Anti-Materiel Rifle (Fallout: New Vegas)

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

Characteristics
This weapon is a bolt-action .50 caliber rifle that is designed for use against military equipment (or "materiel" in military language). The AMR is similar in design principle to that of a sniper rifle, delivering a high power shot at long distances with great accuracy, although chambered in a larger caliber for hardened targets. As such, the AMR has extremely high damage and low weapons spread and comes pre-equipped with a scope. The magnification level of the scope is 3.13x for this weapon. Offsetting this is its slow rate of fire resulting in a 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 uncommon, relatively expensive, and is heavy if carried in bulk on hardcore mode; a full box will be holding two pounds of ammunition without the Pack Rat perk. Its very low durability coupled with its high value makes it an expensive weapon to use and maintain; it costs an average of 17 to 18 caps per shot.

When fired from the hip (without aiming), the resulting recoil from the weapon's large caliber will result in the user being pushed backwards (evident in third-person view). Aiming down the scope will prevent this. This is also the same case in first-person view.

Variants

 * Anti-materiel rifle (GRA), capable of supporting modifications.


 * Oliver anti-materiel rifle

Locations

 * Gun Runners - can be bought from the Vendortron if the player's level is at least 16.
 * NCR Veteran Rangers will use these when the player reaches a medium-high level. Usually, the conditions of the rifle that are looted from them are either broken or in poor condition.
 * During the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, many troops of Caesar's Legion carry these.
 * White Legs tribals can be found with these rifles at at higher levels.
 * After joining the Brotherhood of Steel, Knight Torres may sell this.
 * Marked men may carry these.

Bugs

 * While wearing Ranger combat armor or Desert Ranger combat armor and having the rifle on your back, it sticks through the trench coat and small pack.
 * If loading a saved game from the main menu in which you have the anti-materiel rifle equipped and drawn, the reload animation takes 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.

Behind the scenes

 * The spelling "anti-materiel" rather than "anti-material" is correct, since "materiel" is a military term for military equipment. The purpose of this rifle is to precisely and economically target assets such as unarmored or lightly armored vehicles, aircraft, small boats, and electronic equipment.
 * The anti-materiel rifle was influenced by the PGM Hécate II.