There are sniper rifles. They're pretty rare now.

Yeah, a sniper and a couple of other scoped weapons.

Sniper Rifles are kinda meh in Fallout 3. If you have the PC version though, there's a pretty good mod that makes it more effective and more like a sniper.

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=734

easiest sniper rifle to get is to go down to tenpenny tower, go up to tenpenny's balcony while mister burke isn't there, and kill that motherfucker. most merchants have ammo, but not much. The Citadel's armory merchant has ammo, but all of it is ridiculously overpriced. 2 caps for one single 10mm round? wtf

edit: no consequence for killing tenpenny

Theres also a guy in Minefield who has a sniper named Arkansas.

"Sniper Rifles are kinda meh in Fallout 3. If you have the PC version though, there's a pretty good mod that makes it more effective and more like a sniper.

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=734"

The Sniper Rifle is only really good at killing off random raiders or maybe yao-gui but I wouldn't bother using it on Super Mutants or anyone with power armour on.  It's best used if you aren't detected.  You can quite reliably get 2 head shots from medium range and probably 2 kills so sneak damnit.

There are sniper rifles, and scoped .44 magnums.

"The Sniper Rifle is only really good at killing off random raiders or maybe yao-gui but I wouldn't bother using it on Super Mutants or anyone with power armour on.  It's best used if you aren't detected.  You can quite reliably get 2 head shots from medium range and probably 2 kills so sneak damnit."

What are people talking about w/ sniper riffles not being good?

the 2 UNIQUE named sniper riffles are the best small guns in the game.  Ammo is easier to find than .44 amo and one of the unique snipers has KNOCK DOWN.   You shoot anything, even a deathclaw, it falls down.  What is more powerful than that?  Not to mention the insane range, NOTHING CAN SHOOT YOU but you can kill ANYTHING w/ a named/unique sniper riffle.

In fact it's so over powered I went back to the Lincoln repeater because it was too easy to kill EVERYTHING without it ever firing off a shot.

The GENERIC sniper riffles do kind of suck, but so doesnt evern non unique weapon

i never found a sniper rifle while i played through it, did get a scoped .44 magnum though, which although uber powerful... lacked one of the most important things 90% of the time.. ammo

"i never found a sniper rifle while i played through it, did get a scoped .44 magnum though, which although uber powerful... lacked one of the most important things 90% of the time.. ammo"

"RandomHero666 said:

"i never found a sniper rifle while i played through it, did get a scoped .44 magnum though, which although uber powerful... lacked one of the most important things 90% of the time.. ammo"

The unique weapons are the best weapons in FO3, if you missed named weapons.. you should go get them"

There are sniper rifles. I found them quite enjoyable. Works best on the initial shot though (while you are hidden.)

I enjoyed the sniper rifle a great deal, though they were hard to maintain due to limited availability.  Thing is, they worked really well as a short range weapon in situations and in VATS.  I strongly suggest having one in Yao Guai and Deathclaw infested areas, as you can squeeze off 2 or three rounds before they even know what hit em'

Step 1. Go to minefield.

sniper kinda sucks though :( Dont use VATS just scope it

The Gauss rifle is pretty awesome for the knockdown but I prefer Reverists Sniper Rifle (I think the named sniper is something close to that)