Snipetron good?

[Borker]

I found a snipetron in my inventory and well... Is it good?
I know it's "vaulted" or whatever but is it good enough to use?

[Dame Arstor]

There's "better" snipers out there(in this case,its own Vandal counterpart is better).

[BurlsoL]

The vandal is universally better as long as you don't mind the green tint.

But like most weapons, good enough to get mastery experience from before just selling.

Snipers in general are kinda "meh" in this game. Few rooms are large enough and clear enough to benefit from them, meanwhile compared to bows, they just don't have the same advantages. Bows are innately silent, tend to be more accurate both while aiming and hip-fired, and deal more damage.

[primobrainlet]

Probably the fourth best sniper, but keep it, that thing is one of those items people will screenshot your profile just for having.

[Shameless Instigator]

Originally posted by lonemushroom:

Probably the fourth best sniper, but keep it, that thing is one of those items people will screenshot your profile just for having.

Guilty!

[dyra55]

*Old men's voice* "Back in my day you could get one of those beauties on market just for a handful of 100k credits"

[primobrainlet]

Originally posted by NITRO:

Originally posted by lonemushroom:

Probably the fourth best sniper, but keep it, that thing is one of those items people will screenshot your profile just for having.

It possibly is rarer to own a normal Snipetron than it is to have Excal Prime now...

yeah, because so many people sold and got the shiny new lanka, if only they had known...

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by lonemushroom:

Originally posted by NITRO:

It possibly is rarer to own a normal Snipetron than it is to have Excal Prime now...

yeah, because so many people sold and got the shiny new lanka, if only they had known...

♥♥♥♥, back then, I built the Snipetron, leveled it to 4, hated it, sold it. Got another Blueprint from the Informant event that also gave the Snipetron Vandal, leveled the regular Snipetron to 8, sold it. Then got it back when they did it that last time to bring it back.

[Hanki]

I have the blueprint on my inventory, not even bothering crafting it because snipers are trash...

Maybe on Eidolon they'll have some use, but now?
Why do I want zoom on corridors?

[Sithis]

Originally posted by dyrak55:

*Old men's voice* "Back in my day you could get one of those beauties on market just for a handful of 100k credits"

*Another old man's voice* "Back in my day those beauties were the best ♥♥♥♥♥♥' rifles in the entire Ol' West"

[M4tt]

Its quite possible they will do the same with it as with machete, reintroduce it for a limited time to promote something.

[Biddion]

It has good damage and punch through, and, unlike other sniper rifles, its zoom increases its base damage not its crit damage. This rifle should work well with Mag's second ability magnitize since crit damage does not get factored; while, the punch though will allow the damage to keep doing its thing.

Of course the Vandel version is better with 3 meters of punchthrough and 15% status chance.

[Spook]

I think the amusing thing about the snipetron is that there's not really any reason for it to be removed still. The original concern was that it broke lore by having any corpus gun that fired a physical projectile, which is pretty silly to begin with given that tons of them deal physical damage anyhow and there are non-combustion methods of propulsion. They recycled the exact same model for the Lanka which is a "railgun" (hey look a type of gun that normally fires solid projectiles like they could have said to begin with).

...And then they made the snipetron vandal available again through sorties despite the snipetron being "lore breaking" and it's now permanently available from the invasion system. So any real justification for the regular snipetron's absence is sort of shot in the foot

[Dexious Emera]

snipetron more like bb gun

[Sithis]

Originally posted by Dexious:

snipetron more like bb gun

Not really.

While nowhere near as powerful per bullet as, say, Lanka, Snipetron still can be modded to pack quite a punch.

[crowbarzero]

Originally posted by lonemushroom:

Probably the fourth best sniper, but keep it, that thing is one of those items people will screenshot your profile just for having.

... wonders if I should forma it for kicks...