Kotenok Sniper Rifle promotional image
- "The Kotenok is a Soviet semi-automatic sniper rifle that is optimal for close and medium range rapid-fire combat. It's accurate, fairly light, and makes for a very welcome comrade on the field of battle."
— In-game description
The Kotenok Sniper Rifle is a semi-automatic sniper rifle/DMR that appears in the game Generation Zero. It uses the 7.62mm FMJ/7.62mm AP ammunition, and has a default magazine capacity of 10 rounds. It is one of the three weapons included in the Soviet Weapons pack.
Pros[]
- Faster fire rate than other snipers
- The fire rate has been reduced in the recon update
- Ammunition is plentiful
Cons[]
- Small magazine size
- High recoil when shot fast
- Low damage output - Single shot damage is similar to a handgun
- The damage has been increased in the recon update
Weapon Attachments[]
| Scope | |
| Vision Module | |
| Barrel | |
| Magazine |
Locations[]
Dilapidated
- Potential drop from:
- Prototype Harvesters
- Scout Wolf and Firebirds
Worn
- Potential drop from:
- Prototype Harvesters
- Scout Wolf and Firebirds
Good
- Default from the Soviet Weapons pack
- Potential drop from:
- Military Harvesters
- Soldier Wolf and Firebirds
Exceptional
- Potential drop from:
- Military Harvesters
- FNIX Harvesters
- Soldier Wolf and Firebirds
- Spetsnaz Wolf and Firebirds
Special
- Potential drop from:
- FNIX Harvesters
- Apocalypse Harvesters
- Spetsnaz Wolf and Firebirds
strategy[]
Trivia[]
- The Kotenok Sniper Rifle is based on the Russian SVD sniper rifle. SVD (CBД) stands for Сна́йперская Винто́вка Драгуно́ва (Snáyperskaya Vintóvka Dragunóva), which roughly translates to Dragunov Sniper Rifle.
- The word “Kotenok” translates to kitten in Russian.
- The firing selector switch is permanently on safe.
- The Kotenok Sniper Rifle in-game fires the wrong cartridge. It fires the 7.62x51mm NATO instead of the Russian 7.62x54mmR.
- In the September 14 2022 livestream Pontus said that the developers weren’t adding new ammunition types as it would take up too much space in the player’s inventory. In this regard the cartridge issue can be seen as a deliberate simplification.
- The scopes that can be equipped on the Kotenok Sniper Rifle can not be mounted on the real life version of the rifle, as it uses a side-mounted system for Russian made optics like the PSO-1 telescopic sight, 1PN51 and 1PN58. This issue is also featured with the AI-76.
- The railed dust cover comes from the SVDM, a later variant of the SVD. The top cover rail is anachronistic as the SVDM model and the rail was made in 2018.
- The real SVD's stock has a second cutout in it for the sling, whereas the game's version only has the single large one.
- The Kotenok and S21 were originally considered the weakest of weapons in the game until the recon update gave them a rebalance that reduced their fire rates and increased the damage dealt by their shots.
Patch Changes[]
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||