I use the Striker with damage and I am finding it takes 4 to 5 shots close range even to kill a person - WITH DAMAGE, yet other shotguns will kill with 1 shot with damage. Makes no sense to me. So IMHO the Striker needs a buff, shouldn't take that many shots to kill someone with the damage proficiency, especially at close range (within 5 feet). I've killed people faster with the range proficiency than with damage.

GT - ungawd

Snipingdbag wrote:

 

Funny people ask the devs to change lmgs, Done. people ask to buff Blast shied in HC Done. People ask to buff the dragunov, done..

People complained for months about LMGs.  Ghandi tended to ignore any weapon-stat based arguments [regardless of weapon], replying that balance was subjective or arguing that "other factors" like just liking a particular weapon or setup figured into it.  When Ghandi said that LMGs would be buffed, he also said that the devs had looked at the usage numbers and decided not enough people were using LMGs.

Ghandi has also defended the state of shotguns in the past by saying that  people would complain if shotguns were buffed, and that they were trying to strike a balance between complaints for and against shotguns.

As for HC Blast Shield, that is something that probably should have been patched immediately, if not been present in the release copy of the game.  But IW appears scared or strangely reluctant to risk the appearance that they've taken cues from Treyarch's games.

Things like this is what annoys me with the shot ties I couldn't get any closer to the guy and he drops to last stand and could have killed me.

  On a plus it's the first time I've got damage with the USAS and it is quite good the one shots are alright and if you get a hit marker you can quickly get another shot off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBG2twejvIA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Lets face it shottys are prolly the worste weapons to use becasue you can shot someone center mass and not get the kill due to a crappy bullet spread. Not because the guns are weak, not lag just crappy luck of the spread. The shottys are powerful but that doesnt matter when you only land 2 pellets. Also headshots are meaningless with shottys, I dont know how many times Ive shot someone that was head glitching in the head 3 times or so with a USAS and not got the kill. And the person was headglitching so there is no where else I could have shot him. The killcams will even show dude flinching three times and the screen gets a tad more red with each hit. With damage by the way.