Automatic Sniper Rifle is a sniper rifle that is available in Rare, Epic and Legendary variants. It uses Medium Bullets as ammunition instead of the usual Heavy Bullets. This sniper is fully automatic, holds a magazine of 16 bullets and the projectiles it fires are faster than any sniper. The Automatic Sniper Rifle has been vaulted in Patch 11.0 in order to free up space. It was also vaulted due to not many people using it in game.
The Automatic Sniper Rifle was underperforming to some of the other Sniper Rifles. This adjustment to damage should make it more desirable as an alternative long-range weapon.
The Automatic Sniper Rifle is inspired by the VSS Vintorez Sniper Rifle, due to the similar stock, scope, and overall design of the weapon. Also, because the weapon would be a VSS in real life, this places it into the Kalashnikov family of rifles, which essentially means that the Automatic Sniper Rifle and Heavy Assault Rifle are related.
The reload animation for this sniper is the same animation as the Heavy Sniper Rifle.
This is not the first automatic Sniper as the Semi-Auto Sniper Rifle was automatic, however, it technically just fired out a bullet when the trigger was held.
The Storm Scout Sniper Rifle and Semi-Auto Sniper Rifle could be considered better than this weapon because it has more damage and headshot multiplier, does not consume a lot of ammo, and pretty basic and common to find. It also reloads faster than the Automatic Sniper Rifle.
