quote Sereph

Cover penetration on an active would be simply amazing. I can't tell you the number of times I wished I could shoot through cover at some camper across the map instead of having a sniper battle with him.

It's not really needed for every single gun to have a white extra active section, like the Sniper or Torque.

if u shoot them in leg, they dont get downed w/ sniper, tho they should, even if its not an active.
see in real life a slug from a sniper can kill a man from like 2 miles away...
and even if ur armored a close ranged sniper slug should severely damage u....
if u get shot in legs, shouldnt u limp? or get downed cuz thats like ur most vulnerable place
if u get shot in the leg and cant use it ur as good as ded

The game's not that realistic, tracemastax.

How the hell do you consider the leg to be the most vulnerable part of a human? (Or mutant)

While yeah, the game isn't realistic, they've still got variable damage depending on which parts of the body you hit. If you aim for the legs (especially when using shotgun), you'll down your opponent far quicker than if you aim anywhere else.

Unless you're Luke

Luke's shotgun has homing bullets, so it doesn't matter where he aims.

It's ridiculous sometimes, his shotgun really does crazy amounts of damage from massive range. Perhaps one thing they should fix with the gun is its effectiveness from distance. Perhaps a sharper drop off in damage with distance. It could be that the active power doesn't mean quite as much if you have to get in closer to do any real damage.

Haha I agree entirely, his Shotgun is the most borken piece of equipment ever, I know it's hard for me to talk because I've started to follow the same bullshit path that he has.

The Gears Shotgun isn't very realisticly mirrored at all, it's capable of doing CRAZY amounts of damage from the most ridiculous distances, I'm not sure whether they should do what Ali's just mentioned, or re-design it altogether, harsh I know but I can't see any other way it can be fixed.

quote Woudo

How the hell do you consider the leg to be the most vulnerable part of a human? (Or mutant)

this true, your flaw is, its true for any bullet.

yea but in gears physics, a lancer bullet hardly does damage, a starting pistol does hardly any damage, that revolver does lots of damage, and a sniper is, like in real life, most damaging out of them all... or should be.
well the active reload makes my argument fair anyways, so the sniper active reload is fine...
besides if thier being cheap and using it, just get a sniper/boom and do it to them, or better yet glitch!... the crabwalk in particular renders it almost useless.

another flaw:

gears is unrealistic.
If you argue that so help god...

o yea im all for it being unrealistic... the last thing i would want is for marcus to whine like a bitch whenever he gets shot with one lancer bullet...
unrealistic=fun in gow
Maybe they should make the sniper more penatrating in the future if its an active reload, like if ur lucky i could get a double headshot
just cuz of the distructive environments

quote P P H JayBo 13

another flaw:

gears is unrealistic.
If you argue that so help god...