Pending Double Barrel Love.

[BanjoBoo]

I know this is silly, but from my time on the server, there are 26 primary weapons spread across the map available for purchase in the point shop.

However, the double barrel shotgun is not available for purchase in the point shop.

IMO.
A) Oversight. The double barrel was just forgotten.
OR
B) Intentional. The double barrel was intended suppose to be a random spawn to give a lucky player a powerful weapon. Only one spawns in a round (in my experience), which lends me to believe this might've been the case. I believe this is the only gun currently to spawn like this.

Suggestion
If A)
Please add. Super cool big mode gun.
If B)
Could we take a look at a buff/rework it INTO that super cool weapon? The gun falls off outside the typical one-shot shotgun range with even more outside of typical shotguns with its 2 shots and low ammo. Currently, if it IS suppose to be a special weapon, in comparison with other point-shop weapon with their INSANELY low TTKS which ARE available in the point-shop, it feels a little lack luster even to other shotguns.

(Edit)
I see there has been a few people down voting this.
Could you explain your reasoning for this? Do you not want it added to pointshop? Do you not want it buffed?
Or do you just not like me as a person?
It's a little disheartening to have a suggestion to just be universally down-voted without anybody saying anything and we still don't the guns current implementation of whether it was intentional or an oversight.

 

[RhazhBash]

When the double barrel was first added ages ago it was available in the pointshop/loadouts and a lot of people complained. It was removed intentionally to make it a rare spawn so people wouldn't be getting one shotted everywhere. If only 1-2 people per round have it there's a lot more counterplay in keeping your distance. I think the DB is fine the way it is.

 

[BanjoBoo]

When the double barrel was first added ages ago it was available in the pointshop/loadouts and a lot of people complained. It was removed intentionally to make it a rare spawn so people wouldn't be getting one shotted everywhere. If only 1-2 people per round have it there's a lot more counterplay in keeping your distance. I think the DB is fine the way it is.

Thank you. So that's leads into a new question!
Is the gun game-play currently a complete copy of previous servers/SGM coding or has there been any new re-working around guns when Giants came online?
It might be my memory or possibly other servers leeching into mind, but I always remember AK47s being T-weapons, however that is currently available to be found around maps/point-shop in the current iteration.

 

[Virunas]

AKs have never been t weapons on sgm or its successors. They have been donor weapons.

 

[titan]

When the double barrel was first added ages ago it was available in the pointshop/loadouts and a lot of people complained. It was removed intentionally to make it a rare spawn so people wouldn't be getting one shotted everywhere. If only 1-2 people per round have it there's a lot more counterplay in keeping your distance. I think the DB is fine the way it is.

and trust that this was a necessary change. the amount of DB oneshots that occurred before this change was insane.