Mozambique Shotgun

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About

Mozambique Shotgun is an in-game weapon in the Titanfall universe games Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends. Following the release of Apex Legends in February 2019, the weapon gained notoriety as being severely underpowered and became the subject of memes in the gaming community.

Origin

On October 28th, 2016, first-person multiplayer shooter Titanfall 2 developed by Respawn was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. ^[1] In the game, triple-barrel shotgun pistol SA-3 Mozambique is one of the weapons available to the players.^[2] Initially a secondary semi-automatic weapon with a magazine capacity of four, in the October 31st, 2017 patch "Trick and Treats" the weapon was changed to fully automatic, had its magazine expanded by two additional shots and could now be equipped as a primary weapon.^[3]

On February 4th, 2019, Respawn announced and released Apex Legends, a battle royale game set in the Titanfall universe.^[4] Many weapons which previously appeared in Titanfall installations were featured in Apex Legends on release, including the renewed Mozambique shotgun pistol. Unline its Titanfall 2 counterpart, Apex Legends Mozambique has limited magazine capacity of three shots.

Spread

Following the release of the game, players discussed the shotgun's seeming lack of power when compared to other weapons in the game, with Mozambique quickly acquiring the reputation the most undesired weapon.^[5]^[6]^[7] Additionally, calling teammates' attention towards an unpicked Mozambique by pinging it became an in-joke in the Apex Legends community.^[8]^[9]

On February 8th, 2019, Twitch streamer Kephrii announced "Mozambique Challenge" for Apex Legends, promising to pay 100 U.S. Dollars to any player who manages to win a game on Stream using exclusively the Mozambique shotgun.^[10] The tweet gained over 40 retweets and 400 likes in one month, while the challenge was completed on the same day.^[11]

On February 20th, 2019, in a Reddit thread,^[12] Respawn senior designer Sean Slayback replied to an inquiry about plans to buff Mozambique.

Current plan is to keep enjoying the memes.
In the meantime, remember that ADSing chokes the spread down which makes it easier to hit that pattern. 2 to the chest, 1 to the head.

On March 4th, Apex Legends YouTube channel posted a video celebrating 50 million players trying out the game. In the video, a comedic reference was made to Mozambique being considered an ineffective weapon.