Aim Jerking while Moving Aiming Down

Issue Description:
While moving your aim downwards while firing causes the weapon to immediately jerk back towards it’s resting spot. Your aim movement vector can be mostly sideways, but still going down, and this issue still occurs. This negatively affects weapons with high recoil, like Combat Shotguns and the Bolter.

This occurs both in hipfire and ADS.

This issue affects how consistent and how accurate your follow-up shots are.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Equip any weapon with high recoil - the Combat Shotguns or the Bolter work as good examples
  2. Enter any mission or Psykhanium
  3. Remain in hipfire and move your aim around while shooting - note when moving your aim down, the crosshair has a tendency to jerk back towards the center of the screen
  4. Aim Down Sight and move your aim around while shooting - note when moving your aim downwards, the sight has a tendency to jerk back towards the center of the screen

The uploaded evidence showcases the Kantrael Mk XI Combat Shotgun for both hipfire and ADS.

Mission Name (If Applicable):
N/A

Platform:
[Steam]

Player ID:
[Steam Profile URL]

Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:
[03/31/2023, 05:00AM/PM] [EST]

Reproduction Rate:
Varies From Often (<75%)
To Constant (100%)
Depending on weapom

Upload Supporting Evidence:
The first two shots show hipfire recoil while not moving aim.
The second two shots show hipfire recoil while moving aim down.
The following two shots show ADS recoil while not moving aim.
The last two shots show ADS recoil while moving aim down.

Upload Console Log:
console-2023-03-31-08.54.51-814b4c04-719b-4a74-b321-d05036ba005e.log (79.0 KB)

Upload darktide_launcher.log:
darktide_launcher.log (1004.7 KB)

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In addition to the Kantrael Combat Shotgun above, here’s more evidence showcasing the Bolter, specifically while ADS. If you’ve wondered why the Bolter has weird aim jank while ADS, this is the reason.

  • The first 3 shots show ADS recoil while not moving aim
  • The next 6 shots show ADS recoil while moving aim upwards - note that recoil does not reset to the center of the screen between shots
  • The last 6 shots show ADS recoil while moving aim downwards - note that after each shot, the aim gets dragged back towards the center of the screen, unlike the previous 9 shots

oh it can be a lot jerkier than that. Boltgun, Revolver, Shotgun viewmodel jitter

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