TheHunter: Call of the Wild - Modern Rifle Pack Review (Snydrex)
My Review of the Modern Rifle Pack:
The Modern Rifle pack is, like all DLCs, not necessary. Although it adds interesting rifle types, you do not need any of them to perform well in the game. These guns have some consistently good traits, like all being fast magazine-based reloads, and two out of the three having pinpoint accuracy at the maximum value of 100. Most attachments for rifles work with these.
ZARZA .22LR:
-Only using .22LR bullets, this rifle is only suited to at best, shooting at small game like birds and rabbits, being class 1 ammunition exclusively.
With the existence of birdshot shells for shotguns, This ammunition in general suffers in usefulness outside of trying to hit small game from long distances, and because of the nature of small bullets vs birdshot, you may waste time chasing a bleeding bird instead of it dying quickly. On the plus side, the bullets are very cheap, with an outstanding $200 for 10x expansion and $250 for 10x Penetration.
- Reload is fast and 5 rounds is not bad. The gun is also precise, with maximum (100) accuracy value.
Verdict: Ho-hum, extremely niche and specific rifle use. Weakest addition in the pack, in my opinion.
ZARZA-15 .223:
- M16-style rifle using .223 rounds that cover prey classes 2-4, which means that everything from red fox to boars and pigs is covered. There are better ammunition types, but at least a decent chunk of animals are covered. Use a different weapon for larger game; wolves and above will give you integrity penalties. Ammunition is cheap, with $220 and $350 for 10x Expansion and Penetration rounds respectively.
- Fast reload, 5 bullets in a mag, and accuracy at the maximum value.
Verdict: A decent gun for the ammo class it covers. Smashes the M16 look, in my opinion.
ZARZA-10 .308:
- .308 ammo covers classes 4-8, which means it can hunt everything up from fallow deer to Moose and Elk. Most diverse class variation between all the other rifles. The ammo is not cheap, with prices of $690 and $850 for 10x expansion and penetration rounds respectively.
- Fast reload again, 5 rounds in the mag. It is worth mentioning that this gun has much less accuracy then its brothers in this pack, with a jarring at first glance 45 accuracy to their 100. However, this is a tradeoff because of the powerful ammunition.
Verdict: Good. Still the most accurate .308 rifle in the game, although we only have two, and accuracy in general does not matter in this game unless you are shooting from extremely long (350m+) distances.
Overall: Okayish. The guns are useful for their niches and the accuracy for the lower class ammunition guns is appealing. However, many guns in the game perform their jobs with more diversity and efficiency.