best sniper rifle

[Thand]

So far the best i have found over all for my sniper crit build is Anti armor +50 crit damage +25 crit meter rate lever action rifle . I get a guarented crit ever 2 ro 3 shots/ With ultrasite ammo i have crit hit the SBQ for over 1k a few times.

[Phantom]

Lever action rifles arent bad

I rocked an AA one with some sweet major/minor (which I forget) for the longest time... before switching to an AA fixer before going to commando and never looking back

IF your doing a crit build

You should go

1 - Unyielding
2 - The two luck crit skills
3 - Blight Soup (+50-75% more crit damage)

with this every other shot is a crit

now apply this to a commando one and you go

Crit 100% hit crit 100% hit crit 100% hit crit 100% hit crit
repeat (but it requires annoying tapping of the gun rather than holding it down as automatic crits are bugged and don't actually trigger if the triggers held down)

[Thand]

i do no use unyielding i get more crits staying in the steath suit since i rarely go to Danger so i can still get mainly sneak attacks . I am full Crit skils and use Vegitariam and blight soup. A pretty optinized build. i run run around 35+luck crit and Perception.

[Thand]

i find it is the most efficient ways to kill things. A good crit is aroudn 1200 or so on max level supermutants. Yes i know Bloodied comandos build are stil more dps on bosses but it is not a playstyle i like.

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by Thand:

i do no use unyielding i get more crits staying in the steath suit since i rarely go to Danger so i can still get mainly sneak attacks . I am full Crit skils and use Vegitariam and blight soup. A pretty optinized build. i run run around 35+luck crit and Perception.

Crit fills at 1.5 x Luck + 5.

You only need 34 Luck if you run Critical Savvy.
You only need 24 Luck if you run Critical Savvy and have 15% crit rate on your weapon.

[Thand]

Agaiin this thread was about Best Sniper Rilfes not builds.

[AllergicToBrainRot]

Originally posted by Thand:

Agaiin this thread was about Best Sniper Rilfes not builds.

Then a weapon is terrible if you don't have the right mods / perks / build to make them effective. I would find a long range weapon with legendary effects on it- armor piercing, crit damage, whatever else i forgotten, i'm only level 77 now with 110 hours. :P I use a guass rifle as it deals 666 crit headshot sneak damage. It's not perfect but i will build around sneak and luck

[EvilPie]

Well my character is a stealth VATS sniper and i use a lever action rifle, it's pretty good really

[Met A Demon Once]

I use Fixer and in general I kill scorch at the airport with 3 rounds using VATS. Ping, ping, ping (silencer) and I am done. My clip size is 25 rounds. In a typical event at the airport I use about 60 rounds of 45 cal ammo if no one shows up to join in the event.

I used to use a lever action rifle but the handmade rifle converted me over and then I found Fixer which I love. Fixer is a combat rifle that enhances your speed and helps to keep you stealthy and you can enhance it which I did.

In essence, it isn't the best sniper but it is good and allows you to pump out shots quickly when you need it. A well balanced weapon that serves many purposes.

[wintermoononwater]

I rolled an Instigating, 25% faster fire, 25% vats cost fixer and modded with a prime auto receiver (because I run commando)... I love this gun, and if you find one do not let it go easily. If I lost mine I might actually shed a tear for a moment over a video game.

Edit: I don't really use it for a super stealth build, but I though I'd share anyway in case you end up looking at fixers. Also, I vats everything.

[Thand]

my current Anti armor +50 crit damage +25 crit meter rate lever action rifle does about tr 1200 on super mutants and arouind 8 to 900 on SBQ per sneak attack crit. an Intigation is slight more on the first hit for Non boss mode but is less total dps over all. I single hit most level 75 mobs

[Lord of Cinder]

I am very surprised nobody mentioned the Gauss rifle. The charging could be annoying, but it is certainly the highest damage per shot sniper. This or the lever actions are the best. Fixers are more suitable for commando builds

My ideal roll would be anti-armor +33% vats hit or 50% vats crit and faster reload one. Quad Gauss is another underrated prefix for a weapon with 5 bullets in a magazine.

