Pellets and Shots

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Shots and pellets are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shots" instead a noun "Pellets".

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Pellets and shots are semantically related. You can use "Pellets" instead a noun "Shots".

Two shots is enough to kill any infantry within a few meters, and anyone further away can just be hosed down with hundreds of buckshot pellets.

Source: Video Game / PlanetSide
Since standard buckshot is 7 pellets, this gives meat shots about a 50% chance (14 pellets and about a 75% chance using the double-barreled Sawed-off shotgun or Big Boomer) of rendering any enemy but Ulysses, Gaius Magnus, or Colonel Royez helpless for several seconds.

Source: Game Breaker / Fallout
The creator hasn't modified it's accuracy or anything, he's just raised the damage to disguise the fact that only a few pellets are actually hitting the target in-game, making it look like it's taking several long range shots to down the target (usually a soldier).

Source: Machinima / Freeman's Mind

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