Snipetron

"The SNIPETRON is a powerful and accurate rifle that sports optical zoom capabilities. Perfect for long range engagements."

- In-Game Description

As of Update 8, the Snipetron was removed from the game's Market and can no longer be obtained. According to developers, the Snipetron was a Corpus weapon, but used bullets, and did not fit the lore. Thus, its removal.

The Snipetron is a high quality sniper rifle with immense zoom. It is extremely useful for support gameplay.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Deals innate Armor Piercing elemental damage.
 * One  slot.
 * Very high damage.
 * High accuracy.
 * 20% critical chance.
 * Deals Armor Piercing damage by default.

Disadvantages:
 * Long reload time.
 * Slow rate of fire.
 * High Recoil.
 * Small clip size.
 * Draws from the sniper ammo pool, which is among the rarest of all ammo drops.
 * Impossible to obtain after Update 8

Acquisition
As of Update 8 the Snipetron is no longer available, though developers have indicated that it may return in the future, perhaps temporarily as an event reward.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * The Snipetron is great for headshots and is very useful against the Grineer.
 * Always ensure that Snipetron is fully loaded before heading on to further combat.
 * Use melee or sidearm against close foes instead of using Snipetron.
 * If you use Magazine Warp, upgrade it only to 15%, because the rest is wasted. (it will only carry a maximum of 5 rounds, which is +15% rounded)
 * Adding a level 0 Cryo Rounds mod will allow the slowing of enemies in case first shot is not a killing shot, increasing the ease of headshots with your next shot. (If you don't have Cryo Rounds, Stormbringer can let you stun Sgt. Nef Anyo)
 * As a general note, ammo consumption should not be too big of an issue as long as players make full use of their abilities and melee weapons in conjunction with Snipetron.
 * The Bronco makes for an excellent compliment to the Snipetron, covering close range battles where the Snipetron suffers.
 * The Snipetron can break Reinforced glass.