Anti-Materiel Rifle (Fallout: New Vegas)

The anti-materiel rifle is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Background
The weapon delivers a high power shot at long distances with great accuracy, although chambered in a larger caliber for hardened targets. It has extremely high damage and low spread and comes pre-equipped with a scope. The magnification level of the scope is 3.13x. Offsetting this is its slow rate of fire, resulting in low damage per second and that the weapon itself weighs 20 pounds, making it one of the heaviest shoulder fired weapons in the game.

Additionally, its .50 MG ammunition is very rare and expensive, and is heavy if carried in bulk in hardcore mode; a full magazine weighs two pounds without the Pack Rat perk and one pound with the perk. When fired from the hip (without aiming), the resulting recoil from the weapon's large caliber will result in the user being pushed slightly backward (evident in third-person view). Aiming down the scope will prevent this.

Durability
The anti-materiel rifle can fire a total of about 470 shots, the equivalent of 59 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Anti-materiel rifle (GRA) - the variant added by Gun Runners' Arsenal that accepts modifications.
 * Oliver anti-materiel rifle - used by a non-player character during the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, only obtainable by using console commands.

Locations

 * Gun Runners - Can be bought from the Vendortron if the player character's level is at least 16.
 * NCR Veteran Rangers will usually carry these when one reaches a medium-high level. The rifle will commonly be in poor condition when looted from them.
 * During the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, some centurions carry these in the outdoor areas, though only during the All or Nothing endgame quest or the No Gods, No Masters endgame quest.
 * Knight Torres, in the Hidden Valley Bunker, may sell one.
 * White Legs storm-drummers can be found with these rifles at higher levels in Zion Canyon.
 * Marked Men, particularly hunters, may carry these at higher levels in the Divide.
 * The Courier's Mile - In a high-tech gun case.
 * Ulysses' Temple - Ulysses carries one.

Behind the scenes
According to Joshua Sawyer, the anti-materiel rifle was inspired by the PGM Hécate II, because he prefers the Hécate's design and was tired of seeing mostly Barrett sniper rifles in games.

Bugs

 * If loading a saved game from the main menu in which the anti-materiel rifle is equipped and drawn, the reload animation will take twice as long as normal. This can be solved by simply switching to another gun and then back again.
 * When fired at close range, it may completely miss even though the end of the barrel is almost literally touching the target, this is more common when you are not aiming down the sights.
 * When the weapon is fired in short range (almost melee), the barrel sticks through the enemy and misses the target.
 * If an anti-materiel rifle loaded with incendiary rounds is used to target anyone in V.A.T.S and V.A.T.S is canceled without being activated, the targeted opponent will still catch fire, causing standard fire damage.
 * Sometimes when zoomed in the scope glitches and prevents sniping with the scope. Turning off the system and reloading the save file will fix this.