Lower Recoil in Power Armor

[peregrine111]

Wasn't power armor supposed to grant you inhuman strength? Yet any wee bit of recoil instantly makes you lose your target...

 

I'd love to see a mod that cuts recoil while inside any PA frame by some 50-75%, if not eliminate it completely.

 

 

 

I really don't know what some authors are thinking, making guns that kick like a horse, when your character can supposedly hold a minigun perfectly steady even outside PA..

Dunno if it's possible to do this tho, haven't found anything on the Nexus so far, just a couple mods that eliminate recoil on lasers (which... DUH). Won't do a thing for an SMG that can't hit anything past point-blank because the recoil kicks it around so much that by 2nd bullet the spread is worse than sawn off shotgun's

[BlazeStryker]

Very sensible so it's up to the modders. The gun designers for this game made Pipe Weapons. Need I really say more?

[StormWolf01]

There's already options for getting normal armor "Arms" that have, or can get, additional Aim Stability. Which I do believe increases the stability up by 50%. As two of them, there literally NO need to "hold breath". Ever.

Which is one of the settings in a weapon's AimModel file.

 

So this is something that is most definitely DOABLE.

 

To do it for all the factors of a weapon's recoil would be more tedious tho. As there's 8 different settings that affect it.

 

 

These settings here are for about 80-95% recoil reduction. Depending on the weapon's animations.

Which honestly.... IRL, even in PA a gun would rock just a little bit.....

 

But, adding that perk, effect, spell, whatever it IS, that causes that, with the settings to adjust those particular settings, would give the effect that you're looking for.

Or, a script that would do it would also work. [Edit]: Script would actually be better, cuz it could override alterations made by weapon attachments that affect recoil. By setting the recoil values to specific values as overrides.

Would also cancel out that bug with the gauss rifle. Where any kind of recoil reduction makes it bounce DOWNWARD, as it's recoil gets thrown into the negative figures.[/Edit]

 

However.

That's just gonna effect vanilla PA suits and weapons. Mod-added suits and guns would have to have the feature incorporated into their files.

Or have their names added into the script.

 

But overall... yeah. It's definitely doable.

[Blinxys]

Never really looked at an aim model before, thanks for that @StormWolf01, very interesting.

 

The Request is reasonable, current IRL power suits are hydraulic lifting machines.

 

Seems like this could just be hacked in with FO4edit as a perk/magic effect for all power armor somehow.
Oversimplified Psuedo-code: if ref=player + pa -> use PA aim model.

 

I'd mess with it but never use PA personally.

 

Edit: ...Wait a sec, isn't PA frame a magic effect already? Maybe just attach to that... (?)

Edited October 12, 2022 by Blinxys

[StormWolf01]

Sure thing Blinxys. Whatever I can do to help out with the request :)

Or just help people understand things :)

 

Hmmmm. I dunno. I never tried modding PA. But if so, then yeah that could work.