Game has flamethrower

>game has flamethrower
>super short range and does weak damage

>enemy shoots you in the back
>explode instantly

>Game has shotgun
>If the barrel of your gun is not literally touching the target you are shooting at it does absolutely nothing

>shotgun has 10ft range

>machine gun has bullets flying out of the barrel at 45 degrees on full auto

>And deals damage to yourself

>Assault rifle is just the SMG with a lower rate of fire and magazine capacity

>shotgun is a knife that requires reloading

>game has flamethrower
>fires for 3 seconds and then you have to wait for 10 seconds for it to cool down

>doesn't leave burning pitch on the ground

>sniper rifle has huge spread when fired from the hip

>use flamethrower
>die

Fucking halo ce

>Sniper rifle does more damage when scoped

>It's a banana peel

>high caliber machine gun does the same damage as a low caliber pistol.

>game has a flamethrower
>it cannot be fired if enemy comes into melee combat from further away than the flamethrower's range

>low caliber pistol does more damage than high caliber machine gun

>game has guns
>bows do more damage.

>game has a grenade launcher
>you are barely affected unless it's a direct hit

>sci-fi shooter
>ordinary pistol is the best weapon

>revolver
>it does more damage than the pistol despite being a lower caliber than the pistol

Doom 3 had literally the worst shitgun of any video game ever.

>doom
>a game that made the shotgun fucking famous
>doom 3's shotgun is fucking awful

What the fuck were they thinking?? Also NO FUCKING SUPER SHOTGUN WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING

>fire single shotgun shell from double barrel
>load 2 new shells in anyway

I HATE THIS FUCKING SHIT MORE THAN ANYTHING YET ALL DEVS DO IT ANYWAY EVEN KILLING FLOOR, A GAME ALL ABOUT GUN PORN

I fucking hate that shit. Where did this meme of shotguns missing everything unless its a foot away from the thing your pointing at?

>game has shotgun
>planet-buster damage up to 10 feet
>literally no damage at 11 or more

From his latest video. Enjoy!

>modern setting
>you can control flamethrower's rate of fire
funfact: modern flamethrowers will always burst out the whole fuel because of user's safety.

that isn't even him you imbecile

>/k/ has a meltdown

it came about as a game balance thing and took on a life of its own

*FWOOSHHHHHH*

>Shotgun from decades ago had amazing range.
>Shotgun from a year ago has range so shitty you have to be one foot away to actually deal some damage.

>Weapons are balanced the same, both for Singleplayer and Multi
The worst kind of balance.

>Broke out Black Ops II recently
>Tried out that gun game with the rotating weapons
>Got the final kill with a no scope sniper head shot that was so off center I would've thought I was cheating if I was on the other end of that killcam

its way easier to balance if you're only doing it once
im pretty sure only hunting games really get shotguns right

This shit right here is why I hate multiplayer being shoehorned into everything, devs want to be lazy about balance so PvP is wildly unbalanced or PvE has all the cool shit nerfed until it's not fun anymore.

>game has emplaced heavy machine gun
>overheats after firing 20 shots

>Game has 4 shotguns
>They can all hit from 80+m and kill

>Primary weapon is an AK and you can fire hundreds of rounds as you like with your only restriction being magazine size
>On rails section with RPK where the gun overheats in 2 seconds

>game has flamethrower
>its so good you start to feel bad for the dudes you are killing

...

>minigun overheats after shooting for 5 seconds
>an LMG can shoot forever without overheating

...

>minigun doesn't overheat

>sniper rifle is more powerful than the rocket launcher

Payday 2 does it right.

>minigun underheats

flamethrowers are usually ass because you can't see how far they shoot

>game has a flamethrower
>its one of the best weapons in the game

>it stop shooting after it freezes

>game has flamethrower
>it only stuns enemies rather than killing them

>the objectively most powerful gun in the game feels like shit to use

why not just put flamethrowers exclusively on remote controlled drones?

>game has easily craftable and spammable molotov cocktails
>game has pistols that shoot blobs of chemical at people, including incendiary shit

>Game has medic
>no one plays as medic

crossbow in bioshock 1 for me. i hated how it was the only gun that could still get kills with headshots towards the end of the game

>shotguns are absolutely godlike with huge range
>but only if the enemy doesn't wear armor
>in which case you might as well be throwing pebbles at them
>game's meta is fully armored terminator mode

Most games have short as fuck maps so its not relevant anyway, i think the only game thats got a flamethrower with decent range was turok 2.

>game has a flamethrower
>it actually throws flames instead of flaming glue

Underail.I always spam molotov early game.
>inb4 psi is better
psi is gay

>setting someone on fire freaks them the fuck out instead of just dealing damage
>using fire near animals causes them to panic even if it misses

it is, I dont' play underrail to be a faggot wizard, I get enough of that bullshit in every other game ever made

this is sniper rifles in general.
Sniping is boring as fuck.

ssg is back in the expansion
just like how doom1 didnt have ssg but doom2 did
:^)

Havent they been phased out in favor of thermobaric rockets yet?

>thermobaric rocket has wider AOE than fragmentation rocket

>grenades do piss poor or no damage unless they're literally right next to the person

>game has carl gustav
>game is battlefield bad company 2

How the hell do you balance this? God damn.

by not giving them to every guy, same as sniper rifles

Is balancing a shotgun that difficult in a FPS? Every shooter I've played, shotguns are either too powerful or just complete shit.

A thermobaric weapon doesnt rely on fragmentation to kill but in the burning of the oxygen and the blast which is stronger than that of high explosive.

It's and awesome st weapon. Got to shoot it twice with live rounds during army service

Flamethrower's disadvantages IRL are often hard to be implemented in vidya without making it completely useless.

By making other guns realistic too. At that point flame throwers just become tools for very specific circumstances and are very visible, ‘shoot here’ targets otherwise.

Its blastwave is definitely more powerful but fragmentations have much wider killing range than blastwave.Thermobaric weapons are more useful than fragmentation weapons when there's lots of cover,otherwise you'd be better using frag.

>game has sniper rifles

Rising storm 3 does it right

because for some reason game devs think shotguns have a meter wide spread at 10 feet which wouldn't happen unless the barrel was like cut down to the actual shell

real shotguns are nothing like that

>Game has flamethrower
>Enemies scream in pain and their charred corpses start to stack up

why do you assume they're trying to make them realistic rather than fun

>Game has flamethrower
>Short range but it melts enemies.
God I love Armored Core 2/3/LR

>shotgun deals minimum 1 damage per pellet
>enemy armor is so high in late game that full shotgun blast deals more damage than rifle

>Game has Gustavus Adolphus
Lmao, cathocucks swerve

The problem is that maps in videogames are very cramped, in real life youre probably shooting at a guy that is half a mile away, but in cod style maps real life shotguns or flamethrowers wouldnt really have diasadvantages so you have to make them shit. It ruins the game for me since Im a fan of those, but people seem to just shrug and use a smg anyway.

>in real life youre probably shooting at a guy that is half a mile away
Most encounters these days are within 20 meters.

>in real life youre probably shooting at a guy that is half a mile away
everything I've heard says otherwise

modern console fps maps are all corridor maps that funnel players into areas where you can't move around or dodge a player that's camping so everyone can get a kill

when was the last time you've seen a map with any sort of verticality?

there is none, console players can't aim up or down

console players can't aim left or right either though