Why do shotguns have such unrealistically Terrible range?? The rule of thumb for BIRDSHOT is 40 inches of spread at 40 yards. Not 40 inches of spread at 4ft, also buckshot has even less spread and more range, and slugs are easily effective at 100yds before they start losing significant amounts of KE. Why are our futuristic sci-fi space zombie gaurdians using shit awful shotguns that perform worse than an 18th century blunderbuss?? Now, sidearms could use either a range buff or damage buff. They are basically TLW with a deeper mag and not all of them are hitscan... so why use them? Fusions.... a damage buff, so they are viable in PvE And so that by extension they have more range and the max impact archetype can OHK roaming supers.