Oh yeah, there's a reason certain guns are nerfed for gameplay, and I don't think it should change. It just gives people this impression that shotguns aren't effective from more than like 30 feet away, so they're surprised to find out they can actually be effective from over a football field away, depending on the gun and type of ammunition used.
The problem is that while other weapons have plenty of use cases in real life.. their use cases are in terrain that would be boring to have in a video game. Like, in a wide open field you wouldn't really want to bring a shotgun, but players would not find a wide open field that you had to spend hours to walk across before finding the enemy very interesting.. video games always try to have "interesting" terrain or are fighting in urban settings where there are constant line of sight blockers everywhere, but there's plenty of boring terrain in the real world.
Yeah, like I'm Canadian and don't have all that much experience with guns-- but I've shot skeet a few times, and that was with a shotgun that seemed pretty damn accurate hitting a tiny clay disk far as hell away from me.
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u/Unoriginal_Man Sep 16 '26
Oh yeah, there's a reason certain guns are nerfed for gameplay, and I don't think it should change. It just gives people this impression that shotguns aren't effective from more than like 30 feet away, so they're surprised to find out they can actually be effective from over a football field away, depending on the gun and type of ammunition used.