Why start this thread? You're going to start another flame war. Quickscoping is not skillful, it's using a sniper rifle wrong. And it makes COD look like a bad game.

Are these threads annoying?

a)yes

b)yes

While I think b-ops made sniping horrible after a few patches it was good and stopped quickscoping to a degree but made sniping more than good. with a lot of tweaking

Also I think that if they did tweak the sniping to make it so no quickscoping could be allowed but acidently muck sniping up in the process you would be on here complaing so either you live with QS with good sniping avaible or have it tweaked by various patches and live with the fact it could be a long time before they find the balance between the too to eliminate both.

I think it's both. It's annoying to get quickscoped, but snipers have to deal with stuff Automatic gun users don't have to deal with. Snipers can't prefire around corners, their hipfire is weak and if it hits it's pure luck, if they miss the first shot (especially with the bolt actions) they're usually dead, they can't see their mini map while ADSing, they have to deal with hitmarkers etc. If someone goes 30-2 in a free for all sniping only, you can't say he doesnt have skill. If someone quickscopes you twice in a match while you're 1 away from a killstreak, and the guy has a score of 10-15, it's annoying and the guy sucks. I compare it to the camping discussion, someone sitting in a random corner not even near an objective is a filthy camper, a k/d whore, while someone who positions himself properly near an objective is an objective player. (No I don't camp, and no I'm not a quickscoper, I only have like 500 kills with all snipers combined, I have more kills with the aa-12 =P)

Can I add that while the other person who said QS gives snipers an advantage when playing small maps I think you are correct, but why snipe on a small map? there are sniping maps and non sniping maps?

Also It is unfair to players who play the game for a laugh and are not serious you usually find QS to be people who have spent 50+ hours on the game and are 10th prestige or whatever. Blackops had it correct in the end

First off I'd like to say that thisguygotcha is an absolute idiot (idiot's literal meaning is "willingly ignorant" so I am not using it as an insult here) who does not see the truth behind this.

Quickscoping...well, I like quickscoping, it is a fun little thing you might do occasionally with your friends that adds an interesting spin on long range weapons. But what I HATE, heck, what I down right DESPISE is quick"scopers". You know who I'm talking about, those people that join game lobbies and right off the back start firing off insults at other players, you know what I'm talking about? The problem with quickscopers is that they have taken Call of Duty to the level of a sport, and all things that come with a sport, including: Trash talk, insults, foul language etc. They have taken what is a perfectly good game and spoiled it with their competitiveness. Heck, forget all of the small problems of Call of Duty; the occasionally overpowered weapons, the lag issues, EVERYTHING! Forget it all! Quickscopers are what truly add poison to this wonderful game.