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OBO: Shotgun, Chrome Upgrade script

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

This is a script that upgrades the Chrome Shotgun, aiming to make it more viable, even after Tier 2 weapons come along, without breaking game balance. As I mentioned in the description for my OBO Pumpshotgun, both Tier 1 shotguns were really quite weak in vanilla, and while I understand that it was that way deliberately, I saw an opportunity to expand the useable weapons in Left 4 Dead 2. See the above collections for my Pumpshotgun script, and more mods from me.

So now, the Chrome Shotgun will do more damage per shot than either of the semi-auto shotguns (and even my OBO Pumpshotgun), but will obviously still shoot much slower. Basically, it'll have double the damage but a quarter of the fire rate. This is also the most accurate shotgun, even more so than in the vanilla game. The fun part is that only two pellets are needed to kill commons, and the accuracy makes this a fantastic one-one eliminator, and decent Special-screener, but is less suited to horde-busting. Speaking of hordes, I upped piercing potential to compensate for this weapon's pitifully slow fire rate when compared to semi-auto shotguns, which means lined up groups of Commons are your playground.

Lastly, I increased the magazine size from 8 to 11. Don't freak out, I know it's not real-world accurate, but it's really close since real-world Remington 870s can have a capacity from 4+1 to 10+1, depending on model. This was also extensively playtested and it makes the weapon far more enjoyable to use, and good game balance is always more important than realism, and since this weapon's (and all shotguns) reload speed is hard-locked and unchangeable, this change is necessary to avoid tiresome neverending reloading.

Overall, this weapon will be a lot more enjoyable to use and will have its own upsides and downsides. See below for specifics on all changes I made, including smaller ones not mentioned in the above description.


Changelog (X means unchanged):

VerticalPunch - 4 to 5
SpreadPerShot - 1 to 8
MaxSpread - 5 to X
SpreadDecay - 5 to 15
MinDuckingSpread - 0 to X
MinStandingSpread - 0.8 to 0
MinInAirSpread - 2.5 to 0
MaxMovementSpread - 1.5 to 0.3
PelletScatterPitch - 3.0 to 2.3
PelletScatterYaw - 5 to 3.833
ReloadDuration - 0.473 to 0.396 (Changing this does nothing, not sure why)
DeployDuration - ? to 0.3 (added this line)
PenetrationNumLayers - 2 to 3
PenetrationPower - 30 to 67
PenetrationMaxDistance - 500 to X
CharacterPenetrationMaxDistance 300 to X (Shooting through targets doesn't count against penetration up to this range)
Damage - 31 to 67
Bullets - 8 to 7
CycleTime - 0.5 to X (Changing this does nothing, not sure why)
clip_size - 8 to 11
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.