A Comprehensive Look at Rifle Accuracy

Posted by Steve

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 1:57 PM

Link to spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nVTzt-hqtOOM4vNO50bGwBoi66I-IrIg-87_0gG3BMc/edit?usp=sharing

The attached spreadsheet shows the results of a large amount of accuracy testing done in the testing range in order to quantify the differences between the rifles (or most of them, sorry Bulldog) in VALORANT.

While this graph was made with "real-world accuracy" in mind (more information below) but is ultimately an artificial test that records only the first shot accuracy of a rifle aimed at the head. There are many more factors at play that affects the actual performance of a weapon.

The rifles were tested by firing 1000 shots at the targeting dummy's head using an auto-clicking software firing at 400ms intervals, a long enough time for every weapon to have reset their accuracy and ensuring that was no chance for the crosshairs to be moved off-target from mouse movement. To ensure aiming consistency, a double-zoomed Operator was used to precisely place the crosshairs before switching to a rifle. The tests were run both with the aim-point at the perfect center of the head as well as to the side, to account for imperfect but still on-target aim which often occurs in-game.

Edit: By the way, VALORANT already gives the exact first shot accuracy of every weapon in degrees in the weapon stats in the shop, this spreadsheet simply serves to turn that information into more "real world" accuracy. The ADS Guardian for example has a 100% accuracy in every scenario, as it's the only rifle in the game with 0 degrees of deviation.

The aim-point for perfect accuracy at 30 meters

The aim-point for imperfect (side of head) accuracy at 30 meters

The aim-point for perfect accuracy at 50 meters

The aim-point for imperfect (side of head) accuracy at 50 meters

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/uhavmz/a_comprehensive_look_at_rifle_accuracy/
  • https://reddit.com/uhavmz

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