Arctic Warfare
Police sniper rifle, manufactured by Accuracy International, a
British gunworks company. Uses 7.62x51mm (.308 Winchester) ammunition with 10 round magazine. Also uses notoriously known bolt action mechanism.
In the Counter-Strike (now six years old, but still most played and famous
FPS multiplayer
game, originaly a
mod for the Half-Life
game by Valve software), it uses .338 Lapua Magnum caliber, corresponding with AWM, Arctic Warfare Magnum sniper rifle. However, it also has 10 round clip, which isn't realistic because AWM uses only 5 round mags. So the hybrid
weapon in CS combines better properties of these two weapons, both higher clip capacity and larger caliber (i mean better in
game, because heavier caliber doesn't have to be advantage in real firefight).
In CS, the AWP is often considered an overpowered
weapon, because it has ability that no other
weapon has - it kills with just one shot almost anywhere in the target's body, excepting only legs and arms. If a limb is hit, the
player has 15-19
HP (hit points) left. It is also the only weapon that kills with a headshot hit through an obstacle if the target has a helmet.
Buying/using of AWP is forbidden on many public servers by AMX weapon restrictions plugin.
In clan-wars, the sniper with AWP is very important element. 99% of professional clans have at least one sniper in the squad. A skilled sniper can totally change way the match is moving, as example, very good
CT sniper can cover a bombsite so effectively, that the terrorist team either can't even reach the site or they can do that but with a large descrease of their count.
In my opinion, the AWP isn't overpowered, it's just easier to use for low-skilled players than the other weapons, beacuse such
people are not able to score a headshot, so the AWP offers them to "override" their lack of skills. However, if they encounter an agile
player (every at least mid-skilled one) they usualy can't hit him anyawy.
AWP is also very expensive, in clan-wars 4750$ can be incredibly large amount of money.
PublicPlayer1 (lowskilled): "hahaahhhahh im so fuckin skillzord i just pwned
5 players with awp!!"
PublicPlayer2 (midskilled): "yea u got really nice skills ^^ ... let's
meet on the
long next round, k?"
(Player2 owned Player1 with a hs from AK-47, having 100
HP left)
PublicPlayer1 (lowskilled): "omfg u stupid luckzor noob!! lets do it again u scary bitch,
always moving from side to side!!"
(again the same)
Player1 dropped
Player1 has left the server
CWplayer (TeamSpeak): "alright, i'll buy an awp and go guard the B doubledoors"
