Would/could an AA-12 based weapon be balanced?

[god11]

As an ability it wouldn’t make much sense since Rhino’s minigun already exists for those close range sweeps.
As a primary? Take the Ahnuhld, double its firerate and cut the damage in half and give it the Remburgh’s spread, quite boring and it would be too easy to use.
I’d rather see something like a double barreled sawed off shotgun as a secondary to bring some diversity.

[Ferrett321]

Probably not. Automatic shotguns in games are usually extremely op or really awful. They work sometimes in survival games by making them jam often, but more often than not, assault shotguns are extremely difficult to balance.

Doesn’t mean splash damage can’t lower the damage until players find it reasonable to play against.