The QBZ-95 Story

This would belong in the Weapons & Gear section, if it existed.

As a GP hoarder, I tend to break temporary guns down as close to 2500 GP's worth of repairs as possible. But breaking guns has more than just monetary benefit; it helps me to get to know guns that I've always considered terrible, or just haven't used much. Recently, I was breaking a SPAS-12, and to my surprise, it seemed to do much better than it used to. Could it have been redesigned to be a worthy XM1014/Dual Desperados contender? Maybe, but I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't won a temporary one to break in the first place. Now that I've provided you with a bit of background, let me get down to the substance of this post.

I must admit that no matter what I've heard about it's spray pattern just being a reversed T/half-moon, and what I've heard about it being one of the most powerful rifles out there, I've always hated the QBZ-95. It always seemed much too jumpy in my hands; even bursting at close-range seemed wholly ineffective. Needless to say, I wasn't too happy when I won a temporary QBZ and realized that if I didn't break it, I'd be wasting my money I spent on crates. Thus, I equipped the horrid thing and set off for some Egypt pubs. At first, it was just as I had remembered it: jumpy, inaccurate, an overall piece of sh*t. I soldiered on though. Slowly, I began to realize something: the QBZ is actually incredibly accurate and powerful. You just have to handle it right. In-game, I noticed it was great for one-tapping, but I felt like I was missing something, like it had more potential than I realized. Off I went to the firing range, bound and determined to crack the QBZ's code. What lay beneath the Chinese plastic interior of this thing? It didn't take long for me to realize that the QBZ wasn't like many other rifles I had tried previously. Spraying was out of the question; no amount of recoil control would help there. Bursting one burst immediately after another didn't work; the first burst was spot-on, the next didn't even hit the target. It was only when I started tap-firing at a semi-auto rate and leaving small gaps between my bursts that the QBZ started showing its true colors. When I tap-fired about 3-4 rounds per second, each bullet hit almost the exact same spot, down to a few centimeters or so. And when I left around a .5-.75 second gap between bursts, the bursts would form a cluster about 4 inches or so across. I could hit this cluster with 2, 3, 4, sometimes 5 or 6-shot bursts with ease. Then it dawned on me: the QBZ is actually quite a solid rifle, given that you use it correctly. And the same can likely be said about any gun in Crossfire. Now, when I resume my breakage of my temporary QBZ, I'll know how to use it, and how to use it well.

Moral of the story (TL;DR): All guns have hidden potential. It's up to the user to discover it.