Heavy Sniper Rifle

This article is about a Heavy Weapon. For the others, see Heavy Weapons.

This article is about the vaulted Heavy Sniper. For the Exotic variant of this weapon, see Boom Sniper Rifle.

Heavy Sniper Rifle
Details
Category	Battle Royale Weapons
History
Introduced	Patch 5.21
Last Adjustment	Patch 12.50
Vaulted	Patch 11.00, Patch 13.00

The Heavy Sniper Rifle is a Sniper Rifle in Battle Royale. It is available in Epic and Legendary variants and has a head shot multiplier of 2.5x. It delivers devastating damage at the cost of having a long reload time and being very loud. It deals massive damage to buildings, able to destroy anything except metal containers in one hit. It uses Heavy Bullets. It can only be found from eliminating SHADOW Henchmen or opening SHADOW Henchmen Chests.

The Heavy Sniper Rifle was vaulted in Patch 11.0 to free up space, also probably because it was overpowered.

The Heavy Sniper Rifle was supposed to be the first weapon unvaulted on December 17, 2019 for Winterfest but was postponed due to the event being delayed a day onto December 18. However, the Heavy Sniper was eventually unvaulted on December 30, 2019 for 24 hours and was the 13th weapon to be unvaulted for the event.

The Heavy Sniper Rifle has been unvaulted on Patch 12.0, replacing the Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle. On Patch 12.1, the Heavy Sniper Rifle now can be found from SHADOW henchman's itself and the SHADOW safe chests.

In Patch 12.50, the Heavy Sniper Rifle's damage was reduced from 150/157 to 126/132. The reason why it was nerfed because if the player had 100 HP and 50 shield, they'll get one shotted instantly by both the Epic and Legendary variants. It was also very overpowered. However it still one shots builds except metal containers.

The Heavy Sniper Rifle has been vaulted on Patch 13.00 because it was still too overpowered after it's damage nerf. It was replaced by the Hunting Rifle and Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle.

Stats

Heavy Sniper Rifle
Details
Bullet Type
DPS	41.58
Damage	126
Fire Rate	0.33
Magazine Size	1
Reload Time	4.3
Structure Damage	1050

Heavy Sniper Rifle
Details
Bullet Type
DPS	43.56
Damage	132
Fire Rate	0.33
Magazine Size	1
Reload Time	4.1
Structure Damage	1100

Unused Rare Rarity

Heavy Sniper Rifle
Details
Bullet Type
DPS	39.6
Damage	120
Fire Rate	0.33
Magazine Size	1
Reload Time	4.3
Structure Damage	1000

Former Stats

Patch 5.21 - Patch 12.50

Heavy Sniper Rifle
Details
Bullet Type
DPS	49.5
Damage	150
Fire Rate	0.33
Magazine Size	1
Reload Time	4.275
Structure Damage	1050

Heavy Sniper Rifle
Details
Bullet Type
DPS	51.81
Damage	157
Fire Rate	0.33
Magazine Size	1
Reload Time	4.05
Structure Damage	1100

Texture

Patch	Rare	Epic	Legendary
Since 5.21

Sound

• Heavy Sniper Rifle Pullout

• Heavy Sniper Scope In and Out

• Heavy Sniper Rifle Shooting

• Heavy Sniper Rifle Reload

• Heavy Sniper Rifle Pickup

• Heavy Sniper Rifle Drop

Availability

Chapter 1

Rarity	Chest	Floor Loot	Supply Drop
Epic	✅	✅	❌
Legendary	✅	✅	✅

Chapter 2, Season 2

Rarity	Upgrading	SHADOW Henchman Chest	SHADOW Henchman
Epic	❌	✅	✅
Legendary	✅	✅	❌

Changes

Patch Notes

Patch 13.00 (June 17, 2020)

• Vaulted
  • Heavy Sniper Rifle.

Patch 12.50 (April 29, 2020) "Ghost Agents have tampered with Heavy Snipers to re-tune their effectiveness. Infiltrate a Shadow Hideout to find one!"

• Player damage reduced from 150/157 to 126/132

Patch 12.00 (February 20, 2020)

• Unvaulted
  • Heavy Sniper Rifle

Patch 11.00 (October 15, 2019)

• Vaulted
  • Heavy Sniper Rifle

6.02 Patch Notes (October 10, 2018 )

Weapons + Items

• Loot drop rate adjustments

• Increased Epic Heavy Sniper Rifle drop chance from 0.33% to 0.4%
• Increased Legendary Heavy Sniper Rifle drop chance from 0.07% to 0.13%

• Note: The overall number of Explosive Weapons and Snipers in a given game has not changed, however, there is a greater distribution of rarity and variants.

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6.00 Patch Notes (September 27, 2018 )

Bug Fixes

• Adjusted the timing of the Heavy Sniper reload animation to match more closely to when the bullet is reloaded.
  

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Patch 5.21 (August 15, 2018)

Heavy Sniper added

• Available in Epic and Legendary variants.
• Can be found from floor loot, chests, Supply Drops, and Vending Machines.
• Each shot delivers devastating damage at the cost of a long reload.
• Deals 150/157 damage to players.
  • These large rounds deal increased damage (1050/1100) to buildings.
  • Projectiles fired from the Heavy Sniper have less bullet drop in comparison to other Snipers.

Vault Log

Patch	Vault	Unvault
11.0	✅ Epic & Legendary
12.0		✅ Epic & Legendary
13.0	✅ Epic & Legendary

Trivia

• The Heavy Sniper Rifle is one of the only weapons in Fortnite that has a built-in muzzle brake. This Weapon and the Hand cannon are the only ones that have this feature.
• The Heavy Sniper Rifle bears resemblance to the Barrett M82 and Hecate II Anti-Material Rifles that fire the .50 BMG cartridge.
• The Heavy Sniper Rifle is the most powerful Sniper Rifle in the game, with its Legendary variant dealing 132 damage.
  • It is also the most powerful weapon currently in the game, with the Legendary variant dealing 330 damage on a headshot.
• The Legendary Heavy at one point did 392 headshot damage. If someone had the Infinity Blade they would survive on 8HP, but any weapon can elim a player that low.
• The Rare variant of the Heavy Sniper was originally supposed to be a Spy Games exclusive weapon. However, it was scrapped because Chapter 2 - Season 2 was about to end so it was quickly scrapped.

Gallery

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  Promotional Image for the Heavy Sniper Rifle

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  Promotional Image for the Heavy Sniper Rifle