Sniper Rifle

Sniper Rifle
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Basic Information
Used by:	Sniper
Slot:	Primary
Availability:	Stock
Nameable:	Yes
Medieval:	No
Ammo
Ammo loaded:	25
Reload type:	Single
Available Qualities
Normal Unique Strange Decorated
Loadout Stats
Sniper Rifle 1 - 100

“

You'll be needin' another use for that neck! Click to listen — The Sniper

”

The Sniper Rifle is the default primary weapon for the Sniper. It is a single-shot bolt-action rifle with a wooden stock and a massive telescopic scope with an attached laser sight.

The rifle has excellent accuracy, no damage falloff, and is one of two weapons with a zoom sight, the other being the Sydney Sleeper. The zoom display features a charge meter and a small team colored laser dot in the center. When zoomed in, the charge meter increases gradually from 0% to 100% during 4 seconds, indicating the amount of damage that will be done by the shot. The size of the dot increases as the shot charges. The charge meter resets to 0% after a shot is fired or when the scope is unzoomed. Players are therefore required to continually zoom in on an opponent if they wish to deal the full amount of damage against an enemy.

During zoom, movement speed for the class is slowed to 27%, and slowed even further to 0.01% when crouching. Furthermore, zooming cannot be performed when the Sniper is jumping or falling. Firing the Sniper Rifle when not zoomed will deal minor damage.

Should the player deliver a shot to an enemy's head while zoomed in, this will result in a Headshot, which will deliver a guaranteed critical hit. The Sniper Rifle is unable to deliver random critical hits any other way however, except during Humiliation, when subject to a Kritzkrieg's ÜberCharge, or when under the effect of any other crit-boost, such as after the Intelligence is captured on Capture the Flag maps. Headshots cannot be scored if the Sniper fires while unscoped.

Observant players will be able to detect a Sniper Rifle being used by the team-colored dot that will appear on walls or floors wherever the Sniper is aiming while zoomed in at the time. Competent Sniper players can circumvent this problem by deliberately aiming at objects in the foreground, luring enemies into a false sense of security.

Damage and function times

See also: Damage

Damage and function times
Shot type		Hitscan
Damage
Base damage	100%	0%: 50 100%: 150
Bodyshot		0%: 43-57 100%: 128-172
Critical		0%: 150 100%: 450
Mini-crit		0%: 67.5 100%: 202.5
Function times
Attack interval		1.5 s
Maximum charge time		4 s
Zoom-in charging delay		1 s
Zoom-in headshot delay		0.2 s
Values are approximate and determined by community testing.

Related Achievements

General

Grey Matter Get 25 headshots as a Sniper.

 Pyro

Firewatch Ignite 10 Snipers while they are zoomed in.

 Sniper

Be Efficient Get 3 kills with the Sniper Rifle without missing a shot. Dropped Dead Kill a Scout in midair with your Sniper Rifle or the Huntsman. Jumper Stumper Kill a rocket or grenade-jumping enemy in midair with your Sniper Rifle or the Huntsman.

The Last Wave Provide an enemy with a freezecam shot of you waving to them. Trust Your Feelings Get 5 kills with the Sniper Rifle without your scope. Dead Reckoning Kill an enemy with an arrow while you're dead.

Update history

September 21, 2007 Patch

• Fixed occasional Sniper zoom crash.

December 31, 2007 Patch

• Fixed Sniper quick-switch exploit allowing them to avoid zoom/unzoom times.

January 14, 2008 Patch

• Added new option for the Sniper Rifle to the advanced multiplayer options. If disabled, the Sniper Rifle won't re-zoom after firing a zoomed shot.

January 15, 2008 Patch

• Fixed being able to zoom too quickly after firing a zoomed shot.

February 14, 2008 Patch

• Added a small delay (200 ms) before a zoomed Sniper shot can get a critical hit.

February 2, 2009 Patch

• Sniper Rifle can now crit while under crit-boosts.

January 13, 2010 Patch

• Fixed Sniper Rifle not penetrating friendly players.

January 19, 2011 Patch

• Fixed the Sniper Rifle and SMG view models having RED skins while on the BLUE team.

Bugs

• When the Sniper Rifle ejects a shell, the shell comes out of the side opposite the ejection port.
• It is possible to earn the achievement Dead Reckoning with a Sniper Rifle by firing at the exact same moment an enemy Sniper does.

Trivia

• When the Sniper reloads his rifle, it appears as if he just pulls the bolt back without inserting another bullet. The final scene in Meet the Sniper implies that whilst doing so, he flips out another bullet and places it into the gun at the same time.
• Bolt rifles such as these have a tendency to catch on the user's fingers. As such, the Sniper can be seen to have a scar on his right thumb.
• Despite popular belief, the scope does not reflect everything behind the Sniper. It instead shows static images of the map areas called cubemaps.

Gallery

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  First-person view.

See also

• Sydney Sleeper
• Sniper Rifle strategy