Name: 拡張バレル - まだ無意味？(ブラッドオーキッドアップデート) (Extended Barrel - Still Pointless? (Blood Orchid update))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:14:34.000Z
Duration: 12 min 36 s
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What's up guys, Rogue-9 here and today we're taking another look at the extended barrel

Those of you who have been following my work for a while now will know that in the past,

I have branded the extended barrel as pointless.

But how have the recent changes to the damage drop-off modelling affected the extended barrel

and what about Ela's new shotgun, the FO-12?

The video will be divided into three parts

(timestamps in the comments section below):
1.

Part 1 will discuss the extended barrel function for rifles and SMGs,

plus some bugged drop-of curves I've uncovered.

Part 2 will discuss the extended barrel function for the shotgun

Basically answering the question: should you use the extended barrel and if so, for which guns?

So let's start out by understanding how
the extended barrel works.

The in-game description still claims that
the EB provides "full damage over a longer

distance range" and as I demonstrated in my first video on this topic, this is incorrect.

The reality is that with the EB, damage drops
off from exactly the same distance as without

it and the only difference is that the minimum
damage is raised resulting in a flatter drop-off.

As you can see, max damage is not affected and we just have less drop-off with more power at distance.

And this is still how the EB works for most
of the weapons after the recent update

as you can see from the table I put together here.

As always, if you are having trouble reading
the numbers, you will find a link in the description

that will take you to an online spreadsheet
that you can explore at your leisure.

This table covers the attacker weapons and
apart from the R4-C and Para-308 which receive

a minor damage boost at close range against
lvl 1 armour targets, all is as expected…

For Frost's 9mm C1, all is still good but
that's where the consistency ends.

Caveira's M12 and the French GIGN P90 have no damage drop-off whatsoever once you attach the EB

So the EB must make these guns super OP right?!

I would say, wait for the evaluation at the
end.

Now while Jaeger's 416-C does experience a damage drop-off over the distances we would expect

to see but the EB also lowers max damage for his gun by almost 10%.

When it comes to the FBI's UMP45 all bets
are off.

I tested the damage at point blank range,
then 13, 18, 23, 28 & 40m and instead of following

the expected drop-off pattern, the damage
was 5% higher at close range but then dropped down

Now given that the goal of bringing in a new damage drop-off model

It seem odd that the effect of the extended barrel should be so inconsistent for the defender weapons.

Some of it may even be by design, I don't know but whatever the case,

I've taken the liberty of reporting this as a bug to Ubisoft.

But now that we know how the EB works for
the simple damage drop-off models of the rifles

and SMGs, it's time to get stuck into the
interesting part of the video, testing Ela's

As you can see here, the FO-12 deals its max
damage of 35 points for each of the eight

pellets up to a range of around 6m and then
the damage drops off to 24 points at 12m.

The damage plateaus here before dropping off
again after 18m, reaching its minimum of 12

Attaching the EB does pretty much what you
would expect from it, it raises the mid-range

and long-range damage stats each by 5 points
per pellet, with the only small inconsistency

appearing during that second drop-off range.

Here, I didn't see the nice smooth drop-off
that I got for the gun without the EB but

instead, damage instantly dropped to 18 points
per pellet before settling on the minimum

But that small detail aside, I am quite happy
with how consistent these numbers ended up

being and I am quite confident that the results
are pretty accurate and dependable.

And now that we know how the extended barrel
works for all of the weapons that can attach

it at all distances, it's time to evaluate
these numbers to figure out whether or not

There are only two drawbacks to attaching
the extended barrel.

It sticks out further so it can make you easier to spot when rounding a corner or hiding just

to the side of a door or window and you have the opportunity cost of missing out on one

of the other muzzle attachments that can improve your guns' recoil.

So the question we need to answer is: “does the damage benefit justify dealing with harsher

The damage benefit you get from the EB (as
of the Blood Orchid update) ranges from a

mere 18% for the SMG-11 to up to 52% for the
416-C which sounds like a lot of variance

but if we calculate the required number of
shots to kill,  for each weapon

For almost all of the weapons, the number
of shots to kill at the minimum damage range

is lowered by one and in the case of Ela's
shotgun that difference is one pellet at mid-range

Considering how nicely this has worked out, it makes me wonder if the way the EB works

for the M12 and P90 is maybe not actually
a bug but by design.

The UMP45 on the other hand… that's still
messed up.

The damage numbers I measured in my experiments
mean that there is actually a range between

17 and 21m, depending on the armour of the opperator you are up against,

where the EB results in you needing one extra STK before needing the same and

That's stupid and nobody can tell me that
that's working as intended.

Ok, so to summarise, with most of the guns,
we need one less shot to kill.

That sounds decently useful, not OP but also
not pointless, right?

If we look at the ranges from which the additional
damage starts giving you an actual benefit

for each of the guns, you can see that those
ranges tend to be quite far out.

Against level 1 armour, the EB on the attacker
rifles will not benefit you at all at ranges

And even for the defender weapons, the shortest
range at which the EB results in one less

shot to kill is with the M12 at 21m and onwards.

If we calculate the STK benefits against level
2 & 3 armour we can see that the number will

usually be zero up to the 20-30m range and
then “minus one” but can also on occasion

The bottom line for rifles and SMGs is that
since most of the combat takes place in doors,

you will rarely get to engage your target
at distances where it will actually benefit

you and even if you do, all you can hope for
in most cases is one less STK.

Does this justify missing out on the significant
recoil and muzzle flash reduction you can