Sniper Tier
The Sniper Tier Weapons are the 1 shot 1 kill weapons of the game. They are the hardest guns to use, but once mastered they are deadly. The use of these weapons are to support your main team, while wreaking havoc in the other team’s organization and promoting fear.
The sniper is the reaper and the sniper rifle is his scythe. - Anonymous
M40A3
The M40A3 is the starting sniper rifle and it’s very, very good. It is a bolt-action sniper rifle that deals a lot of damage and has very high accuracy. If used right, it’s a formidable weapon capable of taking out an enemy with one shot.
Suggestions from Mr.Waulrus: I suggest stopping power, deep impact/iron lungs for this sniper.
R700
The Remington 700 is a strong and highly accurate bolt-action rifle. In the hands of a marksman, it is deadly to the enemy. By general consensus the rifle is stronger than the M40A3, but is a tiny-bit less accurate than the M40A3. It’s really a matter of preference, nothing else. They are both great sniper rifles, for people who know how to use the single-shot rifles successfully.
Suggestions from Mr.Waulrus: I suggest stopping power in order to maximize the bullet damage, deep penetration to get those pesky people behind walls and claymores to make sure nobody sneaks up on you.
M21
The M21 is an excellent starting Sniper Rifle. It’s semi-automatic, so people new to sniping will find it comfortable to use. It’s also lacks Dragunov’s or Barrett’s recoil in between shots. It’s powerful and accurate, but is not the sniper of choice for many players in the game due to it being the weakest sniper rifle out there, by general consensus of snipers.
Suggestions from Mr.Waulrus: I suggest stopping power to increase the damage the gun can deal and I also suggest Iron Lungs to capitalize on the rifle’s low recoil between shots to get as many shots off down range, into the target.
Dragunov
The Dragunov is a widely used semi-automatic sniper rifle preferred by many players. It’s powerful and accurate. But it has a major drawback, that leads people to use different sniper rifles. The recoil after the first shot causes the aim, at times to jump drastically up, thus preventing the player from making a second, follow up shot if needed. There are quite a few ways around that, implemented by snipers such as releasing the deep breathing trigger and then squeezing it again, or exiting zoom and going back in really quickly to make up for the recoil.
Suggestions from Mr.Waulrus: I would recommend the use of Stopping Power and Deep Penetration perks because the SVD, due to the high recoil experienced by many, is not about shooting accurate, but about shooting fast somewhere around the target.
Barrett M107
The Barrett M107 also known as the .50 cal is the loudest and most powerful rifle in the game because it shoots a large .50 caliber round into it’s enemy. But with high power, there comes a price. That price, on this gun is inaccuracy and high recoil. That’s why most people who use it, take a while to learn and use their gun. Most people use the gun just for the use of the fear factor. If someone fires a .50 cal, it’s heard equally in all corners of the map. This causes some players to keep their head down and move slowly, thus giving time for their enemies to set up.
Suggestions from Mr.Waulrus: Use Stopping Power to make sure it will kill the enemy in one shot. Also, I would suggest deep penetration perk in order to make it go through walls and take out the enemy behind it. The .50 caliber round, combined with stopping power and deep penetration leaves the enemy with almost no hiding places because the bullet will virtually go though any material, dealing high damage to the enemy behind it, no matter of the circumstances. It may not kill them, but it will definitely severely weaken them.
