Shotgun question

[Welch (DayZ) 756]

I saw on the DayZ DB site that Pellets cause 2,000 dmg. and Slugs do 4,500 dmg.

Does this mean the entire shell or each scatter shot? Because having 10,000+ blood per shot seems kind of ridiculous.

[Man vs Wild 313]

each pellet does 2000

I think there are 8 pellets per shot

the pellets have terrible accuracy though.. you have to be really close

[Welch (DayZ) 756]

But only one has to hit the head to get a 1-shot kill.

[Littleassassin2 73]

I've never used them but i heard shotguns are not to be toyed with lol.

[Guest]

Sure, you can make the argument that they are overpowered, but at the same time their accuracy is terrible and cannot be used against players 50 meters +, assault rifles, however, shoot fully automatic bullets that cause a huge chunk of damage and with high accuracy, some rifles capable shooting little over a hundred meters. Whilst still being capable in close range being able to load 30 bullets in your enemy with ease and great accuracy.

Edited October 12, 2012 by Guest

[herrjon 478]

I'm pretty sure it's per pellet. Pellets would be useless otherwise. From my experience, I had a M1014 with the pellets in, a bandit tried to ninja-hachet me, and I just laid him out. I usually try to knock them out and heal them, but I did so much damage point-blank.

[dallas 5195]

Whenever I carry a shotgun, I only carry pellets.

If you only have slugs, you're better off with a rifle.

Pellets are great against zombies and with the autoloading m1014, you can lay down a nice wall of damage.

[Sula 1205]

Also, they come with the warning that they will seriously destroy your humanity because each pellet you hit/kill with counts towards lowering your humanity.