[RMPyro]

Handmade and Fixer is best for sniper i think. Lever Action don't have the extra anti armor the magazine upgrade gives for the other two.

[Look at my bats dick]

Commando fixer beats every sniper build imho. I crit 8-900.

[Look at my bats dick]

Originally posted by Phantom:

Lever action rifles arent bad

I rocked an AA one with some sweet major/minor (which I forget) for the longest time... before switching to an AA fixer before going to commando and never looking back

IF your doing a crit build

You should go

1 - Unyielding
2 - The two luck crit skills
3 - Blight Soup (+50-75% more crit damage)

with this every other shot is a crit

now apply this to a commando one and you go

Crit 100% hit crit 100% hit crit 100% hit crit 100% hit crit
repeat (but it requires annoying tapping of the gun rather than holding it down as automatic crits are bugged and don't actually trigger if the triggers held down)

I don’t know if you are console. But I’m pc and just holding space bar will crit every other shot. No need to tap. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[insert food here]

Originally posted by wintermoononwater:

I rolled an Instigating, 25% faster fire, 25% vats cost fixer and modded with a prime auto receiver (because I run commando)... I love this gun, and if you find one do not let it go easily. If I lost mine I might actually shed a tear for a moment over a video game.

Edit: I don't really use it for a super stealth build, but I though I'd share anyway in case you end up looking at fixers. Also, I vats everything.

Nice. I have the same Instigating fixer but with +1 PER instead of less VATS cost. I have many fixers but I still use this one a lot for ordinary mobs. I prefer it over my 2-shot fixer with 33% VATS, 25% VATS cost. Once you go unyielding or even having perception up to 15, 33% VATS accuracy becomes less effective as high perception increases VATS accuracy anyway. 25FFR is much better than 33% VATS in my opinion on a commando rifle anyway.

Little know thing with instigating is that with a very fast firing weapon often more than just the first shot will deal the double damage to the target. Must be something related to it firing so fast that 2 shots or sometimes more, can register before the server removes the instigating effect.

Originally posted by Lord of Cinder:

I am very surprised nobody mentioned the Gauss rifle. The charging could be annoying, but it is certainly the highest damage per shot sniper. This or the lever actions are the best. Fixers are more suitable for commando builds

My ideal roll would be anti-armor +33% vats hit or 50% vats crit and faster reload one. Quad Gauss is another underrated prefix for a weapon with 5 bullets in a magazine.

For actual sniping manually completely agree. Gauss and Lever action were the two that I preferred. Hunting rifle never did it for me. Even a bloodied one just felt a little underwhelming compared to these other two guns.

I had a good Quad Gauss but sold it. It usually kills in one shot and reloads quick enough that I felt quad prefix was a waste. I prefer prefix that increases damage over mag size.

I had an Instigating Gauss with 10% damage when aimed for a very long time. Good weapon. One shot headshot kills most enemies outside of some of the tougher enemies and end game bosses. Over 1400 damage to supermutants from sneak.

Then I found out that the 10% when aimed only works with iron sights, glow sights and reflex sights. It does not work with actual sniper scopes at all. So i have stopped looking for 10% damage when aimed weapons for sniper guns I want to use manually out of VATS.

Funny thing is that for me for over 700 hours of using a Gauss as my main sniper I never had any explosive splash damage or visual effect. I just though this was how they were. Then magically after a new update all my gauss rifles decided to start dealing explosive damage like they are supposed to.

Originally posted by RMPyro:

Handmade and Fixer is best for sniper i think. Lever Action don't have the extra anti armor the magazine upgrade gives for the other two.

The magazine mods that add anti armour are broken at the moment anyway and don't actually do anything. Not sure if they have been fixed yet, as I removed them until I had confirmation from someone.