A couple of useful Carbine/SMG stats for hipfiring

Normal = No Attachment
LS = Laser Sight
ALS = Advanced Laser Sight

I thought this could help you guys decide on which carbine/smg to hipfire with. Instead of just showing you the raw weapon statistics found at http://ps2.dynet.com (which I highly recommend you check out when you're deciding on which weapon to use/pick up), I thought I'd combine a few stats to show you more practical and time based numbers.

Also, you might find this useful:

• Laser sight: Reduces the initial size of your cone of fire by 37.5% when hipfiring
• Advanced Laser Sight: Reduces the initial size of your cone of fire by 50% when hipfiring
• Compensator: Reduces vertical recoil, but increases your starting cone of fire by 25% when hipfiring
• Flash Suppressor: Removes Muzzle flash, but increases ADS and hipfire CoF per shot by 20%

 

Keep it coming!

 

Just learned that the Compensator actually doesn't increase your cone of fire bloom per shot, but instead increases your starting cone of fire by 25%

Here are a couple of configurations and their cof values

Hip CoF Values while standing + moving

• VX6-7 = 1.75
  • with Advanced Laser Sight = 0.875
• Eridani = 1.50
  • with Advanced Laser Sight = 0.75
  • with Advanced Laser Sight and Compensator = 0.9375
  • with Extended Mag = 1.50
  • with Extended Mag + Compensator = 1.75
• Solstice = 2.0
  • with Laser Sight = 1.25
• Serpent= 2.0
  • with Advanced Laser Sight= 1.0
• Sirius = 1.5
  • with Advanced Laser Sight = 0.75

 

What carbine would you say is the best overall with the given statistics?

 

• (Eridani + extended magazine) has a slightly smaller cone of fire size over time than a (VX6-7 + advanced laser sight)
• (Eridani + Compensator + Extended Mag) has a slightly larger cone of fire size over time than a (Serpent + advanced laser Sight)
• (Eridani + Extended magazine) deals an additional 715 damage per magazine at 10-15m than a (VX6-7 + advanced laser sight).
• (Eridani) deals 119 less damage per second at 10-15m than the (VX6-7).
• Most Carbines can have a max potential of 30060 damage before running out of ammunition in its ammo pool and magazine
  • (Eridani) has a max potential of 28625 damage
  • (Sirius) has a max potential of 31300 damage
• (Eridani + Compensator) has the least amount of vertical recoil out of all the carbines and SMGs.
• (Eridani) has the lowest bullet velocity (360m/s).
  • (Sirius) is at 400m/s,
  • (VX6-7) is 420m/s,
  • (Serpent) is 465m/s.
  • The rest are 515m/s
• Most carbines have a minumum of 100 damage per shot.
  • (Eridani) deals a minumum of 91 damage per shot.
  • (Sirius) deals a minumum of 84 damage per shot.
• Most carbines reach their minimum level of damage at 115m.
  • The (Eridani)/(Sirius) reach their minimum damage level at 50m

 

You can compensate for vertical recoil. You can't compensate for CoF. So, why would you ever use the Compensator?

 

With a compensator, the Eridani ends up being much more controllable when you ADS. You can have good ADS control and a pretty tight hipfire CoF along with 35 round in your mag. There are times where I need to ADS when I'm doing my Light Assault thing. This will allow you to extend its effective range, while still maintaining the damage of a carbine.

I haven't tried this setup yet, but looking at just the stats, I could see how it'd be a viable configuration.

You get:
- Less vertical recoil than a VX6-7
- Only a sliiightly larger CoF than a VX6-7 with an Advanced laser Sight
- You keep the softpoint ammunition
- You get 35 rounds as opposed to 30.

 

Also useful:

• Suppressor
  • Removes Muzzle Flash
  • Prevents you from showing up on radar when firing your weapon
  • Gives your weapon a "suppressed" sound (some more than others)
  • Reduces bullet velocity
    • Slower bullets means you will have to lead your shots more
• Flash Suppressor
  • Removes Muzzle flash
  • Increases Cone of fire bloom per shot when hipfiring and aiming down the sights
    • Your cone of fire will grow faster when firing consecutive shots

 

I appreciate your effort and investment of time into the betterment of this great community. Kudos.

 

Is there any possibility of you doing one for LMGs?