabula rasa
I did find myself using sniper and a burst assault rifle most of the time in beta. If enemies came to close i used a melee attack and a 3-round burst if needed.

[Arsenic_Touch]

I just love the LMG fired from the hip. Attach a scope to pick em off as they come running in and then just unleashed hell. High magazine capacity and a constant spray of bullets.

[BleakPanther]

In this game it appears I'm a pistol guy. Drop a good sight/scope on it and it becomes my impromptu sniper rifle and fired from the hip it handles close range work like a champ. My primary loadout condensed to a full auto AR and a scoped semi-auto pistol of some variety on just about every character I built and tested in the beta. Most games I go sniper/shotgun but i just didn't get that feeling here. I mean sniper/shotty was fun and effective but for the playstyle that I felt was best for me, the pistol and AR just clicked.

[Travie]

My favorite had to be controlled-burst assault rifles. Most (of the few) that I came across had nice tight spreads and made it easy to conserve ammo.

[Chuck Zitto]

I started with combat shotguns. I got a legendary orange pump shotgun from a lockbox and fell in love. Combined with all my cloak perks I could pretty much sneak up and 2 shot somebody from close range before they even knew what hit them. Secondary was a fully modded ar.

[Over00]

Fully automatic VBI assault rifle with a high capacity magazine and stabilization sight. Can still shoot accurately at a distance and packs a huge punch close quarters.

In the secondary I primarly used bolt action sniper rifle for most things. I simply loved headshotting a full magazine worth of enemies with that thing. And for arkfall events I swapped that out for a shotgun.

[Muzzah]

I carry LMG for General badassery, and Shottie for close up. Its particuarly effective at catching skitterlings mid flight

I fell in love with the Healer gun BMG? for epic arkfalls. but then that fits in with my usual MMO 'Groove' if you catch my drift.

[Warspawn]

I just love the LMG fired from the hip. Attach a scope to pick em off as they come running in and then just unleashed hell. High magazine capacity and a constant spray of bullets.

That sounds like fun! How was range damage fall-off with the LMG? I noticed that Pistol/SMG even with a scope, had serious range issues; damage dropped FAST as range increased. With a bolt-action sniper rifle, if you can see 'em, you can kill them, often without aggro'ing others in the vicinity. Never really got to play much at long range with a scoped AR/LMG; how effective was that?