Editing AA12 (section)

==Statistics==

The [[Support Specialist]] perk gives bonuses and discounts for the AA-12.

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|base_cost = 4000
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|discount1 = 20
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|discount3 = 40
|discount4 = 50
|discount5 = 60
|discount6 = 70

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|col1_inc3 = 30
|col1_inc4 = 40
|col1_inc5 = 50
|col1_inc6 = 60

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=== Price and ammunition ===
The AA-12 has a base cost of £4000, being one of the most expensive weapons. The [[support specialist]] perk offers discounts on this cost at intervals of £400 per level, to a current minimum price of £1200. The ammunition cost is £40 for one 20 round magazine; £160 for a full refill at the base level, and £208 at level 6.

AA12 comes loaded with 20 shells with 40 shells of 2 full drum mag at spare. Its maximum ammo pool is 80 shells, making it carry one loaded and 3 to spare at most without any perk bonuses. Support Specialist shotgun ammo carried bonus extends this ammo pool up to 104 shells, allowing Support Specialist to carry one magazine loaded with ammunition enough to fill 4 spare drum magazines.

=== Damage ===
AA-12 spreads 5 pellets per shot with each pellet dealing 30 damage with 1.5x headshot multiplier. With a very low 150 (base) damage per shot, the AA-12 isn't powerful when fired once; instead it boasts an extremely fast rate of fire to take down crowds or tough zeds. Along with its large drum magazine capacity of 20 shots, the AA-12 fires tightly spread pellets to help focusing damage to carve a path through crowds of specimen while providing hefty and stable DPS until magazine empties. Support Specialist gains damage bonus of 10%, adding 15 extra damage per 5 pellet buckshot up to a maximum of 90 extra damage by level 6, granting 240 damage per shot to AA-12.

Being magazine loaded, it shares initial 75% pierce efficiency and 3 additional target pierces behind first target of other magazine loaded shotguns such as [[HSG-1]] and [[Vlad the Impaler]]. At its base value, each target pierced cause pellets to lose 25% damage which is reduced by Support Specialist perk bonuses down to 2% damage loss per target. For the recoil spread value and fire rate, it shares the same 0.2 second shot delay and 1125 unit radius spread at maximum distance per shot with [[Combat shotgun]]; approximately 12.5% larger spread than standard [[Shotgun]].

Before the reload, it can deal up to 3000 damage over the course of 3.8 seconds that scores 789 damage per second from up close and losing efficiency as distance grows due pellet spread. Considering 3.133 seconds reload time, after the reload this huge burst reduce down to 432 damage per second over the course of 6.933 seconds. At the hands of level 6 Support Specialist it barely deals 4800 damage from bodyshots at full efficiency making it 1263.15 damage per second before reload and 692.34 damage after reload. By sheer headshots, AA-12 has the potential of dealing up to 7200 damage at the hands of a level 6 Support Specialist on paper but its wide recoil, kickback on the move and loose spread at distance leaves huge margin for error.

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