7.62X39

[firebat47]

I do not understand why the second produced most rifle cartridge ever. It is so rare in the Zone. And as a gun fanatic, why is that round used in a PKM??? If they wanted to used the 7.62X39, the devs should have used the RPD.

[Nomad]

Probably because the AK74 has 5.45x39mm. And i at least never found a AK47, most guns i found are AK74s oder MP5s.

[Dual Elites]

It seems the RPD was most likely going to be implemented going by the model in-game but they used the PKM instead maybe due to time constraints. With modding you can fix this and make it use 7.62x54r cartridges.

[firebat47]

Originally posted by Nomad:

Probably because the AK74 has 5.45x39mm. And i at least never found a AK47, most guns i found are AK74s oder MP5s.

I kind of wish the AKM was in this game. Like I understand what you are saying. It was a game design choice. "We have this round, so where should be put it." And they put it in the PKM.

[-SIBERIANWOLF-]

nah its stupide sorry but its not early 2000s anymore and nearly every other game gets it right (tarkov) or has a very good gamplay reason like pubg
they should have put in a rpd or an akm instead also pkm is useless no? ammo is expensive and so on...

still funny game

[ImHelping]

Because it is a bullet for more expensive guns, therefore being able to buy more of it would be "casual"

There is no realistic logic to any vendor in any game. See also: watching duty soldiers use a bucket around the cement town to fight a bloodsucker, and the main merchant there likes to flip flop between "No 9x18" and "We only sell a few boxes of AP 9x18" for me.

Most people who love to hype up "Scarcity! realistic logistics!" always back down like the hypocrites they are at the idea of anyone else but you having to actually deal with such things. Gosh, it wouldn't be fair if NPCs incapable of taking out a mutant with no losses after firing a solid minute of 9x39 ammo at them had to replace those bullets that individually have more value than a shotgun shell!

See also: yet another blue pajama commando squad with condition red sniper rifles ambushing you while you are in the middle of an anomaly. Shoving their sniper rifle barrels into an opaque cloud of acid fog to get slightly closer to shoot at me, jamming their gun!? But they need training wheels, the poor guys.