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OBOW: Pump Shotgun - Gritty Realism Script

OBOW: Pronounced "oboe" (yes, like the instrument), it stands for "Overseer's Balance Overhaul for Weapons".

This is a script that upgrades the Pump Shotgun, but unlike my other pumpshotgun Rebalance mod, this one is more realism-focused. The most major differences being a realistically tighter spread, and a real-world (smaller) magazine with a bit more damage to compensate, along with a few other small changes (all listed below). It'll still be way more powerful than the semi-auto shotguns PER SHOT, but with its smaller magazine and pump-action fire rate, won't deal as much damage per second. A reliable point-blank powerhouse or short-to-medium-range eliminator.

Just keep in mind that this is a drastic rebalance of this weapon, and you shouldn't use it the way you would use the original, unmodded gun. As was mentioned above, crowd-clearing is negatively impacted by the tighter spread, despite its powerful penetration. My recommendation is to keep a secondary weapon ready to cover for this weapon's shortcomings, to allow its strengths to really shine.

Pro tip: reload whenever there's a pause of any length, not just with this script or even this gun, but with any shotgun, modded or unmodded.

Also note that all shotgun reload speeds are hard-locked in Left 4 Dead 2, meaning they're completely unchangeable by me. Which sucks, because I wanted to buff the pump-action shotguns to the same reload speed as the semi-auto shotguns. Regardless, I'm still happy with how it turned out.

Here's the list of stat changes:

VerticalPunch - 4 to 5.0
SpreadPerShot - 1 to 6
MaxSpread - 5 to X
SpreadDecay - 5 to 12.5
MinDuckingSpread - 0 to UNCHANGED
MinStandingSpread - 0.8 to 0
MinInAirSpread - 2.5 to 0
MaxMovementSpread - 1.5 to 0.15
PelletScatterPitch - 5.0 to 1.5
PelletScatterYaw - 7.5 to 2.25
ReloadDuration - 0.473 to 0.2 (Changing this does nothing, not sure why)
DeployDuration - ? to 0.3 (Vanilla value unknown, since I had to add this line)
PenetrationNumLayers - 2 to 4
PenetrationPower - 30 to 90
PenetrationMaxDistance - 500 to UNCHANGED
Damage - 25 to 70
Range - 3000 to UNCHANGED
RangeModifier - 0.7 to UNCHANGED
Bullets - 10 to UNCHANGED
CycleTime - 0.5 to UNCHANGED (Changing this does nothing, not sure why)
clip_size - 8 to 7
primary_ammo - AMMO_TYPE_SHOTGUN to AMMO_TYPE_AUTOSHOTGUN

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About the preview screenshot(s):
Disclaimer: I got them randomly off the internet. I am not the author, and I don't claim to own them. If need be, I'll replace them with something generic from Wikipedia or something. It is not my intention to steal anything. I've seen other Workshop mods that use copyright images, but I don't believe in "It's okay because everyone does it". Thus, I made this disclaimer.