Skeleton Sniper

The Skeleton Sniper is a very rare hardmode dungeon monster who will shoot at players from a long distance dealing massive amounts of damage. The skeleton sniper walks quite slowly as he approaches the player. When the sniper has a clear line of sight to the player (even if off screen) he will crouch and take an aiming position, and after a brief pause, fire upon the player, dealing a great deal of damage. It's advised to engage the skeleton sniper with a constant barrage attacks, as his aiming is reset with every hit taken. A bug may be that skeleton snipers are supposed to spawn more frequently the more "rusty company standard" flags there is, but it been confirmed to still be rare with a large number of them.

The Sniper Rifle is dropped from this mob as of 1.2.0.2. Formerly, the mob dropped orange torches instead of the rifle due to a small mistake with the two items having very similar ID numbers, but this has been corrected.

The Skeleton Sniper will only appear in dungeons with the "rusty" flag, accompanying rusty armor skeletons.