I was one of the best quake 2 players in the world and I'll tell you right here that you can't just say "skill". Type Rocket Arena in google if you want to see me.
You have players in quake who are railers like me, which is similar to sniping, mostly revolving around twitch play and good map awareness.
You have chainers which would be similar to AR or LMG which revolves around maintaining a steady hand on your mouse and extreme map awareness since you are engaging close and must deal with splash and spam.
You have rocket users who rocket jump off of walls to move in aggressively and flank which revolves around twitch gameplay and extreme map awareness. This I would say is similar to shotgun users.
What it comes down to is if you are valuing thumb skill over map awareness and strategy. I voted for results cause frankly I didn't care how my teammates played in clan matches, I cared about winning. But destiny I would want to have the best shotgunner, best sniper, best primary, best aggressor, best at leading a team, etc etc.
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You're certainly right. However, this refers to general skill. In this game, the map sizes, design, and skills lend themselves to shotguns. Sniping has more drawbacks. Also, contrary to popular belief, AA doesn't aim for you. Anyway, you're right that a very specific set of skills is necessary for any weapon archetype.
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You are right about the maps lending to shotguns. We are sort of stuck queueing into games and the map selection is forced on for us . In Quake people would vote maps, so after a while only the maps that the community wanted were played. This ended up being maps that had more open spaces. In this game we don't have the luxury of voting maps or making a custom game and selecting the map. I do think that the newer maps are not as shotgun friendly as the vanilla maps, with of course the exception being the maps that ended up in Combined Arms. Maybe Bungie thought the large maps would have beenn more popular which would lend itself to more Sniper play, guess we'll never know.
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*Looks at sector 618* That's honestly the worst map in the game.
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Wow. Good point
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Well said!