Spray and pray: Aiming to miss

[Greep]

So, now that it pays to just ditch the sniper and dual wield an assault rifle with the new feats and components, I've noticed something really weird: it pays to aim for low percentage targets with bursts when there's a crowd most of the time!  The reason?  Underrail has a very strange way of handling burst misses.

It seems like when you miss with a burst attack, every time you miss a target it tries to attack anyone in your burst cone.  The result is that if you have 4 opponents the odds of missing altogether are very low.  As such, rather than waste bullets finishing off a close target at a chance to hit of 70 (you'll kill him after 3 shots and the rest go to waste), it's usually better to attack the far off guy with a chance to hit of 15!

With this tactic and commando and hornets, you can sometimes take out 4 guys in one turn because you get ~27 bullets and they're all going to hit something.  If you have 9 AP hornets and can toss a grenade and a premeditated pyrokinesis as well in the same turn... (27x2 + 15 + 0 = 69).. well... you get the idea.

[Gman]

Even before the update with the (awesome) new feats to help as you pointed out, I played an smg and rifle burster anyway for pretty much this reasoning right here. Am finding it funny that you are just noticing, though it is indeed a bit easier thanks to finally some more mods and feats to alleviate the difficulties and make it more enjoyable, as a burster and crafter both.

I have to repair my smg constantly though, but it's only 5mm and doing 40+ damage a shot so I can't complain given how cheap the ammo is.  Expertise btw makes 5mm Impalas and Jackrabbits (I am using a self-crafted Jackrabbit right now, still, at lvl 20 despite its max damage not even peaking over 22) a lot more feasible, put a muzzle break for +2 bursting and it just eats unarmored targets right up. Along with my 5mm stacks.

[Greep]

Heh, and with the 5mm shock bullets, armored foes as well I imagine.  Too bad I can never find those bloody blueprints!

Edit: or a bullet strap belt.  Geeze, I'd pay 3k charons for one, forget super steel -.-