Falcon

The Falcon is a semi-automatic marksman rifle with a long range scope.

"A semi-automatic rifle with Mil-Dot, range finding scope. Massive stopping power and long range, but only accurate when still and crouched or prone."

Gameplay details

The Falcon is equipped by pushing the Front Item or Back Item keybind, assigned to the number one key (1) and the number two key (2) respectively. Fire1, left click, will fire the weapon. Fire2, right click, will aim down sights. Reload, R, will put in a fresh magazine if there is any spare ammo.

It has 5 rounds when fully loaded. Maps with wind will cause long range shots to drift off course. If lying still it's possible to accurately fire all 5 shots at the maximum fire rate. Hipfire is as accurate as being scoped in but will vary slightly off to the right in the same way that the Shrike's laser does.

The Falcon must be fired while still and crouched or while prone. Firing while below 79 balance will display a warning message and firing while below 75 balance will cause shots to miss.

Falcon damage
	regular	with Heavy Armor
body	90 Health 85 Balance	54 Health 51 Balance
head	450 Health 100 Balance	270 Health 100 Balance

Falcon stats
maximum range	>600 meters
penetration	yes; >204 meters
bullet tracer	yes
muzzle flash	yes
audible distance	321 meters
muzzle smoke	large
bullet impact smoke	large

Falcon penalties
firing penalty	-2 Energy -15 Balance
low energy penalty	extra screen sway
low energy penalty	increased aim down sight sway
low balance penalty	horrible inaccuracy when fired while below 75 balance

There are a wide variety of Falcon skins and sniper reticles available as Steam inventory items.

Tuning

Changing the firemode via tuning will always start players off in semi-automatic mode. Pushing the firemode button will switch players to a valid firemode. The last firemode a player used will be remembered until the map changes.

The ammo that is loaded in a weapon by default is determined by the map. If a map spawns the player with more ammo loaded than the maximum magazine size as determined by tuning, then reloading will return the excess to the stack of Sniper Ammo in their inventory.

Having the held Manta drop when ragdolled will make it float in the air at the position where it was last held. Only Shields and Briefcases have physics.

Example code:

{
  "IntruderTuning": {
    "SniperRifle": {
      "canUseOnLadder": false,
      "canUseInWater": false,
      "canUseUnderWater": false,
      "canUseOnZipline": false,
      "dropWhenRagged": false,
      "hideOnRagdoll": false,
      "fireRate": 0.3,
      "fireRecoverRate": -1,
      "fireDelayTime": 0,
      "hasSemiAuto": true,
      "hasFullAuto": false,
      "hasBurstShot": false,
      "maxClipAmmo": 5,
      "reloadTime": 3.6,
      "autoReload": false,
      "reloadOnEquip": false,
      "hasScope": false,
      "playGunFireEmptySound": true,
      "canJumpFire": false,
      "unequipOnEmpty": false,
      "unequipDelay": 0,
      "removeFromInventoryOnEmpty": false,
      "equipTime": 1.3,
      "shellSpeed": 5,
      "shellEject": true,
      "advancedRecoil": true,
      "hasStockRecoil": false,
      "stockRecoilRecoverySpeed": 5,
      "recoilBalance": 15,
      "precoilBalance": 74,
      "canFocusShot": true,
      "noPrecoilZoomed": false,
      "medHighEnergy": 60,
      "lowMedEnergy": 30,
      "aimDownSightsFov": 50,
      "extraZoomingFov": 16,
      "shellEjectDelay": 0
    }
  }
}

Trivia

The Falcon is directly inspired by the Heckler & Koch PSG-1 which is a heavily modified G3 meant for police sniping.

In early builds the sniper used a simple 2D texture for the scope and had three levels of zoom.

Gallery

History

U4 Patches

Patch 227 - Sniper pickup disappearing bug should be solved.
Patch 242 - Sniper Rifle texture added.

U5 Builds

Build 41-46 - Sniper Rifle bullets now chunk holes out of walls.
Build 73 - New functional Sniper Rifle scope. Snipers can now be suppressed by shooting near them to throw off their aim.
Build 76 - Sniper reload a little more lenient.
Build 77 & 78 - Reduced fire rate on Sniper Rifle.
Build 80 & 81 - Fixed Sniper start ammo.
Build 83 - Sniper can now shoot through normal doors. Sniper bullet trail reduced. Sniper can be heard from any distance.

Steam Builds

Build 1759 - You can now see LMS zones through the sniper scope.

Old Model

Weapons and Gadgets
Holster	Panther - Shrike
Primary	Manta - Hammerhead - Falcon - Shield Banana Rifle - Snowball Launcher
General	Remote Charge - Banana - Grenade - CS Grenade - Smoke Grenade Goober Grenade - Bloon Gun - Boxing Gloves
	Laser Sensor - Cardboard Decoy - Bush Camouflage - Binoculars - Bloon Cam - Medkit
	Red Dot - Heavy Armor - Keycard
	Hands - Radio - Lock Pick - Mirror Cam
Ammo	Pistol Ammo - SMG Ammo - Shotgun Slugs - Sniper Ammo Banana Rifle Ammo - Snowball Launcher Ammo