Board Thread:Respawnables Discussion/@comment-86.19.168.133-20180731110334/@comment-86.19.168.133-20180804124722

Cool, I thank you for taking the time to write that.

So I've spent a week playing the game, and I was finding limited successusing the blunderbuss and little italy. I was tending to camp more with the little italy. but the overall problem with a camping stragety is that you miss out on getting bonus pickups especially those respawnsites. If you are charging around with a blunderbuss then at least you get to pickup all the bonus that come your way.

From the games I have played the most common weapons are Shotguns, pistols and the Bow, all these can 1 shot people. And with this event being a shotgun event, I decided to fight fire with fire and I spoiled myself and bought the aristocrat shotgun and Shock force kit to get the 50% bonus damage and extra accuracy from the headpiece. I've also the got the accuracy and reload buffs while moving masteries. This has allowed me to completely dominate some games I have been in, espeically in the more open maps like Royal Garden. I'm seeing myself more and more at the top or near the top of the scoreboard with alot of kills now.

The aristocrat shotgun is a great weapon but when you add that headpeice it turns it into a close range 1 shot kill weapon into a 1 shot kill medium range weapon and 2 shot kill weapon at long range, rather than being 2 shots at medium range and 3 shots at long range. This allows me the best of both worlds, attacking people at close and long range. The only thing it has hard time with is speeders who get right up close in your face at very close range. What would be the best gagdet for dealing with people at very close ranges. I'm looking forward to the day when I can get Zombie Bull and possibly adding Glass Cannon on top to see if it can 1 shot kill people even at near the guns max range.

It feels so powerful I doubt I will need to buy anything else ever, but there are some kits I will be keeping I eyes peeled for in the future.

One thing of note about this event. The shotgun damage nerfing items really should be banned from this event. The devs should make you not be able to use them. Since everyone is using shotguns to progress through the tier rewards. If someone has got the leprechaun hat and the biker legs or a blunderbuss nerfing legs (since blunderbuss seems to be the all round most used shotgun), they basically win the matches for free. Sure I could equip a different weapon to take a advantage of this but then I won't be progressing through the event myself.

Overall after spending some money I am enjoying the game more, but thats to be expected. Even though I don't really agree with the principle of a 1 shot kill meta, there are so many 1 shot kill weapons it kind of makes it ok. I guess they went with the philosophy, if we just make everything kill in 1 shot, then everything is OP and thus if everything is OP, then the game is balanced kind of logic.

My advice to anyone else new coming into the game. Play it for a few days to see if you like it. Grind Gold in missions to get the blunderbuss, since its pretty much the only  competitive weapon avaliable to a free 2 play player at a low level. Once you get aim to get the masteries which increase accuracy and reload speed, and even the fire rate to help out your blunderbuss. All your cash and spare gold should upgrade the talents in the skill tree. You won't be a complete roll over and you give yourself a fighting chance.

if you still enjoy the game at this point, then maybe its time to think about spending a little cash to make yourself truly competitive. Check out youtube for gameplay on the guns and kits your interested in. Use this wiki to plan out exactly what bundles/kits/etc you might need to buy. Calculate the costs and compare it to how much you are willing to spend. I spent about $25 I think and I feel like I can roll with the best of them now but I could have easily spent less and still been competitive I feel, maybe not as powerful though.