Romag Shotgun

The Romag Shotgun is an assault shotgun with a black finish used as a mid-close range combat weapon. It functions like other shotgun-style weapons in the game, firing multiple pellets per shot to deliver high burst damage at short range. The item appears in combat loot and is tied to the Accuracy progression system through required equipment to wield it.

The weapon requires the player to have one of the specialized armwraps buffs equipped — Bio-Metric Armwraps, Bio-Mimic Armwraps, or Bio-Fusion Armwraps — and it additionally requires the player to have reached Accuracy level 7 to actually fire. The recipe for the Bio-Metric Armwraps becomes available when the player reaches Accuracy level 7. In multiplayer it is possible to obtain the armwraps earlier if another player crafts them after reaching Accuracy 7, but the Romag Shotgun cannot be fired by a player who has not personally attained Accuracy 7; attempting to fire without Accuracy 7 produces the message "You aren't confident enough to use this item" and the weapon does not discharge.

Acquisition and drops:

• The Romag Shotgun can drop as loot from Breachers.
• It is always dropped by the Close-Quarters Combatant on death.

Combat performance and behavior:

• Each shot of the Romag Shotgun fires 9 pellets. Each pellet deals 18 damage, so a full-hit shot delivers 162 Shotgun Pellet damage when all pellets connect.
• This pellet count and per-pellet damage make the weapon especially effective for high-damage sneak attacks against single targets at close range.
• The weapon follows typical shotgun spread and falloff behaviors used by other shotguns in the game; maximizing close-range pellet hits yields its best results.

Additional notes and history:

• Prior to patch 1.1, reloading the Romag would always play the full six-shell reload animation regardless of how many rounds remained; this was changed in later patches.
• Prior to version 0.8.2 the Romag Shotgun was named the Military Shotgun.
• The design of the Romag Shotgun is inspired by real-world shotguns such as the Benelli M4 and the Franchi SPAS-12.

Description (in-game): the Romag Shotgun is described as an assault shotgun coated in black.