I think I'm just about to get it right. And the vertical recoil is just plain worse (and awesome). But either only the host or noone.
I think a growing cone of spread is better than visual recoil if you can't get any vertical. Between Stalker and Battlefield, constantly going from left to right with no up or down variation is just akward. But eh, I can deal.
And I'll continue work tomorrow. Someone is now the center of all my attention, sorry :P
It's a girlfriend. I call it :V