Heavy Sniper Rifle

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Heavy Sniper Rifle
The icon for the Heavy Sniper Rifle as it appears in the player's inventory.
Description
Sniper Rifle: Heavy. Powerful and accurate rifle with a bolt-action mechanism with an extremely slow reload.
Introduced	Season 5
Information
Weapon Class	Sniper Rifle
Ammo Type	Heavy Bullets
Stats
Damage per Second	76.8 (Rare) 84.48 (Legendary)
Damage	120 (Rare) 132 (Legendary)
Fire Rate	0.64
Magazine Size	1
Reload Time	4.0s (Rare) 3.6s (Legendary)
Critical Hit Damage	2.5x

“

Sniper Rifle: Heavy. Powerful and accurate rifle with a bolt-action mechanism with an extremely slow reload.

”

— In-Game Description

The Heavy Sniper Rifle is a Sniper Rifle in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was introduced in Season 5. The Exotic version of this weapon is the Boom Sniper Rifle.

Functionality

The Heavy Sniper Rifle is a hard hitting, slow reloading Sniper Rifle. It deals a decent amount of damage to players, but even more to vehicles. It has poor hip-fire accuracy due to its class as a Sniper Rifle.

The Heavy Sniper Rifle in action.

The Heavy Sniper Rifle destroying a wall.

Stats

The Heavy Sniper Rifle uses Heavy Bullets and has a headshot multiplier of 2.5x.

	Heavy Sniper Rifle (Rare)
DPS	76.8
DAMAGE	120
MAGAZINE SIZE	1
FIRE RATE	0.64
RELOAD TIME	4.0s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	150

	Heavy Sniper Rifle (Epic)
DPS	80.64
DAMAGE	126
MAGAZINE SIZE	1
FIRE RATE	0.64
RELOAD TIME	3.8s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	158

	Heavy Sniper Rifle (Legendary)
DPS	84.48
DAMAGE	132
MAGAZINE SIZE	1
FIRE RATE	0.64
RELOAD TIME	3.6s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	165

	Heavy Sniper Rifle (Mythic)
DPS	88.32
DAMAGE	138
MAGAZINE SIZE	1
FIRE RATE	0.64
RELOAD TIME	3.4s
STRUCTURE DAMAGE	173

The Heavy Sniper Rifle is a Fast-Moving Projectile weapon. As it uses a scope, the fired bullet will always shoot from the center of the crosshair. There is no damage falloff on the Heavy Sniper Rifle's projectiles.

Obtained

From when the weapon was last available in Chapter 4: Season 3:

Rarity	Chest	Rare Chest	Floor Loot	Supply Drop	Fishing (Plain)	Fishing (Hole)	Creative
Rare	✓	✖	✓	✖	✖	✓	✖
Epic	✓	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓	✓
Legendary	✓	✓	✖	✓	✖	✓	✓
Mythic	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✓

Strategy Guide

This section outlines a strategy.

Feel free to add tips, tricks and general advice about the topic.

• Players should aim above targets at long ranges to compensate for the bullet drop. The further the target, the higher the player should aim. Each line under the cross when aiming down sight resembles 200 meters, meaning, when standing 200 meters from your target, aim with the first line under the cross.
• Players should aim in the direction a target is moving at long ranges to compensate for the bullet travel time. The faster and further the target, the further the player should aim.
• As the weapon does very high structure damage, the player could stand next to a structure which an enemy/enemies is/are hiding behind, shoot it from point-blank range, and then either replace the wall with their own for quick editing or use a close-ranged weapon such as a shotgun to attack opponents behind it. This is only effective against wooden structures as it can not break structures made of stone or metal with one shot.
• If looking to choose between a Heavy Sniper Rifle, Hunter Bolt-Action Sniper, or Hunting Rifle, you should first keep in mind that they all deal the same damage to the head. Then consider that the Heavy Sniper deals a lot more damage to players, structures, and vehicles than both, but it is slower to shoot and reload.

