The Centennial is a cult-favorite, but...
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- The Centennial 1876 is one of the most requested videos. It is slow, loud, cumbersome, and one of the worst guns in its class, and yet, people kinda like it. Let's talk about why.
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Edit: You can watch the addendum (Part 2) to this video here: ua-cam.com/video/JF8TgBsB4TY/v-deo.html
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Home, I didnt even get a notification for this, I'd recommend doing a quick community post for it!
Honestly how one would fix it would be making it the fastest firing option out of its alternatives, basically a bigger 1873 repeater, since that is literally what it is…I’m not joking. If you wanted a gun like what this game treats it as, a 1886 would probably describe it better, seeing how the 86’ was using browning’s 2 bar system, although it would be able to do more damage.
Before watch the video I'm going to say my opinion on it with my opinion honestly is I think it's a good gun because I think people overvalue high velocity. Now I get that the gun also does have 600 meters per second velocity but I'm talking about when you use FMJ so you carry your damage over distance with 400 is around about where most people who use the vetterli have to deal with it anyways and if you're good at using the vetterli Deadeye or Marksman variants did the Centennial is a breath of fresh air because you get better penetration, a lot of rounds, the option of a sniper scope, and in my opinion lover action rifles are the nicer ones to use when it comes to reloading cuz they basically universally don't have to deal with the drawbacks of needing bullet grubber
Your examples are both without FMJ and on top of that in the example where you did good it was because you hit their heads likely within the 180m distance meaning instant kill... beyond that my other question to be how long were you using it cuz it definitely could feel to me like the first one was probably hours into you playing with the Centennial and then the second one was from like your first hour... I mean that last little bit is more so just a little bit of a quick insult / joke but it is also to some degree or actual question of how long were you using the gun beforehand and both of those clips?
*kills an entire team without reloading*
"And now I'm going to tell you why this gun sucks."
Classic HomeReel comedy, lol
And there is the single strength that he did not overtly point out. While the overall ammo count is horrendously low compared to it's peers the magazine count however makes it (potentially) useful.
@@jaredbowman7764 Except that magazine count is trumped by half of the compact winfields, one of which has a speed loader, and matched by the Lebel which is basically just better in every way. Now, you could say "But the lebel costs more!". You'd be right! But then I could just turn around and say "Winfield High Velocity costs less". Then you have a faster gun, with more ammo, just as good velocity, with at least some viability with levering if you wanted it.
Centennial is a gun. It will still kill people. But never better than something else could manage.
The weapon sound sound is actually really important. In Wolfenstein Enemy Territory players were consistently playing better with the Thompson than the MP 40 even though they had identical stats, the Thompson just sounded cooler to shoot. I swear the centennial is also overperforming relative to its stats and its all down to how the gun feels to shoot.
EDIT: MP 40, not MP 42
Follow up question because I want clarification!
Did the player actually aim/play better, or was in the intimidation effecting the enemy.
Like, if a winny hits me, I am not that startled or panicked.
But if I hear a sparks being shot and a bullet slamming into the wall next to me, you damn well know it. I am panicked!
Because that is a loud deadly bang, and I know the sparks hurts, a lot.
But realistically, I should be more worried about the winny, because the guy shooting it managed to land his shot, the sparks did not. And the spark is now empty, the winny is not.
So I am curious in your statistic, was it people actually played better. Which doesn't quite make sense to me.
Or the people being shot at played worse because of "panic."
@@WolfFireheart This isn't my data. Here's the video that clued me up to the phenomenon:
ua-cam.com/video/RDxiuHdR_T4/v-deo.html
Basically, players got a confidence boost from holding what they assumed to be a more powerful weapon. But an intimidation effect on enemy players may also have applied, that's hard to separate.
EDIT: Typo
@@mikajacobsen860
Pardon.
I meant "your" as in the one you were referencing.
Not that you had made it up or done the study yourself.
And now I understand it better, I though the stats of the two weapons were known or easily seen. Like in Hunt.
But if the people using the weapon thought it was a stronger one, that would boost their confidence, while also intimidating the enemy.
So you are probably right, that it was a combination of both. Boost to the wielder, fear to the target.
Also cheers, for taking the time to answer my question, much appreciated!
