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OBOW: Chrome 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 Chrome Shotgun, aiming for a realistic approach to shotguns that game designers seem globally allergic to, bar a few. Please be aware that this script will function very differently if compared to my other Chrome Shotgun Rebalance mod.

The jist is that it now functions like a real-world shotgun would. It has an accurate magazine size and incredibly tight spread, (even tighter than my Pump Shotgun Gritty Realism mod), and has a small damage boost to compensate for fewer shots before reload. This is the only non-slug shotgun script in my entire collection that has enough damage to kill Common with a single pellet, regardless of difficulty. This combined with the tight spread makes it a perfect medium-range eliminator of any target, big or small. It's downsides are a bit weaker damage per second than semi-auto shotguns, and a narrow spread is harmful to horde-clearing.

Overall, this is a drastic change that was never considered in the game design for L4D2, but I have still managed to achieve some semblance of balance with it, and I'm happy with it. I hope you will be too.

Here's the list of stat changes:

VerticalPunch - 4 to 5
SpreadPerShot - 1 to 6
MaxSpread - 5 to UNCHANGED
SpreadDecay - 5 to 10
MinDuckingSpread - 0 to UNCHANGED
MinStandingSpread - 0.8 to 0
MinInAirSpread - 2.5 to 0
MaxMovementSpread - 1.5 to 0.15
PelletScatterPitch - 3.0 to 1.0
PelletScatterYaw - 5 to 1.66
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 67
PenetrationMaxDistance - 500 to UNCHANGED
Damage - 31 to 114
Range - 3000 to UNCHANGED
RangeModifier - 0.7 to UNCHANGED
Bullets - 8 to UNCHANGED
CycleTime - 0.5 to 0.1 (Changing this does nothing, not sure why)
clip_size - 8 to UNCHANGED
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.