Decreasing recoil? (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Monday, February 01, 2016, 18:47 (3459 days ago) @ Claude Errera

I just remembered to watch a clip from a couple of days ago, and I learned a few things:

- I like sniping people in the elbow, apparently. (Three elbow shots in 3 seconds, with a miss in between.)
- Sniper kills are registered by in-game text in as little as 8 frames (on a 30fps recording), or as many as 28 (lag?)
- My 1000 Yard Stare has a hell of a kick (each pair of images are sequential frames)

It's the third point I'm looking to rectify; I never noticed that before. My 1ks has only one stability-related perk - Hand-Laid Stock. My question is: will the penalty to range nullify the usefulness of the boost to stability, at the range shown in these shots? (This is typical of my sniping distance. I'm on the teleporter exit platform of Vertigo, firing into C.)

Yes, I could simply try it out - but I figure some of you have already done that. :)

I'm generally not a great sniper... I have moments where I get into the zone, but for the most part I'm pretty mediocre. Knowing that, I always go for max stability because I know I'll usually need to fire 2 or 3 shots to down a target.