Shotguns: What are the Selling Points?

[sleava]

   After running through a few of skier's shotgun quests, I am really starting to wonder: do shotguns in this game have any redeeming qualities? I am trying to see what the selling points are.

"Hey kids, do you want to be limited to a range of less than 8 meters and still miss most your shots? Do you want to be outgunned in literally every circumstance? Do you want a laughably low rate of fire and hilariously low ammo capacity? Do you want to spend a ludicrous amount of time reloading in a firefight which will often times paralyze you? Do you want to be foiled by the worst armor in the game, and still need up to 4 shots with expensive ammo to kill unarmored scavs? 

IF SO, THEN SHOTGUNS ARE FOR YOU!"

These quests are quite literally bankrupting me, so if there are any selling points, I would really like to know what they are XD

[axel2011]

Well in my opinion shotguns are reasonably priced. Killing wise ? - leg meta , shhhhhh. on completing quests i would advise to play factory.(im always using usual shells , not expensive RIP ammo)

Best of luck 

[Seaborg]

The 12 gauge RIP rounds, in my experience at least, are bonkers. Even against armored players if you hit em in the legs. If they’re unarmored it will usually 1-tap em inside any reasonable range. If you’re trying to snipe people with shotguns, first of all you’re doing it wrong, but second the slug can kill people at some pretty ridiculous ranges if you can land a head shot. Shotguns in general though are definitely a lower tier option once you get farther into a wipe cycle like this. It’s also that way in real life lol. You don’t usually see SEAL’s running around with shotguns. If anything they use them to breach and clear a room. They have a place, just not in open fields like woods or shoreline. Also I always buy the extended mags if I’m gonna run shotty’s especially if there’s a 4 round mag in it. If you like close range options try out the MP7. The thing’s a freaking laser beam and can even penetrate armor with the right ammo

[BanditMaka]

Easily obtained, cheap ammo. Low skill required to make work. Leg meta lives.

[Paxcon]

Even though its outclassed by many other guns i still like to wreck havoc with m153 choke and rip rounds. You can almost see the flesh flying off their legs. 

[Hamm]

its sad that people encourage people to aim at the legs lmao.

[AdhesiveTeflon]

They're pretty trollistic.  If you happen to get a shell of buckshot or slug at a guy before he kills you then it's almost guaranteed that you pissed them off after blacking their legs and now they have to limp to an extract.  A normal slug will kill an unarmored person (maybe up to a paca?) with one shot to the chest so they're fun to use in factory or as a screwing-around gun.

[Paxcon]

13 hours ago, Hamm said:

its sad that people encourage people to aim at the legs lmao.

You can tell that to the numerous thic boys i killed by blasting away their legs. 

[headbanger203]

14 hours ago, Hamm said:

its sad that people encourage people to aim at the legs lmao.

Well it's either that or you hope players are stupid enough to stand still and let you dump 8+ shells into their face/chest and they don't have good armor.

NoFoodAfterMidnight made a handy table for ammo types and the damage, so yeah head or legs, legs are the easier target. (Goes double seeing as people are almost exclusively running level 4+ armor)