I feel exactly the same. I have no idea how the stats are but god damn it feels so good to use that weapon, something clicks with the centennial and I can't stop using it
I want the Centenial to be really good because I love using it. But statistically it is the worst gun in the game because it doesn't do a single thing exceptionally well. I CAN'T count how many times it let me down. And there are so many things they could do to help it out. They could make its damage 125 or highter, they could make it better with levering, they could make it shoot a tad faster, they could give it more ammo, they could give it more playable variants, and they could give it more custom ammos. Just to name a few.
IMHO they should Increase his dmg to 25, AND give it a faster firing speed. then i would be somewhat balanced.
if that would be the case, then it wouldn't need more additional ammo because it would be too good
600m/s tho
@@Batoutta lmao
It's nowhere near the worst gun when there's stuff like the normal nagant/silenced nagant, bornheim, and springfield around
Muzzle velocity is no joke. 600ms is really good, and makes the gun headshots far more likely, as well as increases it’s avg chance to hit.
The other day, I hit a guy in the arm with an arrow, and he immediately killed me in two centennial levering shots.
I've never felt so insulted.
To be fair that exact situation is why history remembers it as the Gun That Won The West
@@wolight
Lmao you're not wrong
that's for playing the bow
@@wedividedyou1424 man I love the bow though. Just so much fun to use personally.
@@wolight thats the 1873 but the original 1876 (not the one we have in hunt) is near exact in looks as the 1873, just beefy bullet
I think the intention with the Centennial was to design a gun that plays like long ammo, but has both the advantages and disadvantages of medium ammo. It has high bullet velocity, its fairly cheap, has a lot more ammo than long ammo guns, but lacks their damage, range, and penetration, not to mention the other negatives mentioned in the video. I think the gun deserves at least a damage and range buff.
i think the range is fine if you consider it to be like a larger pistol caliber lever gun but the damage could do to be a little higher
I truly genuinely enjoy using this thing, Winfield sights with no need to lead your shot? That’s pretty good and has enough ammo for just headshots. too bad it doesn’t have poison ammo since it’s my favorite.
I also unironically wish it had aperture sights
It does have poison ammo
Calamity Jane is one of those guns in Hunt Showdown that's a straight upgrade from the regular model instead of a more subjective asthetic
My SO recently got into hunt and for some reason I cannot decipher, the Centennial really clicked with her, and became what helped her really start getting better at hunt. Suddenly after some time on this gun she's landing critical headshots, finishing wounded enemies, and clutching out fights like a seasoned vet sometimes, which is even more impressive with me pulling her into higher elo matches. I just cannot figure out why its the centennial other than muzzle velocity, but other fast bullet guns (like the Lebel) didn't do it for her.
My theory is low damage output subconsciously showed she needs to get those headshots otherwise she risks losing fights, which translated well to other guns.
The Centennial continues Winfield's tradition of letting me down when I start to think they're worth using. Also, the scoped variant continues Winfield's other tradition of their scope's reach exceeding their grasp. It do sound good tho...
And how 'bout that slate, amirite?
The regular winny is a beast and cheap, idk what you've been using.
@@Yourantsally I won't say you're wrong. That's what's so insidious about it. I used to bounce between "The Winnie is great!" and "This gun shoots flowers and rainbows instead of bullets!". I'd get great results - until I didn't. Eventually, they always let me down. Probably because my aim isn't just bad, but inconsistently so.
Winny C marksman is awesome, though. It is part of my favourite loadout, with a cav sabre. That is mostly a cav sabre thing, but having both long-ish and mid range firepower with your melee weapon is awesome.
Well i did manage to kill 4 duos with it while being surrounded with bounty as a solo player. I dont care about the stats when im having games like that
Iron repeater and fmj turns this thing into the longest range two tapper for under 300 dollars and it still has a fast velocity of 480 with fmj.
I thgink Centennial is honestly pretty good, but its usage isn't very much like anything else in its class. It's essentially a medium ammo rifle that needs to be played like a bolt action long ammo rifle. Levering is worthless, ironsight talent is godly. Its sheer velociy makes it an incredible gun with practice. Ammo count is... okay.
For a repeating rifle, centennial is too slow and medium ammo is... confusing at best. I'm sure it would be my favourite gun with a chambering and levering speed buff and some changes to medium ammo. I already love the gun, not while it is in my hands.
