SVA-88

The  is a light machine gun available to the Vanu Sovereignty. It is unlocked through purchase with Certification Points or Daybreak Cash.

The SVA-88 is most easily presented as a counterpart to the Pulsar LSW, as it shares the same damage model. It has the same increased magazine size and ranged accuracy benefits over the Orion VS54, though sacrifices even more reload speed and access to an Extended Magazine as compared to the Pulsar in exchange for slightly more favourable hip accuracy.

Damage Fall-off
Stats in orange are with High Velocity Ammunition.
 * 143 before 10 meters (8 meters)
 * 125 at 41 meters (52 meters)
 * 112 after 65 meters (85 meters)

Ribbons and Medals
It is possible to earn both Ribbons and Medals while using the. Each ribbon is a standard reward for achieving a set amount of kills with the machine gun. Medals are awarded upon reaching kill milestones with the weapon.

History

 * Performance Update Number 2
 * Long reload increased from 4.18 to 4.7 seconds
 * Short reload increased from 3.065 to 3.38 seconds
 * Vertical recoil reduced from 0.45 to 0.44
 * First shot recoil increased from 1.5 to 1.75
 * Max horizontal recoil increased from 0.2 to 0.225
 * New minimum hip-fire accuracy: 3.0
 * New maximum hip-fire accuracy: 4.0
 * April 16, 2014 Patch
 * Lowering the recoil recovery to match this weapon being a more closer range LMG (0.75x move speed + better than average hipfire).
 * Recoil recovery reduced from 13 to 12
 * May 19, 2015 Update
 * Cert Cost from 500 > 1000
 * DC Cost from 700 > 699
 * October 29, 2015 Update
 * ADS movement modifier to 0.5, from 0.75
 * Horizontal recoil to 0.2/0.2, from 0.2/0.225
 * Horizontal tolerance to 0.8, from 0.9
 * Vertical recoil to 0.4, from 0.44
 * February 2, 2017 Update
 * Damage from 143@10m-125@60m to 143@10m-112@65m