Shotgun

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The Shotgun is the default primary weapon for the Engineer and the default secondary weapon for the Soldier, Pyro, and Heavy. It is a pump action-style sawed-off shotgun.

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 over distance. Usage and strategies will vary between classes.

As the Engineer's most powerful weapon, players will use it primarily for defending buildings from nearby attackers, checking suspicious players, or for helping a low-level Sentry Gun finish off an enemy. Pyros may use their Shotgun to engage targets outside the range of their Flamethrower or when underwater. Soldiers will often rely on the Shotgun if they are out of rockets, cannot take the time to reload, and for closed spaces where explosions would cause self-damage. On the other hand, Heavies will employ the Shotgun where there is no time to use the Minigun effectively, or when mobility while firing is most crucial.

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.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage
Damage and function times
Shot type Hitscan
Damage
Maximum ramp-up 150% 9 / pellet
Base damage 100% 6 / pellet
Maximum fall-off 52.8% 3 / pellet
Pellet count 10
Point blank 86-90
Medium range 24-67
Long range 3-26
Critical 18 / pellet
Mini-crit 8.1 / pellet
Function times
Attack interval 0.625 s
Reload (first) 1.0 s
Reload (consecutive) 0.5 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Demonstration

Related achievements

Leaderboard class soldier.png Soldier

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


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.
Worth a Thousand Words
 Worth a Thousand Words
Provide the enemy with a freezecam of your 21 gun salute.

Leaderboard class pyro.png 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.

Leaderboard class heavy.png Heavy

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

Leaderboard class engineer.png Engineer

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

Update history

June 19, 2008 Patch (Pyro Update)
  • Pyro's Hadouken taunt now kills people it hits.

August 31, 2009 Patch

  • Fixed Pyro's Hadouken killing Scouts that have used Bonk! and are phasing.

December 17, 2009 Patch (WAR! Update)

  • Soldier's Shotgun taunt changed to 3 Volley Salute (previously was the Buff Banner's juggling taunt).

July 8, 2010 Patch (Engineer Update)

  • [Undocumented] Introduced a unique switching animation for the Engineer's Shotgun and Frontier Justice. Previously he used the same switching animation for the Pyro, Heavy and Soldier.

July 9, 2010 Patch

  • Fixed Engineer Shotgun and Pistol not using team skins for the Engineer's arms.

September 30, 2010 Patch (The Mann-Conomy Update)

  • Every class's Shotgun now reloads at the same speed.

October 6, 2010 Patch

  • Fixed being unable to equip customized shotguns on some classes.

November 19, 2010 Patch

  • Fixed the Shotgun reload animations for the Soldier/Pyro/Heavy looping endlessly.

January 7, 2011 Patch

February 14, 2011 Patch

  • [Undocumented] Nametagged Shotguns now properly use c_model technology.
  • [Undocumented] Fixed Engineer's first-person arms using the wrong bodygroup when having a renamed Shotgun equipped with the Gunslinger.

June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)

  • Added Strange Quality.

Bugs

  • When pumped, shells are ejected from the right of the Shotgun as opposed to the ejection port on the left. Additionally, shells appear to be ejected the wrong way, with the tube facing the firing pin instead of the primer. Not only that, but the Shotgun, along with the Pistol and the Frontier Justice both appear incorrectly mirrored, in that the ejection port is on the left of the weapon, even though it should be on the right. Whether or not this is intentional is uncertain.
  • After reloading with the Soldier's or the Heavy's Shotgun, the pump afterwards does not emit a sound.
  • When the Pyro reloads the Shotgun, no shells are actually loaded into the gun. Additionally, the last shell will be reloaded twice with a sound and animation error.
  • When the Heavy reloads the Shotgun, the last shell stutters and disappears.
  • While reloading, it is possible to force the reload animation to loop endlessly by holding both the primary and alt-fire buttons after reloading at least one shell. This can be similarly performed with the Frontier Justice, Family Business and Reserve Shooter.

Trivia

  • In-game files indicate that there exist separate Shotguns for each class that can equip it. Renaming a stock Shotgun with a Name Tag will still allow the renamed version to be used and shared by all aforementioned classes.
  • The Shotgun appears to be a Ithaca M37 Shotgun with a sawed-off barrel and an altered stock. An American-made firearm, this shotgun was used during World War II and the Vietnam War.

Gallery

  • Soldier RED first-person view.

  • Soldier BLU first-person view.

  • Pyro first-person view.

  • Heavy first-person view.

  • Engineer first-person view.

  • Engineer first-person view with the Gunslinger equipped.

  • Shotgun concept art

  • Shotgun concept art

  • Shotgun concept art

References


See also



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