Medium ammo is actually period accurate to the Winchester 1886. That more powerful cartridge was the reason why it became the most popular civilian rifle at the time. The slow repeating action, however, is very much not period accurate and frustrates me to no end as to why it is not on par with compact ammo Winfields. At least then it would fill it's own niche as the fast medium ammo rifle.
The Centennial with fmj is my go-to affordable ranged weapon. I love the iron sights. Add levering and a terminus hand cannon and you've got a really versatile loadout! I play on console so maybe its shortcomings are less obvious there... all I know is it's the gun I can hit people at range most reliably with, and that alone makes it a favorite.
The problem is the centennial, the problem is medium ammo period. Medium ammo needs a further damage drop off range across the board. Compact is plentiful and cheap, long is expensive and beefy, but medium is just meh. Shotguns are king close range, compact will out play anything at close range because of spam and ammo-a-plenty, long is king over range, but medium doesn’t feel like medium it feels like a weird compact hybrid because it doesn’t hit anywhere near what it feels like it should. Better pen and damage is negligible when fighting against compact spam and shotguns.
Just give it 125 damage. That's all it really needs. Maybe a few more bullets.
Medium ammo isn't nearly as bad as you make it out to be. Vetterli is one of the best guns in the game. The medium pistols are perfectly fine, even if they are not the very best. Springfield is fine for what it is, a cheap starter sniper.
It's only Centennial that has an issue of not doing enough damage and the need to straddle a fine line between being distinctive from vetterli while also not overshdowing or being overshadowed by it.
I need more Home vids! I've gone through almost your whole library of stuff! A man can only re-watch the gun guides so many times... 3 times... I've watched them all 3 times.
Your content is just the best. I’m always grinning/face palming when you’re cracking jokes. Besides the comedy, the analysis you do on these guns is spot on
Superfecundation:
"Superfecundation describes a situation in which each of the eggs are fertilized by sperm from different men, leading them to have different biological fathers (making the twins half-siblings)."
Yeah sounds like a fun time. good word.
The Centennial really lives up to the whole saying "a Jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better then a master of one". It doesn't excel in any of the areas the other two medium rifles do, but it lets you do reasonably well in just about anything.
Which is to say, I love having it around so I can cover whatever hairbrained load out my friends are running and being able to support no matter when their bloodlust gets the best of them. I know there's other guns that'd do the job better but the centennial keeps me in any game.
Centenial always let me down whenever I use it (because leveling up gives me one). The muzzle velocity is nice, but then you have to lose a bunch of MV from FMJ. The sights are almost the same as the regular winfield ones, only to be more chunky. It got a nice ammo buff, only to still be the gun with the least ammo. It has a scope, only for it to be a sniper scope.
I have no idea why crytek used to make this thing like 300 huntdollard and have like 15 bullets total.
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Centennial is like a big neutered dog. It has this deep powerful bark, looks majestic and has scary teeth, but don't expect any actual results when it comes to fucking. But just like the dog, I still love it.
P.S.: I don't actually love dogs anymore, Hunt Showdown has spawned a deep hatred towards dogs in me.
I play a centenial poison build in a trio and it is genuinely fun. I play with regular friends and each one of us has a role to play. With poison sniper centennial and a reliable sidearm, I deal with PVE portion as poison melts monsters and in PVP tagging enemies while our dedicated mosin/lebel user snipes them. Solo poison is useless tho, it's niche for a reason and good if you have regular buddies for team cohesion.
It does have the fastest FMJ muzzle velo ingame iirc, which is nice. It's what I say when I'm simping it.
Dude, I about pissed myself watching that dance off analogy lol
So damn true!
Love yer vids mang!
Calamity Jane is just about the nicest looking skin in the entire game, so thats the only real reason I need to play the Centennial
That the combination of its iron sights and the higher muzzle velocity seem to just mesh perfectly for me so I land at least 50% more headshots than I do with the vetterli also helps keep me solidly in team #CentennialBae #PraisedBeCentennial
I’ve been in lots of fights with it and I appreciate the relatively high damage for a fast rate of fire. Often I find people can soak up shot after shot with it, though. It’s a jack of all traits that excels at nothing.
It doesn't do much damage though. Vetterli and Springfield does much more damage. As well as all long ammo guns.
If i have one thing to say about your content, it's that your joke delivery gets me laughing at jokes I wouldn't think i normally would. Keep it up!
