Um, just for the record...I can rack up over 100 kills in a little under 30 minutes with the shotgun on Stalingrad.

You sure as hell can't do that with the rocket launcher due to the long reloading and x amount of times you blow yourselves up when someone gets close to you and you are dumb enough to think you can blow him up without killing yourself.

Snipers ain't gonna be able to do this either unless they move around frequently and enemies stay in opened areas (which is usually never the case with most machine gunners and shotgun whores). Pistol really isn't gonna cut it here.

If you're really skilled with the M1 Garand you can rack up points quickly since you have the advantage of having a weapon that is effective in both close and open quarters, but usually you will get sniped if you focus too much on open combat, and machiner gunners and shotgun whores usually dominate against you unless you make very accurate shots with the Garand...and quickly.

As for the 4 machine guns...yea, they are pretty decent on Stalingrad though none have the quick killing power of the shotgun in close combat unless the player runs blindly into your bullets (or you sneak up on them), and rarely do you get a long distance kill with them unless the enemy is either weak, inaccurate, and not using any type of rifle nor rocket launcher.

Honestly, I just can't see anyone possessing the ability to achieve the same kills:time ratio with these other weapons (on Stalingrad), due to the close quarter situations that dominate the map. The shotgun is by far the most well suited instrument for Stalingrad.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is anything that can be done but join the fray. Many people including myself have looked through the console commands, and there just doesn't seem to be any setting to prevent the usage of particular weapons.


Ah well. Shotgun orgy it is...