The M24 SWS is a type of cut Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle featured in the game files of Dead Island: Riptide. It's unknown exactly how they intended you to acquire this rifle, or why it's a named, real world firearm, but in any case the weapon was cut at some point in development, only present in the game files and requiring modding the game to acquire it.
Overview[]
You expect the weapon, being a sniper rifle, to be very high damage and very slow firing due to being bolt action, however this is only partly true. The rifle only does a pitiful 37 damage, though it does have very high accuracy. It only has one round loaded at any given point and is extremely slow to reload. The low damage is likely due to it being cut from development before it was fully fleshed out, however it doesn't mean that it's useless at killing zombies. Even on a headshot, it will require multiple rounds just to kill a simple Walker, meaning that even fists would be be more useful.
Notes[]
- The weapon will spawn in without the name being displayed anywhere, and no matter what rarity you give it to yourself in, it will not display it. I.e. if you give it to yourself in orange 'legendary' rarity, this will not display.
- The weapon uses a unique ammo type - the Sniper Ammo, which is something not existing in the game, as the final game decided to just use Rifle Ammo for sniper rifles.
- When being held in the character's hands, the weapon floats above them.
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