While I personally liked the improved accuracy, because I knew what to expect from it, I believe many other players did not.Originally Posted by EternalBeast
Many players are used to the wide spray, because it's been like that since the existance of GunZ. Many players have played GunZ with that exact same shotgun spray for 2, 5, 10 years.
- A 20% accuracy change is quite radical and some players really don't like that because it changes gameplay quite a bit
- Wider spray is more forgiving, your aim doesn't have to be 10/10
- Even if your aim is 10/10, your bullets are more likely to miss if you don't know where bullets are going (I think some users don't know that shotgun bullets often don't go dead center of your crosshair, especially when moving/k-styling) so a 10/10 aim doesn't help if you don't really know how shotgun shots work
E.g. some players complained about PBs only dealing 10-20 damage (which is not Anti-Lead's fault, Anti-Lead either sends the full damage packet or none - not each pellet of the shotgun as seperate packet - so if it was Anti-Lead's fault it would be 0 dmg, but if you deal say 10 or 20 damage, the Antilead is doing its job just fine (the new antilead that is, the previous one which we had for the longest time in V8 worked a little differently)), possibly because they didn't know that shotgun shots don't always go dead center of your crosshair. With that tighter spray you will miss more bullets up close if you don't have this information - which brings me back to the argument that wider spray is more forgiving, often you would hit more bullets up close with it
- Also, with the increased accuracy / tighter spray, shotguns were a little 'too strong' on distance - often causing hard hits on long distance which you wouldn't expect because you and others aren't used to it. In situations where you normally would continue to fight with yellow HP due to distance, knowing it usually takes multiple hits to take you down from that distance, you were suddenly much more likely to get taken down in 1/2 shots due to that tighter spray
All in all I would say, players just weren't used to it. The improved accuracy felt good to me because I knew what to expect from it but I believe many other players did not, causing some odd () situations for them - possibly even making them think Antilead was at fault when sometimes it really wasn't.
