Cost Of Accuracy

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Wednesday, August 13th 2014, 11:39pm

In BF4, faster shooting guns are less accurate, while slower shooting guns are more accurate. The transaction is then clearly that by selecting a slower shooting gun, we trade damage for accuracy. The amount of damage being traded is easy to calculate; the amount of accuracy we gain is not.

For this trade to make sense, this MUST be true:

“The amount of accuracy we gain should translate to a big enough advantage in TTK at long range, that perfectly offsets the amount of TTK we give up in CQB.”

The Test Subjects:

I’m going to consider two non-bullpup carbines, each on the opposite side of the scale: the G36C and ACWR. The G36C is the most accurate carbine (and likely the most accurate automatic weapon), whereas the ACWR is one of the fastest shooting carbines with clearly CQB oriented stats.

CQB performance:

Within 8 meters, both weapons have guaranteed 100% accuracy to the torso with a 5 round burst. As such, TTK has no accuracy component.

ACWR: 4*60/880 = 272 ms
G36C: 4*60/650 = 369 ms

Difference: 97 ms in favor of ACWR

Ranged (50m) performance:

At 50 meters, the two weapons have clear accuracy differences. I’m going to simulate weapon accuracy using hitrater (Hitrate simulator)

with a 2 round burst to the body, the G36C can expect an average of 1.932 hits, whereas the ACWR can expect 1.742 hits. If we allow spread to completely settle between bursts, this means that with the G36C, we can expect to need 7/1.932*2 = 7.25 bullets to kill at 50 meters, and the ACWR 7/1.742*2 = 8.04 bullets to kill at 50 meters.

7.25 bullets is a bit more complicated to calculate for. But what it does say, is that ¾ of the time, we need 7 bullets to kill, and ¼ of the time, we need 8. I’m just going to use 8 for the ACWR because of how close it is.
NOTE: I’m going to assume perfect shooting, since imperfect shooting is really hard to simulate. There’s a clear ease of use difference between the two guns.

So the accuracy-weighted TTKs of the two weapons look like this:

G36C: ¾*(6*60/650) + ¼*(7*60/650) + 3*(2*0.085/15) = 611 ms
ACWR: 7*60/880 + 3*(2*0.114/15) = 523 ms

Difference: 88 ms in favor of ACWR

Conclusion:

The G36C’s accuracy advantage ISN’T strong enough to make it kill faster at long range. In fact, its accuracy advantage is basically meaningless.

EDIT: corrected mistake in formula about spread reset. was resetting to 0.0, where it should be resetting to 0.3. derp.

This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "tehmoriz" (Aug 19th 2014, 4:40pm) with the following reason: forgot that spread recovery needs to cover two bullets, not just one.

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Wednesday, August 13th 2014, 11:44pm

Conclusion 2: Shoot longer bursts

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Wednesday, August 13th 2014, 11:55pm

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Conclusion 2: Shoot longer bursts

2 round burst is the most accurate way to shoot both weapons. though if we use longer burst lengths, the ACWR is more negatively affected, to the point where a G36C can kill at 50 meters with a single 12 rounds magdump, while the ACWR needs 28 rounds.

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Wednesday, August 13th 2014, 11:58pm

Well, my G36C kills in 669 ms at 60 meters with 4rb...

But I may be calculating differently.

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Thursday, August 14th 2014, 12:22am

Brute-force approach to BF4 gun balance & optimal attachments, burst sizes, and aim targets

According to these charts, with perfect compensation and an inter-burst interval of 100ms, the G36C is most optimally fired in 2-shot bursts at 60m.

To Aim Assist or not to Aim Assist, that is the question.

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Thursday, August 14th 2014, 12:25am

i just fixed an error in my formula, which lowered the TTK values so they're aligned with rezal's. however, the difference in TTK between the two weapons didn't change.

either way, the point is, that the G36C should be able to kill faster than the ACWR. however, even under the perfect circumstances, it doesn't kill any faster.

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Thursday, August 14th 2014, 12:26am

Most of the players kind of intuitively reached that conclusion all by themselves.

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Thursday, August 14th 2014, 12:31am

Quoted from "ToTheSun!"

Most of the players kind of intuitively reached that conclusion all by themselves.

Intuition is worth nothing compared to stats on symthic, as you are most likely well aware.

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Thursday, August 14th 2014, 12:31am

For n = 2 is done, what about the other burst lengths?

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Thursday, August 14th 2014, 12:37am

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Intuition is worth nothing compared to stats on symthic, as you are most likely well aware.

Intuition is worth a lot more than one would have guessed, had one been blinded by the thought of how wholly meaningful math is.

In fact, the math has always supported such intuition, but the conclusion came faster to those more accepting of mother experience.

Cost Of Accuracy

Nope. Aim Assist or bust; here's why:

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