M500 Weapon Guide

The M500 is the building-fight specialist: $1,200 of buckshot authority that mounts optics and chokes, which lets it tune between room-clearing spread and tightened lanes. In a game whose fights collapse into destructible buildings inside a 2×2 km zone, a cheap shotgun that wins the last twenty meters of any push has real work to do.

Support players and tower-pushers on a budget — the community loadout notes pair the M500 with cheap kits precisely because its job (the doorway) is the same regardless of what the rest of the loadout costs. It is also the best early "second gun" logic in the game: cheaper than an AK74, more decisive inside buildings than anything at triple the price.

A tier: excellent within its range band, honest about its limits outside them. There is no shotgun competitor documented at its price point in the Early Access arsenal — the discipline is range fit, not comparison shopping. Inside 20 meters it punches like prestige hardware; at 300 meters it is a very confident noisemaker.