Remington 870

Remington 870
Overview
Type	Shotgun
Origin	United States
Statistics
Damage	40
Reload time	0.5 seconds per shell
Magazine	5 Rounds
Ammo	Plenty in the first part of the game

The Remington 870 is the only shotgun in Cry of Fear.

Overview

Simon finds this shotgun in the construction site, alongside the Lighter, which is obtained from a corpse. The shotgun is very useful against strong enemies, and most standard enemies can be eliminated with one or two shots.

If you decide to take the shotgun with you, when you return to the room before using the lighter, the place will be filled with Sewmos. Make your choice wisely.

Aiming the shotgun will narrow its bullet spread, or void its bullet spread entirely.

Advantages

• Shotgun Shells comes in boxes of 9. (Considering ammunition for other weapons is always equivalent to 1 magazine, this is generous.)
• Excellent for numerous enemies
• High damage
• Reloading can be interrupted to fire off shots as needed
• Reloading doesn't waste unspent shells (Unlike all magazine fed weapons, which waste any rounds in the mag that weren't fired)

Disadvantages

• Medium-High recoil
• Mediocre iron sights
• Slow reload speed
• Moderate Firing Speed
• The damage is spread across 6 pellets, making it less useful at range
• Whipping it will drain a small amount of stamina

Gallery

View model

Aiming with iron sight

World model

The Shotgun models made during development. V3 is the model used in game

Inventory description

The shotgun shell

Ammo model

Book Simon with the shotgun

Shoot sound

Trivia

• The Remington 870 is a pump action shotgun that can be chambered to fire 12, 16, 20, and 28 gauge ammunition as well as .410 bore.
• It first entered production in 1951 aimed at being a relatively low cost, reliable shotgun with modern design features.
• The 870 is the most popular shotgun ever produced, with worldwide sales topping 10 million.
• It is widely used both by civilians and law enforcement.
• The laminated hardwood stock design makes it most likely that the model that Simon uses in game is the 870 Express, a lower cost variant that can be chambered to take 12 and 20 gauge ammunition.
• The 2010 build of the game uploaded by Team Psykskallar contains the 2008 versions of the shotgun, which appears to use modified Half-Life animations and was visually based on a Mossberg 500 shotgun, which may explain why the shotgun holds 5 rounds in a 4-round tube (though the model actually used in this build is a Remington 870 with a 5-round tube as seen in the above showcase).