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For the article on The Loading Screen, please see Tactical Shotgun (Loading Screen)
This Page/Section is about an item that has been put in The Vault.
This item has been made unavailabe in standard playlists to balance the loot pool. It may return in the future.
| “ | 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.
Contents
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.
Tactical Shotgun in action
Stats
Tactical Shotguns fire a spread of pellets. Assuming all pellets land, the weapon will range from dealing 72 Damage per shot to 88 Damage per shot (108-132 damage per second). All Tactical Shotguns use 
Shells. The Tactical Shotgun has a headshot multiplier of 1.5x.
| Tactical Shotgun | Tactical Shotgun | Tactical Shotgun |
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| Common | Uncommon | Rare |
| DPS: 108 | DPS: 114 | DPS: 120 |
| Damage: 72 | Damage: 76 | Damage: 80 |
| 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 |
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| Epic | Legendary |
| DPS: 126 | DPS: 132 |
| Damage: 84 | Damage: 88 |
| 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.
Sounds
| Sound Type | Rarity | Audio |
|---|---|---|
| Pullout | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
| Epic and Legendary | ||
| Shooting | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
| Epic and Legendary | ||
| Reload | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
| Epic and Legendary | ||
| Pickup | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
| Epic and Legendary | ||
| Drop | Common, Uncommon and Rare | |
| Epic and Legendary |
Obtained
| Rarity | Chest | Rare
Chest |
Cosmic
Chest |
Floor
Loot |
Supply
Drop |
Fishing
(Plain) |
Fishing
(Hole) |
Crafting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ |
| Uncommon | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ |
| Rare | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ |
| Epic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ |
| Legendary | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ | ✓ | ✖ |
Strategy Guide
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.
Gallery
The Tactical Shotgun (Low Tier) prior to Chapter 2: Season 1.
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The Tactical Shotgun (High Tier) prior to Chapter 2: Season 1 (Render is at a different rotation)
Trivia
- When it originally got added, all the variants of the Tactical Shotgun used the same texture, despite two of them being Uncommon and Rare, and one being Epic.
- The Common, Uncommon and Rare variants appear to be a heavily modded variant of the American Mossberg Maverick 88.
- It also uses the same model as the Enforcer Schematic from Save the World, but with red paint instead of grey.
- 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.
- The Auto Shotgun added in Chapter 3: Season 1 is a hybrid of the Tactical Shotgun and the Drum Shotgun.
Gallery
The Promotional Image of the unvaulting of the Infantry Rifle and Tactical Shotgun during Chapter 2: Season 6.
