I love the concept but I think the name is misleading. Maybe change it to something that involves the word shotgun.

There is no point to have another shotgun, and how this sounds, it confirms why there's no point.

Give Caldari a Nova Sword with a charge slash (as in charge it, and a slash flies toward the enemy).

Heh, you draw designs like I do.(question mark?)

I like it! Been really hoping they implement a caldari shotgun for a while now.

Mass driver is meant for Area suppression. Doesn't mean that it is really good for using as a shotgun. Also, shotguns are, never were for, and never will be for suppression. so that argument is invalid. Also, adding **** just to is pointless unless it's the exact same as another (which at that point it's just a skin with stats), and in these games, everything does have a purpose, so that argument is invalid. Lastly, going back to my first point, a shotgun is a shotgun. the role doesn't change at all; a CQ weapon with very high alpha. Huh, is't that what I just said? Nova sword with a charge slash? I don't think you understand what you're asking for yourself, nor is thinking about the balance side of things.

no caldari shotguns. it doesnt even fit the lore. shotguns are close range/high damage. thats a gallentean thing...

i realise shotties have crazy range irl. but this isnt irl.

i guess if its a mid range repeater, i may have some caldari charcteristics to it. bu dont you guys have too many weapons already? by 1.8, you are already goig to have more sidearms than minmatar, who are supposed to be the sidearm masters. dont believe me? their loyalty store only has sidearm damage mods. and the smg is argueably the best sidearm out there.

to me it looks like a railfile................i think this is coincidence.

1: logi's are horrible with shotties, same for commandos, even as a sidearm (a actual sidearm will do you better). Again, argument is invalid.

2: Asking for something then using another game that preforms and behaves different from another is silly, so invalid.

3: No, i'm a realist, and look at it from all angles rather than just saying bring random **** in. If you did that, imbalance would occur, and things would end up being removed. Assumptions are bad.

4: Borderlands 2 is also PVE only, so you can't tell if something's OP or not unless the game is super ******* easy or super ******* hard, and that could be the dev's decision, so pointless o even to go off of, so invalid

Care to go on this useless ask for useless ****?

I like, though if it is a range weapon, it needs to do lesser damage, or have some sort of limiter to damage. I could very well see this becoming the next rail rifle.

Think about it though, low spread = max damage, coupled with range, making it a very accurate, long range shotgun, that deals some serious damage. Your idea about limiting the shots with heat build up does help bring it closer to balanced.

I think another way to go about it would be to take the current rail rifle for an example. But rather than needing an initial spool up before it unleashes hell, I would suggest it spools up on each shot.

1 second spool up time before EACH shot. THEN reduce the max ammo capacity to reflect more it's strength. As you said it's not a spray and pray. Therefore it does not need a large ammo capacity at all. 4 shots, plus what's added for skills is all.

That's my two isks

Then I give the caldari shotgun the go ahead:)

Edit: if CCP where to take this idea (which I find is a great one) then they would probably take mostly the designt and the functionality, then do whatever they do for balancing (I think they roll dice or something lol) but by numbers alone we can't figure much out. So Kilo says just enjoy the lore guys.

Care to go on this useless ask for useless ****?

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OP, some great ideas in the design of your weapon, looks like something more geared towards support roles than the MD and would definitely fit in on the battlefield.

To all the naysayers in here I implore you to consider that the current shotgun is not really a great support weapon in the wide open space between points of cover most of the time and having a weapon to fit that role of cover fire suppression without killing the teammates you are covering or yourself when misfired (FW/PC) would be great.

The biggest issue I have with the MD atm is the rather limited ammo which means you are not support but rather need to support yourself (hives) which by itself seems ok until you look at the fact that a squad that moves needs more nanohives, more ammo and when you are out of ammo you are totally boned (logibro talking)

Today I killed 4 mediums in a row with 4 shots.....with a scrambler pistol.
This was an extreme. Luck, but let's call it skill for my example.

Today I also missed 11 shots shooting at still heavy
Another extreme. Due to a complete lack of skill


I think the key to balancing is to keep both extremes in check. The best example being the flaylock. Any noob could use it originally, then the nerf hit and even the best players couldn't use it.

Sorry to go on so long, but I forgot how I wanted to end this sentence;)

Me likey. Numbers and balance are up to the devs, but rail-tech shotgun with half-decent range = yes, very yes, much want, wow.

You sir just invented the next minmatar sidearm;)

Phillips or Robertson?

Reminds me of BF 1983 I think? Anyway each class had its own melee weapon, the engineer had a wrench. Add rust and it's minmatar

I like this, well not the name but I like the Idea of a Cal Shotty.