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OBOW: Pistols - FN Five-seveN script

OBOW: Pronounced "oboe" (yes, like the instrument), it stands for "Overseer's Balance Overhaul for Weapons".

This is a script that rebalances the Pistols' stats, making them more useful without breaking game balance. I always found the pistols to be fun to use, but horribly lacking in killing power. Don't get me wrong, against Common Infected, they were good, decent weapons. But try using vanilla (meaning, unmodded) Pistols against a Charger and you'll see what I mean. To put things into perspective, this weapon did 240 damage per second if all your shots hit. A Charger has 600 health on Normal. But the Pistol/s have 15/30-round magazines, and it would take 17 shots to kill a Charger on Normal. This meant that if you only had a single pistol, you'd have to fire an entire magazine, reload, and fire two more bullets into a Charger (provided you didn't miss a single shot) to kill one. By then, whoever's been grabbed is either going to be dead, or very close. The worst part? Tanks have 4000 health on Normal, and 8000 on Expert. Basically, if you ran out of primary weapon ammo, you could very easily be overrun by Specials, and you had a snowball's chance in Hell against a Tank. I felt that this was missing out on a lot of fun-potential.

So now, the pistols have been rabalanced, turning them into solid backup weapons. Why did I call this script a Five-seveN script? Well, I already have other pistol script mods (See the collection above), but they gib Commons in one shot. And while I believe that to be more fun, some might want a simple pistol upgrade across the board. Thus, I made these. They are aimed at horde-busting, and are accurate when fired on the move. Their magazine size has been raised to 20/40, to reflect the actual Five-seveN. But to really get that real-world feel, the is one unique selling point to this mod that my others don't have is that they pierce 3 targets, up from the vanilla 2. This means that they can be as effective as assault rifles against hordes, but are a tad sub-par when killing specials. Lastly, reload speed has been increased to be more fluid and less intrusive.

Don't feel obligated to use a Five-seveN skin with this script. Think of them as a simple buff script and slap them onto whatever skin you prefer to use.

Here's the list of stat changes:

VerticalPunch - 2.0 to 1.86
SpreadPerShot - 1 to UNCHANGED
MaxSpread - 30 to 25
SpreadDecay - 5 to 10
MinDuckingSpread - 0.5 to 0.40
MinStandingSpread - 1.5 to 0.6
MinInAirSpread - 3.0 to 0
MaxMovementSpread - 3.0 to 1.225
ReloadDuration - ? to 1.5 (Vanilla value unknown, since I had to add this line)
DualReloadDuration - ? to 2.0 (Vanilla value unknown, since I had to add this line)
DeployDuration - 0.5 to 0.3
DualDeployDuration - 0.65 to 0.3
PenetrationNumLayers - 2 to UNCHANGED
PenetrationPower - 30 to 95
PenetrationMaxDistance - 0 to 1500
Damage - 36 to 56
Range - 2500 to UNCHANGED
RangeModifier - 0.75 to UNCHANGED
Bullets - 1 to UNCHANGED
CycleTime - 0.175 to 0.125
clip_size - 15 to 20
primary_ammo - AMMO_TYPE_PISTOL to UNCHANGED

About the preview screenshot(s):
Disclaimer: I got them randomly off the internet. I am not the author, and I don't claim to own them. If need be, I'll replace them with something generic from Wikipedia or something.