Weapon ID

The Heavy Sniper Rifle is referred to as Sniper Heavy in the files.

• Rare: WID_Sniper_Heavy_Athena_R_Ore_T03
• Epic: WID_Sniper_Heavy_Athena_VR_Ore_T03
• Legendary: WID_Sniper_Heavy_Athena_SR_Ore_T03
• Mythic: WID_Sniper_Heavy_Athena_UR_Ore_T03

History

Season 5

• Update v5.21: Added the Heavy Sniper Rifle in Epic and Legendary rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 1

• Update v11.00: Vaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle.
• Update v11.31: Unvaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle in both rarities.
  • (12/30/2019): Vaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle in both rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 2

• Update v12.00: Unvaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle in all rarities.
• Update v12.50: Body shot damage reduced from 150/157 to 126/132.

Chapter 2: Season 3

• Update v13.00: Vaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle in both rarities.

Chapter 3: Season 1

• Content Update v19.20: Changed the crosshairs to that of the Hunter Bolt-Action Sniper. The weapon remains vaulted.

Chapter 3: Season 2

• Update v20.00: Stat Changes to the Heavy Sniper Rifle. The weapon is still vaulted.
  • Decreased the headshot damage multiplier from 2.5x to 1.5x, now dealing 189/198 instead of 315/330.
  • Lowered the reload time from 3.9/4.1 to 3.6/3.8.
  • Increased the damage to vehicles from 126/132 to 630/660.
  • Lowered the damage to structures from 1050/1100 to 630/660.

• Update v20.10: Unvaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle.
  • Introduced Rare variant.
• Content Update v20.20 (4/28/2022): The Epic and Legendary Heavy Sniper Rifle now can be obtained in Supply Drops in Competitive Modes.

Chapter 3: Season 3

• Update v21.00: Added a Mythic Version to Fortnite: Creative. The Heavy Sniper Rifle is available in Competitive.
  • Update v21.00 Hotfix (6/7/2022): The Heavy Sniper Rifle is no longer available in Competitive.

Chapter 3: Season 4

• Update v22.00: Vaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle in all rarities.
  • Increased Headshot multiplier back to 2.5x

Chapter 4: Season 1

• Update v23.40: Unvaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle in Rare, Epic and Legendary.
  • Increased its fire rate from 0.33 to 0.64.
• Update v23.50: Vaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle.

Chapter 4: Season 2

• Update v24.00:
  • Unvaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle in all rarities.
  • Added Sniper Glare to the Heavy Sniper Rifle.

• Update v24.40 (May 24th 2023) : Lowered the damage to structures from 600/630/660/690 to 150/158/165/173.

Chapter 4: Season 3

• Update v25.11: Vaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle alongside Explosive Repeater Rifle's addition.

Chapter 4: Season OG

• Update v27.11 Hotfix: Unvaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle in Epic and Legendary.

Chapter 5: Season 1

• Update v28.00: Vaulted the Heavy Sniper Rifle

Sounds

Sound Type	Rarity	Audio
Pullout	Rare, Epic and Legendary
Scope In-Out
Shooting
Reload
Pickup
Drop

Trivia

• The Heavy Sniper Rifle is based on the American Barrett M82.
• When first released in Season 5, the Heavy Sniper Rifle dealt the most damage in a single shot of any weapon, dealing 157/392 with its Legendary version.
• The Rare variant of this weapon was initially planned to be available in the Spy Games LTM, but it was scrapped and reused in the Team Brawl LTM. It would later be released as a normal rarity in the core game modes.
• Currently, an Uncommon variant of this weapon exists in the files. It deals 114 damage and has a 4.2s reload time.
• The Heavy Sniper Rifle did not get a new icon or model when reworked for Chapter 2: Season 2, and still uses its icon from Season 5, despite it being noticeably lower quality.
• Prior to its nerf in Chapter 4: Season 2, the weapon was able to one shot any structure.
• In Save the World the Obliterator uses the same model as the Heavy Sniper Rifle.

Gallery

Promotional Material for Chapter 1.

Promotional Material for Chapter 3.