TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod

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Ever wish that different weapons handled differently in Tarkov? That your meta SR-25 did not feel 95% like your unmodded Glock? Me too!

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NOTICE : This mod REQUIRES Fontaine's REALISM MOD as a dependency.

This mod is an overhaul of the visual language of how your character handles his weapon inside the game. The changes are as much aesthetic as they also completely change gameplay. The spirit of the mod is to elevate SPT's 'realism' -- realism in the specific sense that more realistic small arms tactics work better with the mod. For this reason, the Weapons Handling Mod (WHM) is downstream of SPT's indispensable jewel, Realism mod by Fontaine.

The mod has three general goals:

1) Make weapons feel very different depending on their size and ergo, thus encouraging the player to select specific weapons for specific tasks. Larger and/or more modded weapons are going to feel squishy, so you really have to think about how to set up your kit.

2) Make aiming harder generally, with a weapon deadzone, with added weapon sway, with my 'parallax' (aiming mis-alignment) feature, and with various visual effects which impede the player's ability to aim depending on the condition of his character.*

3) Generally improve the aesthetic fidelity of how the player's character handles the weapons, to what I imagine is more authentic.

* (Enter long screed about how recoil is the only lever BSG had to pull to change the dynamic of firefights, because aiming is too easy.)

The overarching theme of this and any future mods to be released under my 'TarkovIRL' moniker is generally to slow down Tarkov gameplay; more survival shooter, less deathmatch-with-extra-steps.

KNOWN ISSUES:

• A nasty bug currently exists in the mod which causes your weapon to disappear and your character to essentially be useless, forcing an F4 exit. I am currently researching it. For now: try not to discard a weapon that you have currently equipped, or swap it (if you have the UI Fixes mod). Something associated with this action is causing it. For example, if you have a weapon equipped and you want to replace it with another one, manually transition to another weapon you have equipped, then replace the slot, then go back to it. This bug is rough, it WILL ruin your entire raid.
• There may be conflicts with the Increased Look Direction mod (there is also increased look range in my mod, so you don't need both).

Important mods I use (see last tab for full list) :

- Path to Tarkov

- Fontaine Realism
- SAIN with Realistic Combat Overhaul preset
- Looting bots
- Questing bots
- Backdoor Bandit
- Amands's gfx
- That's Lit
- BatterySystem

EFT's weapon mechanics are very detailed. There is an impressive range of IRL functions that can be performed on all Tarkov weapons. But the mechanics of how the player handles the weapon in the in-game 3d space is, I have always thought, lacking and not at all on par with the other aspects of its weapon manipulation.

The TarkovIRL Weapons Handling Mod seeks to remedy this deficiency. For years playing Live Tarkov, I imagined improving how different weapons feel and handle. I have long had a criticism of Tarkov that aiming is simply too easy, and that ergonomics matters very little. For all of the complicated weapon mechanics, in terms of how the Live game feels to play, it's just CS with extra steps as far as I'm concerned.

The game Squad inspired a lot of my changes, as did the Gary's Mod Realism videos. Bodycam is another source of inspiration. I have also taken a lot of inspiration from T-Rex Arms' 'review' of Tarkov's realism factor, a true resource, and have tried to implement features addressing as many of their criticisms as possible:

Weapons Handling Mod mechanics in detail:

Efficiency System

The Efficiency System is the heart of the Weapons Handling Mod. The system monitors how stable and healthy your character is, in order to present a stable firing potential. This score affects almost all other systems in the WHM.

