Sniper Rifles

Overview
In Deathwish, the definition of a Sniper Rifle is for all rifles with a scope that can produce enough zooming for long-range engagements. While Assault Rifles in some models have scopes, they serve only as guidance for shooting, and often cannot zoom as far as a sniper rifle. There's also inherent penalties for balancing reasons when an automatic rifle has a scope. Sniper variants do not carry this penalty.



A sniper rifle, obviously, is much more useful at long-range than other guns, but can be hipfired if needed be. Their usual small magazine sizes, but huge punch, makes each shot count. However, this category of guns are extremely dependant on maintenance. There are two subtypes: Standard and Marksman Rifles. Sniper Rifles are most of times fed very high caliber bullets, but in one or two exceptions can be fed small calibers.
 * Standard Sniper Rifles are exactly like what they are described; long-range firearms designed to take zombies at extreme distances. The powerful shots makes them very effective at taking small groups of targets before engaging is possible, but the extreme wear caused by the bullets makes sniper rifles one of the most troublesome rifles to maintain. All sniper rifles, with very few exceptions, are semi-automatic or bolt-fed. Examples of standard sniper rifles are the vanilla 7DTD version, renamed MSG 90, with a very small magazine but really powerful shots, or the SVD, with a larger magazine but slightly less power.
 * Marksman Rifles do not have as much long-distance capabilities, but still have scopes and are still very powerful on their own. Usually, a marksman rifle is semi-automatic and has more capacity, but their scopes cannot zoom in as well, and their shots are not as accurate. There's also an issue with recoil, which unlike the standard sniper rifles, are more pronounced in this subtype. Some marksman rifles are automatic. They can be considered hybrids between a sniper and an assault rifle. An example of a marksman rifle is the MSSR.

List of Deathwish 3.0 (Alpha 10) Sniper Rifles

 * MSG 90
 * SVD
 * JL 417
 * Knight 25
 * Bossmerg 175T
 * Mark 14
 * 32TS

Firearms Table - Sniper Rifles (3.0)
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List of Deathwish 3.1 (Alpha 11) Sniper Rifles
Deathwish 3.1 is divided between Deathwish Compact, Deathwish and Deathwish Xtreme. Each version of the mod adds the following sniper rifles:

Deathwish 3.1 Compact: No new guns.

Deathwish 3.1: Deathwish 3.1 Xtreme: Together with all sniper rifles available in the Compact and standard variants, the Xtreme edition adds the following guns:
 * DSR
 * AW50
 * Armadillo 50
 * Bigshot
 * AW762
 * Recce
 * Herstal SSR
 * Armadillo 50
 * Bigshot
 * Black Arrow
 * Carl AW2K
 * SPR
 * LGO
 * SRT Gandalf
 * SV99
 * Mauser SP66
 * SIS 3k
 * Antelope 762
 * Tek-Cel RFB
 * Vintorez
 * Bushmaster 50
 * JL SL-8
 * Suitcase Rifle
 * Bremmington R11
 * XM8 Sharpshooter
 * R21
 * VSSK
 * MR762

Firearms Table - Sniper Rifles (3.1)
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