ZIS-3 Field Gun

[Chungal Grease]

Honestly we just spent almost 2 hours testing this in several different places on the overwatch hills of Skorpo and I have to tell you this thing is basically worthless and a super big disappointment. Essentially its a glorified SPG with a different reload animation is all. It has a very limited range somewhere around maximum 1400 meters even shooting downhill, very low critical damage to vehicles & personnel and basically zero splash damage. Maybe it would be useful close at some ambush choke point around 400 meters but otherwise this isn't a field gun with any kind of trajectory to lob rounds over hills etc.

[Geebus]

Was the maximum range limited by the view distance or were the rounds just not able to go that far?

[TTocsic123]

i mean it is kind of supposed to be ♥♥♥♥, there's a reason anti tank guns aren't very popular in modern armies. but even if it is basically an SPG with a smoke round, more SPGs per FOB is a buff. also, it has shielding which the SPG doesn't,

[MacDuh]

Got some decent kills with it. Downed a UH with one hit.

It is an SPG which is slightly buffed.

[Chungal Grease]

Originally posted by MacDuh:

It is an SPG which is slightly buffed.

all my testing I came to the same conclusion. It shoots like a laser beam out to about 400 meters then there starts to be a drop and then anything over 1250 meters the projectile just sort of fizzles out and despawns from the game. My expectation would be something similar to the hell cannon where you have a long hang time and trajectory and reach out to at least 2000 meters but thats simply not the case.

[Pr0fessor]

The Zis 3 is a WW2 era cannon you noob.

[Chungal Grease]

Originally posted by Milli0nair:

The Zis 3 is a WW2 era cannon you noob.

So what? How is that even relevant to the conversation? My point they put in this alleged "field gun" which is so completely nerfed that its utterly useless within the context of the game. Honestly, you'd be better off dropping an ammo crate for your LAT/HAT than wasting time/effort into placing a static weapon emplacement like this.

In real life the ZIS-3 has a range over 13,000 meters which would be approximately the distance across three Yehorivka maps placed side by side. In contrast the Squad ZIS-3 has a range of around 1250 meters. Add to that the fact that you when you max out the elevation to shoot it over a hill for example the round simply despawns from the gamespace after 1250 irregardless.

This is just a big disappointment and it shouldn't even be in the game.