pistol targeting system weapon mod

Thanks for clarifying and for the help.

Wow.  That was quick.  I didn't know the AR targeting system came with a stability penalty.  Thanks for keeping me in the loop.

Can someone try the negative stability mod on the PAW?

Mostly I am just curious what anti-stability does to the laser weapons. Like... can they actually not hit where you're aiming???

P.S. I have still only spent MF on Strike Teams and in-game Equipment, nothing else. Holding out to see if MF costs for Chars / Wpns / Mods ever get adjusted to be more reasonable. (960 MF for a UR?!?! No thanks.)

Perfect, now I see where the stats are. 

Pistol Targeting System does go from 30 to 60. I still believe there is a second stat but it's not negative.

OK let me see if I can rephrase my question.

What does "stability" actually do on the PAW? It's already literally a laser beam. It damages what you point it at.

With +1000 stability what would happen?

With -1000 stability what would happen?

Accuracy determines how tight the spread of bullets/pellets is.
Stability determines how much your crosshairs move (on their own) when the trigger is held. Stability is the measure of kickback of your gun. High kickback AR is almost impossible to keep aimed at the target in auto mode.

So for example a high accuracy (PAW is high accuracy by design due to no spread in laser beam) but low stability weapon will have almost no spread, but you would not be able to keep it aimed because your crosshairs would drift off the target.

Using Frosty Editor to look at the data files. Problem is almost everything is just in indexes and hashes and shit and it's not labeled so it's very difficult to tell what something is if you don't have help from the in-game UI to tell you the name of a stat to match the percentage value that you see in the tool.

Come, take a journey with me!

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This is where I found those two mods - we know we're in the right spot because it does say PISTOL TARGETING SYSTEM. All the other mods are in a different section.


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If we scroll down to HeldStats, we see two indexes. These two fields tell the game to do a stat lookup from /game/exceldataimports/gunmodstats. For the rank I mod we want WeaponIndex 10. The first stat is FieldIndex 2 and the second is FieldIndex 35.

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For the rank X mod, it's the same FieldIndexes but from WeaponIndex 19. So we scoot on over to gunmodstats, and...

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We have .3 (30%) and .03 for the two stats at rank I. For rank X we have...

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So 30% to 60% for the main stat, and whatever this secondary stat is goes from 3% to 10%. So, since there's no UI tip for that second stat either it's not really a second stat and maybe it's just janky shit in the files, or there is a second stat and the UI coder didn't get the memo.  Either way wouldn't be out of the ordinary, Jank is this game's middle name. Mass Effect: Anjankmeda.

*recoil* "kickback" is the feeling in your shoulder.

On a side note: Very few guns in ME:A feel like they have enough recoil to me.  High accuracy, high recoil usually makes for a viscerally better feeling gun and it adds a player skill component as the player is made to learn to ride and counter the recoil rather than just holding down the trigger passively.

Nah there's a gunstatsmp, but then then there's a bunch of janky shit because they use gunstatsmp for balancing things like damage, so you'll see a weapon pulling stats from both.

Two stats looks just like the regular Receiver mods. Just two lines understand the description.