Alan Kertz, core Gameplay Designer at Dice, outlined some some tweaks toBattlefield 3 that the team has been working on, and the fine folks at Symthic forum have taken the data and further analyzed the hell out of it for your benefit. You’re welcome. What we have here is all the fine tuning Battlefield 3 “may or may not” have in the next patch, according to Kertz. Once the members of Symthic put out their data, Alan Kertz confirmed the results via Twitter when he said, “yes symthic has authentic update info, your feedback on these preliminary changes will be hugely valuable for a future update.” 1. Damage changes Assault Rifles: 545x45mm bullet minimum damage (All assault rifles except G3A1) 17 -> 18.4 {Buff} G3A1 Min Damage 20 -> 22 {Buff} Max damage 30 -> 34 {Buff} Carbines SCAR-H Min Damage 17 -> 20 {Buff} LMGs M60 & M240B Max damage 30 -> 34 {Buff} Min damage 20 -> 22 {Buff} PKP Min damage 20 -> 22 {Buff} M249, M27IAR, RPK-74M Min damage 17 -> 18.4 Sniper rifles All sniper rifles: Upper chest damage multiplier 1 -> 1.25 {Buff} M98B Max damage 95 -> 80 [Nerf] Dropoff start dist. 20 -> 15 [Nerf] Dropoff end dist. 75 -> 120 {Buff} All other bolt-action sniper rifles Max damage 75 -> 80 {Buff} Min damage 55 -> 59 {Buff} Dropoff start dist. 20 -> 15 [Nerf] Dropoff end dist. 75 -> 100 {Buff} All semiautomatic sniper rifles except SKS: Min damage: 34 -> 37.5 {Buff} Dropoff start distance 12 -> 15 {Buff} SKS Dropoff end distance 50 -> 60 {Buff} 2. Attachments Fore grip Basically before it reduced the horizontal recoil by 50%, in these files it reduces h-recoil only ~20-33% depending on weapon. It also increases the minimum spread 20% ~ 50% depending on stance and weapon. Suppressor Suppressors will not reduce the damage anymore. Now it will reduce the distance where damage starts/stops to drop off instead. For most weapons it will decrease the min spread by 25% instead of 50% Although looks like M60 will still have the same 50% effect. Heavy barrel For most of the weapons it decreases ADS min spread by 75 or 50% depending on weapon. Recoil is still increased by 10 or 15% and HIP min spread by 20-25% depending on weapon. It doesn’t make AN94 100% accurate anymore while aiming down the sight. Reduces ADS min spread by 75% and only increases recoil by 10%, the hip fire penalty is 20% for AN94 G3A1 is same than AN94 except heavy barrel increases recoil 6.7% and hip fire is increased only 14.3% For few weapons it also makes Spread increase per shot 10% higher. It will also increase drop-off end distance by 50% making weapons more deadly at ranges between 50m and 90m, depending on weapon. Flash suppressor Will decrease recoil by 17 ~ 25% depending on weapon. For most weapons it increases hip min spread by 20~25% but some weapons don’t have any hip accuracy penalty. Extended magazine There seems to be extended magazine for AS VAL which didn’t exist before. With ext mag it will have 30 bullets in a mag instead of 20 3. Accuracy changes Assault rifles AEK971 Recoil right 0.5 -> 0.3 [Nerf] ADS Min Spread, Not moving 0.2 -> 0.4 [Nerf] AK74M Recoil up 0.3 -> 0.28 {Buff} FirstSRecoilMul 2 -> 1.5 {Buff} AN94 Recoil up 0.45 -> 0.3 {Buff} FirstSRecoilMul 1.5 -> 2 [Nerf] F2000 Recoil up 0.3 -> 0.26 {Buff} FAMAS Recoil left 0.6 -> 0.35 {Buff} Recoil right 0.6 -> 0.5 {Buff} Recoil decrease 15 -> 18 {Buff} FirstSRecoilMul 2 -> 2.6 [Nerf] G3A1 Recoil up 0.55 -> 0.45 {Buff} FirstSRecoilMul 1.2 -> 1.8 [Nerf] L85A2 Recoil left 0.4 -> 0.3 {Buff} Recoil decrease 22 -> 18 [Nerf] Min spread, ADS, not moving 0.4 -> 0.2 {Buff} M416 FirstSRecoilMul 2 -> 2.4 [Nerf] Carbines AKS74u Recoil up 0.3 -> 0.28 {Buff} FirstSRecoilMul 2 -> 2.2 [Nerf] HK53 Recoil up 0.3 -> 0.28 {Buff} Recoil left 0.3 -> 0.2 {Buff} Recoil right 0.5 -> 0.35 {Buff} Recoil decrease 22 -> 18 [Nerf] SCAR-H Recoil decrease 15 -> 13 [Nerf] SG553 Recoil up 0.3 -> 0.25 {Buff} FirstSRecoilMul 2.5 -> 2.2 {Buff} QBZ-95B Recoil left 0.5 -> 0.335 {Buff} Recoil right 0.5 -> 0.335 {Buff} Recoil decrease 22 -> 18 [Nerf] Min spread, ADS, not moving 0.4 -> 0.5 [Nerf] LMGs M240 FirstSRecoilMul 1 -> 1.7 {Buff} M249 FirstSRecoilMul 1 -> 2.2 [Nerf] Recoil decrease 15 -> 12 [Nerf] M60 FirstSRecoilMul 2 -> 1.5 MG36 Recoil decrease 15 -> 13 [Nerf] FirstSRecoilMul 1 -> 1.8 [Nerf] PKP Recoil up 0.75 -> 0.65 {Buff} Recoil decrease 7 -> 13 {Buff} FirstSRecoilMul 1 -> 1.5 [Nerf] Max spread, ADS, not moving 1 -> 3 [Nerf] Type88 Recoil left 0.4 -> 0.3 Recoil right 0.4 -> 0.3 Recoil decrease 15 -> 12 [Nerf] FirstSRecoilMul 1.34 -> 1.5 [Nerf] RPK Recoil decrease 15 -> 13 [Nerf] FirstSRecoilMul 2 -> 1.8 {Buff} QBB-95 Recoil up 0.45 -> 0.37 {Buff} Recoil left 0.1 -> 0.4 [Nerf] Recoil right 0.3 -> 0.4 [Nerf] FirstSRecoilMul 1 -> 2 [Nerf] Recoil decrease 15 -> 13 [Nerf] PDWs AS VAL Recoil left 0.2 -> 0.25 [Nerf] Recoil right 0.3 -> 0.45 [Nerf] Recoil decrease 22 -> 18 [Nerf] PDW-R Recoil decrease 22 -> 18 [Nerf] FirstSRecoilMul 2.5 -> 2 {Buff} Min spread, ADS, not moving 0.4 -> 0.5 [Nerf] Min spread, ADS, moving 0.6 -> 0.8 [Nerf] Min spread, HIP, not moving Standing 1.5 -> 2 [Nerf] Crouching 1 -> 1.5 [Nerf] Prone 0.75 -> 1 [Nerf] Min spread, HIP, moving Standing 2 -> 2.5 [Nerf] Crouching 1.5 -> 2 [Nerf] Prone 1.25 -> 1.5 [Nerf] MP7 Min spread, HIP, not moving, prone & crouching 0.75 -> 1.2 [Nerf] Min spread, HIP,moving, prone & crouching 1.25 -> 1.5 [Nerf] P90 Min spread, HIP, not moving, prone & crouching 0.75 -> 1.2 [Nerf] Min spread, HIP,moving, prone & crouching 1.25 -> 1.5 [Nerf] PP-19 Recoil decrease 25 -> 20 [Nerf] FirstSRecoilMul 2.5 -> 2 {Buff} Min spread, HIP, not moving, prone & crouching 0.75 -> 1.2 [Nerf] Min spread, HIP,moving, prone & crouching 1.25 -> 1.5 [Nerf] PP2000 Min spread, HIP, not moving, prone & crouching 0.75 -> 1.2 [Nerf] Min spread, HIP,moving, prone & crouching 1.25 -> 1.5 [Nerf] UMP45 Min spread, HIP, not moving, prone & crouching 0.75 -> 1.2 [Nerf] Min spread, HIP,moving, prone & crouching 1.25 -> 1.5 [Nerf] Pistols G18 Recoil up 0.7 -> 0.5 {Buff} M9 RecoilDecrease 15 -> 30 {Buff} M93R Recoil up 0.5 -> 0.4 {Buff} Recoil left 0.4 -> 0.2 {Buff} Recoil right 0.4 -> 0.2 {Buff} FirstSRecoilMul 2.5 -> 2 {Buff} .44 Magnum Spread increase 0.6 -> 0.3 {Buff}