Your efficiency score is always changing depending on what your character is doing and how healthy he is. What follows is a list of all the inputs and their weight in the System (higher = more efficient):

- current walk speed : up to +50% at slowest

- current vertical stance : up to +50% at lowest

- if prone : +50%

- current Realism stances:

--- high ready : +15%

--- low ready : -10%

--- shortstock : +30%

--- active aim : -5%

--- mounted : +50%

--- left shouldered : -10%

- amount of carried weight after Yellow status : up to -80% at Red overweight status

- character health : up to -40%

- hand stam : up to -20%

- stam : up to -20%

- sprinting : -50%

- hunger & thirst : up to -5% each

- status effects and injuries including (all of the following are further multiplied by 0.5 [half] by default):

--- heavy bleeds : -10% each

--- light bleeds : -5% each

--- breaks : -10% each

--- fresh wounds : -5% each

--- tremors : -5%

--- pain : -5% each

--- fatigue : -5%

--- intoxication (Realism): -5%

--- overdose (Realism) : -10%

Another factor to consider with the efficiency system is its rate of change. Changes in your efficiency score take time to reflect in your character. The rate of change ITSELF also depends on the base efficiency score.

Sprinting is the easiest example. When you exit a sprint, the negative impact to your efficiency will dissipate. If you are very heavy, it will take longer for that negative impact to dissipate; if you're light, it will take less time to return to better efficiency. On the other side, when you enter a sprint, you suffer a reduced efficiency; if you are very heavy, it will take LESS time for that negative impact to reflect in your score, and if you're very light, it will instead take a longer amount of time to reflect in your score.

It is important to keep in mind this rate of change when you're considering an engagement.

There is a debug option to display your efficiency information in the Bepinex debug console.

Aiming Misalignment

In Live Tarkov, like in any shooter, your weapon is almost always perfectly lined up straight ahead. Because a mouse lives only in 2-D, so does aiming in shooters.

I have tried to add complexity to this classic FPS limitation by making the aiming alignment less than perfect. When you rotate your character, the alignment of your weapon will be disturbed -- if you're looking through ironsights you will see it more clearly.

It takes time to realign the sites, and it is possible to learn how to manipulate your mouse in order to speed the realignment. Smaller mouse movements misalign the sights slightly MORE than larger ones, to emulate the challenge of precise aiming. It is also possible to learn visually where the real aimpoint is when you are moving (everything is procedural, nothing is RNG here). For optics, the optic's eyebox size becomes more important.

When in ADS with a stocked weapon (and the stock is not retracted), misalignment is reduced to 30% of the full effect by default (configurable.)

Pistols have their own misalignment profile: they are more sensitive to misalignment per mouse movements, but they have a smaller overall range of misalignment than primary weapons.

Most importantly, the effect is tied to weapon weight/ergo and efficiency. You will notice this effect most when you are wounded; it will not be simple to aim. Lasers find a new importance.

Misalignment Punch

There is an additional subfeature of the Misalignment mechanic. When you fire a stocked weapon in ADS, there is a momentary window in which the weapon returns to full misalignment. If you are not rotating while firing, there can no misalignment, so the less you rotate while firing the better.

The effect is based on the force of the caliber you are firing. Generally, it is very hard to notice the effect unless you are injured and have low efficiency. This is another factor to consider when choosing your kit for a raid.

Weapon Sway

Weapon sway has been completely rewritten from scratch and completely replaces BSG's (Realism's sway, which is excellent, functions as a layer underneath WHM's). Generally, whereas BSG weapon sway follows the player's point of aim, my sway instead leads it. I find this to be anecdotally more authentic as a behavior. I also find, and I hope you do too, this sway to be far more aesthetically pleasing than the vanilla one.

Weapons with no stock (including pistols) have a different sway pattern than those with a stock. It remains generally more centered while also a bit more volatile; more controllable yet less precise. This is intended most of all to give larger weapons with collapsible stocks a more viable option in close quarters (like if you bring a huge SCAR-H into a building). This different also goes for ADS, unstocked weapons will get a leading sway profile when in ADS.

There are many cases in which the sway intensity is more or less, depending on stock/no stock, ADS, Realism stance, etc. Use your intuition.

Weight and ergo play a huge role in this system: lighter weapons with better ergo will have less sway.

This effect stacks with efficiency.

