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it needs a hip fire buff with the laser sight, so many times it I've missed when the laser is on the guys chest. apart from that I haven't had any issues with it.

You're suffering from lag.

I agree with trialstardragon, you are missing your shots mostly due to data packet latency and poor connection(probably not your own, but the host's).

The KSG is a super badass weapon, it's just a bit difficult to use.

This gun is great. Stop thinking it's a freaking AR. Its still a shotgun even tho it shoots a slug. So try just pulling up on him and shooting. I have fun with this gun because of its 1 hit kill range.

I had an instance where i shot a guy while flanking him 4 times, body shots. No hit marks. He then killed me. Its not the gun, its the lag. Lag has royaly fukked this game in the ass.

What's wrong with it? Nothing's wrong.

Part of it has to do with lag compensation, but the other half is that it's a slug round.

This is different from your usual buckshot in that the buckshot has lead balls that scatters out after leaving the barrel.

I'm not really into shotguns, but I believe the slug round is just a single, high-powered round.

When you ADS, you need to be as precise as a sniper. The trade off is extended range and power.

In hip fire, your probability of being on target is signifigantly decreased.

So what this means is that you need to have a very lax playstyle that gives you enough time to line up a good shot at a reasonable distance.

Seeing a lot of talk about connectivity effecting this gun, which may be true to some extent... but I think there is more to it than that.

I am not much of a shotgun guy, admittedly. Never use them in pub lobbies unless I am just messing about. I tend to play Custom Games when nobody is on or I am too tired or not in the mood to play Pub games. Watched a video from Hutch the other day praising the KSG, so I thought I would give it a run in Custom Games just to see what it is all about. I usually just play HC TDM 1v 9 against the Bots on Recruit or Regular(Not playing for the challenge necessarily, usually just to test setups and learn maps. Step it up if I am looking for a challenge.)

I equipped the KSG with laser sight and made several observations during the match. It just seemed to me to be a very schizophrenic weapon. There were times when I would ADS and get kills at a fairly long range, and then others when the Bot would just stare at me before shooting me down. The hip fire on the KSG is poor by design, but even with the laser sight it is iffy at best. Had moments when I ran over hoards of bots, and then others when it appeared I was right on target with the laser only to miss. So it really isn't just the lag or latency, it truly is an inconsistent weapon. Granted I haven't used it a lot, but just as a casual observer that is what I noticed.

The Remington 870 is much more efficient. The range seems to be comparable, it reloads quicker, and is much more reliable  when hip fired.

The video below shows one cause of it. Or read below.

(When you change stances going from standing to crouch or crouch to prone even when fully ADSing, your accuracy will go horrible and actually WORSE than hipfiring sometimes.)

Another cause is ADS moving delay on this weapon. When you ADS while moving, there's a 0.2 second delay until your bullets will go right where you aim. If you shoot before that 0.2 second delay even when fully ADSed, it'll be like as if you were hip-firing.

Yes, this weapon is broken in a way, and could use some fixing/tweaking. These two problems I stated above need to be fixed/tweaked.