Weapon sway/recoil question

[東方不敗]

So I recently started a new playthrough as I installed the latest Unofficial Patch Version (11.3) and I bought the Colt Anaconda just to test it out, but I noticed that so far, with every firearm I have (Crossbow, shotgun, mac 10 and Colt) every single time I fire a shot, my aim goes all over the place, as if I had recoil set to 1000 or something, making it basically impossible to shoot. I'm still at the museum mission so I've basically used melee weapons until now, but wanted to test guns and found out this. I don't remember weapons having this kind of problem on my first run, but I hope it's just me remembering wrong. I should probably mention that my ranged weapon stat is at 5 right now.

[devious goon]

That's just what happens when your ranged weapon stat is that low, firearms only start being good when your ranged weapon stat is at least 8

[Vepar]

Yeah, 5 is barely usable honestly. I think, until you get firearms to 8+, you're supposed to just pick up and use what your enemies use, and just spray and pray (cause you have replenishable free ammo). After 8, firearms get good, before, they're all "meh".

[東方不敗]

I see, thank you guys! I was honestly scared some bug happened and needed to restart, guess I'll put more points in ranged from now on

[Norwin]

There is a chance for the character to become permanently bugged, It is easy to test for. Equip a weapon that should have no sway at ranged 10 then use console to give character ranged skill 10. If character still has sway when there isn't and reason for it, character is permanently bugged. The only way I know to clear the issue is load a save from before character became bugged.

There are actually a whole class of such bugs and I haven't done the work yet to quantify exactly what the root causes are or what, if anything, can be done with them.

[Wesp5]

Originally posted by Norwin:

There are actually a whole class of such bugs and I haven't done the work yet to quantify exactly what the root causes are or what, if anything, can be done with them.

I'm not aware of ranged stats being altered, but I know that there is a save bug that can make you stealth stat better and better with every time you save/load at certain places.