Your FPS in PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) apparently affects the recoil of your weapons. You can see how this is connected here.
What do FPS have to do with recoil? In PUBG, your performance heavily depends on how well you can manage the recoil of various weapons. If you have it under control, you aim more accurately and can take down opponents faster. A YouTuber recently tested some weapons and found that recoil changes with lower FPS values.
How Graphics Performance Affects Recoil in PUBG
Here are the findings: Mastering recoil in PUBG is one of the most important skills if you want to be among the top players. Those who want to can adjust the recoil of individual weapons with attachments found in PUBG matches. According to recent findings, the hardware of your system also affects this adjustment.
In a detailed analysis, YouTuber WackyJacky101 examined some weapons from PUBG. He compared their recoil at low and high FPS. There are significant differences. Especially the weapons with a high fire rate are sensitive to changes in FPS.
An AKM, which fires rather slowly, would show little change in recoil when firing at different FPS values.
This is how FPS affect: WackyJacky explains that the frame rate of your system affects the fire rate of the weapons. He states that the lower your FPS are, the slower some weapons fire. This reduces recoil, which makes it easier to hit with weapons like the M416 at lower FPS.
The YouTuber suspects that this is because PUBG calculates the recoil for each individual shot. Thus, the recoil can “recover” better at a lower rate of fire between individual shots, as there is more time.
Here’s the background: A clever Reddit user looked into these issues and dug even deeper. MutuTutu says that how often a weapon shoots per second is essential.
For instance, the AKM, which saw little effect on recoil in WackyJacky’s video, has a fire rate of 10 shots per second. This syncs perfectly with 30 FPS and 60 FPS. If you were to set PUBG to 31 FPS or 61 FPS, the recoil would change again. This applies to all weapons. So there are ideal FPS values for all weapons in PUBG that relate to the respective fire rate of the gun.
Therefore, it would only be a rough rule of thumb that lower FPS means less recoil. In a huge spreadsheet, MutuTutu summarized his results. The better the weapon is synchronized with your FPS values, the better the results.
It is probably unreasonable for any player to adjust the FPS values of PUBG every time they change their weapon. Nonetheless, you should at least adjust the graphics so that your FPS do not fluctuate significantly, as this strongly impacts weapon handling.
With a cheat, users have disabled recoil in PUBG and went totally wild:
Conclusion: It is clear that WackyJacky was on the right track with his assumption. MutuTutu has further specialized this. It is clear that weapons in PUBG have different fire rates. This is based on how many FPS the game runs at. These fire rates, in turn, affect the recoil. For every weapon, there are ideal FPS values – even a single frame per second more or less can make a noticeable difference.
YouTuber is known for analyses: WackyJacky recently revealed how far you can hear the steps of opponents in PUBG:
