Shotguns and Crush Guns

## Description

Shotguns are ranged weapons intended for close combat, they can hit multiple targets at once and will deal increased damage if fired at point-blank range. Due to the shotgun's spread even if the target manages to dodge the attack they will still take at least 50% of the damage.

Shotguns usually deal more damage than most non-energy ranged weapons and are efficient weapons against enemies with low or medium defense, and they are quite useful against enemies with high defense.

Currently there are 3 types of shotguns in the game: Shotguns, Battle shotguns and Crush guns. All shotgun types use "Shotgun shells" as ammo

## Shotguns

The most basic type of Shotgun and also the most common, Shotguns have a capacity of only one 1 shell and takes 2-3 turns to be reloaded. Their base critical damage is 160%.

They are a bit rare in location 1 but become quite common after location 3.

## Special Variants (Shotguns)

The base critical damage of special shotguns is 160%.

## Battle Shotguns

An improved design of the normal shotgun, Battle shotguns have a revolving cylinder that has a capacity of 3 shells and their base critical damage is slightly higher than other shotgun types, however Battle shotguns are rarer than normal shotguns.

The shells of the battle shotguns are reloaded individually and it takes 3 turns to reload each shell.

Their base critical damage is 170%.

## Quality Variations (Battle Shotguns)

* 50% chance to reload instantly
 Standard
 Rusted

## Special Variants (Battle Shotguns)

The base critical damage of special battle shotguns is 170%.

Compared to other Battle shotguns, the "Blink" variants have a faster reload time as it takes just 2 turns to reload each shell.

## Crush guns

Crush guns are triple-barrel shotgun prototypes that can fire 3 shells at once, this allows them to deal huge amounts of damage at the cost of consuming ammo quicker than other shotguns. Their base critical damage is 155% and the only way to acquire Crush guns is by crafting them.

* 10 Fire elements
* 6 Electric elements
* 3 Radiators
* 1-2 Radiator

## Special Variants (Crush Guns):

* 10 Fire elements
* 35 Electric elements
* 3 Radiators
 Caustic crush gun
* Spills acid
* 10 Fire elements
* 6 Electric elements
* 3 Radiators
* 30 Acid elements
* 1-2 Radiators

## Notes

* By killing enemies with shotguns you can get achievement the "Master of shotguns"
* If a robot is hit by all 3 shells from a Crush gun they will drop some crafting components.

## Version history

* 0.95.2.2 - Now Crush guns can increase their additional effect when firing 3 shells.
* 0.95.1.9 - Super shotgun added to the game.
* 0.95.1.6 - Fire-arc and cursed arc shotguns have been added to the game, Caustic crush gun added to the game.
* 0.95.0.9 - The arc shotgun has been added to the game.
* 0.95.0.8 - Improved characteristics of the reinforced shotgun: added 15% armor ignoring.
* 0.95.0.6 - The Ash Shotgun has been added to the game, Blink battle shotgun and Necro blink shotguns have been added to the game
* 0.95.0.1 - Strengthened and improved shotguns have been added to the game.
* 0.95.0.0 - The Necro fire shotgun, T-2 Electric shotgun,T-2 Bone shotgun and T-2 Necro shotguns have been added to the game.
* 0.94.?.? - The Battle shotgun has been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.98 - The chaos shotgun has been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.95 - Midas' electric shotgun has been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.81 - The Inferno shotgun has been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.9 - The Crush gun and Electric crush gun have been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.8 - The necro shotgun has been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.72 - Devourment Shotgun and Blood Shotgun have been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.6 - The Fire Shotgun and the Cursed Shotgun have been added to the game.
* 0.94.9.1 - The electric shotgun and the Midas shotgun have been added to the game.
* 0.94.8.4 - Increased damage from a shotgun when firing at point blank range.
* 0.94.7.0 - The shotgun has been added to the game.