Sniper Rifle

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You'll be needin' another use for that neck!
The Sniper on headshots.

The Sniper Rifle is the primary weapon for the Sniper class. It consists of a wooden stock outfitted with a long metal tube and lever action, a telescope attached to the top, plus a laser dot emitter for precision marksmanship.

The rifle has excellent accuracy, no damage falloff, and is the only weapon with a zoom sight. The zoom display features a charge meter and a small red or blue dot in the center (the laser dot). When zoomed using the correct bound key, the charge meter increases gradually from 0% to 100% during 4 seconds, indicated by how the dot will change from dull to a large bright colour depending on the player team. This meter indicates the amount of damage done by the shot. The charge meter resets after a shot is fired or when the scope is unzoomed and is not built up while not zoomed. Players are therefore required to continually zoom in on an enemy 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 head while zoomed in, this will result in a Headshot, which will deviler a guraranteed Critical hit. As such, the Sniper Rifle is unable to deliver random Critical hits any other way (except during Humiliation or a Kritzkrieg). Headshots cannot be scored if the Sniper fires 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

  • Base: 50 (0% charge or unscoped), 150 (100% charge)
  • Bodyshot: 43-57 (0% charge or unscoped), 128-172 (100% charge)
  • Mini-Crit: 67.5 (0% charge or unscoped), 202.5 (100% charge)
  • Headshot (scoped only): 150 (0% charge), 450 (100% charge)
  • Critical hit (humiliation or Kritzkrieg only): 150

Note: Distance from the target does not affect the Sniper Rifle's damage. Damages are approximate and determined by community testing.

Function times

  • Attack Interval: 1.5
  • There is a 200 ms delay before a zoomed Sniper shot can get a Critical hit. (source)
  • There is a 1 second delay before the damage of a zoomed Sniper shot increases.

All times are in seconds. Times are approximate and determined by community testing.|

Related Achievements

Pyro

Firewatch.png Firewatch

Ignite 10 Snipers while they are zoomed in.

Sniper

Tf sniper be efficient.png Be Efficient

Get 3 kills with the Sniper Rifle without missing a shot.

Tf sniper drop dead.png Dropped Dead

Kill a Scout in midair with your Sniper Rifle or the Huntsman.

Tf sniper jumper stumper.png Jumper Stumper

Kill a rocket or grenade-jumping enemy in midair with your Sniper Rifle or the Huntsman.

Tf sniper the last wave.png The Last Wave

Provide an enemy with a freezecam shot of you waving to them.

Tf sniper trust your feelings.png Trust Your Feelings

Get 5 kills with the Sniper Rifle without your scope.

Trivia

  • This rifle appears to be based on the former sniping rifle of the Australian military, the British-made Parker-Hale M82. It was replaced around the end of the millennium with the AI Arctic Warfare, but it's assumed to still see training use.
  • The Sniper Rifle has Developer weapon variants.
  • The laser between the scope and the barrel does not actually have a texture, only a small hole in the center.
  • The Sniper never actually inserts a new bullet whilst reloading. He simply works the bolt to extract the spent shell. Reloading shown in Meet the Sniper, however, may handwave this.
  • The whole reason why the Sniper Rifle does less damage unscoped is to stop advanced and more skilled players noscoping around the whole map, dominating the whole team.

Gallery

See also