Deadzone

WHM has a deadzone effect inspired by Bodycam, where the camera lags behind your aimpoint. The intensity of the effect depends on weapon weight and ergo, as well as your current efficiency level. In addition, each Realism stance also has its own multiplier for the deadzone:

Normal BSG view: 0.65 multiplier

Short stock: 0.35 multiplier

Active aim: 0.5 multiplier

High ready: 0.35 multiplier

Low ready: 0.75 multiplier

ADS: 0.2 multiplier

Reloading Overhaul

Reloading in WHM has been overhauled. In general, reload speeds in WHM depend on your Efficiency stat, with higher efficiency = faster reload speeds. There are also two submechanics of the new system:

Slower Reloads

Reload animations in EFT are too fast. They conspicuously lack the part of the reload when your character is replacing one mag and searching for a new one. Even the most juiced guntubers can't do this.

I have fixed this: In WHM the reload animation slows down in the middle, substantially increasing your time to reload. By the same token, using EFT's Fast Reload command bypasses this slower reload, making it more important.

Reloading should not be a trivial thing, it should be something you have to think about as it renders you defenseless and possibly dead.

Running Reloads

A sub-mechanic of slower reloads, reloading while sprinting reduces your reload speed by 50% (default). In practice it is even more than that, because your Efficiency is reduced when sprinting considerably.

Augmented Reload

Augmented Reloads allow the player to slightly increase (default 30%) reload speed. When pressing the Reload key again after a reload has already begun, your character will look down at the reloading operation and do it faster. You can press the same button again to look back up. The only 'cost' of this operation is your personal loss of situational awareness, and the cost of having to do another operation as the player.

Obviously, this mechanic goes nicely with the Slower Reloads feature in general.

It should be noted that Realism's reload speed mechanics are incorporated into mine, not bypassed!

Weapon Transitions

Weapon transitions have been overhauled, again paying homage to T-Rex Arms' criticisms. In their opinion, primary to shoulder transitions were far too fast, while sling to pistol transitions were far too slow.

WHM makes sling to pistol (and back) transitions faster, including the quickdraw transition. Sling to shoulder transitions, and back, are now much slower.

All transition speeds are also weighted for weapon weight, ergo, and efficiency. Transition speeds while prone are reduced 3x (because that's not easy).

I have also slightly altered the positioning of the transitions, so that the sling transition will return to a place more near the player's chest, and the shoulder will return kind of further to the right as if trying to get it back on your shoulder. Pistol draws now project out more from the body, rather than raise up from below.

Breathing Effects

WHM includes a completely new breathing visual effect. The intensity of the effect depends on your current stamina and Efficiency stat.

Hold Breath Mechanic

WHM also includes a completely new hold-breath mechanic: When holding the hold-breath key, the breathing visual effect will reduce to 25% speed during the exhale portion of the animation. During this window, the player gets negative stamina regen, but also gets a 50% efficiency buff which helps dissipate mis-alignment and sway.

Arm Shake

There is a constant arm shake visual effect in WHM, that is bound to the player's arm stam, as well as the ergo + weight of the current weapon, and the player's efficiency.

Misc Handling Mechanics

There are some additional details of the player's hand movements.

• When rotating, the player's weapon both drops and pulls-in a little, to emulate the physical effort of holding a weapon while moving around.
• If the player ADSes with an unstocked weapon (not a pistol) while moving
  around, the weapon will drop further. This is a personal interpretation of how CQB would go, it provides a cleaner sight picture in tight spaces.
• When the player changes his vertical stance position at any point, there
  will be a visual effect of the character's hands and weapon as he makes the effort to reposition. The feature is mostly aesthetic, but not entirely: if you change stances while in ADS, it does momentarily disturb your sight picture.

Footstep Visual Effect

WHM includes a custom footstep effect. This effect is weighted to player efficiency, and current speed. So when you are walking faster you will see the effect quite strong, and it will interfere with your ability to aim while moving, as will being heavy or injured or in any other way inefficient. It also looks much better than BSG's.

Vertical Aiming Mechanics

I have integrated several new mechanics which aim to complicate the vertical plane. This is another response to the T-Rex Arms video cited above.

When lean-peaking, the player's weapon points slightly up/down depending on a which side he's peaking on (right = up, unless the weapon is shouldered on the left in which case it's reversed). Not active during ADS.

