How rife is this game with hacks?

[Whaleman]

I was at the sunken ship, was about midway on the lower deck and spied a guy out by one of the blue storage containers on the ground. I aimed and started popping him. He shot me with a shotgun and killed me with 1 shot. Is this a hack or just messed up gun physics? I know a shot gun is not that effective at that range so is it a game thing? I'm tired of unloading a clip from my heavy machine gun to be killed by a guy with a pistol. I also know that at my advanced age my reflexes aren't what they used to be and I tend to run and gun alot but sometime, come on nobody is that accurate.

[Latzen]

Disclaimer: I have never played this game.

From all of the discussion here, it seems that a shotgun loaded with the right kind of ammo is a godly weapon capable of destruction at long range.

So it's probably not a cheat so much as a non sequitur on the part of the game's designers (as far as weapons logic is concerned)

[Ska Wars]

The default pump and neosted (sp?) equiped with magnum rounds and solid slugs can kill with one shot to the head/chest at distances up to and around 100-150m so it's very possible this is what he did. Pretty good tactic to use especially in some of the jungle-ish maps.

Down side is that it has very little zoom when aiming due to the iron sights, but last time I played it also had little to no bullet drop making it a bit of a laser at range.

[Miasmatic]

Haha yes, the shotgun with the accuracy mod is devastating if you have any aim at all; however you have to remain still to be accurate.

Yesterday a victim of mine wrote in-game: "Oh, what hack are you using that you have to stop moving to fire?"