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Kar 98K is a bolt-action sniper rifle featured in CrossFire.

Overview[]

The Kar 98K (Karabiner 98 Kurz) is a bolt-action rifle used by Nazi Germany against the USSR's Mosin Nagant during World War II. Much like its competitor in CrossFire, this gun acts like a sniper rifle with a mounted scope.

Like the Mosin Nagant, the Kar 98K features a WW2-era scope reticle and has only one zoom level. It is lighter than most sniper rifles and has a fast bolt cycling speed. But its draw speed is even faster, so quick switching is still better. It also has better firepower than the Mosin (much higher chance to 1-hit kill armored opponents).

It has a 5 round magazine (25 in reserve) and needs to reload each cartridge one-by-one, allowing for manual reload-canceling.

It's accuracy when fired without using the scope is much higher than other sniper rifles. If pointed right at the enemy at short to medium distances, the no scope shot will connect. 

Advantages[]

  • High damage dealing, similar to FR F2.
  • High accuracy.
  • Fast bolt cycling speed
  • Fast drawing speed.
  • High no-scope accuracy.
  • Lightweight for a sniper rifle.
  • Can perform reload cancel.
  • Quiet firing noise.

Disadvantages[]

  • High recoil.
  • Low magazine capacity.
  • Needs to reload a bullet at a time.
  • Low wood wallbang.
  • Requires some time to do full reload.
  • Single scope phase.

Availability[]

  • Available in all CrossFire versions.

Variants[]

Trivia[]

  • This is the second World War II-era bolt-action rifle which acts like a sniper rifle in CrossFire instead. The first one is the Mosin Nagant.
    • Similar to Mosin Nagant, the weapon shares the scope crosshair and reloading animation; only an exception of Satellite variant which has a unique reloading animation (with the use of stripper clips) and unique scope crosshair.
  • The Kar 98K's killmark icon is very inaccurate, as it has a much shorter barrel and has a different scope. In-fact it bears a very close resemblance to the Winchester-Scope killmark. The VVIP variant has got it's own unique killmark.
  • In real life, the Kar 98k can be reloaded one bullet at a time or all five at once using stripper clips like Mauser M1896 - in the latter case, the scope is mounted further forward to allow the clip to slide in. For balancing purposes, CrossFire uses single bullet reloading, even though the scope is mounted further forward.
    • Interestingly enough, game data files also contain clip models, so this gun was definitely planned to have the clip reload feature, but it was probably dropped in favor of a single bullet reload to save time developing animation. Still, if the clip reloads are used, it could be copied from Mauser M1896.
    • The use of stripper clip for reloading now applies on Kar 98K-Satellite.
  • CF Vietnam planned to release this gun as a Black Market weapon, likely GP capsule, but it was canceled for an unknown reason. It has a full set of Item Icon, Bag Icon, and is obtainable via GM console and cannot be sold like any other Black Market item here, but otherwise, it's unavailable to normal players. This gun can only be found and used in Weapon Master TDM.
    • Later, there was an event in January 2021 which required players to login 17 days to obtain this gun permanently. This is the very first and currently the only way for normal players to obtain this gun.
  • The Scope attached to the Kar 98k is the Zf-41 Low-Power Scope, which features a 1.5x Zoom and very strong eye relief. Developed with the objective of turning the Kar 98k into a Sniper Rifle, although the extreme eye relief and very low zoom turned the 98k into a Designated Marksman Rifle, rather than a Sniper Rifle.
  • In real life, this weapon has a short-lived production for 10 years during in 1935 to 1945. However, this weapon still in service after the WW-II.
    • This weapon is derivative from Gewehr 98 models.
  • In CF Philippines, if a player bought this gun, Kar 98K-Regal Dragon is mistakenly display in a BagIcon preview after purchasing this gun.

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