+Silent Killer
-Deals no bodyshot damage

On the second thought, it's probably not good for the current bot situation

i hate these bushmans, so i dont wanna thx.

this is just a love letter to newbie snipers

Love it!

It's an interesting concept to be sure, but I can't help but wonder why in any situation I would use this over just a normal sniper rifle.

I can already picture snipers hand no clipping through his model while performing the soldier rocket reload

My proposed stats:
[+] While active +50% damage resistance
[+] User does not flinch
[+] No Reload required
[+] Infinite ammo pool
[] Headshots deal minor knockback
[-] Does no damage
Also maybe could have a built in tracker that tells you how many shots you fired in your current life, how many bodyshots you hit, and how many headshots you hit, letting you keep track of how well you are doing.

could highlight the enemy's head and maybe teach you to stabilize your aim?

Can't wait to go on 2Fort and see a bunch of rocket-jumping snipers

Valve...

on hit: player becomes meem and cannot move during the rest of the game.

I think an interesting concept for the weapon would be for it to function sort-of like the Force-a-Nature for Sniper, where shooting other players causes them to take a lot of knockback and headshots do severe knockback and jumping and shooting causes the sniper to take knockback as well, at the cost of 100% of your rifle's damage. Would be fun to mess around with, and would also enable a novice sniper to keep spies and scouts away from him considering he could just hip-fire them.

Can you try make flarejumper? I guess, that it will be more useful))

This should be the only sniper rifle in the game.

but why
u know what the best way to practice sniper is? use stock and shoot cunts. the weapon doing no damage doesnt add to this process

NGL this is a great idea, and a great skin!

Does it Kill anyone?

this is stupid good

Would work magic as a skin for Sydney Sleeper or more likely Bazaar Bargain.

Regarding the invulnerability bit: I am now aware that is a stupid idea so Valve please don't add that

This puts a whole 'nother meaning to "useless sniper."

I can just picture it.
Snipers "practicing" only to really be using their secondaries and melee to actually do shit, then pulling this out as their "get out of jail free" card because of the invulnerability.

cursed

how the hell will it work ??

A download is available. At the moment the description is being moderated, so I'll stick it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ii6vmvnexs8vp2s/target_practice.vpk?dl=0

That being said, the premis might as well exist for every other weapon

The look of the weapon is neat, but doesn't really serve a purpose, you can't really sniper rifle jump so that was Prince the point and the other two existing practice weapons.

Why can't you practice headshots with a rifle that does damage?. Otherwise even if you could take damage, you're not being a asset to your team in casual or competitive matchmaking.

So you cant damage others or take damage from others. So its makes you an invisible friendly player? I cant see this being allowed in comp or any multiplayer setting otherwise the wearer would abuse their player collision box and bodyblock others in doorways or choke pionts.

Gonna love seeing clueless players trying to hurt people with this

I think it would be great if it was put into an official sniper tutorial mode for sniper, but it basically has 0 use in-game really and would most likely confuse new players

It's a very good idea

Additionally, for those who want to practice headshots, I have also proposed you can't cap with it (to make it a purely practice weapon like the Jumpers), and also you can't take damage whilst the weapon is equipped. Therefore it is simply a practice weapon where you can practice without the fear of taking damage.


Again, I'm not really sure how this'd work, so Valve can take the wheel if they want.

J-dog I'm whit you

The weapon seems to be for people that simply want to practice headshots and don't want to have to respawn the bots or wait for the enemy team to respawn. I would argue that this probably shouldn't be in game though as it would be a near pointless weapon and would be confusing to some newer player who gets it as their first drop. Then again, I think that a training sniper riffle is an interesting idea and the weapon skin looks pretty dang cool.

cool model but im very confused what the purpose is

excuse me wtf

I'd imagine I'd have extra damage, and every body shot deals no damage.