Late Promises

So a while ago I promised I would explain a bit about the ingame uses of the K73 Shotgun and completely spaced on that. So here goes.

First is the primary fire, your standard shotgun blast. The K73 has a good balance between spread and range, and it’s not going to be like if somebody is 15 feet away you can’t hit them. You can hit enemies with it when they’re far away, but it won’t deal nearly as much damage. A closeup hit with the primary fire will deal not only near-lethal damage to most enemies, but will also cause what will hereon be referred to as “Blast Flight.” Think every action movie where the good guy has a shotgun, shoots someone, and that someone goes flying into a bunch of crates, which then fall over on top of him. The sheer awesomeness of the Blast Flight will be dependant on how close the enemy was when you shot them and how many crates, loose bricks, or other PhysX-based objects (yes, you read that correctly) are in the flight path.

Secondary fire unleashes a long stream of fire from the lower barrel of the shotgun, and is unlockable after you have distributed 100 AP (which equals 100,000 EXP) to the shotgun itself. Though the shotgun has dual napalm tanks holding a combined 30 seconds worth of napalm, the flame can only be sprayed for about three seconds before overheating, followed up by another three second cooldown. However, by using short blasts of flame instead of long streams, the flamethrower can be used for much longer periods of time before actually having to cool down. In fact, used sparingly enough, the flamethrower won’t need any cooldown at all.

And, of course, there is the melee attack which the player can use once he has unlocked “Gun Melee” under the Gun Mastery category. This will allow the player to hit an enemy with the butt of the shotgun, knocking them down and making them vulnerable to whichever followup attack they prefer: the blast or the flame.

Successful kills with the shotgun will depend not only on the player’s trigger finger, but also with stringing together chain attacks with the various ammo types and Gun Mastery Combos available to the player (more on Gun Mastery Combos later).

For more information on the K73, see both the Makin’ Guns post and The Moment You’ve Been Waiting For post I made about it.