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Son, I'm gonna blow that dumb look right off your stupid face.
— The Engineer on Disciplinary Action
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The Shotgun is the primary weapon for the Engineer, and the secondary weapon for the Soldier, Pyro, and Heavy. It is listed in the loadout menu for all of them as a Level 1 Shotgun. It fires fairly rapidly, 10 pellets per 1 ammo, every 0.6 seconds, and can deliver high damage at close range but has a high damage falloff. As the Engineer's most powerful weapon, he uses it primarily for defending his Dispenser or Teleporter and for engaging an enemy attempting to exploit a weakness in his Sentry gun. The Pyro uses his Shotgun for engaging targets unreachable by his Flamethrower while the Soldier may rely on the Shotgun if he's out of rockets, needs a weapon that won't cause damage to himself (as rockets do) or if rockets simply won't work in a specific situation. On the other hand, the Heavy may use the Shotgun to take down an enemy if he doesn't have the time to rev up his own Minigun. For more information on Shotgun tactics, see the Shotgun strategy links at the bottom of the page. Like the Scattergun 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.
Taunting with your Shotgun equipped as a Pyro will activate the special Hadouken taunt attack.
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 main resupply door to the opposite wall on the upper level of ctf_2fort. Long range is defined as battlement to battlement on ctf_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 ammo. Additional reload is the time it takes to reload each ammo after the first. All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.
Trivia
- Unlike other classes, the Pyro pumps the Shotgun after switching to it, which also serves as a visual indicator of the one second delay before you are able to fire.
- The Heavy holds the Shotgun in a different position than the other classes, presumably due to his large hands (he holds the grip in between his index finger and thumb).
- The Shotgun has Developer weapon variants.
- The Shotgun appears to be based heavily off of the Remington 870 and the Ithaca 37. It may also be based off of the "Savage-Springfield 67H"
- 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 inspiring music playing in the background. When it is used, the Shotgun appears to fire, but does not use ammo, hurt enemies, nor has a muzzleflash.
- The Shotgun, the Saxxy, the Pistol, the Pain Train, the Frying Pan, the Lugermorph, and the Half-Zatoichi are the only weapons in the game to be used by more than one class.
- The Engineer obtained his Shotgun from the sentry kit he designed in collaboration with TF Industries. The Soldier probably obtained his Shotgun during World War II and was one of the many weapons he learned to load and fire by himself. It is unknown where the Heavy and Pyro got their shotguns, although because of both of their love for weapons, it is possible they acquired them independently or simply bought one from TF Industries.
- Although it cannot physically be seen by the player in-game, use of the Source SDK model viewer reveals that the Engineer taps the pump of his Shotgun whilst it is not in use.
- A server console command can be used to disable random bullet spread for the Shotgun, along with other pellet weapons like the Scattergun. When activated, any shots with these weapons will fire their 9 pellets in a perfect 3x3 square.
- Renaming the Shotgun with a Name tag will allow the named Shotgun to be used by Heavy, Soldier, Engineer and Pyro.
- If you rename your shotgun with a name tag or give a description with the Description tag the shotgun will go back to its original model before they were updated. Therefore, the Engineer's shotgun will cause the Gunslinger to look like a rubber glove.
- The shotgun ejects the shell casings backwards, with the primer facing the end of the barrel.
- The shotgun is the most inter-class shared firearm
See also
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The Engineer  |
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