I started with an accuracy cone for each gun at close, mid, and far range. the main difference is the backscatter has a slightly larger cone, and more stray pellets. In general your spread will be larger, but you don't notice it until mid range, where scout is only chipping away

I then spawned a soldier at the door and turned his movement off, marking down each shots damage. I have a image dump of damage numbers but for now ill use the average and add a text dump on another section, as well as put images of the ranges that i used on TR_walkway and where I lined up on the wall.

Face shot

Average damage was as you would expect, a lot

-Scattergun average: 98
-Backscatter average: 97

Close range

Here is where we start to see stray shots miss the target, at this range, you might miss one or two on your meat shots,whit the scattergun being a little more consistant

-Scattergun average: 70
-Backscatter average: 65

Mid range
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The main problem here is consistency, the scattergun almost always was in the 30's to high 40's. the backscatter on the other hand was between 55 and 12 damage per shot, and the spread wildly changed the numbers on every shot, dont be fooled by the average, your shots at mid range are terrible.

-Scattergun average: 35
-Backscatter average: 32

far away

You're starting to move into chip damage here, but the average starts to even out since most pellets don't hit on the scattergun here too. however the consistency of the backscatter will still be a problem.

-Scattergun average: 18
-Backscatter average: 15

I love this gun, new scouts can use it to train how to play scout, the accuracy isn't as bad as it looks. The mini-crits come into play fairly often if your smart and will get you kills, and a mini-crit kill will always trigger a dopamine hit. give it a try for a bit, you'll enjoy it.

Here's the numbers from each shot i took on a soldier. I need to do more to get a full sample size but I don't want to yet.

---Face shot

-Scattergun - 98
100
98
98
97
97
97

-Backscatter - 97
100
100
100
98
98
98
88

---Close range

-Scattergun - 70
83
78
77
67
67
66
58

-Backscatter - 65
79
77
67
67
67
59
58
58
58

---Mid range

-Scattergun - 35
48
45
42
38
30
30
30
30
24

-Backscatter - 32
55
54
43
43
36
31
30
26
25
24
24
18
12

---Far away

-Scattergun - 18
28
25
24
20
16
12
12
12

-Backscatter - 15
25
24
20
20
16
16
13
13
12
8
4

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