Special weapons are an important counter to uber-primaries (Destiny)

by yakaman, Tuesday, April 07, 2015, 15:54 (3309 days ago) @ CyberKN

Personally, I would love to see the PvP game place a bigger emphasis on primary weapons. As it is, Special ammo crates are littered around the battlefield like candy, so you're rarely without a stocked-up Shotgun/Sniper/Fusion rifle.

Snipers are the biggest reason I had issues with First Light and Bastion. As the game currently is, Shotguns are incredibly dominant, even after two nerfs.

Preferably, Ammo for these weapons will be limited to the same degree that Heavy is- because that's what they are: Power weapons. Things your team would fight to hold the spawn of in Halo.

Look, I'm happy for everyone with Thorn, Last Word, Hawkmoon, Mythoclast (of old), and whatever other super PVP primaries there are, but people need ways to counter.

Great primaries wreck the balance of PVP, period. That's fine, as this is sorta how Destiny wants to define itself. But it helps that there are a lot of options for people less...blessed to make up for it.

With my plain old Devil You Know, I lose every single battle against any of the above mentioned primaries. Or, so it seems. At least I know I can stick a shotgun in someone's chest and kill them. I barely notice snipers.