Bait the blast
Show a shoulder or use utility, then swing during the 0.875-second pump.
Weapon 18Close
M3
A pump shotgun with a 180 base-damage pellet ceiling.
The M3 launches nine pellets at 20 base damage each, giving it greater one-shot potential than the XM1014. The trade is a 0.875-second pump cycle: miss or graze and the opponent gets a long punish window.
- Point-blank ambushes
- Tight corners
- One-shot close kills
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Counter-Strike 1.6 values
Weapon statistics
Base damage is before hitgroup, distance, armor, and material modifiers. Armored damage is the percentage retained while armor covers the hitgroup.
- Base damage
- 20 × 9 pellets
- Armored damage
- 50%
- Fire rate
- 69 RPM
- Shot interval
- 0.875 s
- Range behavior
- No damage falloff
- Wall penetration
- None
- Price
- $1,700
- Buy side
- Both
- Magazine
- 8 shells
- Reserve
- 32 shells
- Reload
- 0.45 s start + 0.55 s/shell
- Move speed
- 230 u/s
Percentage-based range retention applies once per 500 game units. Penetration count is the maximum penetration stages passed to the CS 1.6 bullet simulation; material and thickness still determine whether a shot exits a surface.
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Used on CSJS
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Core techniques
- 01
Make all nine matter
Hold close and aim upper torso so the complete pellet cloud connects.
- 02
Load only what you need
Add shells during small gaps; the reload can be interrupted.
How to counter it
Clear the corner
Grenades and teammates remove its point-blank one-shot advantage.