Marksman rifles - where to use?

[16/13]

So i personaly love to play such weapons, but here i feel like they are kinda useles... why i use heavy sniper if autocananon has more dmg? Why i use marksman rifle if a shotgun shots almost the same range? I try to find a reason for marksman staff, but this guns feels...useless.

Does anyone use such guns and how?

[ケツデカピングー]

dmr + scout suit = stealth snipe

[Lyzrac]

I use the diligence for clicking bot heads, but that's about it. I haven't figured out the niche for the anti-material rifle, even though I really like it. I usually just end up with an autocannon or railgun.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by 16/13:

So i personaly love to play such weapons, but here i feel like they are kinda useles... why i use heavy sniper if autocananon has more dmg?

The Antimaterial Rifle is a lot less unwieldy than the Autocannon and does not use a backpack slot, giving you an option to wear a shield.

Originally posted by 16/13:

Does anyone use such guns and how?

The Marksman Rifles are great against Bots not so great against bugs. On higher difficulties you will face a lot more visibility modifiers, which makes most engagements close to mid range.

[Marmarmar34]

Originally posted by Lyzrac:

I use the diligence for clicking bot heads, but that's about it. I haven't figured out the niche for the anti-material rifle, even though I really like it. I usually just end up with an autocannon or railgun.

Anti material is just the grenade launcher without the risk of blowing yourself up and less ammo. I've also found that the auto pistol fills the long range picks niche when using the shotgun. The dmr is cool, but quickly becomes a burden when you're getting swarmed.

[Nihil]

In the armory selection. Click on it. Admire it. And select an other weapon for the mission.

[Mesond]

Originally posted by Marmarmar34:

Anti material is just the grenade launcher without the risk of blowing yourself up and less ammo.

I'll have you know I've shot at bugs at point blank range and been blown back plenty of times.

That thing's got some kick to it.

[16/13]

Originally posted by Ishan451:

The Marksman Rifles are great against Bots not so great against bugs. On higher difficulties you will face a lot more visibility modifiers, which makes most engagements close to mid range.

I dissagree... Shotgun is still better against bots +autocannon helps to pierce the armor. you dont need to aim ur 1 shot to achieve weakpoint, when you can make 2 shoots from shotgun and get same result imo

[Marmarmar34]

Originally posted by Veldaz:

Originally posted by Marmarmar34:

Anti material is just the grenade launcher without the risk of blowing yourself up and less ammo.

I'll have you know I've shot at bugs at point blank range and been blown back plenty of times.

That thing's got some kick to it.

Blown back, but not blown up.

[Xarko]

I find markman rifles are good against automatons, but I wouldn't use them against bugs. Diligence is decent. Counter-sniper is bad because it handles like ass without any significant advantage over regular Diligence.

Anti materiel rifle needs a buff too.

[Phishfood]

Use against against automatons. It's ok to fight automatons with the breaker but you'll generally find if you want to snipe from a safe distance then the marksman rifle is a better fit. Also if you're a good shot you can even take out the medium sized bots with 2 headshots instead of using your support weapon.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Xarko:

I find markman rifles are good against automatons, but I wouldn't use them against bugs. Diligence is decent. Counter-sniper is bad because it handles like ass without any significant advantage over regular Diligence.

Anti materiel rifle needs a buff too.

Don't worry, if they do the same thing every game ever does they will give a 1.2% buff to the counter sniper (While nerfing two other things 'so it isn't overpowered by this amazing fix we gave it!'). Then nerf the passable for popping small bugs like a giant pistol basic marksman rifle into the pavement by -20% or more, and probably removing it's third person crosshair or something.

[panvxv]

Diligence is a great gun. I have been using the most out of every weapon and I mostly play against termids.
It kills small pests in one shot andd only 2 headshots to kill bigger gray bugs.
It has amazing range, 20 bullets in magazine and 8 mags you can carry. This alone makes it even better than Breaker in many cases.

Breaker has only 16 shots and 7 mags. It can tho kill brood commandos/bile spewers with headshots in close range faster and exposed charger's legs. But I have seen at mid to long rangers not all pellets hitting the head of a bug meaning I need to spend even more to kill one.

For this reason I think Diligence can be much better with practice.
As for bile spewers and brood commandos I am simply using railgun and aiming for the head. Less ammo spent and much faster this way than any other.

As for the robots, just ability to being able to snipe of them from range is too great to past off.

[Shuten-Dōji酒呑童子]

Diligence, Jetpack, Anti-Material and I'm doing great.

Against bots, just headshot.
I bring expendable anti-tanks for the tank bots and use jetpack to get to their weakpoints. Anti-Mat rifle will kill about anything lighter than a tank or bile titan in 1 to 3 shots depending on if you can hit heads.
My favorite is killing Hulks from the front in 2 shots by hitting their eye.

6 mags with 8 bullets each was it? Well, long as you hit headshots then Anti-Material is super efficient against 99% of enemies. As for the Diligence, can wipe out bot patrols with a similar speed to an eagle strike with less risk of missing one of the enemies and getting a bot drop called.

Only struggles with these weapons are:
-Berserkers (I have a skill issue headshotting these guys. Just ant-mat rifle their arms usually.)
-Scout Striders (Takes 3 Ant-Mat shots if you don't get the drop on them)
-Chargers (possibly? I don't fight bugs often enough to remember them. Here to spill oil.)
-Tanks (Use heavier ordinance)
-Bile Titans (Use heavier ordinance)

[Spartykins]

good against bots

just don't use the counter sniper until it gets changed

[Rampage]

with 90% of the time having a low vision modifier sniping doesnt work anyway