Heavy Caliber accuracy looks wrong

[Wi1em]

Take a clean Ignis.

Says accuracy=100.

Put in a Rank 6 Heavy Caliber which says -35% accuracy.

Now it says accuracy=34.6.

Is this like, Orokin math or something?

Cause on planet Earth 2016, 100 * (1 - 0.35) = 65.0, not 34.6.

[Wubong]

guessing youre using ignis as an example cos of the 100% accuracy. ignis itself doesnt need accuracy, so who cares :p plus if youre using heavy cal, youre only using it for the damage and i found rounds fired didnt miss the target much, even with a maxed heavy cal, so eh. no need to nitpick

[Rekkou]

Actually it could be right, the main problem is we never knew what accuracy stats actually meant or represents and DE never confirm anything. Back before Sniper 2.0, snipers have average accuracy of 13.3 and they're accurate, Dera has accuracy of 100 and it's accurate, rifles have average accuracy of 28.6 and they're also accurate, Boltor Prime has accuracy of 50 and it's still accurate. And then there's Kunai with 100 accuracy but still has spread.

 

 

[Zavenosk]

The impact on accuracy is generally up for debate.  I takes a certain degree of experimentation to discern if any particular weapon has a significant or even weapon breaking penalty from accuracy loss, or if the loss is trivial. 

[superbot34]

Because 30 accuracy on a weapon is still pin point accurate, basically. If heavy caliber worked on weapons with 100 accuracy like they did on all other weapons, your weapon would never become inaccurate, it will still fire each shot within the dot on the reticule. 

can we please stop bringing this up? anyone who goes on the heavy caliber page on the wiki knows this already. 

[polarity]

0-100: Linear or logarithmic?

[Miszt]

23 minutes ago, superbot34 said:

Because 30 accuracy on a weapon is still pin point accurate , basically. If heavy caliber worked on weapons with 100 accuracy like they did on all other weapons, your weapon would never become inaccurate, it will still fire each shot within the dot on the reticule. 

You obviously never tried a full Heavy Caliber on the Dera =D

[(PSN)sanemane213]

5 hours ago, Wilem82 said:

Take a clean Ignis.

Says accuracy=100.

Put in a Rank 6 Heavy Caliber which says -35% accuracy.

Now it says accuracy=34.6.

Is this like, Orokin math or something?

Cause on planet Earth 2016, 100 * (1 - 0.35) = 65.0, not 34.6.

UI bug that was never bothered to be fixed more or Likely. Despite it reducing accuracy, pretty much every beam weapon can mitigate the Negative effects of HC, despite what the Arsenal UI Says after its application. 
 

[Wi1em]

I see, thanks.

[superbot34]

On 7/20/2016 at 9:37 PM, no_stripes said:

You obviously never tried a full Heavy Caliber on the Dera =D

yeah, it makes it inaccurate like it's supposed to do. Your point?

[superbot34]

On 7/20/2016 at 11:55 PM, (PS4)sanemane213 said:

UI bug that was never bothered to be fixed more or Likely. Despite it reducing accuracy, pretty much every beam weapon can mitigate the Negative effects of HC, despite what the Arsenal UI Says after its application. 
 

You don't understand how beam weapons work then if you mean like the ignis. Ignis is like a flux rifle surrounded by a cloud, the beam rotates with heavy caliber and it shown at long ranges when it suddenly stops damaging the enemy for a while. As for weapons like the flux rifle, if heavy caliber reduced the accuracy any lower they would be unusable, and there would be no point to use the mod. They had to find a balance between messing up the accuracy of a weapon but not destroy them.