Snipetron

"The SNIPETRON is a powerful and accurate rifle that sports optical zoom capabilities. Perfect for long range engagements."

- In-Game Description

The Snipetron is a high quality sniper rifle with immense zoom. It is extremely useful for support gameplay.

As of Update 8, the Snipetron was removed from the game's Market and can no longer be obtained. According to the developers, the Snipetron's use of standard bullets as opposed to being a railgun or energy weapon did not fit the lore of the Corpus, and it was removed as a result.

Players were able to obtain a Snipetron Vandal and a Blueprint for the normal Snipetron through the Informant Event after killing 20 Informers.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Deals Armor Piercing damage.
 * Deals 50% more damage to medium Grineer units.
 * Does full damage to every bodypart of Infested Ancients and other enemies.
 * One  slot.
 * High accuracy.
 * 20% critical chance, making it a prime candidate for crit builds.
 * Killing Infested Runners won't make them explode.

Disadvantages:
 * Only deals 50% to light Infested units.
 * High Recoil.
 * Small clip size.
 * Long reload time.
 * Slow rate of fire.
 * Draws from the sniper ammo pool, which is among the rarest of all ammo drops.
 * Impossible to obtain from the Market after Update 8.

Acquisition
As of Update 8 the Snipetron is no longer available though the Market, though a blueprint was given out along with the Vandal variant to players who participated in the Informant Event, provided the player killed at least 20 drones.



Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * The Snipetron is great for headshots and is very useful against the Grineer.
 * Always ensure that Snipetron is fully loaded before heading on to further combat.
 * Use melee or sidearm against close foes instead of using Snipetron.
 * The Bronco makes for an excellent compliment to the Snipetron, covering close range battles where the Snipetron suffers.
 * If you use Magazine Warp, upgrade it only to 15%, because the rest is wasted. (it will only carry a maximum of 5 rounds, which is +15% rounded)
 * Adding a level 0 Cryo Rounds mod will allow the slowing of enemies in case first shot is not a killing shot, increasing the ease of headshots with your next shot. (If you don't have Cryo Rounds, Stormbringer can let you stun Sgt. Nef Anyo)
 * As a general note, ammo consumption should not be too big of an issue as long as players make full use of their abilities and melee weapons in conjunction with Snipetron.
 * The Snipetron can break Reinforced glass.