Treyarch Kneels Before Quickscopers, Quickscoping is Back-Sort Of

If you haven’t noticed, Treyarch has been putting up a lot of behind the scene fixes, whether to nerf guns, fix hit detection or what not, the most recent being none other than addressing quickscoping… And only few have noticed the changes.

[AKissFromDaddy]

I can't wait to see videos of quick scoping or at least sniper gameplay.

[-MD-]

Quickscoping is so lame

[GrieverSoul]

Its not lame its a GLITCH!!!!

Quickscoping is a glitch within the auto aim feature in the game. When you aim down the scope the game will auto lock-on the enemy. Its a half of a second but if you shot in that particular half the scope is dead on target and you kill the enemy.

Its a glitch Infinity Ward reffused to fix! Treyarch at least recognized it but might be steping back due to the youtube community uproar about it.

I dont know whats so cool about sniping, I honestly dont! I see these youtube videos of guys being praised as God because of their QuickScope video where they went 30-0 in Domination. #%$& its not even team deathmatch and he goes crazy capping people who try to cap points. A QuickScoper is as skilled as a guy who uses marathon, lighweight and commando in MW2.

[edhe]

Ergo it's lame as glitching = lame.

Glitching for benefit is also bannable via TOS.

[RedRedSuitSDF]

I agree. I can't believe they're breaking to these idiotic cheap quick snipers. What's next... bring back over powered shotguns that hit you from across the map?

Don't break for cry baby snipers. That's why Black Ops is the best COD since part 4. These maps are fast and action packed... not as many sniper campers. Oh well.. they can't hide for long.

[dabri5]

@GrieverSoul

It's not a glitch. It was in the tutorial for MW2. They recommend you use it.

I'm not saying it's balanced or fair but they didn't fix it because it is intended to be thee.
Prob there way to compensate for the fact that almost all the maps are not friendly to snipers. You almost always have to use them at medium range.

[gamesmaster]

The guy who wrote this article is so misinformed, quickscoping is not back in the slightest. this is not MW2.

The issue in BO was with the 2 < second lag/wobble on the sniper rifle which prevented your bullet hitting where the crosshairs are when you are FULLY hard scoped.

quickscoping is fireing the shot before hardscoped and relying heavily on the aim assist to do that last little bit. NOT harsdcoping.

in short i guess treyarch have removed that wobble. This doesn't bring quick scoping back. to pull a shot off you have to be fully hardscoped still. Anyone who says this is quickscping is just a complete cry baby and doesn't want to accept sniping in the game at all.

im not a fan of quickscoping in the slightest, but i recognise the differance and why they have appeared to have balanced it now.

[vickers500]

What you say is true.

Sniping was completely nerfed for Black Ops to the point where it's completely useless and pretty much has no advantage at all. I hate quickscoping too, but what they are doing is not adding quickscoping.

For those of you who haven't played the game (and for those of you who say you have but in reality haven't, or at least haven't played it for a long enough period of time) you will know that when you zoom in on the L96 sniper rifle, there is an instant wobbling effect on your scope, almost like somebody just punched you in the face while holding the rifle and you had to quickly readjust. They are NOT adding quickscoping, they are just removing that wobble, which is completely fine and will not make the sniper unbalanced, seeing as how Black Ops has less aim assist than MW2 and even the ability to turn it off.

Besides, quickscoping is easily possible in CoD4, yet it never ruined that game and I never saw anyone complaining about it in that game, so I don't see why it's such a big deal in Black Ops, as removing the wobble feature isn't going to make sniping nowhere near as easy as it is in MW2, it will probably still be less easy to snipe in Black Ops than it was in CoD4. It's just that Treyarch is finally giving people a reason to want to use sniper rifles again.

[frostypants]

Chalk me up as a sniper hater. But you're absolutely correct. This seems to be a fair fix.

[zeddy]

quickscoping was easy but you didnt win games, the only thing you could do is put the best scopes together in a montage or something. quickscoping was fun but black ops scoping is bullshit, although i agree you must look through the whole scope before you can get a good hit.

[NarooN]

Quickscoping post-CoD4/WaW = lame. Why? Because of perks that make it too easy (Sleight of Hand Pro) and the super-omega-aim-assist that holds your hand and guides your bullets for you.

Anyone who thinks they're good or "pr0" because they can quickscope in MW2 needs to blow their own brains out. You're fake.

[The Meerkat]

QS was a glitch that became a crutch for certain people.

The issue with snipers in BO is the map designs and the very limited lines of sight.

[retrofly]

100% agree, there are maybe 1 or 2 maps in BO where using a sniper is possible, but only in a couple of locations.

Even the small maps in MW2 had areas where you had long lines of sights, normally from fooftops etc. It seems on BO they stuck a builing in the way of anything more than a few meters long.

Even on jungle in BO all the lines of sight are obscured by trees and hills, plus as theres only 1 high point everyone knows where you are instantly.

