Virus Weapon 4 (Energy Shotgun)

This Virus weapon combines the compact nature of a Pistol with the firepower of a Mini-Shotgun. This semi-automatic sidearm fires small shotgun bursts with the rate of a pistol. The shots themselves aren't particularly powerful, however, hitting the target at mid or close range is absurdly easy - Making extremely short work of any unarmored targets very quickly.
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The design for this weapon was extremely based in an Armored Core Aesthetic. I've always loved how Armored Core would design really interesting looking short-range (pistol-sized) weapons that were not pistols at all. Originally I was just going to recreate the "Needler" from Halo, however, in the end I didn't see any way to improve/change it is without making it worse - So, this was the next type of weapon that came to mind. Hope you guys like the design :)