This isn't your everyday weapon rebalance mod.

It touches upon things that should have been addressed a long time ago. It breathes new life into weapons - your old, beat-up starter guns can be just as effective as any other weapon!
Some of these changes are:

• "New" shotgun mechanic: PAYDAY 2 used to work differently with shotgun pellets. No matter how many hit the enemy, it always granted full damage - now it doesn't. This is not a fully negative change though, the damage has been adjusted so it's still potent.
• Two new shotgun ammo types that complement the new mechanic
• Damage and dropoff range based on weapon caliber / barrel length
• Ammo pickup / capacity based on damage and penetration values
• Weapon kick - Recoil feels controllable but still has the "oomph" you need, especially for shotguns
• Bullpups in general have slightly more accuracy but they have slightly longer reload times
• (almost) complete weapon attachment overhaul - if it doesn't make sense for a part to boost a particular stat, it is removed (That includes differently colored handguards, stocks and other parts - the changes in general are meant make the old / vanilla parts as relevant as the new ones)
• Accuracy for almost every weapon is increased in general, except akimbos (if you want to utilise them, you must invest in the skills/perk decks otherwise they will not be effective)
• Special weapons are also affected, for example flamethrowers do more continous damage and less DOT
• Smaller nitpicks, like unrealistic magazine capacity in some weapons
• Corrected weapon categories (only affects a handful of them)
• Conversion kits (.300 AAC for the CAR-4 and the .458 SOCOM for the AMR-16)

Static Recoil recommended, but not mandatory to use this mod.

This mod would't have been made without some of these people's help:

• Cpone (lots of code corrections, but most importantly the multi-raycast)
• Croveaux (used his template to build this mod up from scratch)
• TheOnlyMann (for letting me use his port of shotgun mechanic change code)
• Solidus Mx (for helping me with the .300 AAC conversion)