June 02, 2022

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New recoil
Top of the list, new recoil has been implemented to pretty much every gun. As a quick side note, recoil can be difficult to describe in text -- I’ll do my best but you really just need to try it out for yourself to see. If it’s still pre-update, you can hit up various staging servers which have been set up to test the new recoil out.

Overall, recoil is easier to learn and manage. Instead of complex patterns you’d need to master to spray with accuracy, each gun now has a simpler pattern to learn. A positive beyond the lower learning curve is these patterns should actually make it harder for scripters to do their thing.

Although not the main impetus for these changes, a number of scriptable aspects of recoil have been addressed. This ideally reduces the effectiveness of scripts and hinders their ability from gaining such advantage.

So what are these new patterns like? Well AK spray basically goes up and to the right. SAR is very accurate with less recoil than before. LR spray goes straight up with a little wiggle side-to-side. The recoil pattern per weapon, although pretty consistent from spray to spray, seems to have a little RNG variability both horizontally and vertically. This means they are similar each time, but also have some randomness.

Recoil, as expected, is also impacted by what your player is doing. You’ll have less of a recoil pattern if you’re crouching and aiming down sight (ADS) while spraying. On the flipside, if you’re running and hip-firing, your recoil is going to be drastically greater.

To give you a sense of the patterns, here are some examples we did yesterday on staging. These represent the full auto recoil pattern with zero compensation while being stationary and ADS. The left pattern represents standing, the right pattern is crouching. Keep in mind, all is subject to change!