Talk:VA39 Spectre/@comment-78.58.48.165-20150106232627/@comment-96.21.57.104-20150107154935

Of course it has a powerful scope and its hipfire is awful. It's a sniper rifle.

Slap a foregrip on the Spectre and it becomes an amazing weapon. Suddenly its recoil is vertical only so firing multiple connecting hits is very doable, even at a high rate of fire. Tracking, suppressing and killing moving targets is easier than with a bolt action, with the ability to immediately follow up shots. And the awful hipfire? You'd be amazed how much a point-blank spam-click with the spectre works out in your favour with 10 rounds in a mag and 400 damage per shot. This gun is more nuanced than bolt-action rifles, fitting more into a 'combat rifle' role than a traditional sniper.

As for your alternatives? Those don't quite fit the same role. The XM98 is long-range only for the most part, the Artemis is, while better than an SMG at it, not a good long-range option, and the Ghost is yet another bolt-action that will not quite offer the flexibility of the Spectre, or the Phantom.

Personally, I love the Artemis and XM98 but the Spectre works wonders for me now, after spending so much time believing it to be useless.