The AWP 7.62 Long Rifle is a sniper rifle with exceptional range, accuracy and damage. It's drawbacks include long firing time, very long reload time and a significant minimum-range.
Description[]
Military sniper rifle, good for long range combat. Extremely ammo efficient. 360 no scope.
Git gud: each kill PERMANENTLY increases critical chance by 1%
Analysis[]
The AWP Long Rifle is an excellent weapon to keep around for open levels with great vision distance. The ability to more or less one-hit-kill most anything short of a Ravager is godsent. Just be sure that you have enough distance between you and the target that if you miss or the target survives, it won't make it within 3 squares. The minimum range of the AWP can catch you off guard, especially with it's significant firing time, allowing fast enemies like Reavers to close within melee distance with you in a single shot.
The exceptionally long reload time can also hurt you if you are within range of enemies. Only reload when you are completely safe.
The rifle's damage is deceptive as the weapon comes with a whopping +100% crit chance, meaning that it will always hit for +50% damage. However, the base damage is only 20, meaning that each level of critical hit is only +10 damage; having 0 starting critical chance and a base damage of 30 would have been a lot better for scaling purposes. It effectively adds 1 damage for every 10 kills made with it. It is great for safely destroying turrets even with no kills, though.
Vaultbreaker[]
Thanks to its incredible damage and outstanding ammo usage efficiency, the AWP Long can be used to break open vault doors from a safe distance. Note that this does not apply to the vault doors in the Io Black Site Vaults or the CRI Armory, which have been made completely invulnerable to damage as of 0.8.10 update.
In more recent patches, more doors are now invulnerable and the Secure Vault events have been added to make some vault doors invulnerable, and there are many more other efficient options for this purpose now, so this functionality is no longer very relevant.
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