Sniper Rifles

**Sniper Rifles** are rifles with generally extremely high damage and range, high precision, but a very low rate of fire and very high recoil. There are currently six Sniper Rifles in the game. The Mosin-Nagant, SV-98 and BLR 81 uses 7.62mm ammo, the Scout Elite uses the 5.56mm ammo, the AWM-S uses .308 Subsonic and the Model 94 uses .45 ACP. Most Sniper Rifles are rare, but the Model 94 is common in the Desert Map, especially in Cattle Crates.

## Strategies

* Try using an 8x or 15x Scope for long-ranged attacks.
* Refrain from using sniper rifles in the open if you have less than a 4x Scope, doing so is fatal because you will end up blind-firing, which will slow you down in this case and only make you an easier target. Instead, find a house and camp there.
* After shooting a sniper rifle, quickly switch to your secondary weapon and then back to the sniper rifle, this trick will make it so that when you don't have the slow movement speed that you will get after shooting a sniper rifle (quickswitch). Doing this is also called "Quickswitching".
	+ For the Sniper Rifles except the Model 94, BLR 81 and Scout Elite, it actually causes the Sniper Rifle to fire faster than it would without, therefore there is no reason to not do it with those.
		- Abandoning quickswitching to fire faster with these three generally isn't a good idea, as the fire rate reduction is highly negligible for the BLR 81 and Model 94 while the Scout Elite's fire rate is unaffected, and massively outweighed by the benefit of not getting slowed, although if you still choose to not quickswitch, not that these three also have a lower movement penalty than the ones which are sped up when quickswitched.
* May be used in conjunction with another sniper rifle, or a pump-action shotgun reasonably well. Simply quickswitch, and you get two high-damage shots in a reasonably short amount of time.
* Because of their high damage per shot, sniper rifles may serve well at peeking corners. Contrary to what some think, it is feasible to use sniper rifles at close range as long as they deal very high damage. (Model 94 is not that good for this role.)
* Be careful using these in bunkers where bullets ricochet, as the bullet may bounce off and put you on very low health, or outright kill you.
* Try pulling out your other weapon that isn't a Sniper Rifle to lure the enemy closer. Then pull out your Sniper Rifle and shoot them. This will give you more accuracy.
* If you're not very good at sniping, you can still use it in close range, and it will still deal the same amount of damage. This will give you more accuracy, helping a lot of mobiles.

## Trivia

* All Sniper Rifles do not have a scope attached both on the icon and the world image (except AWM-S world image).
* All Sniper Rifles have a capacity of less than 10 rounds, with the exception of the SV-98, having a capacity of 10 rounds.
* The shot damages of Sniper Rifles are all multiples of four.
	+ Furthermore, all Sniper Rifles in surviv.io were originally released with damage values divisible by 8, with the Model 94 and AWM-S later being rebalanced with different damage values.
* The AWM-S is the only sniper rifle with a detailed world sprite.