Scout Rifles are used primarily by Infiltrators for taking objectives, hacking, scouting, or frequently finding themselves in head-to-head combat. Each empire has 2 types of Scout Rifles: * A lower-recoil, slightly faster-firing (than a semi-auto sniper rifle) semi-auto scout rifle with a mag-size of 12 bullets. It has 2 more bullets than its semi-automatic Sniper Rifle counterpart (albeit with less damage at range). * An extremely accurate, moderately fast, fully automatic rifle with a debilitatingly small 24 round mag. The primary trade-offs between the two types are: