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As [[raider#tribal|tribal raiders]] don't get any better-equipped than plain [[tribalwear]], and possibly a [[parka]] (which still offers little protection), the pump shotgun is a great counter against them as there will be little-to-no resistance from its impressive raw damage output.
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As [[raider#Tribals|tribal raiders]] don't get any better-equipped than plain [[tribalwear]], and possibly a [[parka]] (which still offers little protection), the pump shotgun is a great counter against them as there will be little-to-no resistance from its impressive raw damage output.
  
 
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Pump shotguns can be purchased from outlander combat suppliers and towns, and orbital weapon traders for a moderate price - or obtained via incapacitating a pump shotgun-wielding [[raider#Outlanders|outlander]] [[raider#Mercenaries|or]] [[raider#Pirates|pirate]]. A pump shotgun can also be manufactured at a [[machining table]] once the [[research#machining|machining]] research has been completed, for 60 steel, 3 components, and 30,000 ticks (500 secs) of work.
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Pump shotguns can be purchased from outlander combat suppliers and towns, and orbital weapon traders for a moderate price - or obtained via incapacitating a pump shotgun-wielding [[raider#Outlanders|outlanders]], [[raider#Pirates|pirates]], and [[raider#Mercenaries|mercenaries]]. A pump shotgun can also be manufactured at a [[machining table]] once the [[research#machining|machining]] research has been completed, for 60 steel, 3 components, and {{ticks|30000}} of work.
  
  

Revision as of 19:57, 31 May 2017

Pump shotgun

"Ancient design. Deadly, but short range."

Base Stats

Type
EquipmentWeapons
"Modern Weapons" is not in the list (Neolithic Weapons, Medieval Weapons, Industrial Weapons, Spacer Weapons, Ultra Weapons, Mechanoid Weapons) of allowed values for the "Class" property.
Weapon Class
Modern
Mass
3.4 kg

Ranged Combat

Mode
Single-Shot
Damage
20 dmg
Warm-Up
54 ticks (0.9 secs)
Cooldown
75.333 ticks (1.26 secs)
Range
16 tile(s)
Accuracy
80% - 87% - 77% - 64%
Velocity
55 (m/s)
Burst Count
1 (per burst)
DPS
9.28 (Expression error: Unexpected / operator.)

The pump shotgun is a moderately heavy, pump-action weapon with high damage per shot, a considerably high fire rate, high accuracy, and short range. Due to these attributes, the pump shotgun makes a great early-mid game close combat weapon due to its impressive damage output, but the handicapped range will be a limiting factor as more powerful, better-equipped enemies take to raiding your settlement. As typical with a short-ranged, faster-firing weapon; the pump shotgun's effectiveness won't be too badly hindered if it were to be equipped by a less accurate (<95% post-processed accuracy) shooter - and it benefits more from a trigger-happy than a careful shooter as a result. Its high stopping power also means that it's effective at crippling, or even outright destroying limbs and organs.


As tribal raiders don't get any better-equipped than plain tribalwear, and possibly a parka (which still offers little protection), the pump shotgun is a great counter against them as there will be little-to-no resistance from its impressive raw damage output.

Obtaining

Pump shotguns can be purchased from outlander combat suppliers and towns, and orbital weapon traders for a moderate price - or obtained via incapacitating a pump shotgun-wielding outlanders, pirates, and mercenaries. A pump shotgun can also be manufactured at a machining table once the machining research has been completed, for 60 steel, 3 components, and 30,000 ticks (8.33 mins) of work.


Conclusion & Comparison

Overall, when put up against other weapons in RimWorld; the pump shotgun really is just middle-of-the-road in its class: it's considerably better than the machine pistol, but it overall falls short of the even-higher raw DPS, slightly longer-ranged heavy SMG, and the considerably longer-ranged LMG.


Against its brand new burst-firing cousin, that is the chain shotgun, things get more interesting: while the pump shotgun has superior range to the chain shotgun, the chain shotgun still has higher overall accuracy than the pump-action shotgun - 3 times 41.1% (~123.3%) versus 82.5% at 8 tiles, the most likely range that both of these weapons would see a lot of use at - and the chain shotgun also has a higher damage output, and there's even more to come as the chain shotgun has a lot of unrealised potential in normal combat scenarios - but there's more information on that matter on the chain shotgun's page. However, the chain shotgun is considerably more expensive and also rarer than the pump shotgun.


Trivia

  • The pump shotgun seems to have the appearance of a variant of the Remington 870.
  • In-game visuals depict it as firing a blast of pellets rather than a singular slug; however, it deals damage as if the target is hit by 1 shot.