Blackscoping In Advanced Warfare is Worse Than Quickscoping

GoodGameBro writes, "For quite awhile, the topic of “quickscoping” in the Call of Duty series has been a toxic one. Fans of the series seem to be divided on the issue, but each developer in the franchise has seemingly worked to reduce its effectiveness."

[805Junior805]

It's the same thing.

[GamerSciz]

^This....

I have never heard it called Blackscoping (or how they came up with that name) but compare this to quickscoping vids of modern warfare and you will see the gameplay is practically identical. It's a shame sniping has come to this. Granted you can't just sit and camp in the prone position in this game either because the sniper has a trail on the bullet so as to give away your position.

[solar]

CS says Hi. been 20 or so some years before people has seen this?

[manaxknight1]

it was noscoping

[GamerSciz]

CS had no scoping, @solar is right. With the scout especially easy to no-scope but AWP was much harder due to it's terrible accuracy when you are moving. This isn't no-scoping it's just aiming and shooting before the animation of the scope itself takes up your screen. Logically it makes 0 sense in how it works. But it has been around for awhile in COD games.

[UKmilitia]

the thing i hate about it is when people say its not cheating,if i run through an office block with an uzi,assault rifle,through small office rooms etc,i shouldnt be losing to a sniper thats so close to me.

for the 1st few weeks there was no quickscoping in AW(or in games i played anyway) and now there are clans for it.
its killing the Call of duty franchise and its something not really possible in other shooters so it could easily be taken out.

Infact i havent played COD:AW in a few weeks because last time i did everyone was doing this in every lobby.

[Scrupuless]

Quickscoping has been around for a very very long time.

[CaspuR]

lol black scoping has been around since mw2, hell probably even before mw2, this is nothing new or anything worth mentioning

[StarLord_Who]

Great, another thing for people to complain about.

Sniping has actually gone cheaper now that they have removed quickscoping because it is 10x more accurate from a smaller distance. At least you missed 9 times out of 10 when you quickscoped.

[Kaiyu314]

I never heard of blackscoping? Or am I just a noob? Lol

[GameSpawn]

I haven't heard the names either, but I'm familiar with the techniques used. I think it was one of the Halo's [2 maybe?] that you didn't even need to scope in as you could see a small image in the "tiny" zoomed out scope visible on the screen and use that for quick scoping. Speaking of Halo, the first one's handgun was a handheld sniper rifle (all the power, bigger clip, just no scope, but the thing shot straight as an arrow and you could easily iron-sight from across the map).

Every FPS will have 1-2 weapons that people exploit, Call of Duty just gets exploited the most because of a bigger following of people. More people playing, more people to find "exploits" (usually to the bane of everyone else).

[1nsaint]

It was called no-scoping in halo, but yeah never heard of blackscoping either.

[N4GJD]

Could this franchise (or the industry as a whole) be any catering to garbage internet connections (with lag compensation) and noobies (with easy to use, overpowered weapons)?

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I would say if you want to get rid of this kind of thing... its a simple fix. Sniper rifle cant be fired from the hip, and the scope actually must be fully engaged before it can fire, not just raised up almost all the way.

[FragMnTagM]

The game actually punishes you for scoping in. The sway is ridiculous when scoped in. But if you do the quick or "black scope" it is very accurate.

Tested this last night in a private match.

Other than that though, this COD is actually pretty decent.

I haven't liked a COD since Black Ops, but this one I actually bought.

[UKmilitia]

i love new cod,but this is killing it for me.
fed up with it

[Christopher]

Actually, an easy fix is to zoom in at a random spot around the center of the screen rather than aiming in at center and then swaying. Essentially, activate sway as you scope in rather than once fully scoped in.

[SuperBlur]

This or the way tf2 does it would be fine. The more time you spend zooming in the more dmg you'll do

[BattleTorn]

I'd would like to think that they could 'nerf' this type of scoping if they wanted, without going that drastic. (removing hip fire)

but they know too large of their fanbase actually supports and like this kind of stuff.

[Dee_91]

there are lots of simple fixes, considering they haven't fixed it since mw2 i highly doubt they care to fix it.

[Relientk77]

Quickscoping is for noobs

[Alicornium]

Because shotgunning = real skill

[ninjahunter]

Considering that they have consecutively nerfed shotguns in every call of duty, its debatable.

