THey somewhat got around this by having shotgun attachments to rifles giving you a great 1 shot approach when getting in close range. However, anything in the shot cone vanishes.
They're quite a lifesaver during. On one image, the Kalashnikov logo has also been added to the gun render itself. Press J to jump to the feed. These games don't like portraying that, which is fair enough.
Sledge's Shotgun returns, although with a bit of a stat rearrangement (it tends to have accuracy in the neighborhood of 30 instead of 0). They're there only for you to pick up and try once or twice before going back to a rifle/SMG/pistol of sorts because they work better. The Nimble Jack is a shotgun that has insanely high accuracy while in the airit's tricky, but if you're quick you can reliably get headshots from a reasonable distance away. When used. Sauceda believes a version of the Mastodon made it into someone elses game before it could ever have been part of Oceanic. 
The M-60s tend to do 20-25 damage per shot, while the M-14s or M-24s tend to do 95-100, being sniper rifles. A sniper rifle is a high damage, scoped, hitscan weapon. Remember you don't have regenerating health and tons of ammo drops for your most powerful weapons, so you have to deal with your enemies efficiently and economically. Which bugs me a lot because shotguns should be devastating weapons. This time, Kalashnikov did reply in an email seen by IGN, a Kalashnikov Intellectual Property department representative requested that the takedown orders be withdrawn, insisting that the design had been used entirely legally. The weapon infamously has a rather glitchy range that fluctuates between normal shotgun ranges and similar to the max full-damage range of the submachine guns; especially when combined with Stopping Power, this allows for one-hit-kills at ranges that any other shotgun (other than the one just below) in any other game of the series could only, Finally, the glorious Model 1887. Regardless of spread, you could just point the shotgun in the general direction of enemies and mutilate them with one shot. Elements of the handguard, receiver, and more appear to Sauceda to have been replicated on the Ultima, despite him seeing no utilitarian reason for their addition. Shotguns, which are useless in most pvp, suddenly become viable in hardcore, as their effective range is increased, and unless someone is very quick and mildly accurate with the trigger pull, you'll win hands down in CQC. Torbjorn's Rivet Gun has an alt-fire that shoots a shotgun-like scattershot blast that is best for short range. Taken to absurd extremes with the Face-Puncher, which treats every individual pellet as if it were a melee attack. You can see comparisons of the original renders with the versions allegedly sent to Kalashnikov in the gallery above. Anything farther away will rarely ever receive more than Scratch Damage, but anything inside this range will be quickly reduced to the consistency of chunky salsa. The Terrible Shotgun has the second highest damage of all Small Guns, but only if all pellets hit the target, and it has a spread on par with the Sawed-off Shotgun. Shotguns are not deathcannons. In most modern games the typical automatic weapon can be shot from the hip for devastating close range damage. At least the ones that have sights or scopes. But I already had an idea in my mind that he was definitely not going to come back. So even as a sniper you're going to be able to fight back against a shotgun user at close-medium range, while the shotgun user is left completely helpless when trying to engage you at mid-long range. 
The M1014, which actually has a decent range and fires quickly enough to offset pellet spread simply by shooting more little balls of metal at the target, but compensated with an even more ridiculously-small magazine of 4 shells, which after the same 400 kills as mentioned above can only be increased to a measly 6. If the edge you gain in close range from using a shotgun is so small (if there is one at all), it doesn't make sense to sacrifice mid-long range capability. That being said, if one has the Better Criticals perk and scores a point blank sneak attack headshot, the Terrible Shotgun can kill even a Super Mutant Behemoth in a single shot. Yes, a shotgun can kill in one shot out to 50 yards, but so can an M16, and an AK, and virtually everything else. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The Striker, a semiautomatic, drum-fed weapon with the shortest range of all "viable" shotguns that competes with the highest capacity (12 unmodified, 18 with extended mags) but also gets potentially the slowest reload of them all (since it's not a detachable box like the AA-12). Dealing 80-90 damage close up, which is enough to take down the weaker classes in 2 hits and the stronger ones in 3 (4 for the heavy). For the developer, the fact that someone saw his teams work and seemingly made it a reality is still an honour in its own way, and proof that his team is on the right track. We're just checking that this collaborations still going through as planned., We were quiet because we thought that things were going to be going good, Sauceda recalls, sadly. In addition, a shotgun's damage output in video games tends to be inversely proportional to its rate of fire. We showed them the exact renders that were rebranded, and Maxim Kuzin stated in a message between him and his artist that he sent these to the vice president. Strange example: the Stasis Weapon has a shotgun-style fire mode that sprays energy beams in a horizontal arc. Kuzin even says that the new artist could just get the existing renders and put the Kalashnikov logo on it. Not to mention that it's one of the only three guns in the game that can (and will always) have 0.00 accuracy. You can see the same thing in other old-school games; Doom, Quake, Unreal, Duke3D, so on. His ultimate ability allows him to continuously fire a rapid and wide-spread assault of pellets that has a slightly longer effective range. It also doesn't get any more accurate when aiming - in fact, the spread actually, The last is the HS-10, something of a mix between the Stakeout (the low capacity and reaching out to a maximum of sixteen meters) and the SPAS-12 (its semi-auto rate of fire and slightly longer max-damage range). When it comes to Kuzin's claims of creating the design from scratch, Sauceda remains defiant: "We've heard that they made sketches from scratch as well, but redrawing an existing design doesn't make it yours just because you have your own sketches of something you stole. And even though he didn't send it and the gun's already [been revealed] we were being quiet, hoping that things would be done properly, that it was just delayed or something like that. Within knife range, so long as every pellet connects with the target's chest or above, it's a one-hit-kill. While the final MP-155 Ultima design is not part of that chart, Sauceda sees it as proof that Kuzin was using Mastodon renders as part of his pitch to Kalashnikov. The shotgun is purely a close-ranged weapon in, The chrome shotgun in particular has a tight enough spread that it can quite easily kill at longer ranges. We've talked to their legal department. We've dropped the goal of reclaiming our property legally.. Before the nerf, people ran about wielding akimbo lever-action shotguns with incredible range (and yes, the animations for cocking the lever when used akimbo are, This game also introduced the Shotgun attachment for assault rifles, which mounts a Masterkey shotgun under the barrel in the manner of a, The starting Olympia has the longest max-damage reach, potentially instakilling someone at ten meters, but then dealing no damage if they're past fifteen. So they make the spread really bad past any range other then like 10-15 feet. Saucedas first step was to email Kuzin: I didn't want to make a scene to their legal department right away. Sauceda was sent the images subsequently made for Kalashnikov they are indeed versions of the original Mastodon renders with the Kalashnikov brand name replacing Oceanic's brand name. Post-nerf, it's instead divided between them; this only applies to. Just sent all pics to Kalashnikov vice president. And ammo is always plentiful in modern shooters, so you don't have to be economical. The player will naturally use the weapon with the least weaknesses, which is the automatic weapons, which covers mostly everything. The problem is they shoot the same bullet. Absolutely agreed. When it first appeared in. There's no game studio today that collaborated with a weapon manufacturer to make a fully operational firearm. In a series of separate messages also seen by IGN, Kuzin seemingly makes contact with another artist, linking to a post featuring the Mastodon, saying the design is soo cool, and that he wants a similar one, apparently to bring to Kalashnikov. That wasnt all he learned. And yet there was one more twist to come. Shotguns are unrealistic in modern FPS, but it's the nature of the encounters they try to craft.
The SPAS-12 returns as a semi-auto shotgun this time, firing five times as fast as the Stakeout and with twice its capacity (the highest of the shotguns in the game at 8) in return for poorer damage at any range and a lower maximum distance. I believe health regeneration is irrelevant if you allow your weapon arsenal to be balanced by letting different weapons thrive in some situations and make you vulnerable in others. Get it? Often saving you 20 or so health points as a result (as well as ammo). The more the Ward B team looked at the design, the more convinced they became that the MP-155 Ultima was based on Oceanics Mastodon. Ward B says that, while the artist had not been paid at the time of their conversation, they were on a deferred payment plan from the beginning, and have now received payment. But I've noticed even if I play to a shotgun's advantages, the reward for doing so is pretty little. Before the nerf, using any shotgun with an amp shield (adds damage to every shot as long as it is full) made them about the most powerful weapons in the game, since the full amp bonus was added to each individual pellet. in fact, it does a better job at this than most, due to the chance of hitting being multiplied by the number of pellets. I think the only thing to blame is that most modern shooters only let you carry 2 weapons, as opposed to older arena games like quake where you could collect em all. The Executioner is the most pure embodiment of this trope in the game, if not the series. The KSG is another matter entirely. "When the case goes public, theyre probably not going to buy the gun and they're going to stand for the underdog. We're looking to have them very, very scientifically explainable, CEO Marcellino Sauceda tells me. It is also usually coded and represented to do this in video games. On February 18, 2020, the team revealed its take on a futuristic shotgun, named the EPM28 Mastodon. I would argue that the shotgun that most characters have as a sidearm is pretty damn powerful in TF2 as well. The SMG is an absolute bullet hose. Inverted by the Shadowkeeper pistol from the, There are, however, two new shotguns that play this trope completely straight: the Reegar Carbine and the N7 Piranha.
This trope is largely the result of weapon balancing mechanics in shooter games, since most multiplayer shooter maps are actually just small arenas designed around player and weapon balance, and those tend to be very short-ranged compared to reality; too short for an actual shotgun's range limitations to be an issue. Perhaps unexpectedly, Sauceda doesnt fully regret what he's been through. Most of us come from AAA backgrounds. I feel in many modern shooters they're just not worth shit. Escape from Tarkov is a hardcore MMO mixture of first-person shooter / third-person shooter and role-playing gameplay. Kuzin did not provide a response when asked about these messages. We were very, very picky about this design, and it came to be for that reason. Or maybe that was just in multiplayer. He just feels that it should be Ward Bs name on that work. Check out the teaser trailer for John Wick 4, the upcoming movie starring Keanu Reeves. These can easily be used to snipe. I disagree, in BF3 it takes a full minute to recover full hp, and if you are being surpressed you'll never start recovering. In many cases, the shotgun has its own niche in a game's Tactical RockPaperScissors, outclassing all other weapons at point-blank range, but losing everywhere else. Players need to find a way out of the isolated Russian city of Tarkov, survive deadly hazards and unearth all mysteries of the city. Shotguns in video games also tend to be stupendously inaccurate, but this too is the opposite of reality; the purpose of the wider spread of a shotgun's shot is that it increases the chance of hitting the target. You still have to get it on the centre mass of the model. We thought that even though he didn't send contracts to us, we felt that, OK, maybe he'll still go by his word. This is laughably short compared to any rifle or carbine, even a tiny .22, but comparable to the effective range of a standard, non-custom semi-auto handgun or revolver (usually about 25 to 50 meters), enough to be lethally dangerous for game or whichever people happen to be in vicinity. Scatterguns, Matadors, Shredders, and Sweepers all trade relatively high damage for pathetic range. Ashe has a shotgun meant to be used when the opponent is up close. Sauceda sees this final set of messages as proof that not just Kuzin, but Kalashnikov as a whole, took and used his companys designs without credit. The contractor says that, alongside his first contact with Ward B, he had begun an independent investigation into the developer and Oceanic and, "found that the company does not have enough of its own funds to complete the development, there are no investors, [and] the release date is unknown," meaning it was too risky to work with the company.
They're quite a lifesaver during. On one image, the Kalashnikov logo has also been added to the gun render itself. Press J to jump to the feed. These games don't like portraying that, which is fair enough.
Sledge's Shotgun returns, although with a bit of a stat rearrangement (it tends to have accuracy in the neighborhood of 30 instead of 0). They're there only for you to pick up and try once or twice before going back to a rifle/SMG/pistol of sorts because they work better. The Nimble Jack is a shotgun that has insanely high accuracy while in the airit's tricky, but if you're quick you can reliably get headshots from a reasonable distance away. When used. Sauceda believes a version of the Mastodon made it into someone elses game before it could ever have been part of Oceanic. The M-60s tend to do 20-25 damage per shot, while the M-14s or M-24s tend to do 95-100, being sniper rifles. A sniper rifle is a high damage, scoped, hitscan weapon. Remember you don't have regenerating health and tons of ammo drops for your most powerful weapons, so you have to deal with your enemies efficiently and economically. Which bugs me a lot because shotguns should be devastating weapons. This time, Kalashnikov did reply in an email seen by IGN, a Kalashnikov Intellectual Property department representative requested that the takedown orders be withdrawn, insisting that the design had been used entirely legally. The weapon infamously has a rather glitchy range that fluctuates between normal shotgun ranges and similar to the max full-damage range of the submachine guns; especially when combined with Stopping Power, this allows for one-hit-kills at ranges that any other shotgun (other than the one just below) in any other game of the series could only, Finally, the glorious Model 1887. Regardless of spread, you could just point the shotgun in the general direction of enemies and mutilate them with one shot. Elements of the handguard, receiver, and more appear to Sauceda to have been replicated on the Ultima, despite him seeing no utilitarian reason for their addition. Shotguns, which are useless in most pvp, suddenly become viable in hardcore, as their effective range is increased, and unless someone is very quick and mildly accurate with the trigger pull, you'll win hands down in CQC. Torbjorn's Rivet Gun has an alt-fire that shoots a shotgun-like scattershot blast that is best for short range. Taken to absurd extremes with the Face-Puncher, which treats every individual pellet as if it were a melee attack. You can see comparisons of the original renders with the versions allegedly sent to Kalashnikov in the gallery above. Anything farther away will rarely ever receive more than Scratch Damage, but anything inside this range will be quickly reduced to the consistency of chunky