Cass Caul
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Posted - 2014.10.24 18:40:00 -
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I'm going to tell you a story of long ago.
Back in the day, Scout and Shotgun was an OP combo. Not like now when little bitches complain about scouts, cloaks, and shotguns like some petulant child that thinks if anything kills them it needs to be nerfed, but actually one of the biggest threats around.
The shotgun itself was a terrifying thing. Right now, it has an Optimal Range of 5m, by 10m it is only doing 10% damage efficacy while also dealing with dispersion. IIRC the Optimal didn't change but back then the falloff was not very steep and was doing 50% damage up to 12m away.
Aim Assist or Aim Adhesion, those things didn't exist back then. Hit detection barely worked. Kinetic Catalyzers were broken. They were so broken, instead of changing sprint speed, they increased speed of everything like Rate of Fire and Strafe Speed.
Then there was this mystifying and demanding skill called "Sharpshooter." It extended the range on all your weapons in that category by 5% per level.
The Scout suit also had a higher base movement speed then, plus KinCat chicanery, plus no aim assist (which was the best part of that era) and bad hit detection (which wasn't fixed into well into Uprising). Add in light weapon sharpshooter and they were doing 50% efficacy out to 18m (About 100 damage a shot from efficacy and pellet dispersion, back when Heavys almost never had more than 1000 total HP)
This **** was so crazy the devs had to add "slowdown on hit" to the HMG and nerfed the Scout's base movement speed. Welcome to Chromosome.
Some guys got really famous during this period and during Open Beta when Chromosome was moved onto TQ server.
One such name was Dengru. He was a well know shotgunner.
Uprising 1.0 comes along, they take out light weapon sharpshooter, nerf scout base movement again, stifle shotgun's falloff damage, fix the KinCat bug. But there are all these new suits.
Our main character thought that Min-Ass was the way to go.
I ran into him the first few patches of Uprising, heard he was good, and always left thinking "what a scrub."
He continued to be a scrub for several patches. He had the skills, but he was trying to shotgun in MinAss suit and it just wasn't a good enough combo to get the job done
(Reminder, until 1.4, profile dampeners didn't do ****. Shared team Line of Sight radar existed)
He couldn't do what a scout could do with the shotgun.
Things changed around 1.6/1.7 when he got enough SP after filling out the core stuff and got a new suit.
And he was a good player, able to get lots of kills in pubs the whole time too, but the MinAss w/ Shotgun just didn't work out in the PC level as well as a Scout suit
On the Other Hand, we have a kid named DJINN Marauder. For Chromosome he was a well known Heavy. In Uprising he switched to shotgun-scout. He was one of the best shotgun scouts in the game until he got the PS4 and Warframe. Then he started to suck and was only the bottom half of like top 10 or top 15 in the game.
But before he got the PS4, he started playing with a shotgun on the Amarr Assault suit.
Dude, Amarr Assault is a way better suit for shotgunning. Marauder showed me the light! Assault A/1-Series is definitely the best medium frame for using the shotgun.
You run in, don't worry about the bullets, and bulldoze your way through a crowd with the alpha damage.
But, if you want to stick with the MinAss, I don't know how tight you are on PG, but if CPU is an issue downgrade the Recharger to ADV and see if you can fit the K-5 Specialist Shotgun. The ADV has a tighter spread than the STD and even though it is small the ADV has just enough damage to finish off some ADV suits in 1 less shot than the STD (Don';t use PRO Shotgun, not enough difference in damage over the ADV)
On Hiatus.
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