Here's my opinion on this whole quickscoping thing. I will first off say that i do enjoy quickscoping, but i do also frequently play with assault rifles
You call it 'cheap' due to the fact that you can run around and get 1 hit kills, you mention that this is because of an exploit and the aim assist. What i dont understand is that why all of a sudden is this being made a problem? considering Quickscoping has been around since Call Of Duty 2, possibly even before. If it was so serious why wasn't it patched or removed before it became in itself a gameplay style? You the developers caused this. I also don't see how its any cheaper than camping in corners, running around with your noobtube switched on, or using second chance. Another thing that has been dismissed is guns such as M16's, i fully understand that this and similar guns have a '3 burst' shot, but the fact is like quickscoping it kills almost every time in a single press of the right trigger. Which in terms makes it the same as quickscoping without the need or use of a scope or sniper rifle, meaning its actually far more overpowered, its faster to aim, just as strong and accurate but this isn't an issue because "it fires 3 bullets" can be used as an excuse? My main point is that that despite what you say there are far more cheap methods of playing and gaining kills than Quickscoping, but are being ignored.
It was said you wanted us to re-adjust like a REAL sniper. My issue here is that you mention REAL, almost like your forgetting this is a game. Not only that but you seem to be ignoring everything else(again) that isn't realistic. I mean fair enough if you were going to make the game realistic from the start, but i dont see this as a fair option considering theres so many other things that aren't REAL. For example you can respawn, you can also respawn wherever you wish due to tactical insertions, you also gain chopper gunners from wooden crates that get dropped BY helicopters, you acan also be shot enough to kill you to simply be knocked down with a pistol to which you can then be 'revived' by a team mate. On top of that, if you want to make things REAL, every single weapon in the game should be a 1 hit kill to the head or heart, which they aren't. Snipers in this instance are 1 hit kills for a reason.
Yes we use the noobtubes agrument and yes they've been patched, in terms of you can no longer fire them at the start of games, that there is no longer one man army and that scavenger wont replinish them. I'm completely satisfied with this, or i was until you called Quickscoping 'cheap'. Patching them was fair enough but in terms of cheapness, they are worse. Quickscoping is cheap because in your terms its a case of Pressing LT followed by a press of the RT, well noobtubes dont even require a press of the LT and can achieve multiple kills far easier.
Quickscoping has been called a learning process by josh olin himself. So why if its a learning process(which also proves that its a skill) is it being punished?.. This exploit has been around for 5 games due to the developers leaving it in. It's clear that now its a gameplay style and far more, why not remove the specific exploit and allow it to still be a skill, a learning process? At the end of the day, if i run round a corner into 4 guys, i can far easily take them all out with an automatic weapon or grenade launcher, so why if i have the reaction times fast enough to take on 4 guys at once with a sniper rifle should i be the one who is called 'un-skilled' 'cheap or 'overpowered'? not my fault if you guys are to slow.
Another thing mentioned is that, there is only Hundreds of thousands of quickscopers against 10's of millions of players that dislike it, which is completely wrong. How can you assume that atleast 10million Call Of Duty players dislike Quickscoping?
Something else mentioned, is that Quickscoping consist of being infront of an enemy and simply pressing the LT + RT but what about long range quickscopes? What about dragscopes?
Another thing that is highly confusing, is that your all(josh & the guys at treyarch) so against Quickscoping yet you supply sniper rifles with an ACOG scope, made for sniping medium range shots? The scope is raised much faster on these, and it allows you to take enemies out at a much shorter range, which is a main reason for a sniper being called cheap & un-balanced when used for Quickscoping. The only difference here is that it's fine and not being considered as cheap because its an attachment? So running around with ACOG scopes is fine but not with a regular scope, thats actually harder to quickscope with?..
Another thing i noticed is that there is alot of comparisons with blackops in terms of Mw2, which i will whole heartedly agree was far to easy to Quickscope in. It caused a huge spam of little kids thinking they are sniping beasts, and yes even made them lose games for you, but i dont think blackops should be based completely off of MW2 alone, i mean take a look at cod4 quickscoping videos or even go on and have a mess around when you have some free time, you'll notice that without sleight of hand pro the skill level needed increases in a pretty large amount.
Yeah, thats pretty much all i have to say, im not extremely good at wording things but i belive that this post offers and shows valid reasons as to why it's not as cheap as its being made out to be. It's not actually that overpowered, be it an exploit or not it still takes the same buttons to aim as an assault rifle the only difference is you're more likely to get the kill if your not using a sniper. Most of us that enjoy quickscoping are annoyed at the reasonings behind the 'removal' of Quickscoping, they are clearly one sided and abit hipocritical. We understand that to a certain extent it can sometimes be abit over-powering but at the end of the day it did take skill to learn and if i go into a game with a sniper i'll come out with a lower kill count than i would with an assault rifle 95% of the time. I mean what about those sub machine guns, or even pistols that can snipe you across maps, when clearly in 'realistic' terms the bullet would have dropped. I just think if you are really going to fully remove Quickscoping you shouldn't be so ignorant towards other aspects that are far worse in the game.
My final words for this are that you should watch this clip from a guy named jazz - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtUzm6GboU4 and tell me and the rest of us guys that it' still cheap and purely aim assist with no skill needed.
I think that the fairest method of solving this whole issue would be, if you guys made the sniper zoom speed the same as either COD4 or WaW and fully removed the aim-assist for sniper rifles, make it a challenge, just please dont fully remove it to the extent every single shot must be a fully zoomed in(where you've held your breathe for like 5seconds)shot. We understand, some people find it annoying, but we find your playstyles annoying, everyone has preference, but i dont think its fair to do this to an extremely loyal part of the COD fanbase just because we're a minority. There may be more people who dont snipe or Quickscope, but that doesnt mean its ALL of them find it annoying.
I guess that's all, not likely that anyone will actually read this but yeah.
-xAlmostPro
