Vectis Prime

The Vectis Prime is the Prime version of the Vectis sniper rifle, featuring higher base damage, fire rate, and zoom, and a doubled magazine, but with higher combo count and damage falloff.

On May 24th, 2017, it was announced that Vectis Prime would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on May 30th, 2017. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages
 * Second highest damage of all sniper rifles behind the Lanka, and highest damage of all hit-scan sniper rifles.
 * High and  damage - effective against armor and shields.
 * Tied with the Vectis, Snipetron Vandal, Rubico, and Lanka for the highest critical chance of all sniper rifles.
 * Tied with the Vectis for the highest status chance of all sniper rifles.
 * Tied with Rubico for the highest fire rate of all sniper rifles.
 * Tied with the Vectis for the fastest reload speed of all sniper rifles.
 * Good ammo economy.
 * Pinpoint accuracy while aiming; shots will hit exactly on the reticle dot, perfect for headshots.
 * and polarities.
 * Good candidate for and/or  due to its magazine size of two rounds, or one round with.
 * Has both low and high zoom ranges, and having only two zoom settings instead of three allows for faster switching between ranges.
 * Zooming in increases head shot damage by +35% at 3.5x zoom or +55% at 6x zoom (stacks additively with base damage mods like ).

Disadvantages
 * Linear damage falloff from 100% to ?% from 400m to 600m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
 * Low damage – less effective against health.
 * Largest shot combo requirement of all sniper rifles.
 * High recoil, which may make it difficult to fire a follow-up shot, especially at higher zoom levels.

Comparisons:

Trivia

 * Vectis is Latin for "Bar" or "Pole", referring to a locking bar (or bolt), a leveraging bar such as a Crowbar, or possibly referring to a carrying pole.
 * The Vectis Prime has a bipod, as opposed to the monopod on the normal Vectis. This might suggest that this rifle would be more precise and have less recoil because of the extra support from the bipod. It is purely cosmetic, however.