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The KS-23 is a slug shotgun for the Heavy Build and was introduced in Season 2.
Overview
The KS-23 requires high precision to handle effectively, as the gun shoots a single moving projectile per shot. Predicting enemy movement is required to land shots at range. Despite its difficulty, the high damage can be rewarding in certain circumstances.
As the KS-23 is a breaching shotgun, it is also capable of destroying solid walls.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Can destroy walls in 3 shots
- High damage within 18 meters, highly lethal at close range
- Especially lethal to the light class
Cons
- Hard to hit enemies with, and very punishing to miss shots with
- No ADS, restricted to hip fire and zoomed-in hip fire
- Low DPS comparatively, high time to kill on Heavies and Mediums
- Lacks in long-ranged damage
Weapon Skins
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GLACIAL BLUFF - 1,050 (Bundle) -
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WAVE INTERFERENCE - S02 BP Level 78
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STRIPED GRAZER
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DYE JOB-WHITE -
STANDARD ISSUE
Trivia & Weapon Bio
- Based off of the Tula Arms KS-23 Soviet a Soviet-era pump-action shotgun firing 23mm (6.2 Gauge) shell, which is exceptionally large for a shotgun.
Change History
Patch 2.5.0
- Bullet dispersion reduced when jumping, sprinting, or zoomed in, to make the weapon more accurate
Patch 2.2.0
- Increased fire rate from 55 RPM to 73 RPM
- Decreased player damage from 120 to 100
- Increased environmental damage from 600 to 700
- Decreased pump-action animation delay from 0.2s to 0s
- Increased pump-action animation duration from 0.6s to 0.7s
- Increased damage fall-off start range from 15m to 18m
- Decreased damage fall-off end range from 50m to 23m
- Increased the damage fall-off multiplier at max range from 45% to 65%
- Increased the projectile speed from 200m/s to 300m/s
- Decreased bullet dispersion when firing from the hip while crouching, standing, and running