Sniper builds in Starfield are pretty effective at picking off enemy targets, hitting them with headshots for some satisfying combat kills. However, the early game doesn’t do a good job of granting you a sniper rifle. If you’re in the market, then here’s how to get a Sniper Rifle early in Starfield.
How to get a Sniper Rifle early in Starfield¶
(1 of 2) Fly to Cydonia on Mars, enter the city, follow the pathway down, and turn right to this building when you reach the stairs.
Fly to Cydonia on Mars, enter the city, follow the pathway down, and turn right to this building when you reach the stairs. (left), You can buy this Soviet-era hunting rifle, one of Starfield’s earliest long-range sniper rifles. (right)
From our playtesting, there’s a few areas where you can get a sniper rifle in Starfield early. Players can easily find Snipers along the 
Akila City areas, especially during the main storyline. There’s also a pretty poor quality sniper rifle players can get their hands on in Mars too, which is likely the cheapest and earliest method of grabbing one.
When you finish the tutorial and visit Constellation, players can begin to explore the Milky Way. You’ll note that Sol is near Alpha Centauri and can easily travel there in your ship. Go to Sol, visit Mars, and enter the 
Cydonia city. From there, enter the city from the spaceport, follow the pathway down, and then find the Martian 
Trade Authority, which is a larger store on the right-hand side as you enter the marketplace near the residential doors and the elevator. Go into the store, speak to the dude behind the counter, and look for the weapon called 
Old Earth Hunting Rifle. It is a 100-range weapon, that deals 30 damage per round. It’s essentially a Soviet-era weapon. It costs around 5264 credits to buy it, which could be lower if you have the Bartering skill or not. You should have enough money at that point to buy it from the tutorial. If not, do some side mission beforehand.
(1 of 2) For players looking for a decent sniper rifle, visit the Freestar Collective for a good unique scoped rifle.
For players looking for a decent sniper rifle, visit the Freestar Collective for a good unique scoped rifle. (left), As you progress through the campaign, you get to visit Akila City in a few hours of playtime, which comes with some enemies that drop scoped rifles that act as snipers. (right)
The next set of decent sniper rifles in the early game of Starfield comes from Akila City. If you progress through the main story of Constellation, you will naturally head over to Akila City once you’re done with 
Sarah Morgan’s errands. From here, follow 
Sam Coe’s storyline, and then you will visit a place called the Nest. From here, you can kill a few enemies, and some scoped repeater rifles begin to drop fairly often, granting some more mid-range scoped sniper rifle-type weapons instead.
Moreso, if you visit the gunstore in the Southgate part of Akila City, you can buy a good unique sniper rifle. If you’re entering the city from the Spaceport, turn right when you cross the wooden bridge. From there, follow the road down, until you see the Shooting Range in the distance. There should be a gun store on the right you can enter. Speak to the cashier, and you can buy a 
Head Ranger gun. It is a weapon that has range of 48 and fires 50, caliber rounds. It also comes with a perk to increase attack speed, and a lot of modes to make it better at ranged accuracy, a scope, and some better damage mods and other accuracy and attack rate-themed mods. It’s a fairly decent semi-automatic mid-range rifle, that costs 9219, or slightly less if you have trader discounts. It makes it the best early game and unique scoped sniper rifle in Starfield for instance.
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Best Sniper Skills for Early Game Snipers in Starfield¶
(1 of 2) If you need a high-damage and reliable side arm, grab yourself the Prime, which is one of the strongest, yet unique and guaranteed revolvers in Starfield in Akila City.
If you need a high-damage and reliable side arm, grab yourself the Prime, which is one of the strongest, yet unique and guaranteed revolvers in Starfield in Akila City. (left), The Elegance is a solid pistol for damaging armored opponents or use while stealthed. It’s arguably one of the best unique weapons in the early game of Starfield. (right)
Remember that snipers in this game don’t have their own classification. Players can often find the sniper role gets buffs from combat skills that are often related to the keywords “Scoped” and “Non-Automatic Rifles.” Both of these suggested weapons to buy are indeed Scoped and non-automatic weapons, so, if you want to level up the combat skills like
| Skills | Bonuses |
|---|---|
 Marksmanship |
Crit chance to non-auto rifle weapons |
 Rifle Certification |
Rifle damage increase |
 Sniper Certification |
Better breath, sway and scoped weapon damage improvements. |
 Sharpshooting |
Crit damage and crit improvement chance. |
As you can see, all of these better improve the early-game sniper builds, so don’t worry about grabbing better weapons from random weapon drops, as these snipers with these skills can make them scale from the early game to the late game fairly easily.
Also, some of the scoped pistols you can get from the other gun stores in Akila City will also count with the sniper buffs, thanks to their scoped tendencies too. The examples include 
Elegance, and 
The Prime, which is something else to think about when grabbing your early-game sniper rifle in Starfield.
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