I believe the shotguns damages are way too inconsistent compared to many other shooter games I have played so far.I have faced so many situations where I was extremely close to an enemy and shot him with a peacekeeper and I would only to like 10 - 30 damage and also other situations where it would to more than 70. Not to mention sometimes an enemy is mid range from you and I could hit around 60 - 80 easily (no attachments).I have also been quickly taken down with a purple or gold armor by an enemy using the eva auto from long range - around 6 shots. There some clips of streamers commenting about how inconsistent the damages are, regarding the shotguns only.An example that happened to me this morning while palying with my friends, my team and I were in fight against another team, both of my friends were dead and I downed one of the enemies' buddy, I ran to heal myself and I heard one of them was ressurecting the guy I downed, I was just behind him, he didnt see me at all and I shot him with the peacekeeper like 4 meters away from me and it dealt 10 of damage only, not even my friends couldnt believe what happened. We were all like "how didnt that close range shotgun shot not kill him?" "how did it do only 10"Has anyone else realized this or am I am just crazy?

It's not the shotguns themselves that make you do 10 damage, it's the hitbox issues that make you do 10 damage. Go to the tutorial, grab a shotgun and you'll see how consitent the damage is but with some legends having very tiny hitboxes (Wraith, Lifeline) you don't get as much contact as you do with others so you do less damage.

The peacekeeper even without the choke proves this statement false.

The dog from every gun is massively inconsistent.

Shotguns are close quarters weapons.Hitting a target on long range will decrease the damage.A shotgun shell fires multiple pellets towards your target. The further away it is, the farther the pallets spread away from each other, the smaller the impact it will have on your target.So if anything this game is more accurate than any.In call of duty you can get shotgun kills by firing from across the map which is highly unrealistic.

I have noticed the same. I shot a person with a mastiff at point blank (weapon was touching the enemy player) and only did 60 damage. With peacekeeper, I sometimes get multiple damage numbers, other times just 10 damage at close range and when aimed at the middle of the body of the enemy. It seems to only be with shotguns though, so there's something wrong with them.Now I see some people saying this is because it's a close quarters weapon, yet I see multiple damage numbers when I shoot at what I no longer consider close quarters. Suffice to say, I avoid using shotguns.

The damages from the shotguns are inconsistent

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DarthValtrex
Hero (Retired)
6 years ago
@MartenPhilipI’ve been right on top of players with the PK and it still only registers 37-68 damage. The best consistency I’ve had with it is in the 60’s, with rare exceptions of the gun doing 80-100 damage. The majority of the time the gun is doing 37 or less damage.

Assuming 60-70 damage is average. If you’re in close combat against an R-99, prowler, R-301 or flatline you’re going to get dropped first. There is no way you’ll fire off 4 shots from a PK vs any of those guns if they can land their shots.
the gun is really only viable in a peak and shoot situation..
spent10konadog
6 years ago
no, the peacekeeper still sometimes doesnt hit when standing infront of enemies , even caustic. this is a server problem and theyve had this since launch
spent10konadog
6 years ago
ironic, ive hit thousands peacekeeper shots at least over 100 meter with a moving target and done 10-150 damage. then again in close fights did 0 damage sometimes- server netcode is fu***d -thats its. thats why noone has that problem in cod, cuz they have decent servers now
spent10konadog
6 years ago
ok, live in your bubble budy, this issue has been around forever.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/bdeiu6/peacekeeper_point_blank_shot_didnt_register_fix/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/avq1fs/please_try_to_explain_how_this_peacekeeper_shot/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/awiu9f/why_is_nobody_talking_about_this_games_hit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/b47m88/anyone_else_been_having_a_lot_of_issues_with/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/atetw4/any_one_else_having_terrible_damage_with_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/atetw4/any_one_else_having_terrible_damage_with_the/
TASLABOI
5 years ago
@MartenPhilip except they are not weapons for 2-3m away realistically they can shoot further and do the same. but thats not the point, the point is that even when youre in melee and entire crosshair is on the enemy it sometimes does 7-10 dmg and sometimes 70-100 without reason
TASLABOI
5 years ago
even with the peacekeaper.. i had games where it did 7 dmg from closer than when i did 90 dmg
KelRiever
5 years ago
Honestly I'd go for EVA now. You're going to fire faster and do a lot of damage, and it's more consistent than any of the other shotguns except mozzy which is weaker.

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