Talk:Jackal (shotgun)

This one is fun to use, but practically useless, as it has not enough accuracy to do a percise hit all the time and splash damage is low. And obviously it can not crit. Overall its faster to kill enemy with 2-3 good placed shots from a regular shotgun.

Actually this weapon is immensely deadly in the hands of a Siren. It usually has a higher fire rate, add in Lilith's Quicksilver ability and the low recoil of Dahl weapons, and you can send all 12 shots (In the case of a 12 round clip) at your enemy very quickly. The splash damage may not be too big, but combined with the speed in which the shots go off you can obliterate small to large groups of enemies very easily with this weapon. I have killed seven psychos at once with half a clip in Horde mode on Moxxi's Underdome.

ZylotheWolfbane 05:54, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

I've been playing this too much...
So I had a dream lastnight where I found a gun very similar to the Jackal, but instead of firing explosive rounds, it fired rounds that were like little molotov cocktails. They actually set the ground on fire. The effective radius wasn't huge, but it was like if an enemy ran through it, they'd catch on fire. Seeing as how this isn't too farfetched, I think it'd be cool if Gearbox added guns like this in the sequel or something. A series gun that could set traps and the like. I know this is random and unrelated, but I thought it was cool and felt like sharing. AlexanderBlackX 20:58, March 24, 2010 (UTC)

Useful against Crawmerax
It seems like the spot on Crawm's back is usually the pain for people soloing him, but I actually just tried this and had great success. If you arc a shot with the Jackal just right, you can hit the spot on his back while he's facing you. You have to play around with it to get the right angle (especially depending on his distance from you) and timing if he's doing his little spaz out animation, but it definitely works. Once you find the right angle to arc the shot to its target, don't move it much if you can help it. Once you work out the timing, just keep firing at that point in his animation. Or you can just keep spamming shots if you don't care about wasting ammo. It doesn't do much damage from what I've seen, so it will take a number of hits to kill that spot. I don't know if this matters with this strategy, but I did it using a lvl 61 hunter and he has lvl 50 proficiency with shotguns. And yes, I did it from the spot on the cliff edge, but let's not rip me a new one here. Hope this helps. AlexanderBlackX 02:02, March 26, 2010 (UTC)