I'm nto a fan of quickscoping, but I do like hardscoping every now and again, but sniping is so nerfed in BO its pointless. Maybe tryarch looked at the weapon stats and saw that snipers only accounted for 0.0000001% of kills.

Bring back Hurtgen ;)

[awesomeperson]

I don't mind quickscopers; I hate it when they go on and on about a small quickscope at the end of the game like it when the second coming. Ok cool, you can 1 hit some one easily, I personally get more kicks out of some one shooting some one else across the map with an mp5k by bursting it.

[SnakeShady]

Treyach is the worst developer ever....EVER.

[frostypants]

Know how I know you're new to gaming?

[SnakeShady]

tell me

[Jerkstore81]

Hey, I have a grand fucking idea. How about they fix the myriad of problems plaguing multiplayer. Such as match disconnects, getting booted from parties, and game freezes in the middle of a multiplayer game.

[DraconicPanda]

you must be on PSN

[RedRedSuitSDF]

You get what you pay for. ;)

[cyborg6971]

And live is plagued with the same issues go read the Bo forum. So no you don't get what you pay for which is nothing in the case of live.

[RustInPeace]

"You get what you paid for"? I paid $65 for a game that the developers themselves said would be no different than the other versions. This has NOTHING to do with what system you choose, you self-righteous sheep. Why does everything have to turn into a console flame war on this site? It's either some of you just have blind faith or are just acting like outright douches. As for the topic at hand, as long as the QS is still not prominent as it was in MW2 then everything should be fine. As for people bashing PS3s or actual PS3 owners claiming all the bug rants are bogus, that may be YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. If some people are not only having problems playing the game, but the disk overworking the laser lens and killing many PS3s, I'd say they have a right to rant/ get angry without faceless nobodies telling them "you're wrong" or just bash their system of choice.

[frostypants]

The author clearly doesn't know what quickscoping is, or at least the part of it that caused the most frustration.

What sucked in MW2 was that snipers could "lock-on" and fire BEFORE the sites even came up, which gave them insta-kills even in CQC situations. As long as that hasn't been re-enabled, it won't be quite as bad as MW2.

It's good to see that Treyarch is still so hands on with the game, though.

[DiLeCtioN]

TBH treyarch are bad at map designing.

They should make a Resident Evil game or something

[frostypants]

I love the maps in Black Ops**. They give you lots of ways of getting from point A to point B. Players can't easily anticipate where everyone will go. MW and MW2 maps felt too canned, forcing everyone to go through 2 or 3 choke-points, resulting in campfests. BO forces skill and takes some cunning.

I can hardly play MW2 anymore. It just feels like amateur hour now. Black Ops feels more true to the CoD series (which is weird given who developed it).

**Except for Nuketown. That map is a horrible mistake.

[dead_eye]

It's not the map that's horrible it's the spawn system. I suppose it is a bit on the small size.

[samoon]

The maps are pretty good imo.

[Simco876]

Keep the wobble, but increase the power of the sniper rifles.

I was enjoying not seeing those quickscoping videos on Youtube. I guess they will be coming back sooner than later.

[sp1deynut]

...sounds kinda dirty/perverted. :o

[DarkFantasy]

i hate snipers, specialy quick scopers,no scopers are bad ass but really i never felt that you needed a sniper rifle on the mp,i really hate those maps where the whole team wants to be a sniper its horrible, i liked snipeing on bfbc2 i got good at geting head shots.assult rifles FTW!!! people would be pisssed if there was no snipers but i wouldn't rofl

[RBLAZE1988]

Great now this game is gonna be even more frustrating. IF they want to add quick scoping then they should take out second chance and knifing in general. and fix the hit detection and lag.

[marioPSUC]

I dont have too much of a problem with quickscoping, I dont like it but its not too bad. The one thing I do hate though is getting called a noob for "hardscoping", using a sniper rifle the way it was meant to be used.

And in SND when you get retards on your team who try to do a 360 spin and snipe the last guy for the final kill cam, and then we lose because of him. Just kill the damn guy and stop showing off, it doesnt look cool.

Thats really the only problems I have with quickscopers. There are other things they should worry about fixing though.

[spunnups]

I love the game, but if this becomes prevalent, the bright side is KZ3 is just around the corner. Treyarch is a bunch of PU$$IES.

[Incipio]

Sniping in Bad Company 2 feels much more rewarding. Sniping the pilot out of an apache at 500 yards after compensating for speed of Apache + bullet drop and bullet velocity...super-rewarding

[dead_eye]

Ok read this article earlier and just had my first game on black ops today and guess what. played against a full team with snipers. And how many kills did they get at a distance (what sniping is supposed to be) well that would be a big fat zero. Kinda ruined the game a bit more with this.

[solar]

im more annoyed with the dolphin diving. GOD i hate the dolphin diving.

[TacoBurrito]

QS is why I stopped playing MW2. I like Blops cause it didnt have that BS. Now treyarch are putting it back. Wow