M45D-Menace

ShotgunTemporaryAdded Oct 2023

This triple-barreled shotgun variant offers quick firing and reloading but has a wide pellet spread. In Mutation Mode, it features a 5-shell magazine and a chargeable Dragon's Breath attack for area damage.

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Head 637.5 kills in one

Chest 183.6 6 pellets, 30.6 each

Magazine 3 27 spare

How to get it

None of our sources says how this weapon is obtained.

Checked against 3 sources

Z8Games’ weapon list Not sold; no source given
The game’s item table Not in it (the table stops at 2013)
CrossFire Wiki No page of its own

Damage by hit box

0100+

Where	Multiplier	Damage	Shots to kill	Time to kill
Head Centre of the head	×1.25	637.5 (6×)	1	—
Head (edge) Outer head hit box	×1.2	612 (6×)	1	—
Neck	×0.5	255 (6×)	1	—
Chest Collarbones and upper spine	×0.36	183.6 (6×)	1	—
Stomach Lower spine and pelvis	×0.4 (0.36–)	204 (6×)	1	—
Arms	×0.3	153 (6×)	1	—
Hands	×0.3	153 (6×)	1	—
Thighs	×0.21	107.1 (6×)	1	—
Lower legs	×0.21	107.1 (6×)	1	—
Feet	×0.21	107.1 (6×)	1	—

Base damage 85 per pellet, 6 pellets a shot, multiplied by each hit box’s ratio from the weapon’s own table. Time to kill counts the gaps between shots at its fire rate. Each hit can vary by ±0%.

Handling

Fire modeSemi-auto, 6 pellets
Magazine3 + 27 · loads one at a time
Range80
Damage falloff0.0226
Movement speed−6.8%
Reload animation×1
Draw animation×1
Damage in one magazine551
Knockback0.15

Through armour and walls

Through a helmet80% of damage
Through body armour85% of damage
Shoots through wallsYes
Shoots through playersYes

Damage kept through

Tyres100%
Paper100%
Wood25%
Pottery25%
Cushion25%

Against other shotguns

Head damage Better than 64%
Chest damage Better than 64%
Magazine Better than 15%
Range Better than 83%
Damage falloff Better than 7%
Movement penalty Better than 95%

Ranked among shotguns with game data. Lower is better for time to kill, falloff and movement penalty.

Spread and recoil

Raw values from the weapon table

	Standing	Crouching	Running	Walking	Jumping
First-shot spread	0.045	0.045	0.045	0.045	0.045
Maximum spread	0.161	0.161	0.161	0.161	0.161
Vertical kick	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
Horizontal kick	-0.08	-0.08	-0.08	-0.08	-0.08

Five movement states, in the order the game stores them; the labels are our reading of the values. Smaller spread is more accurate.

Other versions in the game files

The game keeps separate copies of some weapons for particular modes (zombie and mutation modes often get bigger magazines). These are the copies that differ from the one above.