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OBO: Pumpshotgun Upgrade script

OBO, pronounced "oboe" (yes, like the instrument), stands for "Overall Balance Overhaul."

This is a script that upgrades the Pumpshotgun, making it a more viable weapon while maintaining balance.

The standard pump shottie. It really was kinda weak in vanilla. It reloaded and fired painfully slowly and had a tiny magazine, which made survivability against Specials and hordes a challenge, but much to my surprise and horror, both the fire rate and reload speed seem to be hardcoded, which limits my options greatly. All I really had to work with was power, spread, and capacity, but the result is still a solid improvement over vanilla.

Emulating a short-barreled, relatively wide-scattering, "home defense" kind of pump-action shotgun, it'll do far more damage per shot than before, and more than my OBO semi-auto shotguns, but will still deal less DPS due to the fire rate. This makes it a decent general-survivability weapon with very good ammo efficiency and can blindside Specials effectively at short range. To give you an idea of the kind of video-game-y power I'm talking about, only two pellets need to hit a Common to kill it on Advanced and Expert, and only one on Normal and Easy. Next, it has more piercing an additional layer of Commons than most weapons to help a bit with its vastly inferior fire rate (roughly a quarter as fast) as compared to semi-auto shotguns.

Lastly, the magazine size... It's been raised from 8 to 12. I felt this change was worth it, since a healthy game balance is always more important than real-world accuracy, no matter how much my internal OCD hates it. Endlessly being behind the curve of shells needed to shells reloaded with the pump-action shotguns got grating and annoying quickly for me, and with a hardcoded reload speed, this was the only remaining solution. Serendipitously though, it means that I've been able to balance all my OBO shotguns with a different capacity, which makes each feel more unique and defined.

Overall, it'll still be significantly worse than a Semi-auto Shotgun for short-range horde-busting and DPS, which are the primary reasons for a shotgun, but it now has its own upsides in that department, especially if you're firing down a tight hallway and Commons are nicely lined up or when ammunition is scarce.


Changelog (X means unchanged):

VerticalPunch - 4 to 5.0
SpreadPerShot - 1 to 6.667
MaxSpread - 5 to X
SpreadDecay - 5 to 12.5
MinDuckingSpread - 0 to X
MinStandingSpread - 0.8 to 0
MinInAirSpread - 2.5 to 0
MaxMovementSpread - 1.5 to 0.3
PelletScatterPitch - 5.0 to 4
PelletScatterYaw - 7.5 to 6
ReloadDuration - 0.473 to 0.396 (Changing this does nothing, not sure why)
DeployDuration - N/A to 0.3 (added this line)
PenetrationNumLayers - 2 to 3
PenetrationPower - 30 to 68
PenetrationMaxDistance - 500 to X
CharacterPenetrationMaxDistance 300 to X (Shooting through targets doesn't count against penetration up to this range)
Damage - 25 to 50
Bullets - 10 to 9
CycleTime - 0.5 to X (Changing this does nothing, not sure why)
clip_size - 8 to 12
primary_ammo - AMMO_TYPE_SHOTGUN to AMMO_TYPE_AUTOSHOTGUN

Disclaimer about the preview screenshot(s):
I got them randomly off the internet. I claim nothing. If need be, I'll replace them with something generic from Wikipedia or something.