Talk:Back Scatter
Legitimacy of Relative Bullet Spread
Since the Back Scatter's description states that it is 20% less accurate, shouldn't the ratio of distance to target to diameter of spread be 24:1, relative to the Stock Scattergun's 30:1? Is it an issue of a non–indicative description (meaning that an accurate description would be '16.7% less'), or an issue of error while testing this weapon? Green5 (talk) 02:01, 25 November 2014 (PST)
Spread Clarification
(copied from Talk:Shotgun#Spread_Clarification)
Assuming "spread on target" means distance from aim center, it describes a right triangle with length "pellet spread" and width 1 such that rotating around the length edge defines a cone of pellet spread (with a base diameter of 2).
Assume the ctx spread value is the angle of that cone (in radians). This lets us derive the "pellet spread" of the weapon. The calculation is pellet spread = round(1/tan(spread/2)). Specifically: ctx for shotguns says Spread = 0.0675. 1/tan(0.0675/2) = 29.618378775240068116408174736672, rounded that's 30, so "30 : 1" - it works.
I extracted the pedigree of all spread weapons this way. Shotguns & scatterguns are 30 (.0675), backscatter is 25 (.0675*1.20), shortstop is 50 (.04), pistols are 50 (.04), miniguns are 25 (.08), tomislav is 31 (.08*.80), SMGs and revolvers are 80 (.025). I plan to list all relevant values in each change summary.
