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Precision Rifles work great as an Everyman style gun in Cyberpunk 2077. From close, mid, or long range, these guns have you covered! From the heavy and powerful SOR-22, to the futuristic Achilles, the game has a nice selection of differing precision rifles to choose from.
In this video I attempt to break down and rank all 4 models from worst to best, in order to determine which are best for varying playthroughs. This list is of course my opinion, and I’m more than happy to hear how everybody elses differs from mine. But whether you agree with me or not, I hope this video provides you with a decent overview on this games precision rifles, and you learn a thing or two along the way…
You can check out more of my cyberpunk content on the channel. I’d specifically recommend my Revolvers Ranked video, if you’re planning on becoming the fastest or strongest gun in Night City! https://youtu.be/UPtijKnNrDg
Alternatively, if you’re wanting to lean more into the netrunning briefly covered in this video, here’s my overview and ranking for all Quickhacks in the game: https://youtu.be/brFKGlqgh80
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:37 Builds
01:45 SOR-22
03:25 Hypercritical
05:21 Achilles
07:15 Widow Maker
09:22 Conclusion
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Moron Labe or Psalm 11:6?
I could be wrong but I believe Gorilla arms completely negate the body requirement for weapons, so for example you can use the SOR with only the starting 3 body to its full abilities, (it will still have the warning text but it won't actually have any negative impact) but I haven't used GA's in a while.
I've never used any precision rifles as my main weapon, but ngl it looks fun. Gonna give it a try.
You can only get the standard Kolac with Console commands, and that only spawns as common rarity. You need to use even more console commands to bring it up to legendary. Legendary tier variants of some weapons are locked behind console commands.
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The key to both the Achilles and Widowmaker are the perks in the tech tree. With those perks it hits like a tank and the charge time is largely negated, also as both are tech weapons, they penetrate entire buildings in some cases.
The other important perks to help seperate Widowmaker from the Achilles come from the Ninjitsu tree, as Widowmaker does poison damage.
Widowmaker. It's widowmaker.
I was going to say that you missed the Kyubi, and then looked it up and realized that the Kyubi is for some reason an assault rifle. I've been using that as a suppressed precision rifle for dozens of hours on my sneakyboi and had no idea it was in the assault rifle category all this time. That's wild.
Please do pistols next !
Great video as always, Sam! Thanks for all your hard work and attention to detail.
Widow Maker is by far my favourite gun in the entire game. It’s so versatile and effective. And it just FEELS great to use.
Widowmaker FTW!! I absolutely loved that gun; it's a real beast once you get a few perks going and best of all; it's completely free! That weapon carried me all the way to the end. Just meet up with Panam, get to the point where you have to clear out the enemies in that cave, and you're good to go. 🙂
Are you planning a pistol tier list? You could use the same build as your revolver video
I done that quest with panam along while ago, but never saw any gold square or gun after beating nash, rip, looks like it would have been really fun to use
A great video once again Sam. Your content keeps getting better and better, and your guides and reviews have genuinely been helpful. You also show all the perks and points you're using to take it into consideration, and always try to give at least one pro and con for each weapon.
Keep it up man!
Bogdan Boner
Think you could do pistols next?
The sor 22 really needs a buff
I hope they increase the difficulty with 1.7, this game is too easy.
2 Widow Makers dropped for me on the playthrough im currently doing lol
I gotta say I prefer the Achilles. The lower charging time is really great, especially in combination with sandevistan and when it comes to elemental damage I just never was a big fan of chemical/poison damages.
Been Trying out the SQR 14 as a main rifle. It is not a good CQB rifle. More like a designated marksman rifle. It is ok in the medium to long range use.
The rifle in the game needs more punch per round Tho, often taking 2-3 round to down a target.
Best way I can explain it as the difference between and AR16(intermediate caliber) and an AR10(full size 7.62 caliber.)
The Hypercritical rifle I found annoying for common use. For me it's too long to reload, fire and has a small magazine. If you're not at least far mid-range you get whacked quick. To me it seems more like an antimaterial weapon.
For PC'ers Nexus Mods has a mod that will restore scopes to the rifles it was removed from.
Needed this
Nice vid, though I never really did precision rifles too much. Curious about maybe doing a video on damage types? Considering some damage types get actual perks to improve them, and others don't, I was wondering if you had thought about a "status effect" build, like a lightning god build, or chemical damage or similar, and seeing how effective it is to build around maximizing %chance to proc those damage types, and then let them do the damage.
The Government are stealing our Kolacs!!!!!1!!!
Damn time to make a build for the Achilles 🙂
Oh! I have a use case for the Pozhar from the shotgun video: it's actually one of the best shotguns on a Legendary Short Circuit build. It has a higher fire rate and faster full reload than the others, which means more crits per second, which means more legendary short circuit procs per second!
Widow Maker for me. I always use a Cyberdeck so pairing it with Sandivistan isn't an option for me. Plus I usually go for the Iconic versions as they feel more special.
The Achilles is arguably better than the Widowmaker, but it is especially cool as it was featured in the trailers. You might be able to find a faster charging variant also.
Anyone wanting an Achilles early, should be rare lootable around the Cyberpsycho Valentino kid in Northside, and then theres a Epic copy in the Judy mission where you go looking for a certain someone!
Your videos are really good lately by the way! Good watching for someone who plans builds more than they actually play the game haha.
Is there a Achilles variant that a scope can be mounter on? I have not yet found one that lets me use scope. Any help would be great…
Alternatively, with the standard Achilles. I believe that shop sells the Spec for the legendary version. Good for the 20 crafting perk (damage buff) and the 10% damage buff crafting perk (10 or 11, I think) Also I’ve found a epic variant, with a purple coat and flames decal(was thermal, have to assume it always is), not entirely sure where, but a great option if you dress Kitsch or Neo-Kitsch. Have to assume it was Cyberpsycho related, but might’ve been rolled off of Sasquatch (if my memory isn’t failing me)
Still Widow and cranking into the poison perks in cool my definite go to!
Can’t wait for the Power Pistols video, as I tend to revolvers normally! But recently have been loving Seraph.
Fun fact: precision rifle is cousin of sniper rifle, so it make negative sense you can't put long range scopes on it or that it loses damage long range. SOR-22 is such a cool weapon, advertised as a "hand-held artillery", but in gameplay it's clunky and weak. You can just use Moron Labe instead, and you will have more damage, more precision, more recoil control, and it's full auto. Not to mention that cost of entry is lower, since you don't need body to use Ajax.
I never killed Nash,🤦🏻♂️😤
One thing I don't understand is: precision rifle is obviously the perfect candidate for mid-range sniping but you can't use silencer on precision rifle … I really don't understand this
I like the looking of SOR-22 but Widow Maker does more damage with perks from Tech. I wish I could use SOR-22 with a silencer. This would be really nice combination for me.
Widow maker is one of my iconic weapon, I found it on my first play trought and imediatly felt in love with it
Even when my build isn't arount precision riffle, I still have it in ou inventory