The tale of two (three actually) Arisaka

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Recently I have unlocked the Type 99 Arisaka (Late), and it got me thinking; Why should I use this gun instead of the Type 38? (or the rifle grenade version whenever I unlock that). Let’s have a look at the paper stats;

Type 38 at 1 star; 21 Hit power, 63 RPM | at full upgrade; 24.1 Hit power, 72 RPM

Type 99 (late) at 1 star; 22.5 Hit power, 42 RPM | at full upgrade; 25.9 Hit power, 48 RPM

And just for reference,

Type 99 Sniper at 1 star; 22.5 Hit power, 48 RPM | at full upgrade; 25.9 Hit power, 55 RPM

My question is; is there a reason to pick the Type 99 (late) over the Type 38? The Type 38 is faster in both the cycling of the action, and the muzzle velocity. The only thing that the Type 99 has over Type 38 is damage, but considering that they are both Bolt-action rifles, they usually kill/down in one shot anyway.

Thank you for your attention.

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Bolt-action now are the same gun, you always ohk with a BA indipendentely of what upgrade he have, you have only choose what you like more and use it

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Type 99 having the better sights which is why I prefer this over the other rifles. Before getting the Type 99, I chose the Type I Japanese Carcano.

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The Type 38 is better than the Type 99 in every way. If you can’t use the Type 38 sights you just need to squint your eyes harder.

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Use the Type 38 with grenade launcher, you will thank me later

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type 99 was make by normal people and not a blind people

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I use Type 99 Arisaka (Late) because I prefer the sight on it. Its teh only reason.

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Alright, thank you for the tip! Guess I’ll go with the faster one for now then.

I see. I do like the sights as well… but the rate of fire tho… T^T

Would I get banned for racism if I say; I’m Asian, there’s no need to squint more >_<.

Will be trying that out when I can, but yeah it seems that I will be liking it XD Thanks!

lol

Seems a lot of ppl like the Type 99 Iron sights huh…

Hrm… what if I remove the scope from the Sniper variant…

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In reality they’ve switched to type 99 because intermediate cartridge was insufficient for a non-automatic weapon. In this game? Almost all stats on rifles are arbitrary, so realistic reasoning for anything goes right out the window.

The only pragmatic reason for using type 99 (it’s also the last ditch effort version that historically had bare minimum quality and looked like a piece of trash compared to the early version) is the sights. Everything else about it is unacceptably bad. The problem is, unless you have a subscription and playing with a full stack all the time, you’ll probably get used to type 38 sights long before reaching type 99. I know I did.

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Same here. Although, I’ve always liked open rear sights more than the p… ape… aperture? Sight? (Like the one on Garand/Lee-Enfield No.4/French gun I forgor the name of; I don’t know what the sight’s called.) Also, why they didn’t put the actual Type 99 with monopod in the game I wouldn’t understand.

Biggest reason I pick Type 38 over 99 is still rate of fire tho. Musta been one of the fastest bolt-gun in the game, just behind Lee-Enfield No.4 and the straight-pull ones…

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type 99 sniper feels inferior to type 97
they havent fixed the hit power over distance yet.

why cant we have a proper type 99 ?
instead this last ditch that feels inferior to kar98 kriegsmodell. :sob:

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Oh, I’m sure they do intend to eventually add the early fancy versions of all weapons - monopods, imperial chrysanthemum reliefs and all that. It looks like they tried not to add too many desired / cool weapons too early, to have the room for maneuvering with later updates. Tried too hard if you ask me, at least for the Japanese side.

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Check out the Japanese Snipers, with the scopes unequipped. Great sights.