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Subject: Shotgun Range Lengthened

"Your destruction is the will of the gods...and we are their instrument."

Poll: Who else thinks the shotgun's range should be lengthened in Hal...  [closed]
Oh my god, yes!:  57%
(81 Votes)
No, leave it as it is.:  24%
(34 Votes)
I don't care.:  18%
(26 Votes)
Total Votes: 141

I'm getting kind of tired of having to be at least five feet away from someone for one of the shotgun's individual beebees to even find it's target. It's as if the shot goes out the barrel at a 90 degree angle. At least in the first Halo I could knock a flood over from a good 20 feet. Tell me why you made your descision.

  • 07.15.2006 7:02 PM PDT
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Leave it how it is. I just want how it's held to be different/cosmetic upgrades. It is always fine for me. I would make it [i]slightly[i] more increased range, by a tiny bit. It's a shotgun, so it shouldn't have long range.

[Edited on 7/15/2006]

  • 07.15.2006 7:03 PM PDT
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Yes, but only the damage should increase by the length. I like the Instant Kill length how it is.

  • 07.15.2006 7:03 PM PDT
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I don't ever use the shotgun except for when a noob rushes me with an Energy Sword or I'm doing Campain and I'm fighting Flood... 'Cause the shotgun is a lame weapon unless it's against the flood.

  • 07.15.2006 7:08 PM PDT

"Your destruction is the will of the gods...and we are their instrument."

I'm not saying to make it a medium range weapon, that would defeat the purpose of a shot gun. I'm just saying make it so you can actually inflict damage on an opponent from accross a room, moderate sized room I mean. And still keep the instant kill, that's almost the only way to counter the energy sword, which I think the lunge range should be decreased a little, but that's a different issue.

  • 07.15.2006 7:10 PM PDT

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Yes. The shotgun's range in Halo 2 is pathetic. In H1, the shotgun's range was longer than the SMG's in H2.

  • 07.15.2006 7:34 PM PDT
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I go with the first option. Revert back to the original Shotgun.

An 8 Gauge Magnum Shotgun with a barrel that long(even if it's shorter than the original) does not have that kind of horrendous range and spread as with the Halo 2 Shotgun that you literally have to be at bludgeoning range to kill someone with it. You'd be dead by the time you rush someone to shoot them in real. The pellets don't even do one bit of damage if a target isn't point-blank eye-to-eye range! By far, the original Halo shotgun was how a shotgun should behave. It's not as necessarily short-range a weapon as you would think.

  • 07.15.2006 7:40 PM PDT
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I agree the shotgun should be fixed. Either more power, better range , or both. Seems to me the weapons on halo1 were better!!! The grenades worked alot better. What ever happened to the needle gun being useful!! It was to me anyway. The sword works from to far away and the shotgun not far enough.. Alot of the weapons need to be retweaked!

  • 07.15.2006 7:45 PM PDT
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I like the shotty the way it is
That is the point of the shotgun
If u want more range use a different weapon

  • 07.15.2006 7:46 PM PDT
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shotgun is like the oppsite and yet the same as the sword...

sword colser the less damange
the longer 1 hit kill

shotgun the closer 1 hit kill
longer just a small little damange

but both do nothing from far!!!


and thats the point!!!!

  • 07.15.2006 7:48 PM PDT
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Basically, the shotgun should be as good as the sword. In Halo 1, it was a weapon worth picking up. Now, it's as almost as bad as the needler if you don't have host.

  • 07.15.2006 7:51 PM PDT
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Not the point, but the problem. Weapons too generic. Halo's weapons-none behave the same way, that's what makes them each unique and overall better.

  • 07.15.2006 7:51 PM PDT

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I think it should be lengthened, it just reminds me of halo 1 more. Perhaps not quite as much as halo 1, but certainly more than halo 2.

  • 07.15.2006 7:56 PM PDT
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YES YES YES YES YEEEEEEEEEESSS!!!!
Ok, in this world that we call Reality, somebody could be pumped full of buckshot from a good 15 yards away. But in Halo 2, the shot comes out of the barrel at a good and near 45 degree angle. Impossible, am I right?

  • 07.15.2006 9:13 PM PDT

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Yes. The shotgun's range in Halo 2 is pathetic. In H1, the shotgun's range was longer than the SMG's in H2.

Yeah....really.
That is one thing I would say with certainty that needs to be changed about the game. The weapon frustrated me so much in matchmaking...I got bored and TESTED the range of the H2 shotgun. I put one player about...I would say...10-15 "game feet" away and began firing. Some of the shots didn't even hit him, and it literally took about 20 shots from that range to kill him. In H1, he would have been killed in no more than 4 shots at the very most at that same range.

  • 07.15.2006 9:33 PM PDT
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The shotgun is the most unrealistic weapon in the game. The spread is utterly stupid:

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Just look at the huge amount of spread. That's why it's so unreliable at close range, even on your own host in multiplayer, and why the range is so short.

The CE shotgun not only was more realistic, but a much more balanced weapon, and actually usable. You could kill someone at medium range but it took several shots, instead of having the pellets magically disappear 2 ft from the barrel like in H2.

The H2 shotgun is a broken weapon, and needs to be fixed for Halo 3.

  • 07.15.2006 9:34 PM PDT

I agree. A new face for the shotgun would be welcome. As far as range goes however why not a combination of both ranges? Have Halo 2 range as far as MP is concerned as to maintain balance, and have Halo Combat Evolved range for the campain as far as accuracy in behaving like a true shot gun, because a round just wont leave the barrel at a 130 degree angle.

  • 07.15.2006 11:34 PM PDT
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It should have the same sort of range as the SMG.

I think it was originaly toned down so people could get kills with the sword against it or something, if so something went wrong.

  • 07.16.2006 4:58 AM PDT
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If shotgun's range would be lengthened, that would be to easy to kill. No fun.

  • 07.16.2006 5:21 AM PDT
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If shotgun's range would be lengthened, that would be to easy to kill. No fun.

No... it still would be hard since it would suck at medium to long range. All we are asking for is a few more feet. And more reliability. Right now, almost everyone calls the shotgun, the slotgun.

  • 07.16.2006 5:26 AM PDT

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I think many people have never seen a real shotgun in action. You can hit something about 3-4 stories in the air. Anyone shot clay pidgeons? And that's just bird shot. Buck shot is very accurate. Why do you think hunters sit in trees and blow away the deer? They don't have to run within 3 feet of it to kill it. It's a shotgun, and I think bungie should make the gun act like one.

  • 07.16.2006 5:27 AM PDT

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It would have a huge range but it goes off alot

  • 07.16.2006 5:50 AM PDT

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the shotgun would be way better when lenthend because when i shoot at my friend and he has a sword he kills me and i only just damage him from 2 feet

  • 07.16.2006 7:07 AM PDT
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ummmm shotguns dont shot out beebees cuze shotize go boom and beebs dont

  • 07.16.2006 7:37 PM PDT
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