There was a Fortnite challenge this week where you have to get kills with suppressed weapons. With the suppressed SMG vaulted that leaves only the pistol and AR, but now you might have another option on the table, an upcoming suppressed sniper rifle.
The leak comes from hot new Fortnite leaker Lucas7Yoshi who seems like he’s first to everything these days. The weapon has been rumored for a long, long time now, but files for it were just put in the game itself recently, and it may be arriving in the very next patch this upcoming week.
Stats for the silenced sniper have leaked as well, which will come in Epic and Legendary variants:
1 bullet per magazine
Epic:
Damage 100
Reload Time: 2.85
Legendary:
Damage: 105Reload Time: 2.7
Headshot multiplier: 2.5 (possibly)
The Heavy Sniper does more damage but the reload speed here is almost half of that weapon. Both of these versions can one-hit body shot with no shields, and one-hit headshot through 100/100 health/shields, so being silenced is not diminishing the sniper’s capacity to insta-kill enemies at all, really. It does do a bit less damage that the traditional bolt-action, but not by much, and in most situations, particularly headshots, it won’t matter.
The introduction of yet another sniper is Epic spreading out the battlefield even more. Last week introduced the boom box which has made close-up build battles more or less impossible if one is on the field. But you know when boom boxes don’t matter? When you’re sniping enemies from a long, long distance away.
A silenced sniper is not exactly the most exciting addition to the game, as it seems inevitable that “heavy” and “silenced” versions of practically every weapon will arrive in the game at some point (still waiting on that No Country for Old Men silenced shotgun to arrive), so this isn’t a huge surprise, particularly since this specific weapon has been rumored for months now.
I think Fortnite was probably hoping to spice things up a little bit more with the introduction of more Mythic weapons throughout the season to join the Infinity Blade, and yet that concept crashed and burned within days of launch, and Epic has had to go back to the drawing board to try and figure out what do with Mythics, if they do anything with them at all. So that means more tame additions to the game like silenced sniper rifles, I suppose.
I would look for this to be added early next week in the new patch, though patch day has been jumping around quite a bit as of late. I’m curious to try it out, but I can’t imagine it will be that much different than a bolt-action. We’ll see, I suppose.
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