SKS Underpowered

[Deathlove 2286]

even 7.62 and 9mm rounds penetrate some kinds of cover, and they wont do it, get your hopes down.

Yep even the 7.62 should to an extent.

 

All my hopes are down like this cat which also looks like hes face palming

 

[ZomboWTF 527]

SKS is underpowered, they should decrease recoil and increase damage.

 

SKS is useless atm.

 

can't tell if serious or trolling

 

SKS dominates the M4 in almost every way besides clip size, and can pick off people from 400 meters easily

also, ammo is very very common, almost as common as 7.62x51mm

Edited May 18, 2014 by Zombo

[ZomboWTF 527]

Cant' wait for hunting,

so that a bear wanders in,

then i kill it

and have some nice bear meat after the firefight

wait, the bear shoots back?

[Deathlove 2286]

wait, the bear shoots back?

Even WORSE......bears with sniper support.......

[ZomboWTF 527]

Even WORSE......bears with sniper support.......

 

we are all doomed aren't we?

[The Lone Survivor 64]

wait, the bear shoots back?

and not just the bears, my evil clone TheLoneSurvivior

Edited May 18, 2014 by The Lone Survivor

[riskiestkiller 8]

can't tell if serious or trolling

 

SKS dominates the M4 in almost every way besides clip size, and can pick off people from 400 meters easily

also, ammo is very very common, almost as common as 7.62x51mm

you can hit people at 400 yards in game? i would like to see a video of that hahahaha unless i am just that bad of a shot with the sks cause the max ive hit someone in game was like 150 yards haha

[nl 986]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5-E9hiw7pE

[Deathlove 2286]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5-E9hiw7pE

yeah i saw this to. Pretty good stuff if you ask me.

[Weyland Yutani (DayZ) 1159]

It is not underpowered, the damage system is just inconsistent at best.

 

I have to agree here. The SKS is spotty. Sometimes it's on, sometimes it's not. When it's on, its hot. When it's off it sucks. Not sure how to explain it, but that is my experience with the system.

[gibonez 3633]

Yup 3-4 inch groups at 100 yards , in game its nowhere near that.

[qww 287]

i find the sks easy to use, unless im close quarters, then im terrible with it

[LigerRider 82]

The SKS is a terrible weapon. It's accuracy is terribly inconsistent, and the damage is okay at best. I once got ambushed in the middle of nowhere, some guys pop out of the trees, BANG BANG!

 

"Shit, I'm dead" as I thought, running away through the trees. BANG BANG BANG BANG! Four shots in to my arms, back and legs later I realize, "Oh wait, It's just an SKS," so I turned around with my mosin and ended their lives.

[ZomboWTF 527]

you can hit people at 400 yards in game? i would like to see a video of that hahahaha unless i am just that bad of a shot with the sks cause the max ive hit someone in game was like 150 yards haha

 

don't know if i'm just lucky, but a 400 meter (not yards, thats 360 meters) shot with the SKS + PSU scope was possible for me, nailed someone at the berezino supermarket shooting from the top floor of the building site, could've been a lucky shot though, with the random bullet spread (which is totally balls btw) and the annyoing broad aiming crosshair from the PSU scope hiding your target beyond 300 meters

 

regular shots at about 235 meters (port crane to the police station roof in berezino) are pretty easy game

talking non-moving targets of course, hitting moving targets at that distance without impact points is near impossibru

Edited May 19, 2014 by Zombo

[hombrecz 832]

By now, we all know, that weapon handling and dmg in general is balls and most likely just placeholder (we hope).

Still SKS has it's uses and I kinda like that gun, even if only for how superb it fits the setting of Eastern country (more then Blaze tbh).

 

About dmg system, I wish they made it so that 1 bullet hit to the back, destroys max 1 item in backpack. As it is now, it seems like the bullet bounces back and forth in the backpack and then continue its way to the body itself.

[DMentMan 707]

i think its ok

[anothercynicalbrit 166]

How bad of a shot i am....

Yeah how bad of a shot you are, lower recoil on a gun that can kill people with one well placed shot to 50 percent of their body.

 

The sks is my favorite gun and i get tons of kills with it, i truly hope your post get thoroughly ignored.

[Etherimp 1323]

That's funny.. I've gone on killing rampages with the SKS before and found it kills people in 1-2 shots.. Maybe you just suck at the game and should get on my level?

[blacklabel79 949]

Iam 50/50 about the SKS, it dosent feel as acurate and powerfull as lets say portrayed in Red Orchestra2.

 

Behind a mosin/blaze i feel alot saver.

[Scofflaw 73]

I'm normally a big fan of the SKS, but last night I shot a few people 3-4 times and they didn't drop.  I think it might have been some desync though.

