Wow, bumping an old topic!
I wanted to bring up the shotgun issue myself, but I first searched the forum for it (yay me!), and found this. Close-ups of Sligs in AO and AE reveal that ALL worker Sligs carry the same weapon. It may be a "Blunderbuss" (thanks Alcar), but it's way too similar to an Earth shotgun to throw this away. And while it IS a shotgun, it FIRES like an assault rifle.One of these MUST be untrue, because:
-it fires like a machinegun, so it's a machinegun
-it looks like a shotgun, so it's a shotgun
-when a Slig in AE is ordered to "do it" without any actions being available, he reloads the gun. The Slig then inserts SHELLS into the gun (not BULLETS or CLIPS)
-there is a HANDGUARD on the gun. Most shotguns have one, and all machineguns lack one
-the barrel is very broad and short. The former is rare among machineguns and common among shotguns, the latter usually indicates a sawn-off shotgun (you don't usually saw off machineguns)
I admit the gun looks unusually cool on the Sligs, but couldn't this be a developer mistake??
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