12 Gauge
- Per box
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- Per round
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- Base damage
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- Weapons
- 2
The two shells
price per round
Buckshot
no price
Fires a spread of pellets. Neither the pellet count nor the damage has ever been published.
Rifled Slug
no price
Fires a single solid projectile. Its damage has never been published.
Shotguns do not use the three-way split. Every other calibre in the game is loaded as standard, hollow point or armour piercing. 12 Gauge is loaded as buckshot or slug — a choice about how many projectiles leave the barrel rather than what happens when one arrives.
What fires 12 Gauge
2 weaponsHow to read this
The weapon list is checked three ways — what each weapon prints on its own vendor card, what the game files it under, and which magazines it takes. All three agree.
Shells have never carried a price. Nothing in the alpha put a figure on 12 Gauge, so both rows above are blank rather than guessed from a neighbouring calibre.
Recorded during the Closed Alpha and held until Bulkhead lifted its content embargo on 11 August 2026. How we source and label everything.
Where this calibre sits in the game
Every calibre and what it costs
The full price ladder, cheapest box first.
The time-to-kill study
What the base damage figure above actually buys you.
Complete builds by what they cost
What feeding this calibre leaves in the balance.
What a round actually pays
One complete payout, line by line, and the loadout refund on death.