A shotgun would be more useful in just about any situation than a handgun.

Are you joking? tell me you are?? the shotgun would be great for storming bases, especially form tunnels as i believe oni Keade said.

I personally don't want any more weapons, so I chose melee. I would rather have some sort of healing gun for a medic class.

....I wANt ShotGUN!

I agree with jeff a health/ammo mule would me great

@Kaede-chan if you do have a shotgun how will you defend against longer ranged enemies? you would need a backup weapon, thats where the pistol comes in. same idea with a bolt action sniper

I have a good question, will the results of this poll actauly have any effect on ben's decision for .55?

Probably since Ben made the poll and the thread.

no rocket launcher?

Trolling aint easy >.>

Also Wheres the toaster that shoots Flaming toast D:

I'm having trouble trying to choose between either the shotgun or a melee weapon. I've suggested a melee weapon for a long time but I know how much everyone wants the shotgun...

Be like me vote for Melee, shotgun, and hand gun.

The shotgun will have a bigger and more dynamic effect on gameplay, which, in order to stay fresh, is exactly what this game needs.

@Ben

Btw someone is using prox'y or alternate IP's to rig the poll, in the space of 2 mins the sniper rifle vote increased by around 15 votes. more then any other weapon choice in the space of time.

Let me guess, your poll alows proxy users to vote?

I'd suggest you fix that quickly.....

Great People Rigging the vote man why cant they wait 24 hours and vote again.

Yep just ran the tracer, most of the sniper votes are coming form the same IP.

Sniper has more votes now.

EDIT: Why the hell do we need a sniper anyway? We already have that.

I choose sniper rifle BUT the sniper rifle used to be the semi, but now with that shitty cone of fire you would have to go trough coding a new weapon to compensate the loss of accuracy in the semi. If you just remove the cone of fire, you could make it so that the semi is a sniper rifle and you could work on a more unique gun. I mean really the sniper rifle will just be like a gun with a zoom-able scope that has increased accuracy, I personally would like to see something more unique than that!
As I suggested before:
Landmines

@TheGreatKhan
I agree

in your inventory you should have a pick that does damage, a pistol (replace shovel), the rifle, and a shottie (replace grenade)

that is all

Ben add the shottie please!

@drewdog: A melee weapon and three guns? Does part of your implementation plan involve slowing the player's walking speed down?

I've pointed out before that most soldiers go into combat with just ONE gun. Two guns is something I'm a bit opposed to, but there's real-life precedent there. Most common is a "large" gun (rifle, machine gun, shotgun) and melee weapon (bayonet, knife), at least for the WWI - Vietnam era. Adding some grenades to the mix isn't stretching things too horribly far, or replacing the melee weapon with a pistol, but a rifle, shotgun, AND a pistol? Get real.

Most standard infantry from about 1750 until around the turn of the century was equipped with a rifle and a bayonet. From before 1900 that was the way everyone in an infantry unit was usually equipped, with the eception of the company commander, who'd usually have a sidearm and a sword. Even the NCOs generally had the same types of weaponry as the rest of the company.

During the WWI - Vietnam period, some new stuff started to show up in companys. Bayonets were still in common use, but new things such a grenades arrived. Company commanders started replacing their swords with the same rifles the rest of the company used, but retained their sidearms. Companies started getting a few light machine guns, which some members of the company used instead of rifles. Sidearms became a bit more common. At this point, the standard armament for a soldier is a single gun, some grenades, and a bayonet or knife. He might just have a sidearm, probably instead of the grenades, since there's a maximum amount of weight he can carry. Chances are he's also sacrificed his grenades if he has a machine-gun, since he'd rather have more ammunition.

So reasonable combinations might be Rifle-Grenade-Knife, Rifle-Pistol-Knife, SMG/LMG-pistol, and things of that sort. But three guns... that's just too many.

hehehehehe

Thankyou for setting this up. I dont think new weapons should be priority number one. (Even less dynamic crosshairs or the camera wobble.)

http://www.google.com/moderator/#9/e=6f3a1&q=6f3a1.2a3d45&g=machine+gun&v=4

Base infrastructure needs more reward. AoS is unique because players can shape the environment.

Don't you hate when other people's decisions affect how your game is going to be?

Anyway, I voted for the machine gun. It would have been for the assault rifle, but I only had one choice and the prospect of a LMG/GPMG is just too much to pass up. Seems like the sniper rifle's gonna win it, which isn't that that that bad...I guess.

IT IS BAD! the sniper is not suppose to have 100 votes, THE SHOTTIE IS

the shotgun honestly just sounds like people want it because they suck with the SMG, but it will probably be a good addition anyway. i think it will be cool, if it is added

since the sniper rifle is probably going to win, i am hoping for quick scoping to be a method in this game.

Also, I agree with what people said earlier about adding a medic/ammo bearer class. Personally, I would like to be able to choose either of those with the "." key (after you have chosen your weapon, the "ammo pack" or "medic kit" would then be selectable). You could use either of them a limited amount of times on yourself and the people around you.

I would like to mention at this point that the sniper rifle votes are because of fraudulent voting, and should be ignored. I think the legitimate winner is the shotgun.

This at 1:02
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h42d0WHRSck&feature=player_embedded