My character has 140 (base) and 294 (total with buffs) Heavy Guns skill, and 17(!!!) (11 base, 14 with buffs+Brute Aim perk) perception, 14 strength.
I tried whatever possible, when I aim anything with minigun at the distance of 7 tiles, I get 16% (!!! ridiculous) unfocused aim chance at 7 tiles away from target, and ONLY 24% when focused.
...
Please help!
Confirmed: 24% hit chance with a minigun vs a camera in Your House at 7 tiles distance, while Focused. Same percentage - with very similar Heavy Guns (effective 301) and same 14 Str, as per the screenshot. Seems like it's capped by distance, to me.
As for "please help!" part - this low hit chance is only at 7 tiles distance. It will rapidly go higher and higher the closer you go to a target (or the closer a target gets to you, ofc). It looks like miniguns are hard-coded to behave this way. Not oh so major problem given the amount of bullets they spit out, though - especially with Jumpstart mk2 motor, which is +2 bullets from very 1st volley and +2 more on top after each burst. Though i agree 24% focused at max effective distance is quite too low. Ain't exactly what we expect to see at _effective_ range, yep.
Bro! I thought the same way, that it's meant to be such a low hitchance, due to the amount of bullets shot!
BUT when I tried to shoot a group ( 6-7 enemies) of bunched up enemies, I barely hit anyone, due to very low % hitchance!
Also, this kind of weapon just (logically and consecutively) CANT have such a LOW effective range. You can't go melee with a minigun!
Because, it cuts your Iniciative ( by default, drawback of the gun ) and it's supposed to be played with maximum armor penalty, so you simply won't have movement points. While you will try to close the distance, you would simply get shot to death, that's what I experienced... I mean against any challenging enemy, not against rathounds or some raiders...
And by that logic, how would an AR have 5-6x better % hitchance? I just don't get it.
It must be strongly balanced, right now it looks like very,very raw!