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OBO: Assault Rifle rebalance

Welcome to OBO, the Overall Balance Overhaul, pronounced "oboe" (yes, like the instrument).

OBO is itself split up into many smaller mods to make finding, using, mixing and matching easier for users, and to make updating them easier on my end. Please read the main collection page for more info, as this description will only cover this submod specifically.

This is the Assault Rifle rebalance mod, which substantially improves the useabiliy of a gun that's supposed to be the go-to rifle of the EDF, and now fits that description to a T.


RATIONALE:
When I talked about useability above, I wasn't exaggerating. Before I even mention damage and stuff, I want to elaborate on what I mean. This weapon's terrible hipfire accuracy and slow reload were painful enough, but the sight also had pitiful zoom and slowed you to a crawl if you tried to use it. It also didn't even have ammunition values that divide evenly into the reserve. What the heck? And it gets worse when compared to other guns. In vanilla, it did the same damage as the Minigun, but at half the fire rate. And it was far less accurate, lengthy reloads interrupted the shooting, and it had half the reserve ammo. In short, this weapon sucked.

So now, I've waved my magic wand over this, and it suddenly functions as it is described in the lore. It's a familiar weapon in Sam's hands that thrives on it's versatility. It reloads a heckuva lot faster, hipfire accuracy is good for up to medium ranges, and it's sight zooms a bit more (not too much) and only slows you down by 10% instead of nearly by half. I also took inspiration from the real-world Mk18 that this weapon is based off of and increased the fire rate substantially. Balance-wise, it'll still do the same damage per bullet as my OBO Minigun, but isn't completely left in the dust. The Minigun will still outperform it in virtually every way, but again, not by as much. All-in-all, I'm really happy with how this turned out. The reload may be just a tad too quick, and I may change that in future, but it's still a really nice improvement overall.


CHANGELOG (X means unchanged):


Default weapon modes, [0] AssaultRifle_PrimaryFire.rsc,
Reload duration: 0 to 1.6
Recoil duration: 0.1 to 0.070588 [0.070588=850rps]
Ammo clip capacity: 80 to X
Fireable object params,
Bullet damage: 10 to 12
Scatter parameters, Scatter distance: 100 to X
Scatter parameters, Scatter radius min: 0 to 0.15
Scatter parameters, Scatter radius max: 3 to 0.85
Duel Wielding Scatter parameters, Scatter distance: 25 to X
Duel Wielding Scatter parameters, Scatter radius min: 0 to 0.15
Duel Wielding Scatter parameters, Scatter radius max: 1.5 to 0.38 [Worse than single]
Aimed scatter params, Scatter distance: 100 to X
Aimed scatter params, Scatter radius min: 0 to 0.1
Aimed scatter params, Scatter radius max: 0 to 0.1
Scatter lerping params,
Scatter cooldown factor (%): 0.7 to 0.0
Scatter time to shrink: 0.2 to 0.105
Min desired scatter after shot (%): 0.5 to 0.0
Added scatter per shot: 0.1 to 0.028333
Low clip count: -1 to 19 [Testing this]
Default weapon modes, [1] AssaultRifle_Sight.rsc,
First person aim duration: 0.1 to X
Third person aim-in duration: 0.25 to 0.1
Third person aim-out duration: 0.2 to 0.1
Aim FOV multiplier: 0.9 to 0.8
Aim recoil duration multiplier: 1 to X
Aim speed multiplier: 0.6 to 0.9
Weapon slot: 4.1 to X
Ammo, AssaultRifleBullets, Max quantity: 500 to 640
Items/Ammo/Bullets, Received ammo quantity: 100 to 160
Items/Ammo/Bullets_Clip, Received ammo quantity: 30 to 40
Items/Ammo/Bullets_Closed, Received ammo quantity: 100 to 160
Items/Ammo/Bullets_Drop, Received ammo quantity: 30 to 40


NOTE: Duel wielding scatter seems to be inherently worse than single weapon, even when the numbers are made the same.