[jeffroland 26]

all weapons feel like a shotgun-pellet spitter right now, the only accurate weapons are the blaze and the mosin (the mosin shouldnt be much accurate at all, BTW).

 

 

I'm not sure where you get that info from. The Mosin is extremely accurate from what I've read. It should certainly be more accurate than the Blaze which is more of civilian recreation rifle. The M4 and SKS are only carbines which typically have less range and accuracy than full rifles.

[gibonez 3633]

I'm not sure where you get that info from. The Mosin is extremely accurate from what I've read. It should certainly be more accurate than the Blaze which is more of civilian recreation rifle. The M4 and SKS are only carbines which typically have less range and accuracy than full rifles.

 

Have you ever shot a mosin ?

 

 

I take it you havent or havent done any actual research into the gun.

 

The gun looks and feels like it is a 100 dollar rifle, its old often times the stock is all busted up , bore is pitted, crown is cracked.

 

These are old military service rifles alot of them have seen use in the war, they are not safe queens.

 

These are old service rifles not precision sniper rifles they are not very accurate at all and just about any rifle is more accurate than them.

 

The b95 the so called recreational rifle is a 5k dollar luxury hunting rifle you can bet your ass off that it is built to higher tolerances and is far more accurate than a mosin.

 

The sks and m4 are also far more accurate in real life than any mosin. Even the most busted up and abused off the military rack m4 is more  accurate than a mosin.

 

Mosins are popular because they are 100 dollars and the ammo for them is cheap and plentiful.

 

They arent popular for being tack drivers.

[lipemr 160]

I'm not sure where you get that info from. The Mosin is extremely accurate from what I've read. It should certainly be more accurate than the Blaze which is more of civilian recreation rifle. The M4 and SKS are only carbines which typically have less range and accuracy than full rifles.

 

civilian rifles are more accurate than military rifles most of the cases.

 

Military service rifles are made to be cheap and fast to produce, their tolerances are high, civillian rifles are made to be a good product, with tight tolerances going up with the price. And the blazer works with the most accurate possible action, single/dual shots use a solid base to the catridge in every direction, which make the spread patterns even more tighter than a military bolt action with worn out bolt locks and trigger mechanisms.

 

So no, a mosin will never be anywhere close as accurate as a blazer.

[jeffroland 26]

Have you ever shot a mosin ?

 

 

I take it you havent or havent done any actual research into the gun.

 

The gun looks and feels like it is a 100 dollar rifle, its old often times the stock is all busted up , bore is pitted, crown is cracked.

 

These are old military service rifles alot of them have seen use in the war, they are not safe queens.

 

These are old service rifles not precision sniper rifles they are not very accurate at all and just about any rifle is more accurate than them.

 

The b95 the so called recreational rifle is a 5k dollar luxury hunting rifle you can bet your ass off that it is built to higher tolerances and is far more accurate than a mosin.

 

The sks and m4 are also far more accurate in real life than any mosin. Even the most busted up and abused off the military rack m4 is more  accurate than a mosin.

 

Mosins are popular because they are 100 dollars and the ammo for them is cheap and plentiful.

 

They arent popular for being tack drivers.

 

First off, any rifle that's in bad condition will probably perform poorly. The rifles as found in DayZ are in pristine condition so one has to assume it's in top shape.

Second, the Mosin was in fact used a sniper rifle and IN FACT preferred by some German snipers in WWII over the KAR-98. In fact, any of the major bolt action rifles form WWII have very good accuracy (Springfield, Mosin, Enfield, K98). All of these with optics have effective ranges of 800+ meters. These facts are well published and known throughout the gun industry. So maybe your experience with poorly built and maintained Mosins has warped your perception of them but the historical facts are there and indisputable.

[gibonez 3633]

First off, any rifle that's in bad condition will probably perform poorly. The rifles as found in DayZ are in pristine condition so one has to assume it's in top shape.

Second, the Mosin was in fact used a sniper rifle and IN FACT preferred by some German snipers in WWII over the KAR-98. In fact, any of the major bolt action rifles form WWII have very good accuracy (Springfield, Mosin, Enfield, K98). All of these with optics have effective ranges of 800+ meters. These facts are well published and known throughout the gun industry. So maybe your experience with poorly built and maintained Mosins has warped your perception of them but the historical facts are there and indisputable.

 

A 200 dollar modern hunting rifle has far far better accuracy than a mosin nagant.

 

There is a reason why the mosin nagant is not used for building long range shooting platforms.

 

Mosins were built with mass production and reliability in mind, not accuracy.

 

Even amonst ww2 rifles the mosin nagant was d tier. I would even put arisakas above mosins in terms of accuracy.