Recoil management

Recoil in Siege is, in-a-sense, randomized based on a certain pattern.

In this guide i will go through the following:
- The firing range
- Recoil management
- Attachments

Changelog:

Updated the entire guide to comply with the newest Y8 S2.3 Update.
Edited the information shown for the extended barrel, suppressor, and compensator.
Added the "Grips" section.
Added the "Laser" section.

Attachments

The muzzles

Suppressors

Suppressors will remove smoke trails when firing a weapon, as well as remove threat indicators. It does not affect recoil.

Extended Barrel

Extended barrels increase overall damage of the weapon by 12%.

Muzzle Brake

Muzzle Brake reduces first shot recoil by 45%, and it reduces centering time (time it takes for the crosshair to automatically return to its original position when firing began) by 45%.

Compensator

Compensators only reduce horizontal recoil by 35%.
Does not help with vertical recoil.

Flash Hider

Flash hider reduces the vertical recoil by 5%. Also, like the name suggests, reduces the flash when firing a weapon by 50%

Grips

Vertical Grip: Reduces vertical kick and overall recoil by 5%
Angled Grip: Increases ADS speed by 20%

ADS Speed per class
• Assault rifles: 0.40s
• DMRs: 0.40s
• SMGs: 0.30s
• LMGs: 0.45s
• Pistol: 0.20s
• Machine pistols: 0.275s
• Shotguns: 0.25s

Laser

The laser improves hipfire accuracy by 25% and does not affect recoil in any way.

Recoil management

Gun behavior

In order to learn the recoil of a weapon of choice, you need to see how the weapon behaves. Is it a straight line? Does it go left or right? Is the kick of the weapon high?

Since the Y7 S2 Update we finally got the firing range in R6. Which got a huge update in Y8.
In the range you can test different operators and their guns and see how the gun behaves.
You can swap attachments on the fly to see which one you prefer using.

Usage of the firing range

The range has a different set of features which help with fine tuning your recoil control.

At first, we got the circular target. This target is good to see how accurate the gun you're firing with is. You'll also get a different set of ranges you can test it out with. These are,
- 5m
- 10m
- 20m
- 30m


You can also change out the circular target for a human formed one


But what if you want to shoot an actual target and get feedback on how you shoot?
Then go over to the right side of the shooting range and meet Dummy, the test subject.

Dummy works about the same as the previous targets. However, you can change his stance and get feedback on where you hit him. He can stand up, crouch and lay prone.




After you shoot Dummy for a bit, you'll notice that he's turning red in certain spots on the left side of your screen, here you can see where you've hit him, and in the middle of the screen you can see how much damage you did.

But what about the actual recoil control, how do you counter it?

First you need to know how the gun behaves, to know this you'd need to know the pattern.
How do you what the pattern is you ask? Simple, you shoot the gun without controlling it.
Set the distance on the range to 5m or 10m and just empty the entire magazine a couple of times.


After you've done that you can see how the gun behaves and what the pattern it of is.
To counter this, you need to move your mouse the opposite way the gun is going. So if it's going up and a bit to the left, move your mouse down and a tad to the right. this way you counter it and should shoot accurate, it doesn't need to be pixel perfect.
This is what i accomplished with the G36C on 20m

Okay, what now?

Now, the only thing you can do is keep practicing, you won't control every gun with ease at first, but after a while you'll get some on that.

End note

This was my guide on how to control recoil.

i'd appreciate a comment on something that wasn't quite clear, or some minor mistakes i might have made.

Take care.

[Rogue Martin]

Nerd

[LITE | Mewmet]

As a beginner, it helped a lot man. Thank you, sadly I don't have any steam points to reward you

[Max]

ok thanks

[Rogue Martin]

Stolen from my grandfathers legacy

[servrz]

jesus bro this really helps. thank you! i'll be favoriting and saving this for later ;)

[kim schlong un]

i thought flash hider removes 5% of horizontal recoil

[Muimina]

This is actually incredible... Good job! I'll be bookmarking this

[Bharogh]

I go silencer on all weapons. Considering that compared to other games recoil is non existant in this game, lets be honest.

[George Droid]

thought it was another meme guide lol

[boi]

didnt expect a real guide, nice!