Scatter blaster

"This weapon will win the war for you, guaranteed! But wait, there's more! Just look what else you get!"

Swindle may buy and sell an arsenal's worth of weapons in a day, but he keeps an occasional piece of merchandise for himself. His scatter blaster fires a wide spray of explosive buckshot - perfect for keeping away dissatisfied customers.

Wildrider uses the similar scattershot gun, which he could've easily bought off of Swindle. If he shoots at anything, including small five story buildings in a fifty-square yard area, up to a 1/4 mile away, THE TERRORISTS WIN.

Fiction

Animated cartoon

Even in an alternate universe, Swindle still swears by this weapon. Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac

Games

War for Cybertron

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A popular short-range weapon during the Great War, the Scatter Blaster was commonly carried by Scout and Scientist class Transformers. Starscream, Skywarp, Breakdown, Ironhide, and Air Raid all favored this weapon. Surprisingly it is full auto. Transformers: War for Cybertron

This weapon has the following in-game attributes:

• Damage: 7
• Range: 3
• Accuracy: 4
• Rate of Fire: 5

Fall of Cybertron

They were still in use later in the war, as the Autobots readied the Ark for launch. At this point, the weapon was favoured by Jazz and Starscream, but not, surprisingly, Swindle. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

The weapon's attributes in this game were:

• Damage: 9
• Range: 4
• Accuracy: 5
• Rate of Fire: 8

They could additionally be upgraded at Teletraan-1 terminals with ion cartridges (increasing ammo per clip), quantum stabilizers (eliminating recoil), hyper interlinks (speeding up reloads) and fireblast (giving a 25% chance of setting the enemy on fire).

See also

• Plasma-shell shotgun