When lean-stepping, instead, there is no vertical rotation but instead a very slight drop in the weapon in the ADS; also the player gets a 50% efficiency nerf while in the lean-step.

When rotating up or down, the Emulated Gravity effect will cause the weapon to rotate up in a lagging way, and rotate back down in an accelerated way. The severity of the effect depends on weapon weight and ergo, and efficiency.

More Freelook

+50% freelook range. That's it.

This table identifies which version of Realism each version of WHM is compiled with. Any given version of WHM may work with a version of Realism not specified in the table, but it's just an accident if it does!

WHM v0.8 | Realism v1.5.x

WHM v0.7.5 | Realism v1.5.0

WHM v0.6.6 -- v0.7.4.x | Realism v1.4.8

^{Note : Realism v.1.4.8 is incorrectly identified as v.1.4.7 within the mod itself, in the loading screen and in the F12 menu. It's just an error, it actually is 1.4.8.}

A complete list of all the mods I currently use (as requested):

[3.10.x]

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i Unity Toolkit

i Borkel's NVGs

i EFT SCOPE AND RED DOT SIGHT OVERHAUL (ACOG4LIFE)

i Backdoor Bandit

i Drakia BigBrain (req for SAIN + others)

i Drakia Waypoints (req for SAIN)

i Amands's gfx

i Looting bots

i Questing bots

i Fontaine Realism

i Fontaine FOV fix

i SAIN

i DisableScavMode egboggied

i That's Lit

i MoreCheckmarks

i? Louder Suppressors

i Use Loose Loot

i Path to Tarkov

i? Realistic Combat Overhaul

i Shadow Flicker Fix

i Dad Gamer

i Epic's All in One

i De-Clutterer

i Weapon Customizer

i UI Fixes

i Loot Radius

i MOAR

i Multiply ALL

i Better Bullet Cracks

i Get Concussed

i Borkel's Bloody Bullet Wounds + Particles + Splatters

i Pack 'n' Strap

i Simple Season Selector

i Devilflippy Realism compat

i Skills Extended

i Tactical Gear Component

i painter

i Custom Interactions

i ref friendly quests

i Virtual's Custom Quest Loader

i Interactable Exfils API

i Friendly PMC

i Performance Improvements

i Dynamic Maps

i Better Zeroing

i Ref - SPT Friendly Quests

i Realistic Thermal Scopes

i Skipper

i HollywoodFX

i HandsAreNotBusy

i SVM

i TMS

modify raid times in SPT\Aki_Data\Server\database\locations (EscapeTimeLimit)

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.2

- Big improvement to deadzone clipping issue : without going into a lengthy explanation, the deadzone works in relation to the player's foot positioning, and previously when the player rotated enough to change foot position there was an abrupt reset of the deadzone; now the effect smoothly blends between the foot reset animations.
- Improved efficiency of stat calculations used by the sway and deadzone algos.
- General code cleanup (who cares).

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Jun 6th 2024

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- Big improvement to deadzone clipping issue : without going into a lengthy explanation, the deadzone works in relation to the player's foot positioning, and previously when the player rotated enough to change foot position there was an abrupt reset of the deadzone; now the effect smoothly blends between the foot reset animations.

- Improved efficiency of stat calculations used by the sway and deadzone algos.

- General code cleanup (who cares).

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.3

0.3 release features:
- When player kneels, his weapon is a bit closer to the chest, essentially cosmetic.
- Added another layer of breath effect: weapon visually oscillates in hand as stamina decreases

youtu.be/YY6kdHMhpeA

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Jun 26th 2024

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0.3 release features:

- When player kneels, his weapon is a bit closer to the chest, essentially cosmetic.

- Added another layer of breath effect: weapon visually oscillates in hand as stamina decreases

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.31

Small update,
- adjust some values for new breathing feature
- added new feature, when change your stance (crouching and un-crouching), your weapon will oscillate a little in your hands

A config menu is the next priority.

youtu.be/WahygN9HPyI

adishee

Jun 26th 2024

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Small update,

- adjust some values for new breathing feature

- added new feature, when change your stance (crouching and un-crouching), your weapon will oscillate a little in your hands

A config menu is the next priority.