[SINISTERGENESIS]

How about this... Most COD players are garbage, as they look for any little exploit they can... And what's worse is you get jet packs in AW and yet pussies still camp... And to be fair this is happening in almost any online game but COD is the ground floor when it comes to this behavior

[ion666]

gimme that doom shotgun and I'm good to go.

[Utalkin2me]

At least shotguns don't kill people all the way across the map. Where as the sniper rifle is deadly from any range. Couldn't tell you how many times i have been killed by a no scope from running around a corner.

[famoussasjohn]

Have you tried the shotguns? Only one is decent, but you'll be torn apart quickly if you are in the open.

[quenomamen]

So glad I stopped buying these turds at Wack Ops 1.

[Sir_Simba]

Got the game for £11 played for like 3hrs, already level 30 (I'm like wtf I didnt even do anything)
I stopped playing bcuz of this crap.

[Utalkin2me]

Took you 11 hours to get to 30, wow. I was prestige 1 by that time. But what does leveling have to do with anything?

[Omegasyde]

learn to read.....

epic fail

[UnwanteDreamz]

The only way you could be more nerdy is to add your kd ratio to that comment.

[Utalkin2me]

Yes i misread, but still what does leveling have to do with not playing?

And "More" nerdy. If you're going to comeback at someone at least do it properly.

[jacksons98]

Still a great game, really liking Advanced Warfare

[Crazay]

For the love of F-sake. Fix this crap. I'm so sick and tired of losers running around like a bunch of morons cheating and getting accolades for it.

[Nicominoru]

When will people realize this will never go away, it's a shitty niche in CoD that could easily be taken away they treat it like some impossible feat that just can't be tackled, the truth is they just keep it in to cater to the players who like that crap.

Anyway my solution to dealing with this problem was pretty simple. I just stopped playing. AW was cool, but meh I've just grown too sick of this franchise and it's bs though I will admit I played it for far longer than I did Ghost.

I knew it would turn out this way though which is why I made the smart decision and rented the game from Gamefly instead of buying it and selling it later.

[SonyAddict]

I played it for 3 days and haven't looked back!.

[illtornworld]

This games seriously a mix bag. like i like it but hate it. i rarely have fun. lmmfao i barely can snipe cuz tido from Cuba is host js. but im sure they'll eventually fix it. deff needs dedicated servers. Shotguns is debatable. hm maybe a sniper nurf? deffneed to fully aim before firing.

[TheLEGENDofTydo]

Click Bait article don't read

[mmcglasson]

I haven't played CoD for the last three releases. I heard CoD AW is pretty awesome though. I like more tactical shooters/realistic shooters. I hope they bring back Socom.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

It's pretty damn good. Haven't played it for past month though as overwhelmed with games.

Im personally really looking forward to the next Rainbow Six.

[mmcglasson]

Speaking of RainBow six... I'm looking forward to The Division. I hope it's as good as it sounds/looks.

[ZombieStalker]

Yet another exploit that makes the game not enjoyable when you are the receiving end of these exploits.

[iliimaster]

whats disgusting is that with all this jumping and wild movement it seems worse than any other every match theres over half of the people with snipers how fun must it be to do that same thing over and over and over is beyond me every time im looking at the guy reloading with the gun in the air not even pointing at me kills me

[Donnywho]

I haven't bought a COD game since Black Ops2 and I already knew about this, just like anyone else who put in way too many hours on any COD game. Is this an inside joke or something?

[Grimhammer00]

I've enjoyed cod games....mostly because its easy to gather friends and roam.

But...weapon weights would totally fix this garbage. You wanna quickscope? Fine....but the sniper rifle + ammo + gear = severe movement penalty. Not unmanageable....but enough to be at a distinct disadvantage unless still. (Camping....you know...what snipers are meant for)

Conversely, shotguns should be cqc dream gun.....cod totally messes this up.

[Father__Merrin]

1 shot killers are the most annoying thing about COD

[EverydayGuy]

Add zombies so people would move around more

[DiLeCtioN]

COD has killed the FPS genre, and i don't meant that in a good way

[jaykstah]

Funny, cause if devs are allegedly trying to get rid of quick scoping or reduce its effectiveness, why would they release the One Shot game mode that is centered around sniper gameplay consisting mostly of quick scoping and fast past sniper combat?