salsa. The Terrible Shotgun has the second highest damage of all Small Guns, but only if all pellets hit the target, and it has a spread on par with the Sawed-off Shotgun. Shotguns are not deathcannons. In most modern games the typical automatic weapon can be shot from the hip for devastating close range damage. At least the ones that have sights or scopes. But I already had an idea in my mind that he was definitely not going to come back. So even as a sniper you're going to be able to fight back against a shotgun user at close-medium range, while the shotgun user is left completely helpless when trying to engage you at mid-long range. The M1014, which actually has a decent range and fires quickly enough to offset pellet spread simply by shooting more little balls of metal at the target, but compensated with an even more ridiculously-small magazine of 4 shells, which after the same 400 kills as mentioned above can only be increased to a measly 6. If the edge you gain in close range from using a shotgun is so small (if there is one at all), it doesn't make sense to sacrifice mid-long range capability. That being said, if one has the Better Criticals perk and scores a point blank sneak attack headshot, the Terrible Shotgun can kill even a Super Mutant Behemoth in a single shot. Yes, a shotgun can kill in one shot out to 50 yards, but so can an M16, and an AK, and virtually everything else. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The Striker, a semiautomatic, drum-fed weapon with the shortest range of all "viable" shotguns that competes with the highest capacity (12 unmodified, 18 with extended mags) but also gets potentially the slowest reload of them all (since it's not a detachable box like the AA-12). Dealing 80-90 damage close up, which is enough to take down the weaker classes in 2 hits and the stronger ones in 3 (4 for the heavy). For the developer, the fact that someone saw his teams work and seemingly made it a reality is still an honour in its own way, and proof that his team is on the right track. We're just checking that this collaborations still going through as planned., We were quiet because we thought that things were going to be going good, Sauceda recalls, sadly. In addition, a shotgun's damage output in video games tends to be inversely proportional to its rate of fire. We showed them the exact renders that were rebranded, and Maxim Kuzin stated in a message between him and his artist that he sent these to the vice president. Strange example: the Stasis Weapon has a shotgun-style fire mode that sprays energy beams in a horizontal arc. Kuzin even says that the new artist could just get the existing renders and put the Kalashnikov logo on it. Not to mention that it's one of the only three guns in the game that can (and will always) have 0.00 accuracy. You can see the same thing in other old-school games; Doom, Quake, Unreal, Duke3D, so on. His ultimate ability allows him to continuously fire a rapid and wide-spread assault of pellets that has a slightly longer effective range. It also doesn't get any more accurate when aiming - in fact, the spread actually, The last is the HS-10, something of a mix between the Stakeout (the low capacity and reaching out to a maximum of sixteen meters) and the SPAS-12 (its semi-auto rate of fire and slightly longer max-damage range). When it comes to Kuzin's claims of creating the design from scratch, Sauceda remains defiant: "We've heard that they made sketches from scratch as well, but redrawing an existing design doesn't make it yours just because you have your own sketches of something you stole. And even though he didn't send it and the gun's already [been revealed] we were being quiet, hoping that things would be done properly, that it was just delayed or something like that. Within knife range, so long as every pellet connects with the target's chest or above, it's a one-hit-kill. While the final MP-155 Ultima design is not part of that chart, Sauceda sees it as proof that Kuzin was using Mastodon renders as part of his pitch to Kalashnikov. The shotgun is purely a close-ranged weapon in, The chrome shotgun in particular has a tight enough spread that it can quite easily kill at longer ranges. We've talked to their legal department. We've dropped the goal of reclaiming our property legally.. Before the nerf, people ran about wielding akimbo lever-action shotguns with incredible range (and yes, the animations for cocking the lever when used akimbo are, This game also introduced the Shotgun attachment for assault rifles, which mounts a Masterkey shotgun under the barrel in the manner of a, The starting Olympia has the longest max-damage reach, potentially instakilling someone at ten meters, but then dealing no damage if they're past fifteen. So they make the spread really bad past any range other then like 10-15 feet. Saucedas first step was to email Kuzin: I didn't want to make a scene to their legal department right away. Sauceda was sent the images subsequently made for Kalashnikov they are indeed versions of the original Mastodon renders with the Kalashnikov brand name replacing Oceanic's brand name. Post-nerf, it's instead divided between them; this only applies to. Just sent all pics to Kalashnikov vice president. And ammo is always plentiful in modern shooters, so you don't have to be economical. The player will naturally use the weapon with the least weaknesses, which is the automatic weapons, which covers mostly everything. The problem is they shoot the same