Shotgun slugs doing 9mm damage

[Snu]

anyone else notice that slug shotguns are basically just 5-round glocks with a 10 second reload time?

[Spectre]

NPCs tank 30 slugs before dying?

[Kashra Fall]

Picked up a slug shotgun yesterday. Put two in his chest, ducked behind cover to ensure I didn't get hit, he died of bleeding a moment later. This was at around 30m. He got me in the leg, I got two in his chest.

I have put a LOT of slugs into thugs at way higher ranges though and have no idea how many hit lol.

[Vanta]

Slugs are completely useless, even on enemies without armor.

Something with their ballistics model is bugged

[Snu]

Originally posted by Spectre:

NPCs tank 30 slugs before dying?

yes

[Maskov]

Yeap, its kind of useless for now. AKM performs better at close range compare to the shotgun for now

[Xanthos]

Originally posted by Snu:

anyone else notice that slug shotguns are basically just 5-round glocks with a 10 second reload time?

I shot an NPC without a helmet point blank in the face with a slug and he didn't even flinch. 10/10 for realism.

Low IQ devs never used a shotgun before... if you hit something with a slug, that thing you hit no longer exists.

[E4GLEyE]

Picked up a shotgun with slugs and was happy as a pig in sh@t, then shot the first NPCs with it and yeaaaahhh disappointing to say the least. As far as I know slugs should be pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ devastating specially if someone is running around without body armor.

[Xanthos]

Originally posted by E4GLEyE:

Picked up a shotgun with slugs and was happy as a pig in sh@t, then shot the first NPCs with it and yeaaaahhh disappointing to say the least. As far as I know slugs should be pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ devastating specially if someone is running around without body armor.

Even with body armor, there is so much power in a slug it'll rip a fist sized hole in just about anything.

[Copenhagen]

Originally posted by Xanthos:

Originally posted by Snu:

anyone else notice that slug shotguns are basically just 5-round glocks with a 10 second reload time?

I shot an NPC without a helmet point blank in the face with a slug and he didn't even flinch. 10/10 for realism.

Low IQ devs never used a shotgun before... if you hit something with a slug, that thing you hit no longer exists.

Low IQ comment. It’s a bug

[Squire Zed]

I think the problem is a combination of ballistics modelling and hit detection. It feels like slugs are very inaccurate, from what I've seen, meaning that shots that *look* like hits are actually not hits, and even some of the shots that *should* hit don't because things can be a bit unreliable when servers are chugging or just because screw you that's why. But I definitely feel like there is something uniquely wrong with slugs.

[Cross]

Originally posted by Xanthos:

Originally posted by E4GLEyE:

Picked up a shotgun with slugs and was happy as a pig in sh@t, then shot the first NPCs with it and yeaaaahhh disappointing to say the least. As far as I know slugs should be pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ devastating specially if someone is running around without body armor.

Even with body armor, there is so much power in a slug it'll rip a fist sized hole in just about anything.

yeah ballistics is a bit bugged in the game at the moment, devs know about it, working on it... but IIIa soft armor will actually stop most shotgun slugs, even steel slugs. It will absolutely break your sternum or ribs depending on placement though.