Photon burst rifle

The Scientist's version of the sniper rifle is named the Photon Burst Rifle. It has a more effective zoom than the Battle Pistol and delivers three photons per round.

Games

War for Cybertron

The Photon Burst Rifle was used by Scientist-class Transformers, including Silverbolt, during the Great War. War for Cybertron

• This weapon has the following in-game stats:
  • Damage: 6
  • Range: 7
  • Accuracy: 7
  • Rate of Fire: 7

Fall of Cybertron

Now less pointy!

A later model of the photon burst rifle was still available later in the war during the time leading up to the launch of the Ark. Fall of Cybertron

• This weapon has the following in-game stats:
  • Damage: 5
  • Range: 7
  • Accuracy: 8
  • Rate of Fire: 3
• Additionally it can be upgraded at Teletraan-1 terminals with ion cartridges (increasing ammo per clip), hyper interlink (speeding up reload time), tachyon transmitter (increasing foot speed in aiming mode) and photon accelerators (to enable auto-fire and decrease time between bursts).