If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
I can give you an example of a sittuation I was in.I have a character with the kamikazee trait and I ran into a guy in waterworks with a combat shotgun,he caught me as i was coming around a corner and from 1 hex away he bursted me for around 45-50 damage which is about half my hp and I was wearing only Leather mk1 armor.I bursted him with my 10mm smg right afterthat from the same distance and dealt a whopping 150+ without even a crit and blew him to peices.He was wearing the same armor i was and his was even in better shape.I felt like I should have been the one laying on the ground in peices instead of the other way around.
Man Solar you really crack me up with all this math bro.Do you ever test all these figures out in the game?I dont really make it a point to stop and discuss numbers while im being torn to shred by a minigun.Maybe I should give it a shot some time.
Knockback may be a little messed up to consider, but actually having its use may not be that bad of a thing. Comparing a shotgun face to face with a minigun or other long range weapon, makes no sense. The game is not a box. Every fight does not happen the same, over open ground. Imagine using that shotgun in an urban setting. It's a nice little terrorist weapon. You see someone, you burst, knock them on their ass, then proceed to either gank them with more burst spam and keep them down, or hide. This is the same reason why I enjoyed playing with just GRENADES against full BG and other PvP builds. While crappy and low dmg to armored opponents, they could keep someone on their back indefinitely sometimes. I still remember the time I killed that BG in CA using just about.. 20-25 grenades. Anyway, it's a Shotgun. Treat it as such. It is not a MG. It does not shoot explodey things, not normally, though it'd be funny to see. Shotguns are excellent skirmish and guerilla type weaponry, maybe some should treat it as such. Knockback would make it even better for the role. A god-gun? No, doubtful, but certainly useful if someone stops thinking of the mass-charge tactics. But what do I know. :/
We are discussing, why and what should be done to make the game better, to give people a choice between not only a Minigun, Sniper rifle, LSW,P90,Assault Rifle, Lazer rifle or maybe Plazma and Granedes, but also shotguns, the high tier ones that stand no chance VS other weapons right now.
It's a good vision, achieving it may demand big changes to whole pvp system.