When trying to boost the damage of shotguns from Ballistic. The damage of these is capped to 180
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Unreal Editor for Fortnite
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Other
Steps to Reproduce
Use a Damage Amplifier device to boost player damage and use a shotgun from Ballistic. You might need to use verse to get around the 4.0x damage multiplier limit on the Damage Amplifier
Expected Result
Total damage is boosted exactly by what the Damage Amplifier is set to
In fact, ALL shotguns in the game have a hard damage cap (Except for the slug-shot heavy shotgun and woodstake). This was the result of an update all the way back in 2022. Not sure why they added this, and I’m not sure why it’s still here.
Nonetheless it’s not a bug. It seems to have been a failsafe system epic added a long time ago to prevent shotguns from instantly eliminating players, to which fails to make sense in the current day.