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Post by Flubadoo on Mar 13, 2010 10:51:17 GMT -5
I equipped the shotgun w/ slugs and sniped someone from around 80 meters. I thought that the slugs stopped working at 42 meters?
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Den
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Post by Den on Mar 13, 2010 11:24:20 GMT -5
Nope. All projectiles continue indefinitely. Shotgun Slugs are statistically identical to Sniper Rifles. They really are Sniper weapons without a scope.
They're my favorite Spec, outsniping Recons at 300 meters.
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Post by knoxthis on Mar 13, 2010 16:01:48 GMT -5
i got a slug kill on isla innocentes from the first island you play on defense to that midway point between the attackers spawn where snipers always chill on the ridge. crazy.
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Post by sushiwarrior on Mar 13, 2010 16:57:15 GMT -5
I tried slugs shotguns a few games, and they are great. But I thought you coudnt really make long shot because you can only zoom a little and not really ads. Does the zoom actually make the shot perfectly accurate? or do you just need some luck?
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Post by Flubadoo on Mar 14, 2010 8:57:19 GMT -5
well the buckshots definetely stop. No hit marker beyond 5 meters for me.
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Post by cheshire on Mar 15, 2010 10:37:24 GMT -5
Every time I tried to get into killing people in this game (As opposed to running around as a medic) I got bored and frustrated, probably due to unreasonable responses and expectations from putting 12 days /played into MW2.
Then I found the shotgun slugs.
Shotgun slugs with Magnum ammo and the 870 shotgun is very much a sniper rifle. You can consistently (Consistently!) ohk from half a klick away, and just annihilate people up close. Sure, you have to use at least one, and usually both, of your specialization slots to make it work, but DAMN does it work if you do.
I intentionally put the swear word in there. I don't think I could emphasize the point better than the family friendly version it will edit to.
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Post by jbauerpowerdump on Mar 18, 2010 7:55:49 GMT -5
Yeah they are great. I picked off a helo pilot on Valparaiso on defense from the second set of MCOM stations after they took the first set. I already used 3 of my AT4s against the bradley, and the helo was returning to their base and I missed the helo barely. He landed at the helipad and he repaired, picked up some of his buddies started to come back. I shot my shotgun at it in frustration, and then +50 and the helicopter crashed.
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Post by anguitarhero on Mar 18, 2010 23:54:02 GMT -5
Saiga with slugs is absolutely amazing.
I find myself stopping, picking out a sniper, and capping him from 100 yards away. I find the fact that you don't really need Magnum, opening up the Extended Shotgun Mags, and the fact that the slugs are so bloody accurate makes slug shotguns alone incredibly viable.
I'm really surprised they're not more popular. Then again, I guess most people just shy away from them, thinking that they suck. I love getting long range kills on people and imagining the expression on their face when they realize they were somehow killed by a shotgun.
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Post by calstap on Mar 19, 2010 4:38:21 GMT -5
I prefer pump actions over the semi/full autos. Nothing can beat the OHK to head. And NS2000 is the best pump shotty right? It reloads faster than spas / 870? Oh and it seems like there is reload glitch on M870. If you click mouse1 while reloading it reloads 2 shells during animation that adds one.
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Post by Protolisk on Mar 27, 2010 1:49:06 GMT -5
Is there bullet drop because I was using 870 with magnum and it seemed like there wasn't
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Post by rotbot on Mar 27, 2010 2:21:32 GMT -5
Oh and it seems like there is reload glitch on M870. If you click mouse1 while reloading it reloads 2 shells during animation that adds one. This happens with all the pump action shotguns. If you try to shoot while reloading, it cancels out of the current reload animation and goes straight to the ready animation. So firing after the counter shows one shell reloaded instantly reloads the 2nd shell without the animation. You can't use this glitch to load 8 shells in the time it takes to load 4 because of the ready animation. Only the last shell you reload is free.
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