Do sniper rifles still get a hip fire damage reduction?

IDK. I see it, but I think the hit detection is just that bad. I can shoot people in the face and only 50% of the time they will actually die and if there is health left over it's never the same amount. It might be 25% it might 50 or even 75% no consistency whatsoever. Terrible.

yes every gun does though not just them

its better to point at something tap scope and fire a millisecond later to get the best damage, even if your charging around and trying to stay out of the death bubbles

Well, poop.

Saw that today as well.

Only tested in SP, but my Isharay there does a lot less damage. I'd dare to say even 50 percent DR in singleplayer.

Woah, what?  Do you have a source for every gun getting damage reduction hipfired?

I will test this tonight. I doubt this until I have tried it myself, seems like a huge thing for the entire community to miss.

If it really is every gun, that's completely ridiculous. It should exist as all, since it makes no sense.

Okay, I think I can debunk this, it definitely doesn't apply to pistols.  I just did my first Solo Bronze to check with a Phalanx III (sadly, my strongest semi-auto non-SR weapon), and I could tell no difference in damage between hipfire and aiming.  I left a Sharpshooter alive on the second wave so its shields could regen, and tested multiple times how many shots it took to drop the shields.  7 shots, for both hipfire and aimed, and it looked like the same amount of shield left on the final shot both ways.

Wouldn't be the first time that a tooltip or loading screen tip was just flat wrong in a Mass Effect game.

The only things with scopes that I have are SRs, unless I add a scope to them.  Which, sure, it's possible that there's a bug where adding a scope adds the SR hipfire penalty.  But I'm relatively confident after playing today that there's no hipfire penalty on anything other than SRs.  I never put the scopes on other weapons, I may give that a try out of curiosity the next time I play, that would be a hilariously bad bug if that were the case. 

Always thought that was kinda dumb. A 50 cal to the face will make just as much damage hip shot as it will scoped. Just sayin. Guess its in the script.

Its because of lore