Shotgunner's Momentum - A Shotgun Cert Rework

Description

I've reworked the Shotgun Cert to focus more around constant movement and getting up close and personal to prescribe buffs to the player. This is also an attempt to make shotguns have a playstyle that favors aggression and speed.

Main features

Following Shotgun cert ranks and effects -

• []Rank 1 - Shotguns do 15% more damage. Damage taken is reduced by 10% while sprinting.[/]

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  Rank 2

  - Hip-fire Accuracy while moving is increased by 20%. Kills increase reload speed by 25% for 15 seconds.[/]

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  Rank 3

  - Hip-fire shots at a target within 10m have 15% bonus critical chance. Kills now also increase crit damage by 20% for 15 seconds.[/]

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  Rank 4

  - Hip-fire shots at a target within 6m have 20% armor penetration, and gives you a 15% movespeed buff for 15 seconds. Kills now also add an additional 10% movespeed. Damage resistance now only requires movement. [/]

Hip fire shots were prioritized so as to keep up the speed and close range rather than slow down for ADS. Of course, you can still ADS when you need to, but a shotgun won't be as effective.

Challenges were changed to be more related to "training" for the next rank and its effects. Numbers are kept pretty low compared to base game's requirements. They also even have their own names!

Some technical notes about about the effects gained

• []Crit chance bonus is an additional +15% and not a multiplicative one.[/]

  []6m Movement speed buff and kill movement speed buff stack.[/]

  []Like other buffs in the game the buff duration(s) will not be refreshed on hit or on kill.[/]

  []Damage resistance while sprinting/moving is a general buff to damage resistance and not dependent on damage type.[/]

Playtesting notes

This mod was playtested while having the Royal Galaxy suite; with Starvival's Survival damage multiplier (set to 1. 5x); vanilla gameplay setting of player damage set to hard. Some testing was done with Vanilla scaling and damage was generally good even with just the shotgun perk damage bo