Recoil System Update
By TrailTurtle @ January 28, 2013 at 5:32pm
A huge update to the recoil and spread system in Blacklight is inbound, agents – if you’re ready to walk The Road to Pro, this update’s going to make Blacklight even more competitive and hardcore.
The first thing you’re going to notice? Your recoil is going to go a lot more horizontal than vertical. With the old recoil system, pretty much every shot kicked your aim a few degrees vertically, so that if you emptied an assault rifle, by the end of the clip you were staring at the sky.
The new system has the recoil a little more random, with a randomized pattern determined by your weapon. You’re still going to see plenty of upward recoil, but you might also see a drift right or left – plus we’ve added a cap to the vertical recoil. Net impact? Instead of being able to mitigate recoil by just moving the mouse down, you’ll have to adjust dynamically, correcting for both horizontal and vertical recoil.
Plus, you’ll be rewarded more for learning the patterns of your favorite weapons. Once you grok the increased starting recoil with LMGs or the horizontal recoil of SMGs, you’ll be able to manage the recoil and put more shots on target.
In addition, there are some less-obvious changes under the hood. With the old system, the spread and inaccuracy increased with each shot. Instead, we’re making the accuracy constant with every shot. As such, most of the spread is going to come from the recoil actually changing where you’re pointing.
Plus… you might’ve seen something about new stats? Stay tuned, agents — all this and more is planned for later this week….
acixor @ Feb 19th, 2013 10:03AM
thanks for nerfing the AR and OPing the submachinegun?
o7quix @ Feb 11th, 2013 4:54PM
I love it!
bo2zombie @ Feb 8th, 2013 4:29PM
i think they should add a zombies update, because zombies is fun.
imkilian
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nickck5 @ Feb 8th, 2013 5:41AM
NOOO so basicly i have to relearn the game. I might just go for a smg and pray that ill get lucky.
kidfresh56 @ Feb 7th, 2013 11:25PM
how doo u download the update?
someguyaaron59
through the launcher
maceinthefacetwo @ Feb 7th, 2013 10:30AM
I've been waiting for the spread/inaccuracy change.
killerpark123 @ Feb 5th, 2013 5:24PM
hell yeah all recoil are low cool frag it
ttblok7765 @ Feb 3rd, 2013 6:30PM
Not meaning to complain but... Christmas reward? When will we get?
goodkill47 @ Feb 3rd, 2013 2:42PM
I've been waiting for this update for a long time. They have some more tweaking to do yet but I'm glad they finally made this game less randumb.
bluejeezy @ Feb 3rd, 2013 4:29AM
cant wait going drunk with this
alphablack91 @ Feb 2nd, 2013 2:26PM
U made my day xD
realdealcatch902 @ Feb 2nd, 2013 8:13AM
and how about free Zen for half a day or lower the price of Zen
alphablack91
Maybe Yes or Maybe No D=
realdealcatch902 @ Feb 2nd, 2013 8:11AM
when can we have a double gp and xp week not weekend
alphablack91
Double GP is more than enough for level 40 people like me @.@
brasidas1994 @ Feb 1st, 2013 4:32PM
I agree.. And I thought it is a sci-fi shooter instead of a "realistic shooter"? Where's the point to make weapons react more like ones of these days? There are Mech-Suits, Portable Railguns, Anti-Materiel Rifles so where's the sense? I was totally satisfied with the old settings, there were enough good and bad players out there, I don't complain now because I'm worse than before but it just sucks.. If I want realism, I would play Arma or something else taking place in THESE DAYS not in the future.. Sure it's more competitive but only because the whole game was changed and you have to relearn everything. I would really want to know what the developers thought when they created this Update "Oh hey guys, now a huge mass of players just got the gameplay and became really good... Let's just f**k up everything they played for in the last few months" It's so unbalanced now... I really don't want to play this anymore.. For all the haters who gonna flame something like "oh look at that noob he's too nooby to learn the new recoil system" --> It's not about I'm not good or I don't want to play anymore/learn new things or something... I just can't stand it when developers just change the whole game just because they can or want to or I don't know why they do that.. btw nearly everybody I was talking with hates this new update.. I really hope I won't be one of a few guys who stop playing.
