I figured it would be perfect, I'd aggro a bunch of zombies, run though the rafters to force them into a single line and then be able to fire through all of them with my marksman rifle. I'm playing on always run and the highest difficulty setting so you have to be a little bit careful on how you engage zombies. On the upper floor there are a bunch of single-file rafters and a TON of zombies.

It really hit me the other night when I was looting a Shotgun Messiah factory. Even if you wait for it to completely converge and then shoot off 2 quick shots your back to the full cooldown, you might as well have gotten up and started sprinting and then rescoped. Even if I stop moving and crouch I still have to sit there for 2-3 seconds before being able to shoot accurately, and any time you fire it extends the duration. Now I get the idea, I'm guessing this is to prevent someone from mid sprint quick scoping someone across the map but it's way overkill. The marksman rifle looks great at first but there's a hidden asterisk that unlike every other gun in the game this one has an extra debuf in that it takes an insane amount of time after aiming down the sites before the crosshairs actually come together and give you an accurate shot. I crafted up some AP 7.62s and went off to do a quest with my new shiny rifle.Īaaaaaand it was extremely disappointing.

I got lucky early on and a shop was selling a quality 6 marksman rifle that I could afford after selling off almost everything I had. I've been leveling up and putting points towards perception for the looting and rifles perk as well as buying up all of the sniper skill books I can find. The new penetration mechanic sounded super cool, the idea of lining up a bunch of zombies and then firing through them all with a single round seemed pretty awesome. Hitting those long range difficult head shots and seeing the zombie just drop has always been one of the most rewarding things in 7DTD for me. So when A18 first came out I was really excited for the sniper, aka marksman rifle.

7 days to die sniper rifle