The weapon Perk “Reload Speed” doesn’t seem to do anything at all. I’ve tested this with Helbore MKIII, Ripper Gun MKII, Plasma Gun and Boltgun. None of them seem to benefit from having the Reload Speed perk, even with a maximum of 10%.
I even went ahead and recorded a comparison of a few guns, a pair of MKIII Helbore Lasguns, one with 10% Reload Speed and one with none. And a pair of MKII Ripper Guns, one with 8.5% and one with none. In both cases, counting frame-by-frame in a 60fps recording there was no noticeable difference.
just to add to this: using same methods i could not reproduce on zealot, appears to be working perfectly including a weapon that has overlap with this bug (a bolter). do both vet and ogryn have abilities that influence reload speed that are overwriting and zealot does not maybe?
I went back and tested my old results and was still got the same numbers yet again. But clearly something is going on so I kept at…
I decided to try a few different video players, and a video editor. All of these new programs seem to agree, to a T. And show the stat is working properly. So it seems like the player I was using has something weird going on with its “Skip Frame” feature. I don’t know what the issue is, my numbers using it were very consistent. But there were error in the margin I just chalked up to me miscounting, since it was only ever a difference of 10 frames at most. I’m sorry for the bad report, and thanks to those who corrected me.