brasidas1994
I really think that the art of game designing is that it's easy to play but hard to master and if you ask me, it's not easy to play when you have to learn each weapons patterns to compensate the recoil perfectly..
shirogane909192
giving you the reason (in a little part) yes is a sci-fi shooter, but i look like a near future, maybe 50 years, no inside of 500 years, that weapons continue using gunpowder for shoot the bullets, it mean they work at the same way that the weapons of now a days, and the anti.materiel rifle, well -.- it not is that anti-mattey that is in the space, anti material mean that their ammo and caliber are made for attack tanks, helicopters, armored transports and not humans, (well nowadays anti material rifles are used by some snipers counter people) and for be a rifle maded for attack objects (material) it always will do 1 shot
someguyaaron59
dude, AM rifles are real
brasidas1994
Dude. Also Railguns and actually an early version of mechsuits are real. Although I don't really see the sense behind that update.
theotherguy103 @ Feb 1st, 2013 7:37AM
Being someone who does shoot real firearms, I know for a fact that a weapon's spread does not change no matter what, and that it's the recoil that actually makes you less accurate. This is increasing the realism of the gun-play, and I therefore approve!
thetriumphant @ Jan 31st, 2013 7:11PM
hate it hate it what is the point now to burst fire now with AR lmg suck it not same game any more the recoil something important to lower because of max spread
dannyman500 @ Jan 31st, 2013 2:33PM
The new recoil system add's a bit more realism to the game I like it, makes it more challenging and fun to play.
malikahmed @ Jan 31st, 2013 1:30PM
I don't like the sound of this.
alejandro764 @ Jan 31st, 2013 11:37AM
indeed...i play last night and...well, its so weird this new shooting system. it means, unlearn and play other thing of which they sold us...
spikedk @ Jan 31st, 2013 8:41AM
It's a spray-and-pray game now. Full auto weapons rule. Accuracy builds are complete trash. Lowest recoil CR is 3-4x the recoil of a dmg spec'd smg. How does that even make sense? Running and spraying with an smg is more "accurate" than standing still and zooming in with a combat rifle. I don't even want to play any more. I'm not the kind of person that thinks "oh my gun is the best, I only snipe" or "I only run and gun" I have 3 setups. SMG, Burst, CR. I don't want to play any more b/c the game is no longer fun. I used to tout the balance in the game. How no one gun was "best" or "better" but that they all filled a play style. I can't say that any more. Run and gun will dominate now.
oxymer
i tottaly agree
oxymer
* totally
fearrclick
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gavriel61 @ Jan 31st, 2013 7:08AM
LMG With lass Recoil..oh god :
nightcorelover @ Jan 31st, 2013 3:52AM
this new recoil ruined the game sorry but thats not only my own meaning if you would ask in global chat you´ll hear that from many people
pr0xy90 @ Jan 30th, 2013 4:51PM
Just about patched. Im very curious about this recoil system. Ill post later with an opinion :P
sswildcat @ Jan 30th, 2013 3:57PM
Huh... I'm curious to see how this affects my LMG-R. I was so used to it's rough spread pattern that I'm going to have to unlearn those automatic unconscious twitch autocorrections to relearn... Hopefully it'll be good, especially if there's a pattern to it like you say. If so... Hehehe...
alejandro764 @ Jan 30th, 2013 10:56AM
well...thinking in other perspective, that patch allows to use more carefully every single weapon, when the SMG, its for close quarters or small maps...or...the large barrels for large maps... and that... allows to apreciate every piece of that weapon system and that takes away the crazy/shooting mode in every map. so,we play first before accusing.
fearrclick
Say that to all those people playing spray-and-pray out there, now everybody can go just keeping the click down with any automatic weapon without even aiming down the barrel. For god's sake, I even saw a dude "sniping" with an LMG. Or people playing mid-long distance with TSMG's now anyone can be a "pro" by just keeping the trigger pressed; Minor example: I usually play with my BSMG, or my SMG in an acc build, now I get overrun by anyone with a default AR or full damage HAR when they're not even aiming down the barrel. This update threw the whole game down the window.
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