# Concept for high-level survivor melee weapon: Sledgehammer. Shotgun
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581
**Category:** The Drawing Board
**Created:** [January 11, 2015, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581 "2015-01-11T07:47:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Closet\_Pankin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Closet_Pankin)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/1 "2015-01-11T07:47:05Z")
Browsing /r/KillingFloor, soaking in the KF2 hype, I noticed that someone discovered this:
I don’t really know what else we can say here. I mean, dude, Sledgehammer. Shotgun. Due to custom design it’d have to be made using a smithy with both gunsmithing tools and metalworking tools, but it would be a seriously fantastic weapon if it were to be implemented.
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### Author:  [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 10:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/2 "2015-01-11T10:10:08Z")
That’s a supremely silly idea, even more so than gunblade.
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### Author:  [@Muaddib](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Muaddib)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/3 "2015-01-11T14:00:08Z")
> [@Coolthulhu](#):
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> That’s a supremely silly idea, even more so than gunblade.
It’s silly but it’d work in real life. It’d be absurdly impractical, but it’d work. A gunblade just wouldn’t work at all. You’d just wreck your gunblade blade the moment you pull the trigger.
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### Author:  [@EkarusRyndren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EkarusRyndren)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/4 "2015-01-11T17:55:14Z")
…Not sure how you’d go about rechambering the round, or even loading the magazine in the first place… But mechanically speaking it definitely looks possible, probably worth clumping into the ‘fireswords’ category of weapons
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### Author:  [@Jakers](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Jakers)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/5 "2015-01-11T18:08:39Z")
Hell, if I can make a flaming katana then I can sure make this. +1 even though the melee potential of the weapon would be massively hampered and it would be horrible to fire.
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### Author:  [@TheFlame52](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheFlame52)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/6 "2015-01-11T18:09:41Z")
> [@Jakers](#):
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> Hell, if I can make a flaming katana then I can sure make this. +1 even though the melee potential of the weapon would be massively hampered and it would be horrible to fire.
why not +1
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### Author:  [@Muaddib](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Muaddib)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/7 "2015-01-11T19:59:03Z")
Imagine maining this kind of weapon on a world with hordes turned on…
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/8 "2015-01-11T20:51:32Z")
Why not sledgehammer flamethrower?
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### Author:  [@Jakers](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Jakers)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/9 "2015-01-11T21:16:36Z")
[quote=“trusty\_patches, post:8, topic:8581”]Why not sledgehammer flamethrower?
Whelp, every other melee weapon seems to have some sort of flaming variant so this’ll work.
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### Author:  [@iceball3](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/iceball3)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/10 "2015-01-11T21:41:30Z")
Perhaps this? Rule of cool intensifies.
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### Author:  [@Synthetic](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Synthetic)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/11 "2015-01-12T00:25:07Z")
It’s hard to get any more awesome than shotgun fists.
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### Author:  [@ramesesniblet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ramesesniblet)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 7:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/12 "2015-01-12T07:16:53Z")
What about knife-wrench?
Some people have actually made them…
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### Author:  [@Hibou](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Hibou)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/13 "2015-01-12T15:02:33Z")
[quote=“iceball3, post:10, topic:8581”]Perhaps this? Rule of cool intensifies.
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Definite +1 to this. Shotgun fists are just too good to not have in the zombie apocalypse.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/14 "2015-01-12T16:02:05Z")
Shotgun fists should then have a reference to Guilty Gear. Mostly because that’s the only game I know to have them.
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### Author:  [@iceball3](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/iceball3)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/15 "2015-01-12T16:14:39Z")
[quote=“trusty\_patches, post:14, topic:8581”]Shotgun fists should then have a reference to Guilty Gear. Mostly because that’s the only game I know to have them.[/quote]Vindictus is what i got the picture from, karok is the man.
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### Author:  [@pabloi4](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pabloi4)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/16 "2015-01-12T16:55:38Z")
> [@trusty\_patches](#):
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> Shotgun fists should then have a reference to Guilty Gear. Mostly because that’s the only game I know to have them.
Actually Fallout New Vegas has the ballistic fist which is basically a glove with 2 shotgun barrels and a pressure plate to activate them.
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### Author:  [@Closet\_Pankin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Closet_Pankin)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/17 "2015-01-12T17:17:19Z")
> [@Jakers](#):
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> Hell, if I can make a flaming katana then I can sure make this. +1 even though the melee potential of the weapon would be massively hampered and it would be horrible to fire.
From the looks of it, it fires when you hit something - so it’d be immensely powerful to hit someone with it with a shell chambered.
Like the previously mentioned ballistic fists, there’s likely a pressure plate on the head for whacking.
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### Author:  [@EkarusRyndren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EkarusRyndren)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/18 "2015-01-12T21:05:55Z")
…Look at that picture…
That’s not a shotgun, those casings are massive. Almost like it’s chambered for…
40mm Shells…
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### Author:  [@Jakers](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Jakers)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/19 "2015-01-12T21:54:28Z")
I was about to say, those look like grenade launcher fists to me, not shotgun fists. Still badass though; reminds of the blonde chick on RWBY.
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### Author:  [@Closet\_Pankin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Closet_Pankin)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/concept-for-high-level-survivor-melee-weapon-sledgehammer-shotgun/8581/20 "2015-01-15T20:32:40Z")
[quote=“EkarusRyndren, post:18, topic:8581”]…Look at that picture…
That’s not a shotgun, those casings are massive. Almost like it’s chambered for…
40mm Shells…[/quote]
I think that’s more to do with FPS-Gun-In-Your-Face-itis.
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