As in every shooter, The First Descendant has multiple types of weapons. Every player has their own favorites. However, a user now shows that one weapon type in the game is so bad that even fans should consider using a different weapon.
Which weapons are we talking about? The user PizzaCrusty analyzed the shotguns in The First Descendant in a post on Reddit. He concludes: Shotguns are more than useless
. In his post, he mentions that he tested shotguns in the endgame at the lab.
First, he shows that accuracy mods do nothing for shotguns. In two images, he shows the barely visible difference between a shotgun with and without mod. You can see the post here:
Regarding the magazine of shotguns, he notes that no matter how high you set the capacity value, the magazine only increases by 1. He also shows a mod that is supposed to increase the value by 30%. However, this is not quite correct, as the user SnooBananas510 points out in the comments. Thus, Shell Capacity
is supposed to increase the amount of bullets fired.
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The damage also leaves much to be desired
For his test, the user also looked into critical hits. He found that except for one shotgun, all only have a crit chance of 1%. The highest has 3%. When landing a critical hit, the damage is only increased by 1.0 to 1.1%, which is essentially nothing. So, it doesn’t matter if you hit critically, it doesn’t change the damage much.
By the end of his post, he also noted that snipers and rocket launchers are better than shotguns for taking down enemies in close combat – even though they are actually designed for that. Most users under the post are hoping for changes to the weapon.
- WashombiShwimp:
Many mods, weapons, and the descendants themselves need a lot of changes, and this upcoming patch is the beginning. It will give us a good idea of where they are heading.
- that1LPdood:
It feels like they didn’t even test it. It feels like they just added shotguns because it’s expected from a shooter; that’s the only reason.
- AkariBocchi:
Shotguns should be changed to orange ammunition.
It seems that the developers still need to tweak the shotguns a bit. However, the developers of The First Descendant are known for quickly addressing criticism. It wasn’t too long ago that a patch buffed a weapon: “I loved it from the very first second” – Player in The First Descendant is overjoyed that his favorite weapon is finally strong
