A-Bolt Shotgun is a bolt-action shotgun featured in CrossFire.
Overview[]
This gun has a mixed rep between MTs-255 and KS-23, with good firepower at close range but notably slower firing speed due to its bolt-action nature. It has 3 rounds capacity like the Serbu Super-Shorty, but the usage of the magazine means it can be reloaded quite fast, at the cost of no reload cancel.
Advantages:
- High damage both in close range and mid-range (if zoomed in).
- Quick reloading time.
- Lightweight.
- Narrow pellet spread.
- Fast drawing speed.
- High accuracy.
- Narrow crosshair when zooming in.
- One time reload.
- Narrower pellet spread when zooming in.
Disadvantages:
- Slow bolt cycling time against the quicker pump cycling speed of common shotguns in general.
- Damage reduced in long-range.
- Very low magazine capacity.
- Huge crosshair.
Availability[]
- Available in all CrossFire versions.
Trivia[]
- This weapon is the very first shotgun to use a bolt-action system in CrossFire.
- This gun has similar animation to FN Ballista, APR 338 & OM-50 Nemesis.
- Similar to DAR-21 & HK21, this is the third weapon in CrossFire which features screen zoom without a visible scope. Unusually, the crosshair shrinks down significantly when scoped in (something other weapons don't have), which also makes the pellets spread narrower, making it more effective in mid-range.
- Incidentally, this trait makes A-Bolt Shotgun best used with a "quick-scope" trick (RMB+LMB) regardless of distance, since it will increase 1-hit kill chance significantly when using the optical zoom to make the pellet spread smaller.
- In CF Europe, although still categorized as a Shotgun, this weapon incorrectly receives ammo buff from M4A1-VIPs.
- In CF Philippines, this is the first permanent shotgun in GP Black Market (the Remington 870 is also featured, but only temporary).
- It's firing noise is shared from ASh-12.7.
- This weapon can be fired faster if a player uses a VVIP character by using an exploit can be done always LMB + R + E similar matter to a sniper. This technique can also run out of ammo easily.
- Unlike most bolt-action that typically found on the sniper rifle were every shot player unzooms to cycle the bolt-action then zooms again, which is opposite on this weapon were stays on the zoom phase, making it the first weapon to have this feature.