1] Explosives are not more powerful than Quickscoping. You have one, or two explosives – not magazines worth in rapid succession.

2] Anyone who Quickscopes will say automatics are easier; that’s human nature when defending a point. More importantly is the irrelevance of this point. It doesn’t detract from how frustrating and annoying it is for every other player when a quickscoper who has crosshairs taped to his TV screen can Left-Trigger, Right-Trigger before the scope is even fully visible on the screen. That’s not how Snipers operate, and is not a fair way to play.

3] All quickscoping kills are cheap. You’re firing your bullet, getting your one-shot-kill while the screen is still BLACK from pulling up your sights. You’re leveraging Aim Assist and the fact that the bullet will travel perfectly straight upon sighting in with a Sniper Rifle to get a laser-accurate, One-Shot-Kill. It’s an exploit.

4] It requires timing, that’s for sure – but it does not require aim. When considering the impact Aim Assist, and taping crosshairs on a TV monitor have on Quickscoping.

When I called Quickscoping “cheap” I wasn’t saying that because I can’t do it. I know I can’t do it, presently. If I practiced enough, however, I could be just as lethal as anybody with it. But that’s specifically what we do not want this game to become. A Quickscoper cannot hide behind a “well everyone can do it if they try hard enough” argument. Then the entire game would consist of people running around hopping with sniper rifles in their hand.

I know not all Quickscopers do it to be cheap. Some do it because they find it fun, or want the cool montage. But there are plenty of other cool things to make montages of, that do not negatively influence the ecosystem in such a resounding way. Think of it like this: for every one Quickscoper, there’s an entire team of angry players who find it annoying. “Cheap” is just another synonym often used to describe this frustration. It’s unreasonable to ask them to “suck it up” just so this tiny community of quickscopers (by comparison to the global community of players) can have their fun.

It doesn’t matter if a team of non-Quickscopers will beat a team of Quickscopers every time. I bet my team could beat a team of Quickscopers, no problem. But it wouldn’t change the fact that we’d be gritting our teeth in frustration the entire match, which is something as developers we do not want to see.

Regards,
-JD