At the risk of sounding like a broken record... (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Monday, February 13, 2017, 18:56 (2931 days ago) @ Harmanimus

I have to agree with some of this, but have to disagree as well. What you speak to works reliably with the Eva-8. It suffers from the FPS-Standard-Shotgun-Damage-Wall(tm), but does have very high accuracy (spread) out to that range. Being semi auto also allows it to bypass most of the slower shotgugn issues many games have.

However, the other two options (Mastiff and Mozambique) trade classic game shotgun mechanics for projectiles in a predictable spread. The Mastiff benefits greatly from slower engagement with rapid relocation. A-Wall makes it a beast to lock down tight spaces and even some longer corridors. However, it suffers from slow pumps and reloading. It also doesn't have disappearing projectiles, which lead to great harassment at long ranges. The Mozambique is spam fire but also can be used out to much greater ranges than sidearms tend to be in most games while keeping a solid kill potential, though it is better served with mobility - but anyone playing slow can be taken out at great range with it.

So, I would say they zig-zag around the common pitfalls. I'm just waiting for a third shotgun in the game (O/U maybe, with high accuracy and longer range than the Eva-8 would fullfil a currently empty role for example.)

Thanks for the feedback.

I should have said up front, the vast majority of my shotgun experience in Titanfall is with the first game and the Eva-8. I haven't touched any of the shotguns in Titanfall 2 outside of the campaign, save for a few minutes with the Eva-8 (just enough for me to know that it is more or less the same as it was in the first game).

This comes back around to the article I shared in another thread, but I haven't touched 99% of the gear in Titanfall 2. I found the specific loadout that suits my playstle, and I've spent at least a couple hundred hours refining that playstyle without ever wanting or needing to swap gear around. I use the R-201 Carbine and Charge Rifle, which are the 2 default starting weapons that come with your very first loadout. I use the Pilot Sentry turret, firestar grenades, and the grappling hook. And that's pretty much all I've ever used. For Titans, I'll use Scorch or Legion once in a while, but 99% of the time I use Tone.

There's just so much room to learn and grow your skills in this game that I don't feel the need to try new gear yet. If I have 1 complaint about Titanfall 2, its that I think there is actually a bit too much stuff in the sandbox. I thought the weapon selection in the first game was just about perfect. But reviewers knocked it for not having a Battlefield level of gear options (which IMO completely misses the point of what Respawn was going for), so I'm not surprised that they added a bunch more stuff for T2.