Stalcraft Wiki: KS-23
STALCRAFT Meta note
The KS-23 fires 23x75 rounds and has the highest damage in the shotgun-and-rifle category, a maximum distance it shares with the AEK-965 as the category's longest, a large mutant bonus and the Lethal shot property. The trade-offs are the lowest rate of fire in the category, a small magazine loaded one round at a time, and very heavy recoil. Damage begins to fall right from the muzzle.
Written for STALCRAFT Meta, not by EXBO. It may not reflect later balance changes. About
Unique Traits
Damage Profile
How these values are calculated
STALCRAFT Meta draws the damage chart for the selected upgrade level: full damage up to the falloff start, then a straight-line drop to minimum damage at the falloff end. The TTK Calculator and DPS Table use the same falloff model.
It shows damage per hit only, without ammo, armor or body-part multipliers.
Values at each upgrade level come from EXBO's per-level data.
Weapon Statistics
Highlighted values are at upgrade level +15.
Lethality
- Ammo type
- 23x75
- Damage
- 550
- Minimum Damage
- 300
- Maximum distance
- 125 m
- Start of damage drop-off
- 1 m
- End of damage drop-off
- 38 m
- Armor-penetration
- 0%
- Plate penetration
- 0%
- Rate of fire
- 40 shots/min
- Magazine capacity
- 4
- Automatic Fire
- No
- Burst Fire
- No
- Limb Damage Multiplier
- ×0.9
- Headshot Damage Multiplier
- ×1
- Mutant Damage Multiplier
- ×2.3
- Structure Damage Multiplier
- ×1
- Plate Durability Damage Multiplier
- ×1
Accuracy
- Spread
- 0.44°
- Hip-fire spread
- 2.25°
- Movement Spread Multiplier
- ×1.4
- Jump Spread Multiplier
- ×2
- Jumping Hip-Fire Spread Multiplier
- ×2
- Crouch Spread Multiplier
- ×1
- Prone Spread Multiplier
- ×1
Control
- Vertical recoil
- 10°
- Horizontal recoil
- 10°
- First Shot Recoil Multiplier
- ×1
- Recoil Buildup Start
- 0
- Crouch Recoil Multiplier
- ×1
- Prone Recoil Multiplier
- ×1
Handling
- Silencer
- No
- Movement speed
- -3%
- Aiming Movement Speed
- -20%
- Stabilization
- 0%
- Sway
- ±0.75°/s
- Max Sway at Low Stamina
- ±0.75°/s
- Prone Sway Multiplier
- ×1
- Crouch Sway Multiplier
- ×1
- Focus Stamina Drain Multiplier
- ×1
- Weapon ergonomics
- 100%
- Full reload
- 3.5 s
- Reloading one round
- 0.6 s
- Aiming time
- 0.2 s
- Draw time
- 0.8 s
- Equipping
- 2 s
- Holstering
- 0.5 s
Special
- Lethal Shot
- Yes
Attachment properties
Bonuses of the integrated attachment, stated apart from the weapon's own statistics.
- Hip-fire spread
- -25%
In-game description (EXBO)
The KS-23 is a Soviet pump-action shotgun and the largest-caliber production shotgun ever manufactured. It is a unique firearm because, under Soviet GOST standards, any weapon with a caliber exceeding 20 mm is officially classified as light artillery. The most remarkable feature, however, is its barrel. To reduce manufacturing costs, rejected barrels intended for 23 mm aircraft cannons were repurposed, proving perfectly suitable for firing less powerful ammunition. Within the Zone, the KS-23 is the ultimate big-game stopper, built to bring down targets that ordinary shotguns simply cannot.
Quoted from the game's own text in EXBO's public game data. Not written by STALCRAFT Meta.
How to Obtain
Barter Recipe
Various Locations
Barter Recipe
Various Locations
Barter Recipe
Various Locations
