G IH A IN ID II wrote:

With the greatest respect I think you mistake the views of members posting on this forum as being representative of the millions of players partaking in the game. I'm not discounting the opinions of those that post here in any fashion. They are an important, valued, and for many longtime, voice within the broader CoD community. We value your input tremendously. We will not always agree with it, however.

 

Regarding the other note could you please re-send me the link. I've been out of action for a while.

 

Cheers,

 

G IH A IN ID II

I'm not talking purely about Shotguns, but issues on the whole. This includes shotguns though. I don't know how any of your statistics can point to the shotguns being decent. Simply go play a few rounds with them yourself, you'll see they aren't that great. Also, start with them at level 1, like everyone else. The grind just isn't worth it.

In regards to the post:

http://www.callofduty.com/message/205470611

I know the first instinct is going to be to suggest it's lag, but simply experiencing it, you can tell it's much different. The corrospending video is no longer in my vault, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to get another one in there. What you really want to pay attention to how things are skipping around. Controls are completely unresponsive, including the pause menu (where as with lag, the pause menu still functions I've noticed).

It's hard to explain, but the best I can explain is that everything literally drops to 1-3 frames per second.

I was getting bored with this game, thought I'd try to have fun with the riot shield--and it was fun for a bit. 

I am sick and tired though of getting knifed THROUGH the riot shield, people shooting dead center of the riot shield and getting hit markers on me, and sticking a semtex on the shield and me dying instead of being protected.  Note, I said shooting dead center of the riot shield, knifing dead center of the riot shield--it is not lag sneaking around the side as it takes skill to overcome that and is fine.  Being able to hit the riot shield center mass is not skill and makes me a easy target.

I'm not asking for a buff here--it just needs to be fixed.  I'm even okay with the butt sticking out while crouch-strafing as that could be considered the skill when using this weapong (though stupid in its own right).  Just fix how it is frickin' intended to work. 

If they gave the Riot Shield the side-mount guards (like was suggested countless times in MW2), they'd be useful. Currently the only thing I like doing with them is teaming up with a friend, and we just run Riot Shield + RPG x2 (though I prestiged, so I can't for a while). It delivers some hilariously good results at times.

Any serious use of the shield though is trounced by the fact that lag is such a huge factor (hence why side-guards are needed).

G IH A IN ID II wrote:

 

bo2000 wrote:

 

Dear Ghandi,

 

I'm aware that losing a decrease of IW's headcount, working together with a lot of other companies (SH, 3ARC, BH) and of course the annual dealine must have been a lot of pressure. Guess you had to rush a lot of things and had not have enough time to doublecheck every feature in the game. Guess Activision is pretty strict about delays so you shipped that wreck of a game. I can understand this, since working in the media biz is quite the same. Deliver in time, change later. So I, as a customer, allowed you four additional months of developement time and tried to assist you as much as I could and you requested. And I'm one of those people paying those people who play you. But you have to understand that all the patience comes to an end one day and mine will end when I will find out that TU10 for XBOX is just another halfhearted approach to fix this game finally. And when my patience ends this doesn't mean I will move on and give 3ARC another chance or put hopes in another IW release. COD will be done for me, Activision will be done for me, maybe even my XBL Gold membership will be done for me and I will make those people know why I'm not going to invest more money in this BS.

I'll be sorry to see you leave if this is your decision bo2000.

 

Cheers,

 

G IH A IN ID II

As allways your brief and indifferent comments are highly appreciated.

I can understand the doubt. Can you understand that we are currently content with the way the SGs are balanced? Every post I've read on this topic comes from those who like to use SGs. Naturally I've seen little or no commentary from those who feel frustrated being on the end of SG use. We also need to consider this.

 

This doesn't mean we are turning a blind eye to the community. We are buffing LMGs because it was highlighted that they were underused and we agreed. It's the agreement amongst both sides that's the important factor here.

 

I think it's best to park this topic in this forum.

 

Cheers,

 

G IH A IN ID II

But did people not complain about the type-95, akimbo machine pistols, the mp7, and the per-patch striker. The Striker with extended mags was clearly OP and almost every shotgun user on here would agree with that and agree with IW decision to take away the extended mags glitch from it. However I saw no complaints from the community about the pre-patch spas-12 or aa-12, so I don't see where we are in the wrong. What we're asking for are shotguns that aren't even as good as those guns were, as a pre-dropoff damage buff doesn't increase the guns damage at range like the extended mags glitch did. Who is going to complain about shotguns other than shotgun users though, to the rest of the community we are just easier to kill and thus non-shotgun users would want them as weak as possible. We just want to have fun in a game most of us paid $100 for with our favorite guns.

If you put a proposed buff to the model, spas, ksg, and aa-12, as described in the shotgun balance thread, to a public vote on this website, I think most people would be in favor of it, which is what I think you should do as all cod users, not just shotgun users would have feedback. If it is shot down, then we would have no argument as the majority would want it otherwise. I think that this would be a fair and just way to finally put this issue to rest, so we can stop wasting each others time on this forum talking about a shotgun buff.

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