Widow Anti-Material Rifle

The Widow Anti-Material Rifle is a sniper rifle from Mass Effect 2.

In-game Description
Accurate and deadly anti-material rifle. Effective against armor,shields, and biotic barriers. Upgrades the Viper Sniper Rifle.

Weighing in at 39 kilograms, the Widow Anti-Material Rifle is primarily used by sniper teams in assault missions against armored vehicles or krogan. While kinetic barriers offer effective protection on vehicles, the kind generated by conventional military field generators are far too weak against the Widow.

The Widow was never designed to be carried and fired by a human. Although this modified model can be carried, no ordinary human could fire it without shattering an arm.

(edit) In game, this weapon functions similar to the starting rifle, one shot before reloads, but with slightly more rounds. From there, it's drastically better. The damage is insane, the majority of enemies can be killed with a single headshot. Out of the 3 weapons you can get in the reaper IFF mission, this is arguably the best.

Trivia

 * In Mass Effect 2, the Widow upgrades the Viper and the Mantis Sniper Rifles.
 * As a Soldier or Infiltrator class, Commander Shepard can choose the Widow on the Collector Cruiser.
 * Legion has to contact the geth to receive the ability to use this weapon.
 * In the research screen it is called "Geth Sniper Rifle" yet geth snipers do not use this weapon. It is possible it is still experimental or a specialty rifle. Since Legion is a Geth squadmate, it is more likely it refers to him specifically, not the geth in general (See Weapon Description)
 * The Widow has the highest single shot damage of any standard weapon.
 * The Widow's name changes with each upgrade. It starts out as the M-98 Widow but after getting AP sniper rounds becomes S-98 Widow. With both AP sniper rounds and sniper headshot damage it is the X-98 Widow.
 * A letter is added to the name for each level of sniper rifle damage, a for first upgrade, b for the second, and so on. The fully upgraded rifle is called the X-98e Widow.