Quick scoping refers to the tactic of quickly aiming down the sight or scope of a weapon and firing almost instantly. Generally, sniper rifles are the weapon of choice for quick scopers, but in reality and gun equipped with an ACOG or telescopic sight may be used. Sniper rifles are preferred because of their powerful nature. This tactic is usually employed only by experienced gamers as it is a very difficult (but by no means impossible) skill to master.
How Does it Work?
The basic concept is as follows: the player quickly presses the aim/zoom button so that he is aiming halfway down the scope. As soon as the scope appears white, the accuracy of the gun is improved dramatically (when compared to hip firing). This effect is particularly strong with sniper and bolt-action rifles - the hip fire accuracy becomes the cross hair accuracy (when zoomed in), which allows the player to achieve highly accurate shooting with minimal time spent aiming/zooming.
Good to know, thanks Calvin. Did you see that clip before it was removed? It was very alarming. Perhaps he just got lucky/made a compilation video and that’s why I thought quickscoping looked even more lethal.
Hark, no matter how much they nerf autoaim and slow the zoom speed, good quickscopers (and though they are not the best teammates, there are some ridiculously good ones) will be able to hit the shots. This is a little slower and less auto-aim than COD4 by all accounts, which is fine. If you line someone up perfectly and get a quick scope off with less auto-aim, more power to you. They have toned it down, and frankly, if it’s that upsetting to everyone you need to think about the efforts taken to tone it down AND the 58bajillion other things Treyarch is making less frustrating for us in this game!
The vids indicate that you literally get points for doing EVERYTHING. It is out of control how much they are rewarding you and seemingly encouraging you to prestige by doling out experience. I love love love the reward popups and the music, so bring it on!
one of the thing I really like in the MP is making your own video, we had one guy made a video where he was controlling an RC, and you see from the RC’s perspective as it tries to chase down another player. At very last moment, that player does a dive to prone through a window, and manage to escape the explosion, it was extremely awesome, and he manage to capture that escape from multiple angles and slow motion too.
there was some really fun ones with wire guided missile as well, had one where someone was controlling the missile, and saw an RC car heading toward him, he tries to kill the RC car with missile and end up blowing himself up…
Also, I doubt the video posted in a CVG article was taken down because of it being linked here. I’m pretty sure it had a lot nmore to do with it being posted on CVG in the first place.
I know I kiss your ass all the time, but I want to say again how much of a fan of Treyarch I am and how much I admire what you guys are doing with Black Ops. It has seriously made me excited for a game that I haven’t felt in a long time.
