"A shotgun with a sawed-off stock and barrel. Its compact size allows for excellent maneuverability and handling." — Inventory description - English |
"ストックとバレルを短く切り詰めたショットガン。 サイズの短縮化により、取り回し性と携帯性に優れる。" — Inventory description - Japanese |
Skull Shaker is an exclusive weapon type available to Resident Evil 4 Deluxe Edition (formerly) and Gold Edition (currently).
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The Skull Shaker is exclusive to the Deluxe Edition (formerly) and Gold Edition (currently) upgrade and therefore unobtainable without this upgrade. Once obtained, the weapon (along with other deluxe edition (formerly) and gold edition (currently) bonuses) can be found at any typewriter in storage and is available from the beginning of the game.
Gameplay[]
The Skull Shaker is a powerful lever action shotgun capable of significantly damaging or even outright killing lesser enemies in very few shots.
To balance this raw power, the Skull Shaker has a very low ammunition capacity (starting with just 2 shells per reload at level 1), Low rate of fire and a slow reload speed.
This can be lessened somewhat through upgrades, however, even when fully upgraded the W-870 will have slightly better stats at the same level (excluding fire rate and reload speed), it also shares the W-870's exclusive perk which doubles the weapon's firepower.
Upgrading the reload speed causes Leon to load more than 1 shell in at a time, significantly reducing reloading times. With reloading speed fully upgraded, Leon will load all 6 shells at once very quickly. Conveniently this reloading speed is roughly the same speed as the maxed out firing speed, which largely eliminates reloading overall.
The Main advantage over the W-870 the Skull Shaker boasts is it's massively reduced size in the Attaché case, taking up only 5 slots (5x1 tiles) vs the W-870's much larger size of 16 slots (8x2 tiles). This massively reduced size can come in very handy early on when the player doesn't yet have access to the larger Attaché cases, allowing for quite a substantially better time in inventory management.
Furthermore, the skullshaker has a hidden unique perk of sorts where it is capable of flinching or even outright staggering enemies with stray pellets compared to its alternatives. Coupled with its large spread, it allows players to handle mobs of ganados in a much easier and safer time than the Striker.
Overall when fully upgraded; it sports the 3rd highest firepower, 2nd widest spread (behind the Striker), fastest reload speed, and smallest inventory size. An extremely solid pick regardless of the stage of the game a player is at given they prioritize upgrading the weapon.
Upgrade Chart[]
Specs | Lv. 1 | Upgrade Price Resell Value
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Lv. 2 | Upgrade Price Resell Value
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Lv. 3 | Upgrade Price Resell Value
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Lv. 4 | Upgrade Price Resell Value
|
Lv. 5 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Power | 5.40 | 15,000₧ +14,250₧
|
6.32 | 25,000 ₧ + 23,750 ₧
|
7.24 | 45,000 ₧ + 42,750 ₧
|
8.15 | 60,000 ₧ + 57,000 ₧
|
9.07 | 145,000
₧ + 137,750
₧
|
Ammo Capacity | 2 | 8,000₧ +7,600₧
|
3 | 11,000 ₧ + 10,450 ₧
|
4 | 15,000 ₧ + 14,250 ₧
|
5 | 19,000 ₧ + 18,050 ₧
|
6 | 53,000
₧ + 50,350
₧
|
Reload Speed Rounds
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0.50 1
|
7,000₧ +6,650₧
|
0.79 2
|
9,000 ₧ + 8,550 ₧
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0.98 3
|
11,000 ₧ + 10,450 ₧
|
0.98 4
|
13,000 ₧ + 12,350 ₧
|
1.29
6
|
40,000
₧ + 38,000
₧
|
Rate of Fire | 0.49 | 10,000₧ +9,500₧
|
0.56 | 11,000 ₧ + 10,450 ₧
|
0.66 | 12,000 ₧ + 11,400 ₧
|
0.79 | 13,000 ₧ + 12,350 ₧
|
0.96 | 46,000
₧ + 43,700
₧
|
Precision | 2.30 | - | ||||||||
Exclusive Perk | Increase power by 2x. | 80,000
₧ | ||||||||
Total | 364,000₧ +269,800₧
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Buying Price/Selling Price | 15,000₧ 7,500₧
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Total Including Buying/Selling Price | 379,000
₧ 277,300₧
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- Its reload speed is calculated based on the ammo capacity level and the amount of rounds it can load at once.
- The above stats for each reload speed level is based on a Skull Shaker with max ammo capacity.
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