ME3 Sniper Rifles

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Sun, 03/18/2012 - 21:34
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I've been running pretty much exclusively with the Javelin. Absolutely love it. I can see thru walls, lol

Mon, 03/19/2012 - 16:05 (Reply to #32)
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JoyandStu wrote:

I've been running pretty much exclusively with the Javelin. Absolutely love it. I can see thru walls, lol

After reading this, I tried it out on some geth missions. With it slightly upgraded and some damage mods, that thing is awesome! I love how you can see enemies through walls. It has maxed out damage. Should do nicely until I get the regular Widow. 

Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:18
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I pretty much played the entire weekend as an Infiltrator with the WIdow sniper, doing silver and even one run to wave 9 on gold.   I"ve done all the damage boosts so I get something like 120-130% more damage than base on the Widow even without a headshot .  It's a cannon, love it.  However I can't deal with stuff like Husks, they just come in too fast and are too mobile to shoot them reliably, most the time i end up in a melee fight.

 

The Phalanx Pistol i use on all my other classes and have come to rely on it as my gun of choice.  IT hits hard, shoots fast and allows me 200% cooldown.

Tue, 03/20/2012 - 10:33
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I got the Javi in one of my specter boxes last night.  Weight wise it's the same as the WIdow, Rate of Fire is also the same.  It does slightly less damage than the WIdow but it can see thru walls (so i assume it can see thru smoke too ?).   Not sure how ammo capacity stacks up, the widow gets 8 rounds making it a little light when you have to do the hack objectives.  I think the delay in pulling the trigger and it charging/firing would drive me nuts thu, especially on gold when enemy movement is sped up.

 

EDIT: i found this comparison of the Black WIdow / WIdow / Javi


Damage:642.6/1083.8/993.7
Armor Multiplier:1.25/1.5/2.0
Object Pierce Distance:0.25/0.5/1.0
Pierce Multiplier:0.25/0.5/1.0
Rounds per Clip:3/1/1
Reload Time:2.97/2.97/2.97
Weight:2.0/2.0/2.0
Rounds Carried:25/17/19

Wed, 03/21/2012 - 18:56
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I just played a MP game on Silver (Reapers)  where all 4 of us were using Sniper Rifles only. We finished in 18 minutes and on waves 1-9, I didn't see an enemy get within 20 feet of anyone on the team. The rounds literally lasted about a minute to 90 seconds. Three of us had N7 Valiants and one of us had a Widow. 

We did run into trouble on wave 10 since we had one of those stupid hacks in the middle of the map. But we managed to finish it out. Other than that, I was surprised how well we did with nothing but sniper rifles. I may never use a pistol again. 

Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:00
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I just find it challenging to snipe fast moving targets with the sniper rifle especially when they're aggressive and closein fast like Husks.  Thankfully there are only a couple enemies like that.

 

We rolled gold last night with two Infils and two Asari Adepts, was no problem vs Cerb

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