It seems like the penalties for the "Rate Reducer" significantly outweigh the advantages, especially since it excludes the ability to add a rod and spring.

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It seems like the penalties for the "Rate Reducer" significantly outweigh the advantages, especially since it excludes the ability to add a rod and spring.

It simulates a slower rate of fire so your gun will be more controllable in full auto or burst. Rod and spring does the exact opposite. Do the math. :crazy:

Russian Combined Pouch as a pocket on the leg.

5) I have an IWI Tavor Star 21 that I found somewhere. Its attachments are a bit weird. It has a "Bipod or Grip Default attachment" with nothing in it, and doesn't allow bipods or foregrips. I don't remember if I "Normalized" this, but it doesn't have that option.

Yes, that is normal, the Russian Combined Pouch is a M-LBE Pouch. M-LBE pouches fit the two leg NIV slots, as well as storage slots on vests, packs and other leg rigs.

The single shot AP penalty should be removed from the rate reducer, it makes as much sense as the rod & spring reducing single shot APs. It's been pointed out before, but you can't pull the trigger as fast as the actual cycling speed of the action, whether it was reduced or not.

BTW, why is there only one number in that picture instead of X and Y recoil values?

tag

5) I have an IWI Tavor Star 21 that I found somewhere. Its attachments are a bit weird. It has a "Bipod or Grip Default attachment" with nothing in it, and doesn't allow bipods or foregrips. I don't remember if I "Normalized" this, but it doesn't have that option.

Same idea as "Normalize," all weapons with integral inseparable attachments have a USE merger with a Tool Kit setup to make attachments reappear (hopefully). Confirmed in the XML's there should already be such a merger setup to make the integral bipod appear on the IWI STAR 21.

HAM5 - a case where one value is more informative than two.

EDIT: the AR-15 Rate Reducer had (past tense):
General AP = -10%
Burst AP = -5%
Auto AP = -5%

Now:
General AP - 0
Burst AP = -25%
Auto AP = -25%

wil473

HAM5 - a case where one value is more informative than two.

Oh, I see it now. Thanks. Perhaps I should start paying a bit more attention to these things...

wil473

EDIT: the AR-15 Rate Reducer had (past tense):
General AP = -10%
Burst AP = -5%
Auto AP = -5%

Now:
General AP - 0
Burst AP = -25%
Auto AP = -25%

+25% seems pretty harsh... At least if the CF Accuracy bonus is not good enough, as I gathered from tag's post. But yeah, still to see it myself.

Edit: IMO, Rosebud should really get either Hand to Hand or Martial Artist back. He's supposed to be the ultimate melee guy, with his speciality being absolute lethality in head clubbing (and repairing gear, of course). Plus I always thought he had some boxing background, if only because of the "Time out!"-comment.

I'm currently playing UC 3.60 + ham 5 + SVN 1.13 (not developer tree)

Can I drop 3.61 over this ok or will the new options.ini (optimized for unstable) screw it up?

Is it possible to transport all mercs with the metro in one turn to another destination? I'd tried that 3,4 times, but I just made it with the selected squad or can choose them seperatally. But then always one merc stays behind.

25% was arbitarily selected in the half hour I had before heading out for the day. I'm afraid I am very pressed for time to test/balance the thing. For comparison Rod&Spring gives a bonus of 40% and 80% for burst and autofire. So what I'm doing right now is less harsh than having the RR be the mirror image of the R&S.

Check if kglibow's future merc mod for UC-1.13 already has this. http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=295897#Post295897 v3.60 and up should be using an early version of his mod.

Bug: Zastava M76 takes the correct 7.92x57 magazines, but instead ejects 5 rounds of 6.8x43 SPC.

The higher ready costs are indeed intentional:
- balance / force more thought on the player's part as to what weapon is in-hand
- justifies some of the stock stats

backpacks limits your AP's