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AWM (Arctic Warfare Magnum) is a bolt-action sniper rifle featured in CrossFire.

Overview

Considered to be the "classic" Sniper Rifle, the AWM behaves quite similar to the AWP counterpart in CS/CSO: Powerful, 1-shot kill (Except leg/wall shoot), double zoom scope, and medium bolt cycling / reload time. This weapon is the only sniper rifle available in WCG, WEM, and CFS tournament, and as such, it's the weapon of choice for expert Sniper players. The AWM comes with 10 rounds magazine (20 in reserve), but in certain servers, it only holds 5 rounds per magazine, making scoring streak quite difficult. Moreover, it deals moderate-low wallbang damage, and thus, it's inferior in term of wallbang damage compared to sniper rifles such as Barrett M82A1 and/or CheyTac M200.

In all CF servers, AWM is available in the Item Shop, often costs a lot of GP to obtain and some versions also require a certain rank to purchase. New players will not be able to buy this gun with their starting stock unless they buff it up with GP+ Item, purchase GP or win GP via spinning crates. However, due to the arrival of the New Basic Weapon pack, this weapon is now become one of the default weapons upon creating an account.

Advantages

  • Very high damage dealing.
  • High accuracy.
  • Purchasable via Game Points.
  • Dual scope phase.
  • Medium bolt-cycling speed.
  • Standard sniper rifle magazine capacity. (some versions only)
  • Default weapon. (some versions only)

Disadvantages

  • Low magazine capacity. (some versions only)
  • Slow reloading time.
  • Heavyweight.
  • Sometimes deals 80 damage.

AWM-A

Similar to the M4A1-X, a special "advanced" variant of the AWM exists, despite not featuring a stock variant. AWM-A features a longer scope model and bipod in the foiled down position, but the stats is still the same with original AWM. While there's no default variant for AWM-A, it does have normal skin which is featured in the recent CFS Tournament (fitted with participant team's logo). Notably, this skin is also used on the 5th and 10th Anniversary, making them accessible to normal players.

Tips and Tricks

Although it has disadvantages, it's the weapon to be feared when putting in the hands of an experienced player. The fact that it's a 1-shot kill to most parts of the body, this weapon makes it a weapon of choice for just about all snipers. Quick-scopes and no-scopes are best used with this weapon for the fact that if that bullet makes contact to the body or head, it is unlikely that you will have to use a follow-up shot, unlike the M700 (previous basic sniper rifle) which it takes 2-3 shots to take down an enemy unless they've been weakened.

"Dodging skills" is the ability to be constantly moving before you take the shot otherwise you will be an open target. Suggestions would include moving side to side right before you take the shot or hold the walking key to slow down your movement and increase your accuracy. You can either walk or crouch right before you fire. Crouching provides the best possible accuracy but makes you an open target. A skilled sniper can often move into position, crouch, and kill another player and jump back into cover very quickly.

Variants

Trivia

  • The model of the AWM used in CrossFire is the British L115A1, the standard model for the AWM. It's still used in limited amounts by the British Military today (due to being replaced by the AXMC).
    • Also, the real AWM has a collapsing buttstock which the AWM from CrossFire doesn't seem to have.
    • The old model of the AWM's bolt closely resembles the SV98's bolt.
  • The AWM is one of the few sniper rifles that ammo capacity varies depending on each server (Like MSG90, PSG-1, FR-F2 and Knight SR-25). Some servers, however, still feature advanced AWM variants with 15 rounds, so the gun has +10 ammo on Item Icon instead of +5 like other servers.
    • In some CF servers, the magazine capacity of the standard AWM is 5 rounds. This is the correct capacity of the AWM in real life, as its magazine can only hold five .338 Lapua Magnum bullets. This weapon also has an incorrect magazine size when chambered in 10 rounds magazine.
  • Among all sniper rifles, AWM has the largest number of variants, followed by Barrett M82A1.
  • During beta days, the AWM (along with other beta weapons) featured a different moving animation, where the gun would bob up and down. It has been removed when CF was officially released.
  • Strangely in CF Indonesia, there was an AWM variant named as "AWM-A" but takes both model and skin from AWM-Camo perfectly. This was confusing many players at first since AWM-A doesn't have its original variant and should be featured with a bipod and longer scope as usual. It was later concluded as an error by players.
    • However, in CF China, AWM-Camo is actually named "AWM-A", just like most other early camouflage weapons released in this version.
  • In CF Vietnam, despite this gun is sold as a GP weapon in Item Shop, an event back in 2015 allowed players playing 120 minutes to get this gun for free. Most likely since new players wouldn't able to buy it at the beginning of the game.
  • There are two HUD of this weapon, one for male characters and one for female characters although they share the same texture, the HUD for female characters has a smaller scope model than the one for male characters.
    • This can only be seen on the old AWM model.
    • However, AWM-Balance and AWM-10th Anniversary are not affected by this.
  • In most CF versions, although this gun is already available as one of the new basic weapons in later update patches, it's still available in Item Shop nonetheless. Most likely since only newly-created accounts can obtain it as a basic weapon, it's also available in Item Shop to allow veteran players to buy it if they haven't got it yet.
    • This also applied to other new basic weapons as well.
  • In CF Philippines and CF Indonesia, when firing the AWM, the reverb is slightly longer than other servers (except for the CFS Tournament variants).
  • In CGI trailer, it has an exact scope texture in real life, in contrast in-game version includes a red-dot center crosshair. However, still can be seen when wielding an AWM on the lens, the reskin variants doesn't have it.

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