How should these kinks be removed or avoided? Our first approach, termed D4S, addresses the problem in similar fashion to the previously proposed D3S method, simply uses a lower and atomic-pair specific choice of β 2 . We note that this removes the discussed distinction between close-lying reference points for α A , which we, however, found not to be detrimental to the dispersion energy quality. Due to its straightforward implementation and the fact that this simple solution resolves most artifacts, we suggest this option as preferable.