Well, shotguns being too powerful needed to be addressed. They just overdid it is all.
SMGs seem a little better as they don't empty their clips quite as fast, they're just sub-optimal now instead of "do not use".
Part of the issue is in proper Shadowrun, you can't walk around with an assault rifle stuffed in your pants. In this, I'm walking around disguised as a janitor with an assault rifle on my back and two heavily armed drones following me around and no one notices.
Maybe someone should get on the Batphone to these guys and tell them to shift all the special abilities one step to the right for each step "lower" in the chart they are from pistols to maybe require a bit more investment to get the bigger guns to really shine? So mages and deckers and such can invest a few points into pistol and get good, but if you want to be good with the shotguns or rifles you need a higher investment, reserving it for samurai, etc.
SMGs seem a little better as they don't empty their clips quite as fast, they're just sub-optimal now instead of "do not use".
Part of the issue is in proper Shadowrun, you can't walk around with an assault rifle stuffed in your pants. In this, I'm walking around disguised as a janitor with an assault rifle on my back and two heavily armed drones following me around and no one notices.
Maybe someone should get on the Batphone to these guys and tell them to shift all the special abilities one step to the right for each step "lower" in the chart they are from pistols to maybe require a bit more investment to get the bigger guns to really shine? So mages and deckers and such can invest a few points into pistol and get good, but if you want to be good with the shotguns or rifles you need a higher investment, reserving it for samurai, etc.