Like the ideas of salvaged doodads on the BAR. Like I said, he could have modified the BAR to be a simple shotgun without too much trouble, even in real life.
Check out the Scatter Gun used by Clyde Barrow. Instead of a shotgun that blasts shot, you could make a machine gun that fires so fast and with such a lack of accuracy that it is effectively a shotgun. Probably does a lot of damage at close range, but has a small clip so your not just making the soldier into a new heavy. Luck would also play a big part in its accuracy. Sometimes you would totally miss someone close, other times you could slaughter a room full of wounded people.
You would need to name it something else. You could call it the BARrow gun, because its like...a BAR that the barrow gang used.
Cover it in cobwebs and write an ironic story about how it was totally not stolen from a crime museum.
I think the shotgun looks good, but it doesn't match the game style too well. It needs more stubbiness to it, make it shorter or sawed-off. Shorten the barrel down to the wooden area on the front. Also, more wear and tear to make it feel used. Maybe some duct-tape on the clip or around the stock for visual interest. It feels too modern. I'd shorten the magazine or put it somewhere wacky as to make it feel homemade. Make the charging handle twice or three times bigger, see the Sniper's SMG and the Demoman's sticky-launcher for reference.
I hope you don't mind, I drew up a reference to what I mean, and altered the image a bit. I was in a rush though, I'm at work.
As for the comment above me about making it an assault rifle, please don't. Assault rifles are right out in TF2, they avoided them because it makes it too much of a generic shooter and they aren't crazy enough.
I didn't mean for my gun to sound like an assault rifle, as when I said wildly inaccurate I meant bullets flying at 90 degree angles sometimes. Not really able to hit anything at any sort of range and certainly more of a super-close range gun that relies a lot on luck to hit something.
Well what type of shotgun is this going to be? Will it be like a Siaga 12 auto-shotgun?
Perhaps building on the idea of making it more home-made, you can have the clip replaced with a can full of BB gun pellets hung upside down. When the gun fires, it empties this big can in a split second.
Not too sure about the sunglasses, but it's already submitted so not much to say about that. I can see the launcher and melee having a decent chance of getting added in a future community update, nice work on getting the pack done in time!
Sounds good, hopefully you can hammer everything out in time to update your submission.
Out of all the soldier submissions, your launcher is by far and above my favorite one, best of luck!
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Check out the Scatter Gun used by Clyde Barrow. Instead of a shotgun that blasts shot, you could make a machine gun that fires so fast and with such a lack of accuracy that it is effectively a shotgun. Probably does a lot of damage at close range, but has a small clip so your not just making the soldier into a new heavy. Luck would also play a big part in its accuracy. Sometimes you would totally miss someone close, other times you could slaughter a room full of wounded people.
You would need to name it something else. You could call it the BARrow gun, because its like...a BAR that the barrow gang used.
Cover it in cobwebs and write an ironic story about how it was totally not stolen from a crime museum.
I hope you don't mind, I drew up a reference to what I mean, and altered the image a bit. I was in a rush though, I'm at work.
As for the comment above me about making it an assault rifle, please don't. Assault rifles are right out in TF2, they avoided them because it makes it too much of a generic shooter and they aren't crazy enough.
Well what type of shotgun is this going to be? Will it be like a Siaga 12 auto-shotgun?
Perhaps building on the idea of making it more home-made, you can have the clip replaced with a can full of BB gun pellets hung upside down. When the gun fires, it empties this big can in a split second.
sounds epic to me
Lots of texturing to finish up? Or are you generally satisfied?
I hope you make it in!
cute decal on the launcher btw
very nice pack
Out of all the soldier submissions, your launcher is by far and above my favorite one, best of luck!