The shotgun is completely useless at long range. The scatter is completely useless at long range. The sword is completely useless at long range. The hammer is completely useless at long range. The boltshot is completely useless at long range. Scatter, Bolt, sword, shotgun, hammer, 1-hit at close range. You can only start with the boltshot. It is a shotgun! Of course it has weaknesses you idiot! I get in their face because I have an assault rifle / storm rifle / supressor/ pistol / any other CQB weapon. I get in their face to mele them! " Just use promethean vision and nothing else DERP!" You idiot, whats the point of the other armor abilities then? If I always have to use Prom. vision because of the threat of a boltshot? "But but....... IT has a Charge up!" A very fast charge up yes. "Well your just bad then!" All of those boltshot spammers are bad and dumb if they think it is balanced. And FYI the thing has a larger range than the other shotguns. " Well the other loadouts have larger range! Just stay away JEEEEZZZZZ" Yep, i'll stay away when I have an AR, "But the AR is so nooby! Any good player shouldn't have one!" Any good player shouldn't have the boltshot either, and the " stay at long range" smart (BLEEP) remarks are so dumb. There are numerous amount of corners in Halo. A large portion of Halo in 1v1 combat is getting in the guys face. When you see the radar you don't know if he has a boltshot. The boltshot is Op because of the element it brings to the game. It is like in MW2 when people camped with shot-guns. You couldn't help but be killed by those guys. The only way the boltshot could be balanced in its current state is if all of the maps were just an open field. Who wants to play on an open map all day long? Also, who wants to only use Promethean vision when there are plenty of other cool armor abilities in the game. Also, don't cry when this gun gets nerfed. Its better for us and for you to not be able to spam the thing all game long!