Recoil for Single-Shot Weapons

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

Rcl is about shot grouping. weapons deigned to hive tight grouping has a low Rcl weapons with a wide shot grouping (weapon desgined to sprey) have a high Rcl.

This may make sense, but it doesn't appear to be true.

Rcl 1 pretty consistently indicates 'this weapon has exceptional properties that mean felt recoil won't affect shot distribution'. Whether that's because the recoil is negligible (beam weapons, multiple rocket launchers) or because the shots are away before the recoil is felt (shotloads, high-cyclic bursts).

Rcl 2 is characteristic of any guns that don't have such exceptional properties, unless they've got particularly strong recoil-to-weight, in which case they wind up with Rcl 3+.