Stalcraft Recoil Visualizer

What the graph shows

The graph is a flat plane facing you at the selected distance (5–100 m, 20 m by default). Both axes are in metres on that plane: Horizontal Spread (m) runs left (−) and right (+), and Vertical Spread (m) is the height above the first shot. The first shot is the origin (0, 0), where you aimed.

displacement = distance × tan(recoil angle)

Recoil per shot: first-shot multiplier and recoil buildup

Each new shot moves the aim point by the weapon's recoil multiplied by a per-shot factor. The same factor scales the vertical and the horizontal kick.

kick(n) = recoil angle × m(n)
m(1) = first-shot multiplier
m(n) = 1 + buildup × max(0, n − buildup start), for n ≥ 2

Because the values are separate, the first kick can be the largest one. With a first-shot multiplier of ×2, a buildup of 4% and a start of 5 shots, the kicks are ×2, then ×1 up to shot 5, then ×1.04 at shot 6, ×1.08 at shot 7 and so on. Only at shot 30 is a kick as strong as the first. The first shots of a spray are therefore not always the easiest to control.

All three values come from the weapon's own game statistics (first-shot recoil multiplier, recoil buildup and recoil buildup start), marked Game data on the weapon card. A weapon whose data predates these statistics uses the value the site maintains instead (Site value), with buildup from shot 2, or else ×1 and 0% (Default). Attachments and the Buildup adjustment change the buildup percentage. Nothing on the page changes the first-shot multiplier or the start.

Stance

Stance scales the recoil by the weapon's own crouch or prone recoil multiplier (×0.875 crouching and ×0.75 prone for most weapons) and the spread overlay by its crouch or prone spread multiplier. Standing is ×1. A weapon that states no multiplier for a stance uses ×1 there. The multiplier in use is shown on the weapon card.

Simulation Length

Visualization Mode

Vertical recoil always moves the aim point up and is never random. The modes differ only in how the horizontal kicks are drawn. A horizontal kick's size comes from the weapon's horizontal recoil range [min; max] × m(n). Most weapons state one value (min = max).

Right-side bias. A weapon whose horizontal range starts at 0, such as the ASh-12 and the 6P62 ([0°; 0.65°]), kicks to the right only: in Random Path and Multiple Simulations each kick goes right with a size from 0 to the maximum, in Cumulative Spread it goes right at the maximum, and in Cone of Fire (Bounds) its band runs from 0 to the right. The weapon card shows the direction. A weapon whose data predates the horizontal range uses the right-side bias the site maintains instead, with the same rule. Nothing in this model pulls to the left.

The spread overlay

spread radius = distance × tan(spread angle)

The circle is an overlay around the recoil path, not a simulation of where bullets land. The points are calculated without spread and do not move when the overlay is turned on or off. The circle marks the area that the spread angle covers at this distance; the visualizer does not pick bullet positions inside it.

Attachments and manual adjustments

final value = base value × (1 + sum of percentage modifiers ÷ 100)

• Vertical and horizontal recoil: attachments and the vertical and horizontal adjustment fields.
• Buildup: the attachments' recoil buildup modifier and the Buildup adjustment field.
• Spread and hip-fire spread: attachments only. They change only the radius of the spread overlay.
• Magazine capacity: a magazine attachment's capacity replaces the weapon's, which changes the Mag length.
• Nothing else is read. Other attachment effects, such as aim speed, ergonomics or movement speed, do not change the graph.
• Compatibility: the attachment picker offers only the attachments whose game data lists the weapon as a suitable target. A saved attachment the weapon cannot take is removed.
• Best attachments on a weapon card fits the compatible attachments with the lowest total recoil (climb plus drift) at the current settings, with the Recoil Table's search. Pistol grips are never chosen; the Recoil Table's preferred and blocked attachments apply. A full magazine is compared over the weapon's own magazine size.