Combat Shotgun

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About this weapon

• ◆In most games, the Combat Shotgun has an unrealistic reload animation, as the player character is seen pumping it. The charging handle located on the right side should be pulled instead, as the SPAS-12's pumping handle is locked when it is being used semi-automatically. Furthermore, the Remington 1100 from GTA IV does not even have a pumping handle in reality, since it is semi-auto only. The mistake has been rectified in GTA Online, where the player character correctly uses the charging handle after reloading an empty magazine tube. Also, with the SPAS-12 depiction of the weapon in GTA Online, the SPAS-12 is one of the few depictions in any media or video game that shows it being reloaded properly, that being the carrier latch button on the right side of the receiver being depressed, then the entire weapon being flipped upside down to reload from the loading port. Previously, (as in the 3D Universe) the SPAS-12 would just have shells shoved into the loading port with zero regard to the charging handle and carrier latch button needing to be used first. As for the GTA IV and Episodes rendition, the reload also misses the action of chamberloading a shell and then slightly pulling back on the charging handle attached to the 1100's bolt, which would load the shell and then allow for the remaining 9 shells to be loaded into the magazine tube.
• ◆The reloading animation differs in the PC version of GTA IV, where two shells are loaded into the right side ejection port (which is incorrect), whereas in the console versions they are properly inserted in the loading port at the bottom of the weapon. In The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, the bottom loading port is used in all versions. Niko holds the weapon higher in the PC version compared to the console release. Moreover, in all three games the player pumps the shotgun after reloading. The animations appear to suit a SPAS-12 more than the intended model, hinting that this was the intended model for the shotgun all along before release.
• ◆Blind-firing the shotgun from behind cover results in the character pumping the shotgun after each shot, as if he was using a pump shotgun, likely an oversight due to reused animations. This also applies to the Sawn-Off Shotgun, Assault Shotgun and the Automatic Shotgun.
• ◆The actual SPAS-12 shotgun is seen in GTA IV s loading sequences; artwork shows two LCPD Officers, one holding a SPAS 12, and the other holding an MP10. This suggests that the weapon was meant to reappear in GTA IV but was cut. Niko is also seen holding a stockless SPAS 12 in a different artwork.
• ◆Despite the fact that the player gets the Combat Shotgun when entering an LCPD or NOOSE vehicle, the LCPD and NOOSE officers generally use Pump Shotguns; however, during certain missions, such as The Snow Storm, LCPD officers will use it.
• ◆The icon for the Combat Shotgun in GTA IV is incorrect, portraying a diffferent, slimmer shotgun model with a stock that lacks the thumbhole.
• ◆On the side of the weapon in GTA IV, there is an inscription saying "12 GUAGE [sic] EC28 IRL".
• ◆On the combat shotgun in GTA IV and TLAD, there is a "TAC-700" text marked in small letters. The images for the model's texture contain "tac_700" in their titles.
• ◆When purchasing weapons from Little Jacob in GTA IV, the Combat Shotgun is simply referred to as "Shotgun". This was fixed in TLAD and TBoGT (respectively from Terry Thorpe and Armando Torres).
• ◆The official Newswire screenshot of the GTA Online Combat Shotgun incorrectly displays the Military Rifle.