This thing has bothered me since the game came out. Partly because I am a dork/weeb who collects these rifles.
ALL Type 38s came from the factory with a dust cover. The Type 99s shown in the game are the early ones and they too came with a dust cover. About half of the Type 97 sniper rifles came with a dust cover and maybe a few of the early Type 99 sniper rifles.
Unlike what others have suggested: http://forums.tripwireinteractive.co...ad.php?t=94707 The dust cover was NOT removed by the Japanese because it "rattled." This is a myth that Tales of the Gun has promoted. It's in the same league as the Garand Ping myth. First and foremost, the dust cover only rattles when the action is cycled. As in after you just discharged the weapon. Which is louder, the gunshot or the dust cover rattling? And second of all, you would have been beaten by your NCO for doing such a thing. There is a reason why the symbol of the Emperor is stamped on the rifles; it's his property don't mess with it, peasant. Also, if the soldiers were to have removed them, as people suggest, why would they continue making them with them and why would the field armorer's kit had spare dust covers?
All pre-war and early war period photographs have all rifles with dust covers. Later in the war was a different story because it's my belief the Japanese were scrapping those parts off of rifles warehoused in Japan, but most of those rifles stayed in Japan and most of the ones in combat would have had them as there was no reason to tell their soldiers to remove them.
The dust cover was there for a reason. The Japanese have fought in China during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese war and their Type 30 rifles became useless because of the dusty conditions of China. There is many photos from that conflict that shows the actions of their rifles wrapped with cloth to keep the dust out.
Also, the rear sights of the Type 99 and Type 97 are just plain wrong. They are rounded, not a trapezoid shape. There is some later production Type 38s that did have a similar rear sight. That might be where the confusion came from.
ALL Type 38s came from the factory with a dust cover. The Type 99s shown in the game are the early ones and they too came with a dust cover. About half of the Type 97 sniper rifles came with a dust cover and maybe a few of the early Type 99 sniper rifles.
Unlike what others have suggested: http://forums.tripwireinteractive.co...ad.php?t=94707 The dust cover was NOT removed by the Japanese because it "rattled." This is a myth that Tales of the Gun has promoted. It's in the same league as the Garand Ping myth. First and foremost, the dust cover only rattles when the action is cycled. As in after you just discharged the weapon. Which is louder, the gunshot or the dust cover rattling? And second of all, you would have been beaten by your NCO for doing such a thing. There is a reason why the symbol of the Emperor is stamped on the rifles; it's his property don't mess with it, peasant. Also, if the soldiers were to have removed them, as people suggest, why would they continue making them with them and why would the field armorer's kit had spare dust covers?
All pre-war and early war period photographs have all rifles with dust covers. Later in the war was a different story because it's my belief the Japanese were scrapping those parts off of rifles warehoused in Japan, but most of those rifles stayed in Japan and most of the ones in combat would have had them as there was no reason to tell their soldiers to remove them.
The dust cover was there for a reason. The Japanese have fought in China during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese war and their Type 30 rifles became useless because of the dusty conditions of China. There is many photos from that conflict that shows the actions of their rifles wrapped with cloth to keep the dust out.
Also, the rear sights of the Type 99 and Type 97 are just plain wrong. They are rounded, not a trapezoid shape. There is some later production Type 38s that did have a similar rear sight. That might be where the confusion came from.
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