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The "Big Stick" Bolt Gun

In their moving about the cityscape, your ragtag bunch of misfits have had to scavenge whatever you could to survive the ZED outbreak, whether it be food, fuel, tools, and most importantly, guns, someone found some construction equipment that was still usable once the viscera had been scraped off. Now, you've got yourself a heavy-duty bolt gun from some manufacturer on the Continent, and have been competing with your fellow survivors to see who can get the most Clots in a row with it.

As explained in the Trader description (nobody reads those, right?) the gun is produced by the Fŏlti* Company, and its full name is "Bolt Gun, 57th iteration, Kurz**", but this gets shortened to BG57i(K), or just "Big Stick" by those who use it.

*The o-breve "ŏ" makes the short "a" sound, like "aw". The company's name is homophonous with "faulty"; probably not a good idea when marketing overseas.
**Meaning only short-length 120mm bolts should be used in it.

We've been without some interesting guns in KF for a while (crosses fingers for this year's Summer Sideshow), so I decided to try and make a new one myself, as much from scratch as possible. I modeled, textured, scripted, animated, recorded sound, etc for the last two months of my free time to get this done, and even though it's got some issues (below), I'm releasing it now as the first playable release version.

Footage of it in use can be seen at the link below if you'd rather not watch it in the slides above:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA3Jw-cBIuQ

The manual installation can be found here:
www[dot]mediafire[dot]com/download/fh8gkx3x1bl484v

The pickup codes for the two variations are as follows:
The regular version:
BG57iK.BG57iKPickup
The bloodied version:
BG57iK.BG57iK_bPickup

Since it is a kind of hybrid of a bunch of existing weapons, here are some comparative stats (the same can be found on the video's page description):
Range (melee): 60 (Machete is 70)
Damage (melee): 70 (Machete is 80)
Range (shot): potentially long-range (fat chance hitting anything single targets), but the weapon has no sights to speak of
Spread (shot): Terrible (unless you're a high-level Support Specialist/Sharpshooter). Think of it as a single-pellet shotgun whose sawn-off barrel is only long enough to hold the shell inside.
Damage (shot): 350 (Crossbow is 300, M99 is 675)
Damage (headshot): 4x (Same as the Crossbow, but you'd have to be standing right next to them for it to be reliable)
Reload Time: Long. Longer than a Medic trying to reload the M99 (unless you're a high-level Berserker/Commando).
Price: I wanted it to start at £2000 and scale down with Berserker levels, but it doesn't seem to work, so it's fixed at £1200 for the time being.
Ammo: 15 shots, at £100 apiece, so it should be used sparingly (also, you cannot reuse spent bolts)

Known issues (so far) and whether they have been fixed or not:
☐ Melee hits don't put the "blood" texture on the regular gun
☐ The blood-appears version doesn't have its ammo visible on the trader menu
☐ No perk discounts (can't seem to get this to work)
☑ Annoying aim-or-stand-close message
☑ Arm-moving rustling sounds in reload animation