Talk:Snipetron Vandal/@comment-94.132.67.80-20130802001454/@comment-13117751-20130802154846

I'd say the SV wins this one. The Latron (and Latron Prime) is a medium--long engagement weapon which can be hipfired at close range to less of an effect than a fully automatic weapon would have. The SV has a very very similar engagement window.

In light of that, the SV has inherently armor piercing damage, which for most enemies is practically armor ignoring (and bonus damage against grineer). The high base damage compensates for the half damage versus light infested to an extent.

The latron's only advantage over the SV is its fire rate. As it is, however, the SV can squeeze off roughly two shots in the time it takes the latron to fire about five, so as long as you don't have to reload the SV, it technically has better DPS over this time window.

The latron has "more versatility" in the respect that you can afford to miss, of course. But besides that, if you don't plan on missing too many shots (both are very very accurate rifles so really you just have to be blindly spraying to miss that many times in the first place) the SV is your better bet since any versatility the latron has evaporates when both weapons are landing their hits.

Of course, it is a comfort issue too. The latron can simply "feel better" for all ranges than the SV does, stats aside. However, this is a more subjective thing so I can't really describe it properly...it's more something individual to a player.

So if we're looking at it from a stats and performance perspective, the SV should win. If you feel comfortable with the latron prime though, by all means stick with it. BOth weapons are suitable enough to clear all the game's current content and the differences between them will really only start showing up at high-wave defence.