Helldivers 2 dev nerfed everyone’s favorite shotgun because it was ‘hands down the best sniper rifle’ in the game
Helldivers 2 dev nerfed everyone’s favorite shotgun because it was ‘hands down the best sniper rifle’ in the game
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But for shotguns, it was Tuesday.
I forgot to swap it out yesterday. Not gonna lie, it feels ALMOST the same. The drama is too much. The devs have said multiple times that they want every weapon to be equally good.
I played a few rounds with my friend at his house since I hadn’t bought it yet. Picked up a shotgun off someone and asked if he thought it was good, he said he’s never used it yet. Proceeded to snipe everything and anything lol.
…and made two other shotguns just as good, if not better.
Weird how all these complaints about nerfs ignore the buffs.
The dominator fucking SLAYS bots now
That’s honestly a fair nerf imho.
The nerf was needed.
The DMRs could stand to be a lot more effective on medium armored targets still though. lower their rate of fire so they’re bad at clearing out all the zerg fodder or something.
But that first part isn’t true lol.
Everyone’s favorite?
Slugger is still a beast. Been rocking that and a quasar for pacifying bots.
He’s not wrong tho. Once I found out the slugger was better, I never went back to the marksmen rifles.
But nerfing the stagger was a weird option. Fall off damage should have been added and stagger should have been cancelled after a certain distance, not completely..
Adjustments are quick in this game. Fingers crossed for a microbuff in the future.
In other news, the actual sniper rifle is incredible now. You can two-tap a hulk from across the map in its red eye if you’ve got steady aim, and the mag on the anti-material rifle is relatively forgiving. Devastators don’t stand a chance either
Remember double lever shotguns in COD? Possibly the last time I lauded COD
Everyone is so caught up on the “sniper” part. Who the hell has a chance to snipe things?
The stagger loss is what killed the gun. It was my antibot gun, mainly against zerkers. Now a half assed stagger and reduced dmg makes it pointless against them.
Give it drop off dmg or something to keep people from sniping things but give me back my stagger!
Plasma scorcher is great against bots
Be sick if they actually buffed the dogshit DMRs instead but w/e
Its like the matador shotty from Destiny
So they nerfed the bits that made it into a shotgun and made sure that this gun was to be used from distance only. 😄
They nerfed the stun, making sure you can’t use it at close range. Then they nerfed the damage, making sure that player has to have enough distance between him and enemies to use it safely.
And they buffed a bunch of other guns to be as good or better in different situations. Put the slugger down and try the guns they buffed. Variety is the spice of life.
“Shotgun…”
“Sniper rifle…”
“Nerfed…”
Modern Warfare 2 1887 moment.
I understand why they did that, but it’s sad to lose the usual way of enjoying things 🥺
I don’t know why they didn’t just reduce the effective range for the shotgun if people were just using it as a sniper rifle.
What they realy need to do is rebalance the lower tier single shot weapons to have much higher pen but far lower damage such that you need headshots to do damage even to smaller bots but you can take out bigger bots etc the same way with a couple shots. Give them a stealth / first hit modifier even.
The theme being a well placed shot to circuitry or the brain does damage but it does basicly nothing to servos or flesh etc due to the small size of the bullet and wound.
It’s so weird to me that normal game updates and patch notes get full blown front page articles written about them with this game.
I understand why they did that, but it’s sad to lose the usual way of enjoying things🥺
I love how this game is just about devs and players having fun with each other.
Been debating if I should buy this or not