I used poison rounds to beat some quests where they ask you to deal poison damage.
Also, silenced shorty version can deal with immolators, but that's just it.
It also seems that killing pork is a bit easier, but actually yep, I won't use it if I don't get the quest
The Cent is my favorite lever gat just because it seems to be my luckiest. I can’t count how many stupid situations it got me out of.
Please can it just do 125 damage maximum, please
I don't even have hunt showdown yet but I still watch your videos when the come out
I actually only started using it recently I really like it. A couple days ago I was separated from my 2 friends and got rushed by a trio. Somehow killed two of them until my friends arrived and then I killed the third one. It was a good bonding moment. Probably would've lost the fight if it wasn't for iron repeater though cuz I got to get a second shot off faster.
@4:30 It's amazing how much lead you can eat when you don't fill up on bread at dinner.
I've been using the Springfield Marksman and Centennial Sniper FMJ a lot lately because they share basically the same muzzle velocity. The only things it's really capable of saying it does better is repeat fire at range, better retention and pen because of FMJ, and...that's really it. I view it as an upgraded Springfield Marksman, minus the upper body one tap to a 125 hunter.
It's a shame too. I feel it getting 125 damage and better levering would make it competitive vs the other medium ammo guns.
Cool sound is all i need
Someday, I wanna play with your Patron, "Bayou Bussy Pounder"
I often play "legendary hunters but you have to pick stuff to your abilities", and centennial is my go-to Winfield whenever I get skills to it.
Don't sell yourself short Home that meme was solid. Hayden Panettiere also helps lol
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I prefer the Winfield Aperture, w/HV rounds, Iron Repeater, and Steady Aim. 600m/s muzzle velocity, rapid fire rate, and versatile between mid-long range.
Take a Suppressed Nagant with HV, and you get yourself a deeper ammo pool, too!
It's the cheapest way to get into a sniper scope with ammo fast enough to make use of it, and with FMJ it's pretty good for wall shots since it combines penetration and fast rate of fire.
I use the Vetterli though since I prefer deadeye scopes.
Honestly with poison rounds being full power now, it with levering can melt through bosses quickly if you don’t have an explosive. And now at full damage the denial of healing is pretty good.
I made a follow up video :) lol
my favourite weapon, you have to see it like a straight forward upgrade to the regular winnie, with the only downside in firerate.... just remember while playing it... it´s "just" a winnie
Cool video. Subbed! Cheers
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The reason I play the Centennial is that there is no other gun with that velocity at that price that isn't a single shot rifle. With 180m range, that means with iron sights, just about anything I can reasonably aim at, I can probably headshot. If I don't, I have 9 more chances. Levering isn't an issue to me, I just run a Pax or Scottfield with fanning on the side, and get ammo share because of it. Much better sights than Vetterli, too. If they never lowered the price, it would be a bad buy, but at $157 it's a banger. Just play it like you would a Lebel.
Keep up the good work! Everytime i see a new video i have to watch it.
I'd love to see a vid on lebel 1886. I just got the game a week ago and I am hooked. I can't believe I haven't played this yet.(I was told that it is similar to tarkov which I didn't enjoy)
For all of its limitations my favorite loadout is still centennial sniper and scottfield swift 🤠
Cant wait for you to remake this in 1.9
I loved this gun before standard Winnie got compact FMJ. It is kind of losing it's unique trait in that case. Delivering 123 at 80 meters on Body shots is pretty good for such an inexpensive weapon.
You could just go Veterli with HV ammo instead but you gotta pay a lot more to do that (and if you go FMJ your speed drops like crazy)
I think if it had good levering it would be unstoppable
Today I learned that the actor that played the Regenerating Cheerleader in Heroes played a cheerleader in some weird movie that you made a meme of.
lol I use poison centennial with poison crossbow, along with antidote, two vitals, and a hive bomb (although sometimes i switch this out for an ammo box). i also carry both poison and concertina trip wires. I call this my toxicity load out :)
I don't understand how so many people just brush away the muzzle velocity. I'm good at leading targets but there are situations where even if you're good with lead it's r&g. When people are moving erratically at range or AD spamming it becomes a bit of luck with lowered bullet velocity. Also the less you have to think about lead the quicker you can put shots on target. No matter how quick you are it definitely takes longer to line up shots when you have to account for lead. You can say I'm on the Kool aid but I think this gun Is a head clicking machine that deserves a little more respect than people give it.
