Gun Review Of The Week: RPK Gold

**Wolf** · 04-18-2011

Ingame stats

Everything is high, expecially the recoil and weight.
Looks

The gold, i feel, is actually done pretty well on this gun. The gold for the dealge just looks like it's cheese but the dynamic lighting effect they've done works really well ingame. I have seen better gold in other games, like blackshot -but ofc that has better graphics in everyway.
But there's a problem with being gold... It attracts everyone. Enemies see you more easily and your team follow you around waiting until you die. Gun stealing is another big problem, tbh it can be pretty annoying.
Although it bobs around when your walking which, tbf, is pretty stupid.

Firing range (90m)

This was done with the average rpk, but I doubt that makes much of a difference.
This was done by not moving the mouse just clicking and letting it cool down before clicking it again. Although it doesn't look like it, due to where I was aiming, it actually spreads equally left and right. It has less accuracy than the ak, ofc, but is still good for one shotting even though it has high recoil.

First thoughts
Snazzy.

similar guns/ other varients
Ak47, rpk, rpk camo.

Power
Just less than the average ak but more than other assault rifles, probably the power of an ak74. For what it is frankly it has high power but ofc that comes at a pretty hefty price.

Recoil
What to say about it? It's completely mental, but actually quite controllable. It always sprays up and high to the left, then up and high to the right and then repeats that system. You will rarely get long distance shots, unless you one-shot where it's actually not that hard, while spraying as the distance between each bullet is massive causing it to still be inaccurate even if you control it well

Reload
Pretty fast really, it has 120/120 ammo (Camo has 115/115, and the average has 80/80) which means you'll only reload once if you spray the whole clip down which isn't really a big gap. If your playing MM the reload probably won't kill you most of the time. The reload is slower than an average assault. In a tdm situation you can pretty much put down uninterrupted fire on the enemy spawn, great.

Range/accuracy

It's very accurate. As i've stated before it almost has the accuracy of an ak with more than that of any other assault rifle. You can one-shot easily with this.

Price
Zp crate, same as the camo.
Is it worth it?
If you hate people rushing to your body, getting your guns, it's not. Get the camo. It's a lot less flashy. (As divers put it= divers says: yea its harder 2 tell that u have a zp whore insignia) the -5 ammo which the camo has is pretty much worth the people to not follow you around, etc etc.

Overall
Very very good. You can use it in pretty much any game mode either one shotting in tdm or spraying madly in MM or ghost. What ever you want from it, it'll do it. I've even rushed several times with it. Honestly, it's a great gun for almost anything. It takes a bit of getting used to.

@divers7 for some helpful shit.