Storm Surge adds massive shotgun spread?

[Talio]

Nothing in the description of Storm Surge suggests it should be adding spread, and the Mossman I slotted it into still only claims to have a spread of 4 (I put a 6" barrel extension on it to reduce it).

I tested it with Bombard + Boulder oil and it maintained a reasonably tight spread, but then I added the Storm Surge enchantment thinking I was making a sort of psuedo electric grenade launcher salvo weapon... But after adding Storm Surge, it now fires in an extremely wide duckbill pattern. Given that it takes on such a specific spread pattern I'm assuming this is intended, but if so, it should indicate that the weapon spread has gone up somewhere.

[Bubble]

Umm, it's probably a bug. Happens a lot with Rocket launcher Scroll. People saying that it resets to normal after going via portal. Scrolls should not do anything to Spread, only Bullet Drop

[Talio]

Very unfortunate if it's a bug. I sold the shotgun because it was too dangerous to use in hallways or small rooms, which is a significant portion of the game. It would just hit walls to the sides of me while trying to shoot down hallways and the explosions almost killed me.

I only really tested it in the "safe" zone though, I didn't try transitioning into an actual level after seeing how dangerous it was to use.

[Neon]

Originally posted by Talio:

Nothing in the description of Storm Surge suggests it should be adding spread, and the Mossman I slotted it into still only claims to have a spread of 4 (I put a 6" barrel extension on it to reduce it).

I tested it with Bombard + Boulder oil and it maintained a reasonably tight spread, but then I added the Storm Surge enchantment thinking I was making a sort of psuedo electric grenade launcher salvo weapon... But after adding Storm Surge, it now fires in an extremely wide duckbill pattern. Given that it takes on such a specific spread pattern I'm assuming this is intended, but if so, it should indicate that the weapon spread has gone up somewhere.

in my experience it's the bombard oil that gives you a wide but not tall spread, but only sometimes.

[BludyMaNa]

It seems to be a glitch associated with the bullet drop stat, depending on which direction you're facing in the map it goes from normal spread to massive horizontal spread.

I don't know what kind of black magic calculations are happening but i'm avoiding bullet drop until it seems patched.

Hell, i made a shotgun with bullet drop and 0.1 spread, then made it -1.4 spread, and it still had that horrendous horizontal spread without any change from 4 Spread.