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.3.2

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- Added F12 config menu
- Tweaked animation curve and values for weapon sway, looks a bit more complex
- Tweaked animation curve for pose change visual effect
- Improved stuttering problem (something much smaller and less noticeable happens now)

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Jul 10th 2024

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--- Version 0.3.2 ---

- Added F12 config menu

- Tweaked animation curve and values for weapon sway, looks a bit more complex

- Tweaked animation curve for pose change visual effect

- Improved stuttering problem (something much smaller and less noticeable happens now)

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.3.3

Not a big update, mostly just for new SPT version.

--- Version 0.3.3 ---

- Updated for SPT 3.9.x.
- Retweaked sway and deadzone values for new Realism version.
- Reduced the influence of player's strength stat on sway: at max strength (50), sway is reduced up to 33%.

adishee

Jul 22nd 2024

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Not a big update, mostly just for new SPT version.

--- Version 0.3.3 ---

- Updated for SPT 3.9.x.

- Retweaked sway and deadzone values for new Realism version.

- Reduced the influence of player's strength stat on sway: at max strength (50), sway is reduced up to 33%.

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.3.3.1(hotfix)

I somehow broke the aiming deadzone between my testing on SPT 3.9.2 and release on 3.9.3. I've fixed it.

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Jul 22nd 2024

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I somehow broke the aiming deadzone between my testing on SPT 3.9.2 and release on 3.9.3. I've fixed it.

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.3.4

--- Version 0.3.4 ---
- Tweaked deadzone behavior again (removed the tapering experiment, was not really working out).
- Added increased arm shaking; effect intensity driven by arm stam, stance, health, and strength stat.
- Cleaned up some small things for SPT 3.9.x.

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Jul 24th 2024

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--- Version 0.3.4 ---

- Tweaked deadzone behavior again (removed the tapering experiment, was not really working out).

- Added increased arm shaking; effect intensity driven by arm stam, stance, health, and strength stat.

- Cleaned up some small things for SPT 3.9.x.

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.3.5

Sorry for the version spam, just trying to get the mod in a good place before some downtime. Trying to dump all the recent ideas for the mod while I can. Likely last update for a while. It's been fun :p



--- Version 0.3.5 ---
- Fixed stance-dependent visual not working (accidentally killed it).
- Lowered default sway value.
- Added more randomness to arm shake visual effect.
- Improved (greatly) breathing visual effect.
- Added effect, when player is turning he pulls the weapon in a bit because I like…

adishee

Jul 26th 2024

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Sorry for the version spam, just trying to get the mod in a good place before some downtime. Trying to dump all the recent ideas for the mod while I can. Likely last update for a while. It's been fun :p

--- Version 0.3.5 ---

- Fixed stance change visual not working (accidentally killed it).

- Lowered default sway value.

- Added more randomness to arm shake visual effect.

- Improved (greatly) breathing visual effect.

- Added effect, when player is turning he pulls the weapon in a bit because I like visual complexity.

- Added effect, when player is moving with unstocked weapon he lowers it a bit when ADSed (because I like visual complexity again).

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.4

--- Version 0.4 ---

- New feature, aiming misalignment; when you move your weapon around, the sights will mis-align for a period of time. You can LEARN to align them yourself by overshooting the target a little and recentering it. (Hard to explain.) When you ADS with a stocked weapon, the effect is reduced by 80%. When you shoot in an ADS, the misalignment is momentarily reset. The upshot of all of this is that the longer you are focused on a target, the better your weapon control will be. The…

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Sep 6th 2024

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-- Version 0.4 --

- New feature, aiming misalignment; when you move your weapon around, the sights will mis-align for a period of time. You can LEARN to align them yourself by overshooting the target a little and recentering it. (Hard to explain.) When you ADS with a stocked weapon, the effect is reduced by 80%. When you shoot in an ADS, the misalignment is momentary reset. The upshot of all of this is that the longer you are focused on a target, the better you weapon control will be. The effect scale with the size and ergo of the weapon, the condition of your player (health), and your arm and body stam just like the weapon sway mechanic.

