Sniper Rifles?

[Danyel]

I wanna like sniper rifles espeically for some fights like deadbride but ...how the hell are these ever viable for anything with such a low bullet count and that once you run out your out. The ammo recharge boxes in like boss fight does not seem to recharge these?

Am I missing something here?

[Danyel]

bump? No one?

[Simulacrum111]

Sniper rifles can work, but they are not meant for sustained damage or general use as you likely already know.

Using a colossus as an example.

Have one general purpose weapon for trash. Have another weapon tuned to the boss's weakness for sustained damage in between high damage windows. Probably an AR, Scout, Sub, or Machine Gun. I prefer ARs and Scouts myself.

Eventually you will break a critical component on the Colossus, it will stop moving and a normally shielded weak point is exposed for a short period of time.

This is when you want to use your sniper if it has a relatively high fire rate, low recoil, and is element tuned to the boss's weakness. You shouldn't run out of bullet until the boss recovers and once that happens just reload and switch to another weapon. If you land your shots you will achieve high if not max DPS while the critical weak point is exposed.

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Similar logic applies for heavies in the open world. if you want to run and gun with your sniper Or use it for clearing trash you are likely going to get bodied. At least that is what would happen to me.

Besides having the ability to to one tap everything just because you run a sniper and have a lot of ammo would really diminish the values of all the other weapons in the game.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Originally posted by Danyel:

bump? No one?

the one that has the 2 bullet ammo, its great since you have a main with normal ammo and the sniper is basically another full load of ammo.
Thats how i did it, my 3rd slot was an smg just to unlock all bonuses from the core.
Ammo is a bit tight and you need a long range gun to do dps and blast pieces

[Sublime Entropy]

sniper rifles are they need about a 2x-3x dmg modifier to be a viable weapon for such a low fire rate and limited ammo

[ADamnCyberGypsy]

Originally posted by Danyel:

I wanna like sniper rifles espeically for some fights like deadbride but ...how the hell are these ever viable for anything with such a low bullet count and that once you run out your out. The ammo recharge boxes in like boss fight does not seem to recharge these?

Am I missing something here?

Well sniper builds for sharen are really good just gotta do the grind for better modules unknown recipient,supermoon z15,Different dream. These are really good rifles to look for to get you from begining to end.You can use tactical rifle for substitute when out of ammo.You should try looking for these the unwelcomed,detachment,silly weeper and gregs reversed fate.
I put them in order you find them except silly weeper and gregs. These have good utility in harder content when you get familiar with the colossus and bosses.

[Danyel]

Originally posted by Simulacrum111:

Sniper rifles can work, but they are not meant for sustained damage or general use as you likely already know.

Using a colossus as an example.
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You shouldn't run out of bullet until the boss recovers and once that happens just reload and switch to another weapon. If you land your shots you will achieve high if not max DPS while the critical weak point is exposed.

Reload how?

For example I tried keeping my maxed thunder cage for gen ammo gun (yes I am using bunny), a scout rifle and sniper but I kind of feel the sniper is useless cause in the colosal intercepts I don't get ammo for it and the ammo robot doesnt seem to relaod that type of ammo?

Thanks for the replies folks!

[Djozar]

Ammo conversion mods are good for this. Like the Destiny 2 ammo pickup mods. Not a very good base conversion rate though. Might have to put some upgrades on them.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Danyel:

Reload how?

For example I tried keeping my maxed thunder cage for gen ammo gun (yes I am using bunny), a scout rifle and sniper but I kind of feel the sniper is useless cause in the colosal intercepts I don't get ammo for it and the ammo robot doesnt seem to relaod that type of ammo?

Thanks for the replies folks!

By default pressing R reloads it. If the boss reveals his weak point the next time, then you simply don't want to waste half the time in the reload-animation.

Also the bosses in the intercept occasionally spawn small enemies, which in fact drop ammo. Though since purple ammo still drops rarely, rather use these weapons for the weakened phase only, just to preserve the ammo for the time where it's most vulnerable. You shout have enough ammo for like 1,5 - 2 phases, before running out of ammo and with some luck you might find a littlebit extra ammo from one of the small enemies.

[Danyel]

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

Originally posted by Danyel:

Reload how?

For example I tried keeping my maxed thunder cage for gen ammo gun (yes I am using bunny), a scout rifle and sniper but I kind of feel the sniper is useless cause in the colosal intercepts I don't get ammo for it and the ammo robot doesnt seem to relaod that type of ammo?

Thanks for the replies folks!

By default pressing R reloads it. If the boss reveals his weak point the next time, then you simply don't want to waste half the time in the reload-animation.

Also the bosses in the intercept occasionally spawn small enemies, which in fact drop ammo. Though since purple ammo still drops rarely, rather use these weapons for the weakened phase only, just to preserve the ammo for the time where it's most vulnerable. You shout have enough ammo for like 1,5 - 2 phases, before running out of ammo and with some luck you might find a littlebit extra ammo from one of the small enemies.

Oh yeah I know that lmao I meant how to reload once out of bullets cause you know I never seem to get anymore

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Danyel:

Oh yeah I know that lmao I meant how to reload once out of bullets cause you know I never seem to get anymore

Purple ammo is by far the rarest, you just need to be lucky with it. That's also why you don't waste it on small enemies.

And beyond that, even using it only for 2 short bursts in a boss fight is usually worth it, if you don't run the risk of running out of ammo with the other weapons anyway.

[Phy44]

The colossi adds drop ammo. Purple is just rare.

[RedFaster]

Same question applies to all heavy weapons, really. If you don't like it then don't use it.

That's what I do.

[Hiirios]

the best i advise about sniper rifles is to play either gley or enzo since they have skills that take care of the ammo problem

[Danyel]

To update I don't need sniper rifles anymore tbh I just use Thunder Cage and Tamer. Also Enzo I am working on but its kind of a grind to get new Descendants...almost everyone kind of needs Enzo cause of the stupid encrypted vault mechanics.

I also cleared the campaign on normal! Yay me and only got carried on devourer and used my bunny for everything...deadbride was the hardest one for me....pyro was easy and got it on the first try and I do my stuff in public runs too.