We have tested this stuff in detail. We have had tons of shotgun only lobbies and have at no point ever noticed any frame rate issues. I have been in games on mission where 80% of the players are rushing the middle with strikers and have noticed nothing.
They still have strikers in infected. Don't you think that if they had all but one person firing a striker in a lobby that the frame rate issue it should cause would make a significant impact on frame rate issues and make them take that weapon out of infected? The frame rate issues from strikers in infected is mild at best. And that is with all but one player using them.
In all of the shotgun heavy lobbies I have been in I have never seen any frame rate issues. Mind you this is even in the days when the emags glitch was still running and all shotguns that had emags available were putting out 50% more pellets than they were "designed" to. Remember how many people used to run the striker with emags? Did anyone notice frame rate issues then? No. These issues are being massively blown out of proportion. In my time participating in this thread. I have seen less than a handful of posts about shotgun frame rate issues. Most of the frame rate stuff was focused on the stuff when kill streaks go up or people join the game.
