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Created on May 6, 2025

Fabled Shotgun Charm

Given how drastically some of the fabled charms improve the feel of their associated weapon (i.e. the bolt-action rifle), and that some of them confer two separate buffs, it feels lacking that the shotgun's fabled charm doesn't also allow our survivor to eject+reload both shells at once, a la Doom.

I've used the longbow and bolt-action rifle quite a bit and they both feel quite capable as 'primary' workhorse weapons, and from what I've seen, the shortbow and lever-action are no slouches, either (though I imagine their shorter range would make them fairly lackluster vs. the automaton queen).

The shotgun, however, feels distinctly lacking as a workhorse weapon as its effective DPS is heavily diminished by its long reload time; both the longbow and the bolt-action can land several shots on a stunned Sheilak, for example, but the shotgun would be lucky to get more than 3-4 shots before the stun ends.

As it stands unloading both barrels into a weakspot at point-blank does somewhere between 50-75% of a longbow weakspot shot, with roughly equivalent weapons, except the longbow can fire 2+ more times before the shotgun could've reloaded, on top of better range. For the shotgun to compete, it either has to do absurd damage (3-4 longbow shots total) within those two shots, or have a improved effective firerate via faster reload. Adding a dual-shell eject-and-reload to the fabled charm seems like a fitting solution.

(As an aside, technically for this to "physically" work in-game, the shotgun would have to have an ejector, which might not be doable if the model has to respect whether or not the charm is equipped, but I doubt many players would notice.)

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    • Guest
      May 8, 2025

      The fabled shotgun (which can be used with the blunderbuss as a combo with the fabled blunderbuss) is the most powerfull charm (with the lever action one) of the fabled gun charm, providing an equivalent to the cristab for shotguns, which can achieve several dozen millions of damage, even approaching a hundred millions with precise setups.

      On the other hand, the charm of the bolt action is very disappointing. Now the lever actions are not so far from the bolt action in term of damage, and have a very fast fire rate, the bolt action has become from one on the most meta gun to one of the least meta gun. The bolt action distance damage bonus is weak and not very well suited to bosses, where the bolt action used to be the most used