This all may sounds moronic but I promise if you already liked my mod, you will like this feature. And of course you can tweak it.

- Removed player strength from condition calculations. It's just bugged, I've got to refine it.

- Refined basically all previous features while rewriting most of the mod.

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.4.5

Big thank you to purplenamelol for his feedback and testing!

Updates:
- Refined new parallax system:

• Added faster recentering mechanic to parallax: if you are not rotating at all, your parallax will center faster, but if you are rotating at all the slower, main parallax layer will obtain, and you must center it yourself (by overshooting and pulling back)
• Added much deeper shot logic: parallax reset per shot depends on weapon weight versus cartridge power
• Generally tuned parallax system a LOT

- Added…

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Sep 13th 2024

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Version 0.4.5

Big thank you to purplenamelol for his feedback and testing!

Updates:

- Refined new parallax system:

• Added faster recentering mechanic to parallax: if you are not rotating at all, your parallax will center faster, but if you are rotating at all the slower, main parallax layer will obtain and you have to sort of center it yourself (by overshooting and pulling back)
• Added much deeper shot logic: parallax reset per shot depends on weapon weight versus cartridge power
• Generally tuned parallax system a LOT

- Added non-instant efficiency change: your change in character status (stam, movement speed) is no longer instantly reflected in your weapon handling; adds further depth to how you balance your movement versus your readiness

- Added footstep visual effect when ADSed

- Unified efficiency calcs across various effects for more consistent feel

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.4.5.1

This is basically a hotfix -- I noticed that really heavy weapons got comical and removed a bit of code that was overtuning the effect.

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Sep 13th 2024

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This is basically a hotfix -- I noticed that really heavy weapons got comical and removed a bit of code that was overtuning the effect.

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.4.6

Further (and very likely final) tuning of new aiming misalignment/'parallax' feature. Reworked a couple things and tweaked it again and I'm very happy with where it is.

Enjoy

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Sep 17th 2024

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Further (and very likely final) tuning of new aiming misalignment/'parallax' feature. Reworked a couple things and tweaked it again and I'm very happy with where it is.

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.4.6.1

- Fixed bugs from 0.4.6
- I may have fixed the legendary head-snapping bug in the course of fixing the above ones -- initial testing suggests so fml

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Sep 18th 2024

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- Fixed bugs from 0.4.6

- I may have fixed the legendary head-snapping bug in the course of fixing the above ones -- initial testing suggests so

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TarkovIRL - Weapons Handling Mod 0.5

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This is an important updated, it's a huge polish pass on existing features. The main overhaul is to the 'efficiency' system:

• Did a big refactor of my internal 'efficiency' calculation. This stat governs many aspects of the mod's features, most notably the intensity of the sway and parallax (sight alignment) calculations. Many things will cause you to be less efficient and handle your gear with less control. The exact values are as follows (everything stacks).
  • General health: at zero health you

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Sep 27th 2024

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This is an important updated, it's a huge polish pass on existing features. The main overhaul is to the 'efficiency' system:

- Did a big refactor of my internal 'efficiency' calculation. This stat governs many aspects of the mod's features, most notably the intensity of the sway and parallax (sight alignment) calculations. Many things will cause you to be less efficient and handle your gear with less control. The exact values are as follows (everything stacks).

• General health: at zero health you will have a 100% penalty (and also be dead).
• Being overweight between the YELLOW and RED status adds up to 50%
  penalty (so 50% at red).
• Concussion adds 20% penalty for its duration.
• Broken bones: each broken bone will give you 15% penalty.
• Tremor adds 5% penalty for its duration.
• Stamina and arm stamina each give a 10% penalty at zero.
• Light bleeding anywhere will give 5% penalty.
• Heavy bleeding anywhere will give 15% penalty.
• Being poisoned / infected will give a 10% penalty. This feature is represented well in the Realism mod, where the risk of poison is not just from cultists but also somewhat likely from eating junk food.
• Hydration and nutrition deficit each add 5% penalty when at zero.

