Are VATS shots considered "hip fire" for weapon mod purposes?

Are VATS shots considered "hip fire" for weapon mod purposes? - Soldier Holding Rifle

This is two overlapping questions:

  1. Are VATS shots considered hip fire?
  2. If so, for weapons that I use most often in VATS, does it benefit me to pick mods that improve hip fire accuracy?
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Best Answer

Based on one person's anecdotal experience, VATS seems to be hip fire.

Its hip fire

I know because I had a thing that reduced hip fire and my vats accuracy went down, swapped the mod to one that improved hip fire and it went up



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Does vats count as hip fire?

VATS is NOT affected with Hip Fire instead it IS affected with weapon accuracy.

Is VATS hip fire fallout 76?

Summary. Based on testing so far, VATS considers weapon fire to be: neither sighted nor hip fire for certain weapon types. sighted fire for certain weapon types.

What determines accuracy in VATS?

VATS accuracy is not affected by weapon accuracy, but weapon range instead. And the amount of perception you have. Weapon accuracy affects hip firing and the size of your targeting reticle on screen (bullet spread). Using concentrated fire perk makes it very easy to use and hit with vats even from long distances.

What determines AP cost fallout 4?

There are three numbers that determine what the AP cost is for every type of modded weapon: the weapon's base AP cost, the weapon's AP multiplier, and the mod's AP effect, and they do it based on this formula: weapon base AP cost + (weapon AP multiplier x mod AP effect)


Fallout 76 - VATS or Hip Fire/ADS for Commando?



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Answer 2

If VATS is correctly reporting the probability to hit, it uses sighted accuracy. I tested it both with handguns and rifles against a stationary target at a fixed distance. Swapping barrels onto the weapon that improved sighted accuracy greatly improved the reported probability to hit.

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