IFA3: german sniper rifle

[neofit 65]

Hello,

 

I've been playing this SAS scenario using IFA3, then Pilgrimage ported to '44. There is this German sniper rifle, Kar98k ZF39, which is way harder to use that its British equivalent (whose name escapes me atm). Not only the K98 has much less magnification, which is probably authentic, but the worst thing is the automatic reload. While reloading the British one you keep looking through the scope and see where the bullets land, which is very helpful in this pre-laser era. With the German rifle, as soon as you've pulled the trigger and if it wasn't the last bullet in the clip, you automatically take your eye away from the scope to reload. So basically unless it's point-blank, you have idea where the bullets land and you are shooting blind. Is this normal? Is there a way to remedy to that? A manual reload would have been awesome.

[joostsidy 682]

It is due to the way the rifle is created and configured, there is no easy solution for a player to 'setManualReload true' or something. You would have to contact the creators of the rifle or IFA3. Since the rifle has probably been around a long time, there is only a very low chance of the creator actually updating it with your wish.

[Gunter Severloh 3948]

3 hours ago, neofit said:

the worst thing is the automatic reload.

 

3 hours ago, neofit said:

A manual reload would have been awesome.

Only automatic unless you dont have the manual rebolting setting set when you press esc, so if you have that set then you can watch through

the scope where you bullet hits, then press the fire button again and you'll rebolt and chamber a new rd. Manual reload is already there, access it through IFA3 Options.

     So press escape, then at the top of the menu you will see IFA3 - Options click it and tick the box there and you have your wish 😉

 

In the future use the official release thread for IFA3 to ask questions ----> https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/190809-iron-front-in-arm3-lite-preview-versions/

[Phantom Aspect 25]

Using CBA you can hold the fire button until you have observed the impact, when you release you'll cycle the bolt. Much better than using the manual bolting option.

Due to the differences in bolt design, the Mauser action comes back further requiring you to come off the sights in real life where the Lee Enfeild doesn't have this issue, it's one of the reasons the Enfield is known to be faster as you can stay on target during cycling.

 

Unfortunately in terms of scopes the mod is wonky, the Lee Enfield snipers were only mounted with a 3.5x scope however it seems to match the Zf39's 4x where the Nagant PU scope looks like it actually does have the lower magnification of 3.5x.

 

the K98 had multiple scope types.

The most common scope, a low power scout style scope was used which was the 1.5x Zf41, notoriously disliked by snipers who were issued with them as it was never designed for them, it was originally designed to give rifleman squads a DMR style weapon.

Arguably the most well known K98 sniper scope was the Zeiss Zielvier 4× aka Zf39 which is what Heer snipers were trained to use and expected to recieve in the field, however there was a shortage and not all were issued to them instead receiving the Zf41.

Due to this many snipers opted to source their own scopes resulting K98 rifles equipped with a few different 4x scopes along with 6x and 8x scopes (Zielsechs and Zielacht).

They also used captured 3.5x PU scopes taken from the Mosin Nagant as some German snipers found the accuracy of the Mosin Nagant rifles equipped with them unsatisfactory taking the time to adapt these scopes to the K98 platform instead.

 

Another important note is the German snipers were the only snipers in the war issued with specialized sniper ammo, a match grade version of s.S. Patrone. However, on the Eastern front both the Soviet and German snipers were also using explosive bullets (7.62x54R PZ and B. Patrone respectively) to absolutely devastating effect...