What happen to you gnasher (gears 2)

I recently revisited gears 2's offline multiplayer with my girlfriend and its a blast for the most part (nowhere near gears one). but im having some trouble understanding what they did to the shotgun, it is so inconsistent and not like a real shotgun.

First of all liked the 2 piece because if you hit a guy point blank with a shotgun hes supposed ot die.

but like i shot a guy point blank twice in the head with a shotgun and he didnt die and proceeded to down and kill me.

ive had enemies jib me at 4-6 feet with one and my gf survive 2 blasts at point blank full front range.

also an enemy downed me with one shot at about 10 feet no active.

the shotgun in this game is so inconsistent and provides probably the most broken part of the game for me

WHAT DID THEY DO TO IT?

Yeah, epic screwed it. gow117

its sad cuz i wont buy gears 3 unless they figure out where the hell they are going with the shotgun, i used to be so good at gears but the shotgun was always my fav weapon... so yeah... i didnt even play competitive multiplayer 1/100th as long as i did on gears one because things were unbalanced.. they were in gears one but it was livable

[QUOTE="gow117"]Yeah, epic screwed it. Goron24

its sad cuz i wont buy gears 3 unless they figure out where the hell they are going with the shotgun, i used to be so good at gears but the shotgun was always my fav weapon... so yeah... i didnt even play competitive multiplayer 1/100th as long as i did on gears one because things were unbalanced.. they were in gears one but it was livable

Yea mabye in gears 3 the invisble vacum on the chainsaw will shrink and the shotgun wont shoot and headshot someone from across the map (I did).

I just learned to play properly, i dont 2 piece and can now blind fire effectively. All you gotta do is play and get used to it.

yeah, ur right, Epic did really screw it up. A shotgun to the face should kill a guy in my book. But if you play it enough you will get use to it.

The shotgun was supposed to be better because it didn't have a random spread. What annoys me is you shoot someone twice hard-aiming and then they shoot from the hip from about 5 feet away and gib you.

If they fixed the consistency, this game would be terrible. It's a huge step from unplayable.

Now they need to fix the melee system. A melee shouldn't be more effective than actually getting shot.