Just so you know, it's not R&G, it's RNG. As in Random Number Generator.
Well as a Winnie Centennial player myself i really enjoy playing this gun.
Somehow I can stack up more kills with it than with any other gun such as lebel,mosin or berthier.
I hardly ever use speciall ammo because my AIM on console is a little bit clunky so i prefer to be able to refill ammo at any point in the game without looking for special ammo box.
Besides it's absolute headclicker
I can roll with centennial or winnie Talon at any time and still mow down people while my buddy supports me with mosin.
I also have a weird habit of running LeMat or Cladwell new army with centennial and going kinda vice versa with winnie talon so I roll with scottfield spitfire. But it's just me being weird and eternally stuck in 4 star mmr
The amount of time u spend standing staticly and not being punished for it is outragous :O
I am a firm believer that the only gun poison rounds can be used with is the mosquito and nothing else
They could buff it slightly. I mean at least fix the levering. Levering is never an option when I take the centennial
Agreed, if all they changed was leveling so that it was either faster or more accurate (or both) then at least it would have some perks. It’s still just such a weird gun when you throw on a sniper scope though
@@itszaque5031 now add the poison bullets to the sniper 🤢
its all around good best velocity and best headshot range for medium ammo with better fire rate and slightly less ammo in mag with better reload than a lebel
The sad thing for the centennial is just that it can't compete with the karabiner, though basically nothing that isn't long ammo can.
Oh crap hey a video on my birthday that’s awesome!
This is my “so anyway I started blasting” sniper. See someone in the distance and empty your gun at em
those jokes sounded oddly personal 🤔... but i must be imagining things, nice video!
I am part of the cult of the centennial. give it FMJ and it really does well. It really could use the benefit of 125 dmg. but, the best way to use it is if you know what your enemy has and punish that. if they have long get closer and spam wars you have 2-3x their ammo. compact and shotguns keep range as you can punch holes through sheet metal at distance. bring a spitfire or a swift with fanning for close and point blank, now you have a loadout good at everything great at nothing.
Finally! I was waiting for another one of these gun review videos
I thought this was going to be a explanation of the real life gun lol
The curse of the Centennial, no matter how many times I grab that gun I never seem to kill anyone and I always die
Dang I was actually hoping for some info on the poison ammo. Like, is it better for taking out AI? I just wanna know why I'd choose that over a silenced nagant with compact poison ammo
it can one-hit-kill armored and immolator AI but it is not worth taking 22 poison bullets. You lose way too much damage and have no penetration. If you really want a quiet way to take down AI, sure, nagant with poison could work or the hand crossbow.
I can agree with everything you said. However, I think the Vet iron sights are terrible so I won't use that gun. I could run the silent version of the Vet, but then we are getting into some really bad velocities.
Smoke the calamity Jane.. amazing
"they are Whispering poison in your ear" take your like you bastard
Always nice to see content here
Levering on the gun is the most awkward thing I’ve experienced in Hunt. It works but it’s so damn slow
Thank you for covering this gun
HomeReel is the Lord of the Bayou
I've always preferred the centennial over the compact ammo winfields, mostly because your engagement range is much better. Hitting arm shots on hunters feels bad always, but hitting body shots with compact at 40-60m is about as bad. The bullet velocity is the biggest selling point for me. It's quite a bit pricier than the Vetterli, but it's much cheaper than the long ammo guns with comparable muzzle velocity.
I'm not sure why poison ammo exists for guns at all at this point, so I just act like it doesn't exist as well, so I wouldn't take that as a downside, but maybe the Centennial needs another ammo type. Then again, with it's fire rate maybe that'd be too strong.
Superfecundation was an interesting read!
I'm not saying its viable, (I'm not "that guy" I promise) but centennail with poison ammo and poison sense along with an FMJ side arm (I like Lemat) is a ton of fun.
my beloved Centennial :D legit one of my most fav rifles in Hunt
this is my favorite weapon
22 ammo in total, 10 of them are ready to fire. 180m distance of deadly headshot (fine, actually), 600 m/s (top-3 for common ammunition). 40m distance of deadly double-tap to the chest (lover including), 20m distance of deadly double-tap in any non-leg location. Also, even base ammunition could penetrate wooden walls, FMJ doing that even better, poison ammunition killing armoured and flaming mobs with a single shot. On the top of that, it can be used for really close-range with hip-shooting with Levering trait, so... What's your problem, man? It's a good weapon.
