Shotgun Combat in Games

[Arvaos]

Which games have your favourite shotgun combat gameplay?

[The Commendatore]

Doom Eternal.

[vkobe]

zombie game mostly

in resident evil 4 shootgun is great same with left4dead

[Ulfrinn]

Shotgun combat in games is always pretty terrible and follows what someone who never fired a shotgun before pictures them to function like. Ineffective after 10 get? Yeah right

[joco]

Quail hunting in the High Desert has always been my favorite.

[salamander]

- sawed off shotgun from "blood"
- assault shotgun resident evil 1 remake
- vk-12 combat shotgun from FEAR

[$2 Hero]

Stalker

[HermitTheToad]

Halo Reach.

[Ocelote.12]

Doom 2. I like killing pink demons with a double-barreled shotgun.

It's good. One shot -- one kill.

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Deathmatch with double shotgun in Doom 2 is good too. Real human players are much faster than those pink demons I mentioned above. Also more unpredictable.

[Doctor Go-Go]

How quickly a shot load spreads is determined by the barrel length, the choke against the wadding and the weight of the shot load. Fast and light is tight while slow and heavy is loose.

A shotgun of the correct configuration loaded with the correct load of shot does have great effective range for what it is. The REAL negative with a shotgun is the risk collateral damage, because once it travels about 25 to 50 yards the pattern is about six to eight inches wide, that is with the correct load.

In combat you WANT that collateral damage.. The guys with the shotguns stay low and WAIT until their opposition is close then just scatter the shot in their general direction. It's a technique, a SPECIAL weapon for SPECIAL Tactics. Which why they refer to it as a TACTICAL shotgun.

How many engagements would be more than 25 yards? That implies typical cover masking approach which is why shotguns are still used for light duty and general patrol. Or demolitions and breaching.

[Triple G]

Rage 2

[Sixtyfivekills]

I don't know what my favorite would be, but Shank had a fun shotgun. Firing it from a stand still sucked since he had to reload each shot, but firing when jumping and moving forward felt satisfying.


Lady in DMC4 had a straight up busted shotgun, the damage of a fully charged blast had a feedback so satisfying I can't think of anything coming close to it. Also being able to nunchuck while firing at rapid speeds is always good.

[Xero_Daxter]

Black Ops 2. When you’re rocking with the 870 Rem you know *beep* is gonna go down.

[Haiku's Knife]

Really always liked the Halo shotgun. It's sooooo satisfying to bulltrue someone lunging at you with a sword with one.

I also gotta say the shotgun play in Insurgency Sandstorm. I run suppressed shotguns for CQB a lot and it's fun just hip firing people into the afterlife and then killing the rest of their squad on a flank because nobody heard it.

[Flameheart]

wow