- Speed and stance: slower speed and lower stance each buff efficiency by up to 50%. (So at minimum walking speed and a full crouch, these stack to a 75% efficiency buff.) Going prone gives another 50% buff (that would be a 87.5% total efficiency buff). The buffs actually are division operations of the total, applied after all the penalties, so perhaps that seems confusing but it looks like: 1 * 0.5 = 0.5; 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25; 0.25 * 0.5 = 0.125, in other words a 87.5% buff. This should illustrate how powerful your speed and stance are.

- Sprinting will apply a 50% penalty. Astute readers will say, "but your weapon is not up whilst running anyway" But the change in efficency is not immediate...

- Change in efficiency: the changing status of efficiency is not immediately reflected in your player, but is FLUID. The rate of change itself is ALSO GOVERNED by your efficiency. For example, if your efficiency is very poor (you are heavy, injured, and starving), decreasing efficiency will be reflected to the player MORE QUICKLY and increase MORE SLOWLY (for example, going in and out of a sprint). Vice versa, if your efficiency stat is good in general (uninjured, good stam, good nutrition), a momentary decrease in efficiency (again, the easiest example is sprinting) will result in a slower reflected loss of efficiency and a faster return to base efficiency after the sprint.

The system will always respond more favourably if you are in a good condition, and it's up to you to maintain that condition, through your health, nutrition, and movement.

Other changes:

- Added fluctuation period in sway calculation, where previously the effect was immediate. This became noticeable going in and out of ads rapidly, you could see the polarity reversing in an awkward manner (stocked weapons in ads will lag behind the player camera, whereas out of ads they will lead). Now the change is fluid.

- Added new animations to your head camera movement when throwing grenades. Unique animations for over- and under-handed throws. Inspired by Squad.

- Redid the arm shake visual effect and tweaked values.

- Updated footstep visual effect, effect is now present when out of ADS.

- Changed how parallax works specifically for pistols. Since the points of control contact are so few (thanks to beta tester for pointing this out), they're especially hard to aim. So in the mod the sights become more easily misaligned when you're rotating, but they have a uniquely faster recenter time when not rotating. The point is you can practice on the range with a particular pistol and get good at aiming it during movement even when the sights are not perfectly aligned, and make better use of lasers etc.

- Along the same lines, pistols are debuffed with 2x more hand shake effect than other weapons.

- Added a weight attenuation curve: since the weapon weight acutely affects weapon handling, I've added a smooth curve for the factored weight to max out at 6.5 kgs to avoid cartoonish levels of weapon sway and deadzone.

- Fixed speed-efficiency calculation to reflect non-movement.

- Fixed blindfire to work with my mechanics.

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Small update to tune some values:

• Efficiency max penalty from health loss reduced from 100% to 50%
• Increased default sway value
• Slightly decreased base parallax value
• Slightly decreased base deadzone value
• Removed and disconnected a debug slider that shouldn't have been there

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Sep 28th 2024

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Small update to tune some values:

• Efficiency max penalty from health loss reduced from 100% to 50%
• Increased default sway value
• Slightly decreased base parallax value
• Slightly decreased base deadzone value
• Removed and disconnected a debug slider that shouldn't have been there

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Small iterative update

• Fixed bug where weapon weight smoothing was not being applied to deadzone (causing issues when holding something very heavy).
  
• Changed throw animation values to be more pronounced.
  
• Lowered default parallax value.
  
• Lowered default sway value.
  
• Added slider to modify how much impact negative conditions have on player efficiency (which affects sway, parallax, footstep visual effect, etc).

adishee

Oct 2nd 2024

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Small iterative update

1. Fixed bug where weapon weight smoothing was not being applied to deadzone (causing issues when holding something very heavy).
   
2. Changed throw animation values to be more pronounced.
   
3. Lowered default parallax value.
   
4. Lowered default sway value.

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IMPORTANT UPDATE

This version is a massive update. The principal new feature is a completely new, written from scratch weapon sway model. BSG's model is totally gone if the new one is toggled on. In addition, there are several smaller features and/or sub-features of the new sway. Many existing features have been re-tuned to work with the new sway.