And yeah, in compare to large caliber rifles, it has better rate of fire and more ammunition... About x1,5 more, even without additional weapon the same caliber. In fact, this means, you can wipe out whole team at 150+ meters faster, then they hide behind the cover, if you're good in shooting heads. Or, you can easily win sniper duels, when every half of a second between two shots could be difference between life and death.
These are by far my favorite videos of yours Love your content man! If any of y'all are on Xbox and want to party up hmu!
Centennial Sniper is pretty good IMO, since to make that gun work it's best to go for headshots anyway. Good video dude 😎
I mean, a vetterli with 9 bullets and 600 bullet velocity for $50 more? Sign me up
Love this gun with pax .... :D hit heads like no other. 2:57 if you shoot trough wood, the bullet needs so much time to hit^^
I don't hate centennial, I also don't like it, but for me the biggest issue is that it costs like 50 more than vetterli but it's more of a sidegrade (velocity at the cost of damage mainly), so there is no reason to pay basically 50% extra if the vetterli isn't really any worse
Give us a Deadeye variant and replace poison with something else. Besides that I still love this gun
Waiting for a full video on Lebel. It's like.. the best bolt action and the worst bolt action combined
tbh the jokes about ur sister was the best xD
Honestly the worst feeling of the Centennial is when you get into a fight with someone who has a vetterli and you hit first but their superior fire rate wins them the fight or allows them to trade. Seriously. The lever action fires slower than the bolt action. It's such a shame.
i can't stand using the centennial, but do bizarrely well with the centennial sniper. headshots never happened nearly as often with any other weapon, and have wiped a few servers singlehandedly with it. Oddly though, the hipfire is so good, I can't recommend using levering. Levering isn't fast enough to save you, and the hipfire is accurate without it to the point of being sble to reliably land shots in close range.
I love these kind of videos that bring out the guns that need a little more love(pax)
Honestly I love the centennial if you have leveraging and it's great on bosses and up close with other hunter's
I just vibe with the centennial. Maybe it’s the sights, maybe it’s how it feels but I just do good with it versus the other medium ammo guns. Same reason I can hit shots I don’t deserve to with the scottfield. It speaks with to me.
I got my longest headshot ever with the centennial sniper when I was grinding the mastery for it, other than that I never could be bothered to use it the other rifles are just too reliable
I use the centennial because I own a Winchester 30-30 so I can pretend it’s really me out there in the swamps getting outgunned by everyone and anyone
This gun has a good double tap range with better rate of fire than long ammo rifles but damage is not so big. You can snipe and you can penetrate. You have more ammo than long ammo rifle, faster reload, no bullet grubber. It's a good gun for chill hunt, not for sweat lords xD
You don't need a levering, if you need a close range gun - switch to sidearm. This gun for medium range and it works perfect. Expecting good levering from medium ammo rifle is like asking why your Terminus slow with iron repeater.
I don't know what crytek was smoking when they decided upon this guns stats or why they're so afraid of giving it meaningful buffs. This thing has only 1 real advantage in it's muzzle velocity, and bonus points for looking and sounding cool, but thats it. Medium ammo in general sucks, now give the weapon worse stats across the board than it's main competitor (Vetterli) aside from again the muzzle velocity. Why is a levering gun that historically had a smooth action slower than a bolt action? Doesn't make sense realistically, doesn't make sense balance wise because the vetterli also outdamages it and has more ammo. If that wasn't not enough the Vetterli also has more variants, good ones too.
They could just give the Centennial a higher rate of fire than the Vetterli and give it slightly more ammo. That way your two medium ammo 3-slot options aside from the Midfield are 1: The higher damage, slower firing bolt-action, or 2: The spammy, lower damage levering gun with an ammo pool to support the playstyle.
They could instead buff medium ammo so the 600m/s is meaningful for bodyshots at range, but I think the whole ammo system is flawed for making different guns share damage dropoff stats and ammo pools so I don't know if that would work.
I kinda feel they should keep the centennial the same but add dum dum ammo maybe