So in fallout 4 weapon weight mattered. A heavier gun is supposed to take longer to draw, aim and have less overall recoil. (Not addressing recoil chance)

This is something we all should know. Vats players know that when kitted to be the lightest weapon they can mod. They’ll have the cheapest ap cost they can get, faster draw times and ads times as well as higher recoil

Heavily modded guns should have high ap costs, long draw times, ads time but have lower recoil.

It hit me while modding. It’s the Long Barrel mod. It’s not applying it’s weight to the gun. The two barrels, long and short aren’t supposed to have the same weight. No matter what type of long barrel the weight should be going up more than the current.

Using a combat rifle with just the hardened receiver and short scope. It weighs in at 7.77lbs with either barrel in standard. This happens with any other type of barrel true, aligned, stabilized. And on nearly every gun that can have long barrels.

It looks like all long barrels are broken and not adding weight or their recoil effects. But applying their hip fire, vats and other effects. In fact it’s feeling like adding a long barrel is reducing weight causing the worse recoil and recoil chance system.

My only guesses are BGSA scrapped the weight mechanics from 4. Disabled it for 76 or broke the long barrels by not adding the correct keywords to make them apply to guns.

So far every gun is behaving this way. Even the handmade and assault rifles which both have some of the lowest recoil in the game. Slap on a short barrel and they are fine. But once any long barrel gets added on they suffer.