New features:

• Added new sway model. My sway model is much more complex than BSG's, and it's intended to be both more visually compelling and complex

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Oct 22nd 2024

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This version is a massive update. The principal new feature is a completely new, written from scratch weapon sway model. BSG's model is totally gone if the new one is toggled on. In addition, there are several smaller features and/or sub-features of the new sway. Many existing features have been re-tuned to work with the new sway.

New features:

- Added new sway model. My sway model is much more complex than BSG's, and it's intended to be both more visually compelling and complex for gameplay. When building the various parts of this new model, I paid close attention to a T-REX Arms video made a few years ago which directly addresses realism in Tarkov (third rail alert). Many of the following handling changes are in an effort to respond to those criticisms.

When out of ADS, my sway generally leads your aimpoint rather than follows it. When in the ADS, the sway lags behind the aimpoint slightly, which is an emulation of the slightly more cumbersome behavior when securing a 'cheek weld' with the stock. Accordingly, if you have a weapon with no stock or a retracted stock, the sway will lead the aimpoint in the ADS, being slightly more nimble if less precise.

The stock-no-stock difference are also apparent in pointfire. With unstocked weapons, the sway is different: a bit jerkier but points forward more reliably than stocked weapons. If you have a large weapon that can retract - a scar for example - it might be preferable to collapse it in close quarters. There is an actual tradeoff between fine accuracy that takes longer, and general accuracy that takes less time. Unstocked weapons also dip slightly when you're moving, even ADSed.

Rotating your character causes a rotational dip in your weapon when not in ADS. A simple physical emulation of wielding a physical object, it's not going to always point straight.

It's hard to put into words all of the small details, try it or watch one of the videos I've posted to get a better impression.

- Added 'vertical nerfs'. Again in line with the T-REX video, I've given a sort of a nerf to leaning. This is because the T-REX video commented about how hard it was to establish the correct vertical attitude when peaking a corner, even when knowing exactly where the target is. When leaning right, your weapon's angle goes slightly up, and vice-versa for left leaning.

Another vertical nerf is what I call 'hyper-vertical' which dovetails with the above change. When aiming up, your weapon lags a little to point up when out of the ADS. This depends on how heavy it is. Vice-versa, when pointing down, there is a bit of an acceleration. This is again an effort to complicated the vertical plane of your aiming, making pointfire harder. None of it is RNG, you can learn the patterns precisely given enough time.

- New footstep visual effects, and slight weapon tilt.

- Tweaks to the deadzone feature (now off by default).

- Tweaks to parallax feature.

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Just a wee hotfix.


- Forgot to change the version number, fixed!
- Un-nerfed parallax feature (really just changed defaults).
- Lowered default sway value.
- Don't forget to reset default values in the config!

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Oct 23rd 2024

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Just a wee hotfix.

- Forgot to change the version number, fixed!

- Un-nerfed parallax feature (really just changed defaults).

- Lowered default sway value.

- Don't forget to reset default values in the config!

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New Features:
- Added new Directional Sway feature for movement in different directions, your weapon has more complex movement when moving in all directions.
- Added new Augmented Reloads feature: when reloading or checking mag, if you press again your reload button, your character will look down at what he's doing and the animation speed will be increased by 30%.

Updates and Fixes:
- Huge repass on config entry names, things should be easier to read now.
- Fixed MP5k thinking…

adishee

Nov 7th 2024

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New Features:

- Added new Directional Sway feature for movement in different directions, your weapon has more complex movement when moving in all directions.

- Added new Augmented Reloads feature: when reloading or checking mag, if you press again your reload button, your character will look down at what he's doing and the animation speed will be increased by 30%.

Updates and Fixes:

- Huge repass on config entry names, things should be easier to read now.

- Fixed MP5k thinking he has a stock.

- Fixed extra freelook range to work even if not using the Deadzone feature.

- Default weapon cant value reduced to zero in recognition that Realism's new canting feature is better - and this mod is always meant to be played, let's say it together, with Realism maxed out very good.

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