Curious if anyone would be open to a new slug shotgun, along the lines of the KSG from the CoD series? I know the PK is kinda sorta like this, when charged. I'm talking about a shotgun that only shoots slugs though, with higher range than the others. Not a sniper-shotty with the ridiculous range of the old KSG, but something with more reach than the current buck shot, and maybe a slower fire rate. Or it could be fairly powerful, but have a single-shot mag. Any takers?
@RockDokRock wrote:Wouldn't "slugs" be just a different type fo shotgun ammo to pick up? You wouldn't need a new gun for that surely.
In the most realistic sense, yes. My Mossberg 500 with the field barrel can run both slugs and shot, and has a choke I can swap out (Improved Cylinder or Modified, both allows slugs but I get better groupings with the IC choke).
However, I own 3 barrels for that same gun. The field barrel, as mentioned (aka a "general sporting use" barrel), a "Security Barrel" (18.5 inches as opposed to 26, no choke at all, though back in the 80's when I hunted with my Grandpa they called those "brush barrels" which just goes to show how "tacti-cool" has taken over gun marketing), and a dedicated "slug barrel" with rifling and a scope mount.
My best 50 yard grouping with slugs and the field barrel with IC choke is 4-1/8 inches, within 1-2/8 of the center.
My best 50 yard grouping with slugs and the slug barrel is 2-7/8 inches, within 3/4 inches of center.
So, while it would be simple to just add slug ammo and allow people to swap between slug and shot, realistically, one dedicated slug gun would not be unheard of. Though having an animation where you change the barrel with the ammo type on one could be cool as heck.
@hayhor-- Indeed. While I can go a good 50 yard grouping, regardless of what the boxes claim, I have a hard time even getting foster slugs on paper at 100 yards, which is easy for the game (and real world) 30-30. You can do it with Sabot slugs, but I am not paying the prices of them NOW when pre-pandemic they were $3.50 a shot.
@ZkepzYou're absolutely right. The current shotguns work perfectly fine. I don't want a slug shotgun because the current ones are bad, I have just always loved the feel of dropping some poor morsel with a nice heavy slug. I've enjoyed them in multiple games over the years, aside from the fact that they are usually a bit too powerful and/or straight up broken, haha. It would hopefully be more balanced on here, than in past games
Well I would perhaps accept it as a silly shotgun care package thing, to sitestep the kraber kinda with only a few bullets, still I am scared for what it would be at the end game, as realisticly speaking it is just as fast to reload a normal shotty as a slug shotty but with some creative rule could be balanced around silly reload so you cant just smoke a team in endgame with it hehe.
Still I have this dual flavor and aftertaste when thinking about it, it can become just another shotty or it can break something hehe.
