NS-30 Vandal

The NS-30 Vandal is a scout rifle produced by Nanite Systems, available to all factions. It is unlocked through purchase with Certification Points or Daybreak Cash.

The Nanite Systems - 30 Vandal is the companies' first entry into the long-ranged market. Unlike other weaponry produced by Nanite Systems, the Vandal's damage-per-second is actually on par with offerings made by the three empires. The Vandal instead has a slower reload speed, slightly worse recoil, and lower velocity.

In exchange, the Vandal enjoys two advantages. Less notably, it has a larger magazine, but it also has a trait seen in no other long-ranged rifle—a 0.75x ADS movement speed multiplier, allowing the user to stay mobile even while aiming.

History

 * October 24, 2016 Update
 * Standing ADS CoF from 0.1 to 0
 * November 18, 2016 Hotfix
 * Aiming CoF while crouching from 0.1 to 0
 * Recoil recovery delay from 0ms to -118

Bugs

 * There is no bottom to the magazine well. If viewed from the bottom, exposed rounds are just shown floating inside the weapon.
 * When reloaded, the expended clip is not shown ejecting before the new clip is loaded. This makes it appear as if the previous clip just disappears.
 * The barrel of the NS-30 is not inline with the bolt/firing chamber, but the gas tube is.
 * When reloading, the bolt is never locked to the rear. This would block the new magazine from being inserted and the previous magazine from being ejected.
 * Due to how it is reloaded (top down, inserted clip), there should be no difference in how long it takes to reload. Whether or not the previous magazine was full or empty, it is ejected out the top, past the bolt. This prevents a round from staying in the chamber.
 * There used to be a bug where the model meshes distorted during reloading.

Trivia

 * The NS-30 used to be reloaded using stripper clips, and is now fed using en-bloc clips. The Vandal shares this feature only with another Nanite Systems scout rifle, the NSX Tomoe. Almost every other small arm in PlanetSide 2 uses either a tube magazine loaded with loose ammunition (for pump-action shotguns), a battery (for Vanu Sovereignty-developed weapons), or a detachable magazine (for virtually everything else).
 * The NS-30 is the only NS rifle to be at least partially colored white. All others, except special editions, are colored only tan/black.