Atlas

Description
The Atlas is a springer Pump-Action Blaster shooting 2 High-Impact Rival Rounds with each trigger pull. In real life, the Atlas is rather looked down upon due to it being rather unnecessary, as its really tight spread makes it essentially shoot two rounds at once when it only really needs to shoot one at a time to achieve similar results. The concept of a RIVAL shotgun was short-lived as the Atlas was the only shotgun, and there hasn't been another since its release in 2016. It features a unique magazine loading system that while not traditional, wasn't cumbersome like the Zeus, and resembles a P90 loading system.

In-game
In-game the Atlas is a decent primary, having good accuracy and decent range, with average stability and weight. It is a good gun at all ranges, though it is better to use it in long range engagements. It has a small magazine capacity, making reloads frequent and not preferable in heated close-range engagements. Nevertheless, the Atlas remains a decent pump-action shotgun primary. It is unlocked at level 12.

Usage / Gameplay
Unlike, shotguns in real life, the Atlas excels at long range, where having two accurate rounds with a small bit of spread doubles your chance of hitting far away enemies. In close range, the Atlas's shotgun abilities are rather useless, as shooting one round will tag the enemy anyway and your essentially wasting one round and having half the capacity of a traditional blaster shooting one round at a time. Reloads will be frequent with this blaster's decent RoF and low magazine capacity, and reloads are quite slow, making Run 'n Gun tactics with this gun ineffective, especially at close ranges. If you really want to use a shotgun, this is the best (and only) primary shotgun you can get.

Stats
Pros:


 * Decent rate of fire for a springer.
 * Average mobility
 * Low unlock rank.
 * Decent accuracy
 * Good range

Cons:


 * Low magazine capacity (only 6 rounds).
 * Slow reloads.
 * Ineffective at closer ranges where the Charger or Zeus would be better as they have higher RoFs and higher mag-capacities.

Mods
 Sight : Red Dot, Kobra, Eotech, Acog, LS (Longshot) Scope, 3x Scope, Aimpoint, 7x Scope

 Mod : Air Restrict, Light Spring, Metal Plunger, Heavy Spring, 8KG Spring, 12KG Spring, 14KG Spring

Trivia

 * It is named after the titan Atlas from Greek mythology, who was meant to hold up the skies and the heavens for all of eternity.
 * It is the only real Nerf RIVAL shotgun.
 * Reason being that RIVAL shotguns were generally impractical due to their very tight spread.
 * The sort of "successor" to the Atlas is the Hypnos, which has a similar form factor to the Atlas but accepts 7-round mags and only shoots 1 round at a time, making it much more practical. The Hypnos also has a folding stock.