Fabricated Sniper Rifle

Fabricated Sniper Rifle

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This semi-automatic rifle has less punch than a Longneck Rifle, but can be fired much more rapidly.

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Weapon

Type

Gun

Ammo used

 Advanced Sniper Bullet

Ranged damage

165

Rate of fire

3.3 RPS

Magazine size

8

Reload time

04.24 seconds

DPS

198.1 / 544.5

Supported
attachments

 Flashlight
 Laser
 Silencer

Item

Weight

25.0

Durability

70.0 (1 per shot)

Added in

v218.0

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 431 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi MachinedSniper 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Weapons/PrimalItem_WeaponMachinedSniper.PrimalItem_WeaponMachinedSniper'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 83

Engram points

36 EP

Crafting XP

936 XP

Crafting time

15s

Prerequisites

•  Longneck Rifle

Crafted in

•  Fabricator
•  Tek Replicator
•  Exo-Mek

Required stations

Refining Forge

Ingredients

115 × Polymer, Organic Polymer, or Corrupted Nodule

80 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

110 × Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste

The Fabricated Sniper Rifle is one of the Weapons in ARK: Survival Evolved. It is unlocked at Level 83 for 36 Engram Points.

Like its predecessor, the  Longneck Rifle, the Fabricated Sniper Rifle is a powerful long-range weapon that deals high damage per shot, though the Fabricated Sniper Rifle comes with a higher rate of fire, an 8-round magazine, and a built-in scope. However, it deals considerably less damage per shot than the Longneck and lacks the ability to fire  Tranquilizer Darts,  Shocking Tranquilizer Darts, or  Pheromone Darts.

The Fabricated Sniper Rifle has 70 Durability, costing 1 Durability per use, for a total of 70 uses.

The Fabricated Sniper Rifle is superseded by the  Tek Railgun.

Notes

• While the Fabricated Sniper Rifle has a base damage of 165, all creatures aside from Humans take only 70% damage from guns. This means that the Rifle only does around 115 damage to creatures.
• The Durability drain per shot makes the Fabricated Sniper Rifle an expensive weapon to keep repaired.
• The Fabricated Sniper Rifle's power comes from its ability to fire rapidly, making it less punishing for players with bad aim.
• Curiously, the Fabricated Sniper Rifle is still a practical weapon at close range and does not have to be scoped to obtain very good accuracy (as it fires in a straight line), which is often a stark difference from other games. If one only had this weapon in their hot bar, they are not defenseless in close quarters.
• The Fabricated Sniper Rifle has excellent burst DPS, just some points shy of the destructive  Pump-Action Shotgun. Also, considering how ammunition makes for most of the cost while using a weapon, it is indeed cheaper to use than the  Assault Rifle, while retaining a high yet manageable recoil because of the lower rate of fire. Finally, unlike shotguns, it is effective at all ranges. To compensate, this weapon has a very long reload time for its small 8-round magazine and a fast Durability drain, making sustained fire an unwise option. Moreover, it expels an absolute number of projectiles (remember that shotguns fire multiple pellets per shot) at a much slower pace than any other fabricated gun, reducing the chances to hit a moving target when used by less skilled players.

Trivia

• The Fabricated Sniper Rifle appears to have been based on the real world Dragunov SVD and Mk 14 EBR, combining elements from both weapons.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
218.0	Fabricated Sniper Rifle is added to the game.
264.5	Decreased Fabricated sniper rate of fire.
279.275	Reduced the resource cost of Fabricated Sniper recipe scale by 25%.
298.3	Fabricated Sniper Rifle armor penetration increased by 25%.
332.14	Fixed a bug which caused Fabricated Sniper Rifle to be highly inaccurate/unreliable, especially against moving targets or when you were moving as the shooter.