Behold The Mighty M701 (Updated for 1.8.1)

Sadly the devs did not add a true high power sniper rifle to the game, instead we only got the mediocre 308 Winchester and its russian counterparts, but they did add a bolt action rifle, so i made some adjustments to mimic a much more powerful cartridge that is used in rifles like the Remington 700 by military snipers and big game hunters all around the world.

Also, there are already too many similar sniper rifles in the vanilla version of the game and the M701 gets kinda left behind with its low fire rate, now its a very viable option and a big power upgrade for the later parts of the game.

This mod only affects the M701 bolt action rifle and nothing else, i did not change any caliber or any other gun.

It still uses 308 ammo and the tooltip is also not affected (i was thinking about introducing the 300 Win Mag as a new caliber to the game, but the M701 would be the only gun that uses it and i would also need to change loot tables, caches and trader inventories to get the ammo into the game (which would result in conflicts with many other mods) , not to mention the gun animation would also need a rework to reflect the bigger cartridge).

Changes

1) Double base damage

2) Double base armor penetration

3) Double base bleeding damage and +10% bleeding chance

4) Higher range

5) Reduced bullet drop-off

6) Very fast aiming (also faster movement while aiming)

7) Faster reload (-30%)

Credits

I used the awesome RePak tool by Saymonn to create this mod

Compatibility

This mod changes two files, if your mod changes them as well you got a conflict

1) PlayerWeaponSettingsPrototypes.cfg

2) WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg

Installation

Unpack the .zip with a program of your liking (like 7z or similar) and then put the .pak file into your Stalker2\Content\Paks\~mods folder (if the folder is missing create it manually, the "~" is needed)

Tested on patch version 1. 8. 1

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