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OBO: Rifle, AK-47 Rebalance script

OBO, pronounced "oboe" (yes, like the instrument), stands for "Overall Balance Overhaul."

This is a script that rebalances the AK-47 (technically an AKM) more neatly alongside the other ARs.

The good old Kalashnikov was a bit oddly placed in vanilla, being extremely powerful on Normal with its single shot Common kills, and yet a bit weak on Advanced, requiring two. And it's back to being powerful again on Expert as the only AR capable of two-shotting Commons.

And yet, at the same time, it also far outperformed the M16 in DPS. Sure, its accuracy sucked, but that just meant that a laser-sighted AK-47 was the best gun in the game hands-down. From a balance perspective, the AK was a bit of a nightmare, but I didn't want to nerf it into oblivion, so I came up with a solution. I buffed the other Rifles in separate mods (see the above collections), then tweaked this weapon to fit into a place of its own.

While the M16 was, and is the go-to weapon for frontline versatility, the AK is now special too, having raw damage and higher sustainability (length of fire before running dry), and it's low fire rate makes placing shots into hordes easier. It does however, now have slightly LESS DPS than my OBO M16 and worse accuracy, though I made slightly more accurate than the painful vanilla stats, since using this gun felt like a chore at times, having to constantly stop and crouch to kill distant Commons.

The idea here was to make the AK fit into its role without its incredible damage/DPS and terrible accuracy. There are many smaller edits too, like tweaked vertical kick and firing spreads, all listed below.

Changelog (X means unchanged):

VerticalPunch - 2 to 2.3
SpreadPerShot - 1.6 to 2.514
MaxSpread - 35 to 30
SpreadDecay - 7 to 9
MinDuckingSpread - 0.5 to X
MinStandingSpread - 1 to 0.8
MinInAirSpread - 3 to 0
MaxMovementSpread - 6 to 2.4
DeployDuration - ? to 0.8 (added this line)
PenetrationNumLayers - 2 to X
PenetrationPower - 50 to 67
Damage - 58 to 50
CycleTime - 0.13 to 0.12
clip_size - 40 to X

Disclaimer about the preview screenshot(s):
I got them randomly off the internet. I claim nothing. If need be, I'll replace them with something generic from Wikipedia or something.