Talk:Drakgoon/@comment-5331442-20150517010133/@comment-132.178.9.20-20150522190001

I don't think it was an intentinal nerf. I'm pretty sure this is a bug and should be reported by as many people as possible to expedite the fix. The nice mechanics (punchtrough, and focused charge shot) were balanced against the negative mechanics relative to other shotguns (travel time, shot origination displacement suffered by most projectile weapons) and the mechanics were somewhat of a reference to one of their previous games, so I doubt DE would have nerfed it by changing the mechanic. If it needed  a nerf, it would make a lot more sense to just nerf the damage or charge time, not change how the weapon works fundamentally. They've nerfed abilities in that way before, but I can't think of a precedant where they have nerfed a weapon by changing mechanics (save for very broad changes like melee 2.0 favoring some melee weapons while hurting others relatively more)