Shotgun

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Son, I'm gonna blow that dumb look right off your stupid face.
The Engineer on disciplinary action

The Shotgun is the primary weapon for the Engineer, and the secondary weapon for the Soldier, Pyro, and Heavy. It is a pump action style Shotgun with a small stock.

The weapon fires 10 pellets at a time every 0.6 seconds, and can deliver high damage at close range but has a high damage falloff, suitable for close range skirmishes. Usage and strategies will vary between the class owners.

As the Engineer's most powerful weapon, players will use it primarily for defending his buildings from nearby attackers, or for helping a low-leveled Sentry Gun finish off a kill. Pyros may use the Shotgun for engaging targets unreachable via the Flamethrower. Soldier players will often rely on the Shotgun if out of rockets, and possibly for closed spaces where explosions would cause self-damage. On the other hand, users of the Heavy will employ the Shotgun to take down an enemy if he doesn't have the time to rev up his own Minigun.

Like the Scattergun, Shortstop, and the Force-A-Nature, the Shotgun's first shell will fire at least one pellet straight down the crosshair before 'bullet spread' takes effect. When random spread is disabled the pellets will land forming a three by three grid pattern.

Renaming a Shotgun with a name tag allows the renamed version to be used and shared by the Soldier, the Pyro and the Heavy.

Damage

See also: Damage
  • Base: 6 per pellet
  • Max Ramp Up: 150% (9 damage per pellet)
  • Max Fall Off: 50% (3 damage per pellet)
  • Pellet Count: 10
  • Point Blank: 80-90
    • DPS (damage per second): 133-150
  • Medium Range: 10-30
    • DPS (damage per second): 17-50
  • Long Range: 3-10
    • DPS (damage per second): 5-17
  • Mini-Crit: 8.1 per pellet
  • Critical hit: 18 per pellet

Medium range is defined as the length from the main resupply door to the opposite wall on the upper level of 2Fort. Long range is defined as the length from battlement to battlement on 2Fort. Base damage is the damage done at 512 units before damage variance or bullet spread. Ramp up maxes out at 0 units. Fall off maxes out at 1024 units. Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

  • Attack Interval: 0.625
  • Reload Base: 1.0
  • Additional Reload: 0.5

Reload base is the time it takes to reload the first shell. Additional reload is the time it takes to reload each shell after the first. All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.

Related Achievements

Soldier

Bomb Squaddie
Bomb Squaddie
Destroy 10 sticky bombs with the shotgun in a single life.


Worth a Thousand Words
Worth a Thousand Words
Provide the enemy with a freezecam of your 21 gun salute.
For Whom the Shell Trolls
For Whom the Shell Trolls
Bounce an opponent into the air with a rocket and then kill them with the shotgun before they land.

Pyro

Combined Fire
Combined Fire
Use your shotgun to finish off 20 players you've ignited.


Freezer Burn
Freezer Burn
Provide enemies with freezecam shots of each of your taunts.
OMGWTFBBQ
OMGWTFBBQ
Kill an enemy with a taunt.

Heavy

Rationing
Rationing
Kill an enemy with your shotgun while you're out of minigun ammo.

Engineer

Texas Two-Step
Texas Two-Step
Use your shotgun to finish off an enemy recently damaged by your sentry gun.

Recent Changes

  • After the WAR! Update, the Soldier's Shotgun taunt changed. Before, the Soldier would juggle explosives (this is now the Buff Banner's taunt). Now, he does a 21 Gun Salute, with a portion of Taps playing in the background.

Trivia

  • The Shotgun appears to be based heavily off of the Remington 870 and the Ithaca 37. (YouTube video of the Remington 870.)
  • Before the Mann-Conomy update, Shotguns used by different classes used different reload speeds. (Engineer and the Heavy reloaded their Shotguns the fastest whilst the Pyro reloaded the slowest)
  • After the Mann-Conomy update, every class used the fastest reload speed.
    • A Renamed Shotgun uses the old reload speeds.

Gallery

See also