Shotguns?

[Traveler]

Are shotguns viable long term?

Really early in the game shotguns were great. But now I'm at Denver and everything has so much armor that they they're only doing small amounts of damage. Even point blank pretty much every other gun I have is much more effective. Yes I know different build will be different but my small guns gal just isn't cutting it with a shotgun.

[Kotalyst]

S-tier weapon from 5-6 level to end. Put 8 points to Small Guns ang get Devastation perk, and u will be one man army.

[Commander Gorda]

They are very good late game, the thing You want is the perk you get at lvl 8 small arms for increased damage the more enemies You hit and then You modify the weapon with longer range and Wider cone to hit many targets. You can also use the shredder shot to apply bleed to several targets with increased damage if You damaged their armor.

[snuggleform]

They're utterly ridiculously overpowered with devastation perk, then extend the range and widen the cone mods. Devastation perk is bugged and counts cover as extra targets...

[droggen]

You can also mod them to have different damage effects I made my self an energy shotgun and toasted robots and heavy armored enemies.

[Stanley]

Pancor jackhammer
+20 angle spread
+6 m range
Shoots 3 times per shot for about 100-130 per bullet

[Eonwe]

They're ridiculously overpowered for the last tier of the game. Pretty much a "I WIN" button on their own.

[nbeniou]

They are ridiculously overpowered for the while game. My shotgun guy wipes out whole packs in one turn.

[GeneralGonzo]

Who needs shotgun if you can start combat and blow half enemy team with a rocket, kill 2 more with 1 sniper and 12 AP and the rest goes down by your blade melee with a chainsaw....

[sycoman2]

Originally posted by GeneralGonzo:

Who needs shotgun if you can start combat and blow half enemy team with a rocket, kill 2 more with 1 sniper and 12 AP and the rest goes down by your blade melee with a chainsaw....

Because your shotgun guy could literally kill the entire group by himself, unless they are ridiculously spread out.

[[JdG] Pejman]

My shotgun guy (girl actually, its lucia) can clean enemies way better than rocker launcher, with a couple mod the AOE of shotgun can really get retarded

20+ range shotgun for the win !!

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