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Underrail => General => Topic started by: kpoxo6op on August 11, 2019, 08:25:37 am

Title: explain shotgun shells
Post by: kpoxo6op on August 11, 2019, 08:25:37 am
hi, can anybody explain how different shells work on different enemies?
I have all main shotgun feats and about to craft my first combat shotgun.

Title: Re: explain shotgun shells
Post by: HulkOSaurus on August 11, 2019, 10:19:38 am
I can tell you how I think they work.

Every shotgun shell has different armor bypass values - the less the pellet count, the more the threshold bypass. Shotguns shoot in a cone and generally have low accuracy, each target in the cone has a chance to be hit by a number of pellets. The closer they are, the more pellets that will hit them, although, and again, I think that the final damage shows in a single number no matter how many pellets hit the target. All I have ever shot is a short barreled shotgun so I may be missing something, but I'm guessing this is the general idea behind shotguns. They are pseudo melee weapons.
Title: Re: explain shotgun shells
Post by: Ploluap on August 11, 2019, 11:52:40 am
Yellow shells are good against enemies with low mechanical resist/treshold
Grey shells are good against most enemies except those with high mechanical resistance/treshold
Red are good versus high mechanical resist/treshold enemies
Tungsten are good versus really high mechanical resistance enemies and provide a bit a control because they can stun

Basically use reds  or tungsten againts robots, burrower warriors, crabs, big psi beetles, tactical vest and metal armor enemies...

Use grey and yellows against others
Title: Re: explain shotgun shells
Post by: kpoxo6op on August 12, 2019, 10:46:14 am
Thanks a lot this helps