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Reservist's Rifle

  • 1 of 7: This unique sniper rifle has the following advantages over regular sniper rifles: 50% more health, 16% fewer action points required. It also has the following disadvantage: 40% smaller clip.
  • 2 of 7: It's being used by a drifter at the Dickerson Tabernacle Chapel (location 8 on the Zone 1 Map).
  • 3 of 7: The best way to sneak up on the chapel is from the WKML Broadcast Station (location 9).
  • 4 of 7: Sneak-run NW to the chapel, using large clusters of boulders as cover along the way.
  • 5 of 7: You should still be undetected when you reach the chapel's back wall, so turn right and sneak-walk carefully around to where you can shoot the drifter through a wall hole (after quicksaving).
  • 6 of 7: If you quickly move to where you can shoot the drifter once or twice, then strafe back to cover, you should be able to take him down without taking any hits.
  • 7 of 7: Hopefully, either the drifter or his rifle will fall down to the ground when you kill him. If not, you won't be able to get the rifle, and should quickrestore and try again.