I want a sawed off double-barrel shotgun, except it's sawed down the middle so I have just one normal-length barrel.

Pvt Ryan has Projectile Dysfunction.

Ryan's idea is way better. I feel ashamed.

That seems overpowered. pls nerf

This is what we should base the shotgun on if it wins.

Wait, so if the poll is rigged, the shotgun wins? Thats some news...

@Loveguro: People who want melee weapons IMO either like the prospect of bashing someone with a heavy object or are annoyed at the prospect of having no means of defending themselves when they burn through their ammo. (Like me, occasionally)

I usually try to get back to the tent, unless I know I'm never going to make it out of there. Then I try to suicide so blue doesn't get points. But at that point, I normally never have grenades, so suicide is kinda difficult.

@Galaxy: Well, there ARE over 30k forum accounts.

@Kaede
Do you run back to the tent when you run out or suicide?

I wouldn't mind a melee weapon in the new update as long as it isn't the only weapon in the the next update. If we seriously waited all this time, even ran through a poll (which is screwed up to all hell, go look at it yourself), just to get damage added to the pick axe, I'd be pretty pissed. Also, I think two-hit kills would be fine with the pick axe since your character swings it pretty fast.

Speaking of the ridiculous weapon poll; I doubt there are 2500 people in this community lol.

I run out of ammo all the time whenever I spawncamp.

I've never really had trouble with ammo in AoS. I mostly go after the intel or guard it though, so I make lots of trips to the nearby tent.

Out of ammo? Shove your pickaxe into some skulls! But I'd rather get a shotty asap.

I don't rely understand why people would want a melee weapon. A shotgun should be able to handle all those point blank to close range skirmishes just as well as a melee weapon would. It also bothers me that in quite a few FPS games: melee weapons give a guaranteed one hit kill.

I say make the shotgun completely OP at close range, it needs to dominate everything.

Agreed Drewgon, i don't feel we need any more weapons.
Heck, just the Semi is fine.

More work needs to be done on the source code i think :P

Because of bens recent tweet, something tells me AoS is written is spaghetti code :)
MODULAR MODULAR MODULAR! learn to code in modules and your life will be made easy. i know i only did 2 years of computer programming in school, but if anything stuck, it was that.

While it's true that new gamemodes are more important than new weapons, we still need to address the lottery problem on the semi, and get ourselves a better, more balanced close-range weapon, whether it be a melee pickaxe or a shotgun.

How about no new weapon? That could work. There is other things ben could work on.

Hitscan can work with multiple projectiles. and hitscan does not always mean the center of the screen

Just like our "Lottery" rifle now doesn't always hit center, just ran that script multiple times with a wider arc, and bam ,you got yourself a boomstick.

as for actual numbers, i don't really care as long as it feels right and is balanced.

The SMG needs to be tweaked to be more like a mid-range assault rifle, imo. A shotgun is far more suited to close-range combat than an SMG.

People complained about SMG being a close range weapon, two weeks later "ADD SHOTTIE OMG PLOX"....am i missing something?

I don't think individual pellets doing damage would even work, seeing as damage is based on hitscan, not projectiles. It'd have to be based two things: The general body parts your cursor was next to, and the distance you fired from. The closer, the more damage it does.

But how would it work?

Dude it only takes out 1 block per shot and you have 6 shots before you have to reload, the smg takes out WAY more blocks, the shotgun would be incredibly ineffective at grefing.

It is a griefing tool, but so is ever other gun. Well that is sort of the idea, that way you can blow holes in your enemy and their bunker.

I like the idea of ten damage pellets. It'll make the shotty good for cqc but absolute shit at longer range. The shotgun also has a potential to breach forts and what-not, but it also has quite a bit of griefer potential.

How about ten pellets that each do 10 damage no matter where it lands.

^ agreed!!

She's been spamming it all over the place, someone perma ban her now pls.

This forum hardly seems like E-harmony, ann.

^WTF???