bullet. Absolutely agreed. When it first appeared in. There's no game studio today that collaborated with a weapon manufacturer to make a fully operational firearm. In a series of separate messages also seen by IGN, Kuzin seemingly makes contact with another artist, linking to a post featuring the Mastodon, saying the design is soo cool, and that he wants a similar one, apparently to bring to Kalashnikov. That wasnt all he learned. And yet there was one more twist to come. Shotguns are unrealistic in modern FPS, but it's the nature of the encounters they try to craft. The SPAS-12 returns as a semi-auto shotgun this time, firing five times as fast as the Stakeout and with twice its capacity (the highest of the shotguns in the game at 8) in return for poorer damage at any range and a lower maximum distance. I believe health regeneration is irrelevant if you allow your weapon arsenal to be balanced by letting different weapons thrive in some situations and make you vulnerable in others. Get it? Often saving you 20 or so health points as a result (as well as ammo). The more the Ward B team looked at the design, the more convinced they became that the MP-155 Ultima was based on Oceanics Mastodon. Ward B says that, while the artist had not been paid at the time of their conversation, they were on a deferred payment plan from the beginning, and have now received payment. But I've noticed even if I play to a shotgun's advantages, the reward for doing so is pretty little. Before the nerf, using any shotgun with an amp shield (adds damage to every shot as long as it is full) made them about the most powerful weapons in the game, since the full amp bonus was added to each individual pellet. in fact, it does a better job at this than most, due to the chance of hitting being multiplied by the number of pellets. I think the only thing to blame is that most modern shooters only let you carry 2 weapons, as opposed to older arena games like quake where you could collect em all. The Executioner is the most pure embodiment of this trope in the game, if not the series. The KSG is another matter entirely. "When the case goes public, theyre probably not going to buy the gun and they're going to stand for the underdog. We're looking to have them very, very scientifically explainable, CEO Marcellino Sauceda tells me. It is also usually coded and represented to do this in video games. On February 18, 2020, the team revealed its take on a futuristic shotgun, named the EPM28 Mastodon. I would argue that the shotgun that most characters have as a sidearm is pretty damn powerful in TF2 as well. The SMG is an absolute bullet hose. Inverted by the Shadowkeeper pistol from the, There are, however, two new shotguns that play this trope completely straight: the Reegar Carbine and the N7 Piranha.
This trope is largely the result of weapon balancing mechanics in shooter games, since most multiplayer shooter maps are actually just small arenas designed around player and weapon balance, and those tend to be very short-ranged compared to reality; too short for an actual shotgun's range limitations to be an issue. Perhaps unexpectedly, Sauceda doesnt fully regret what he's been through. Most of us come from AAA backgrounds. I feel in many modern shooters they're just not worth shit. Escape from Tarkov is a hardcore MMO mixture of first-person shooter / third-person shooter and role-playing gameplay. Kuzin did not provide a response when asked about these messages. We were very, very picky about this design, and it came to be for that reason. Or maybe that was just in multiplayer. He just feels that it should be Ward Bs name on that work. Check out the teaser trailer for John Wick 4, the upcoming movie starring Keanu Reeves. These can easily be used to snipe. I disagree, in BF3 it takes a full minute to recover full hp, and if you are being surpressed you'll never start recovering. In many cases, the shotgun has its own niche in a game's Tactical RockPaperScissors, outclassing all other weapons at point-blank range, but losing everywhere else. Players need to find a way out of the isolated Russian city of Tarkov, survive deadly hazards and unearth all mysteries of the city. Shotguns in video games also tend to be stupendously inaccurate, but this too is the opposite of reality; the purpose of the wider spread of a shotgun's shot is that it increases the chance of hitting the target. You still have to get it on the centre mass of the model. We thought that even though he didn't send contracts to us, we felt that, OK, maybe he'll still go by his word. This is laughably short compared to any rifle or carbine, even a tiny .22, but comparable to the effective range of a standard, non-custom semi-auto handgun or revolver (usually about 25 to 50 meters), enough to be lethally dangerous for game or whichever people happen to be in vicinity. Scatterguns, Matadors, Shredders, and Sweepers all trade relatively high damage for pathetic range. Ashe has a shotgun meant to be used when the opponent is up close. Sauceda sees this final set of messages as proof that not just Kuzin, but Kalashnikov as a whole, took and used his companys designs without credit. The contractor says that, alongside his first contact with Ward B, he had begun an independent investigation into the developer and Oceanic and, "found that the company does not have enough of its own funds to complete the development, there are no investors, [and] the release date is unknown," meaning it was too risky to work with the company.