Tactical Shotgun

For the article on the The Loading Screen of the same name, please see Tactical Shotgun (Loading Screen)

This Section is about an item / mechanic that has been put in The Vault.

“

Shotgun: Semi-Automatic. Fast-firing shotgun with a large magazine. Good for dealing with multiple targets at short range.

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— In-Game Description

The Tactical Shotgun is a Shotgun in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was introduced in Season 0.

Functionality

The Tactical Shotgun is a fully automatic, short ranged weapon. It fires a string of pellets when shot, which tighten on aiming down sights. The weapon can be fired continuously with no effect on accuracy. At medium range, it suffers due to the spread of pellets failing to connect with a target, and at long ranges it is almost completely ineffective.

Stats

Tactical Shotguns fire a spread of pellets. Assuming all pellets land, the weapon will range from dealing 77 Damage per shot to 93 Damage per shot (115-138 damage per second). All Tactical Shotguns use Shells. The Tactical Shotgun has a headshot multiplier of 1.75x. There is a maximum damage cap of 115 to 135.

The Tactical Shotgun reloads 1 shell at a time, and its reload time statistic is how long it takes for a zero ammo reload to a full magazine.

Tactical Shotgun	Tactical Shotgun	Tactical Shotgun

Common	Uncommon	Rare
DPS: 115.5	DPS: 121.5	DPS: 127.5
Damage: 77	Damage: 81	Damage: 85
Maximum Damage: 115	Maximum Damage: 120	Maximum Damage: 125
Magazine Size: 8	Magazine Size: 8	Magazine Size: 8
Fire-Rate: 1.5	Fire-Rate: 1.5	Fire-Rate: 1.5
Reload Time: 6.27s	Reload Time: 5.99s	Reload Time: 5.7s
Structure Damage: 50	Structure Damage: 52	Structure Damage: 55

Tactical Shotgun	Tactical Shotgun

Epic	Legendary
DPS: 133.5	DPS: 141.0
Damage: 89	Damage: 94
Maximum Damage: 130	Maximum Damage: 135
Fire-Rate: 1.5	Fire-Rate: 1.5
Magazine Size: 8	Magazine Size: 8
Reload Time: 5.41s	Reload Time: 5.13s
Structure Damage: 75	Structure Damage: 78

The Tactical Shotgun is a hitscan weapon, but fires a spread of 10 pellets when both aiming down sights and hipfiring. Aiming down sights tightens the spread of pellets.

Damage falloff:

Damage falloff begins at 8.10 meters (1.6 tiles).
Damage decreases down to 90% of its maximum at 10 meters (2 tile).
Damage steadily decreases down to 70% of its maximum at 15 meters (3 tiles).
It deals damage until 30 meters (6 tiles).

Sounds

Sound Type	Rarity	Audio
Pullout	Common, Uncommon and Rare
Pullout	Epic and Legendary
Shooting	Common, Uncommon and Rare
Shooting	Epic and Legendary
Reload	Common, Uncommon and Rare
Reload	Epic and Legendary
Pickup	Common, Uncommon and Rare
Pickup	Epic and Legendary
Drop	Common, Uncommon and Rare
Drop	Epic and Legendary

Obtained

From when the item was last available in Chapter 2: Season 8:

Rarity	Chest	Rare Chest	Cosmic Chest	Floor Loot	Supply Drop	Fishing (Plain)	Fishing (Hole)	Crafting
Common	✓	✖	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖	✖
Uncommon	✓	✖	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖	✖
Rare	✓	✖	✓	✓	✖	✖	✓	✖
Epic	✓	✓	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖
Legendary	✓	✓	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓	✖

Strategy Guide

The risk was calculated... but man am I bad at math.

This section outlines a strategy. Feel free to add tips, tricks and general advice about the topic.

The Tactical Shotgun is a great weapon for beginners, as its high fire rate compared to other shotguns, and its good damage allows newer players to effectively attack opponents at close ranges.
The Epic and Legendary variants of the Tactical Shotgun deal 75 and 78 damage to structure respectively, coupled with a high fire rate, allowing it to take down structures much more quickly than other shotguns. It can be used to get inside an opponent's builds without taking time to pull out the harvesting tool, and pulling out the gun again. It can two-shot wood walls, so this is generally more viable than a pickaxe as you are safer if they edit their wall to shoot you.

History

Pre-Season

Update v1.6: The Semi-Auto Shotgun is added to Battle Royale along with the entire game-mode in Uncommon to Epic rarities.
Update v1.7.1: Renamed Semi-Auto Shotgun to Tactical Shotgun.

Season 3

Update v3.30: Tactical Shotgun demoted in rarity. Now Common to Rare. Statistics remain the same.

Season 4

Update v4.50: Weapon Adjustments:
- Tactical Shotgun damage to structures has been reduced by 25%.
- Headshot Multiplier reduced from 2.5x to 2.25x.

Season 5

Update v5.00: Shotgun Pellet Spread patterns will now be more consistent.
- All Shotguns now have a cooldown between swapping to them.

Season 9

Update v9.00: Damage increased from 67/70/74 to 71/75/79.
Update v9.40: Added the Epic and Legendary variants of the Tactical Shotgun.

Chapter 2: Season 1

Update v11.20: Reduced headshot multiplier from 2.25x to 2x.
- Low-tier icon received an update, but the same model and design.
- High-tier icon slightly rotated.

Chapter 2: Season 3

Update v13.00: Weapon adjustments:
- Reduced damage from 71/75/79/83/87 to 68/71/75/79/83.
- Reduced Headshot Multiplier from x2 to x1.5

Chapter 2: Season 4

Update v14.00: Vaulted the Tactical Shotgun in all rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 5

Update v15.00: Unvaulted the Tactical Shotgun in all rarities.
- Increased damage from 68/71/75/79/83 to 72/76/80/84/88.

Chapter 2: Season 6

Update v16.00: Vaulted the Tactical Shotgun in all rarities.
Update v16.30 May 3rd Hotfix: Unvaulted the Tactical Shotgun in all rarities excluding Common Rarity

Chapter 2: Season 7

Update v17.00: Unvaulted the Common Tactical Shotgun.
- All rarities of the Tactical Shotgun can be crafted into a Lever Action Shotgun of the same rarity using Nuts 'n' Bolts.

Chapter 2: Season 8

Update v18.00: Vaulted the Tactical Shotgun in all rarities.

Chapter 3: Season 2

Update v20.30: Increased the damage from 72/76/80/84/88 to 77/81/85/89/93 and increased the headshot multiplier to x1.75. To combat this, there is a maximum damage of 115/120/125/130/135.

Gallery

Trivia

When it originally got added, all the variants of the Tactical Shotgun used the same icon, despite two of them being Uncommon and Rare, and one being Epic.
- This however is not an uncommon trend for weapons sharing these rarities.
The Common, Uncommon and Rare variants appear to be a heavily modded variant of the American Mossberg Maverick 88.
- This is further reinforced by the fact concept art for the weapon displays the text 'BOSSMERG' on the side of the weapon, parodying the real world brand.
  - It also uses the same model as the Enforcer Schematic from Save the World, but with a red finish instead of gray.
The Epic and Legendary variants seems to be based on a heavily modded Italian Benelli M1014.
The High-Level Tactical Shotgun is one of the few weapons included in Chapter 2: Season 1 to not get a model change, although its render was updated.
There's a screen on the Low-Level Tactical Shotgun that appears to be playing Snake.
It was formerly called the Semi-Auto Shotgun, despite never being Semi-Automatic.