The Sniper is a long-range primary weapon. It can be found at the Gun Shop and Shotgun Sal's for 325,000.
Overview[]
The Sniper deals 35 damage per shot on body shots and 81 on headshots. The sniper has a very slow rate of fire, but it does have a magazine size of 6, which is slightly more than the AWP. The sniper can zoom in and act like a sniper scope. When zooming in, the a crosshair will appear in the middle of the screen. During this mode, camera sensitivity is decreased to assist in precise shooting.
It deals only 17 damage to vehicles, but deals 53 to tires, which pops them in one shot.
Trivia[]
- The old model appears to be based on the Remington Model 700.
- When hipfire was first added, this and the AWP were both very accurate without scoping, so the accuracy was majorly reduced.
- It is the cheapest sniper in the game.
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