I knew that shotguns were always dominant, but man the number you gave us on TWID is actually concering. You made it look fair by combining two weapons into one number to make it look fair, but that's just absurd.
even before meter system shotgun had 46% of kills, while fusion and snipe had 43%. which means that both had 30% - 10% or 20% - 20% each. that's already the double difference.
and after the meter shotguns had more then 76%, while sniper and fusion had 18%.
that means that each weapon didn't even had 10%. That's not about skill difference or anything, it's about weapon balance.
Please, just buff the other specials to be more reliable and consistent so that it can be valid options beside shotguns.
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Yikes. [b]Numbers not being equal is not always a problem.[/b] The philosophy that you need to force them to be has produced awful metas. Players preferred play styles are not always directly determined by effectiveness. And if most people prefer using shotguns, let them. Not everyone is being "forced" cause they are so good. They have been nerfed repeatedly from where they began and remade. Even if they shoot two feet, people like that play style. Fusions work great and help players on both ends of the skill band find success. Many of us would NEVER rely on such a thing.