Fallout 3 and 4 really lacked some sniper rifles. Especially Fallout 3, all I've had was the Sniper Rifle. And Fallout New Vegas lacked some as well. I hope we get loads of sniper rifles in Fallout 4, especially the Anti-Material Rifle.

The Reservist Rifle and the Victory Rifle (both unique Sniper Rifles in Fallout 3) would like a word with you. The Victory Rifle was especially neat as it could cause knockback on targets.

I'll always use the Gauss Rifle as my long-range scoped rifle, but now with the new crafting system we can make freaking Plasma Sniper Rifles. I mean, sniping people with glowing, slow-moving plasma balls? I love it!

Well it seems like we may be able to modify rifles to be more sniper-ish, in addition to any base snipers we get.

I went through a good bit of New Vegas with the Hunting Rifle(with a scope), that golden rifle near the Legion camp(if I got my lockpicking at 100 before getting a hunting rifle scope), or a scoped Laser Rifle. Oh and there that YSC-186(or something like that). In terms of sniping it's farily to easy to get what you need even if it lacks in variety

Ooh, the LaLongue Carabine was a good one!

Have we just destroyed his topic or is it still okay?

ysc 186 was all a courier needed in a sniper rifle but I suppose some more sniper variety couldn't hurt.

Personally, I look forward to making glowing green goo globs from far away.

With the new crafting system it looks like you can make sniper rifles of lots of gun, heck there is even hints yoy can make them out of pistols.

Sniper scope on a fatman?

It looks like you will be able to turn any ranged weapon in to a sniper weapon with the right mods.

The pipe pistol becomes the pipe rifle by adding a stock.

Put on a longer barrel, a silencer, and a scope and it will be a sniper rifle.

Same for laser and plasma weapons.

I did notice some thing interesting.

Just before when the Lone Survivor first meets Preston Garvey, he kills a couple of raiders and picks up one of their weapons.

It looks like a pipe automatic rifle with a crude reflex sight on it (a short piece of pipe).

That suggests that the raiders are not going be be carry basic weapon, but instead they will have modded weapons.

Well If I was a raider and I saw people with modded equipment, Id sure as hell kill those pricks and use their modded weaponary!

if that's the case then this game just got way more interesting and awesome.

cryo sniper > all other snipers.. ill build a sniper that fires cryo blasts.. just because i can...

I'm hoping to put scopes on everything.
Chinese pistol? Scope it
Dart gun? Scope it
Throwing knife? SCOPE IT

For reals though, it will be nice to customize a nice sniper rifle that will make all others obsolete.

Remember having an mod in Fallout 3 who made fatman work as an missile launcher, it was far more practical with longer range an accuracy. Its an long range bombardment weapon anyway.

Also an good idea, will probably work a bit like the slow enchantment on bows in Oblivion, In skyrim an cold enchant should generate an slow effect but it looked broken

I don't know why, but I prefer going Simo Hayha with rifles...

Scoped Sawed-Off Plasma Shotgun! I'll name it Spitter!