[2024] Sniper rifle is a pretty effective weapon when fired from the hip.

Must be nice! I’m trying to go all in on Perception on one of my playthroughs. I can make it work for horde night, if I design my whole base around lining up headshots/penetrating shots. But until I progress enough to get that sniper rifle instead of the bolt action rifle, it’s proving hard to run with Perception weapons exclusively, for quests and general survival. Even with the glasses and the rifle skill at 4/5.

There are ambushes where you just need to mow things down quickly, and I feel like with rifles, anything short of the sniper rifle doesn’t cut it. The delay of reloading dooms you. So anything with a multiple-round magazine is superior, whether or not you’re skilled in it. And that doesn’t feel right to me, when my RPG stats say I should be best with rifles. I guess I can try multiple rifles on the belt at once, until my stage is high enough to get a sniper rifle.