Double-barreled shotgun

"Double shot, double damage!"

- SG/MY official description

The Double-barreled Shotgun or simply Double Barrel is a shotgun with two parallel barrels, allowing two shots to be fired in quick succession.

Overview
The Double-barreled shotgun in game is a sawed-off shotgun, the barrels can be fired in quick succession. It is extremely powerful in close and medium battles. This shotgun has higher knockback power than the Winchester M1887, making it the best weapon to knock zombies away in Zombie Mods and Zombie Escape.

Advantages

 * Powerful at close range and middle range
 * Light
 * Short reload time
 * Cheap
 * High damage
 * Extremely high knockback to zombies
 * High rate of fire

Disadvantages

 * Low magazine capacity
 * Weak dealing multiple targets
 * High recoil
 * Useless at long range

Release date
This weapon was released alongside Zombie: The Hero on: This weapon was a resale for Upgrade Event on:
 * Singapore/Malaysia: 21 December 2011.
 * Gold edition was added into Code Box on 31 July 2013.
 * Indonesia: 15 February 2012.
 * Turkey: 20 November 2013.
 * South Korea: 27 February 2014.
 * Taiwan/Hong Kong: 11 March 2014.
 * China: 4 December 2013.
 * Japan: 12 March 2014.
 * Singapore/Malaysia: 8 October 2013 alongside Skull-5 (resale).
 * Indonesia: 28 August 2013 alongside Venice.

Tactics
Original mode= Zombie Mods= Zombie Escape=
 * Player must have fast reaction and aiming skills as 2 shells may not be enough to take down an enemy.
 * Aim for chest as it can deal 160 damage if all pellets hits the target.
 * Shoot one at a time. Firing too fast will send the next shell's pellet group higher than the target.
 * 2 rounds of Double-barreled shotgun can deal 170 ~ 850 damage.
 * Use it in the map Origin as most camping spot are on high places.
 * Shoot at airborne zombies to maximize the knockback.
 * Try not to use this weapon in ducts.
 * For campers, this is the recommended weapon as this will knock the zombies away.

Variants
Gold Edition=

The gold-plated version of Double-barreled shotgun shares the same performance with the original one except it is lighter by 1%. Note that Double-barreled shotgun Gold can also be upgraded to Triple-barreled shotgun. Triple-barreled=
 * Main article: Triple-barreled shotgun



Triple-barreled shotgun is the upgrade version of Double-barreled shotgun. It can perform 3-round burst but longer reload time than the double-barreled. Quad-barreled=
 * Main article: Quad-barreled shotgun



Quad-barreled shotgun is used by the Heroine, it can perform a 4-round burst but with equal reload time to the Triple-barreled shotgun. It can't be obtained by any means unless you become the heroine.

Positive

 * Higher damage (+15)
 * Cheaper (-$200)
 * Higher fire rate (+25%)
 * Lighter (+5%)
 * Higher knockback power
 * Faster reload time (-3.8 seconds)

Neutral

 * Same recoil (88%)

Negative

 * Lower magazine size (-6)

Gallery
Double Barrel=

Firing sound

Reload sound

Draw sound

Trivia

 * Early release of the Double Barrel lacks its third-person firing sound.
 * The words "HUDSON 12 SLANK" can be seen on the back of the shells while reloading.
 * This weapon has the least ammo capacity in the shotgun category, and also the fastest in reloading.
 * Since Taiwan/Hong Kong region's event update on 1/4/2014, this gun holds 5 rounds. This was patched later.