MP43
MP43
Shotguns
3.2 kg
$400
- –Break-action
- –12 Gauge
RewardsSupport XP
Excels in close quarters combat.
“When in a pinch, make sure to use both barrels.”
The vendor's own card, as shown in the Closed Alpha.
Weapon stats
Damage per hit and rate of fire are the MP43's two base figures — the numbers every other calculation on this page starts from.
- Rate of fire
- 900
rounds per minute
Figures move between patches — how the model works and what it ignores. Where the MP43 lands once price is the tiebreak is on the tier list.
Ammunition
The MP43 fires 12 Gauge, bought separately from the weapon. Which weapons take which calibre is the game's own association rather than a menu we opened, and it agrees across all three places the build records it.
| Load | Per round |
|---|---|
| — | |
| — |
Per-round prices are arithmetic — a loaded magazine's price minus the empty one's, over its capacity. How much difference each load makes has never been published. Everything we have on 12 Gauge.
At $400 the MP43 is 4% of a full loadout budget, leaving $9,600 for everything else you carry. What a complete kit costs.
What “Support XP” means on that card
WARDOGS has no fixed classes. Progression runs on six XP tracks, and Bulkhead has confirmed they are earned by using specialist gear rather than picked from a menu — so the REWARDS line is not flavour, it is the rule. Carry the MP43 and the XP goes to Support, whatever the rest of your loadout is doing.
That makes the vendor tab a progression choice as much as a combat one. Every weapon we saw in the alpha pointed at exactly one track, and the tracks split along the vendor tabs: rifles fed Assault, SMGs fed Medic, shotguns and LMGs fed Support, everything long-range fed Recon.
Which is the argument for picking a weapon by what it leaves you rather than by what it does: what a full kit around the MP43 costs decides whether the track is affordable to grind, and where the MP43 lands once cost is the tiebreak is a different question from raw damage.
Six tracks and gear-driven progression are confirmed by Bulkhead. Which weapon feeds which track is our Alpha 1 reading, and it can change.
Other shotguns in the vendor
The rest of the tab the MP43 is sold under, cheapest first.
Also earns Support XP
Different vendor tabs, same progression track — carry any of these and the XP goes to the same place.
Guides that cover the MP43
Where this weapon sits in the game
Where the MP43 ranks
The tier list, and why cost decides it more than damage does.
Complete builds by what they cost
What a full kit around this weapon leaves in the balance.
Every weapon we have recorded
The full Closed Alpha roster, by category.
What a round actually pays
One complete payout, line by line, and the loadout refund on death.