User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Why we might need quickscoping in AW/@comment-1916935-20141111025848/@comment-1187559-20141111035534

I used to quickscope a lot in MW2, not out of skill or showing off, but just because they were at mid to close range, and trying to get my scope on them was far more likely to get a kill than a no-scope (unless I had my Barrett in which case I spammed that fucker). I always though Quickscoping was more of just a defence mechanism, but I hate people that try and go for them, because frankly, it's not what the weapon is made for. Ever since it became popular as some kind of show of skill, which is hardly true since it's just a 1 shot kill weapon that's got pinpoint accuracy and by all rights it means one could qucikscope with the KSG, or any Shotgun with slug rounds. If someone snipes me at range, fair enough, if someone gets me with a shotgun blast, also fair, but ramming a sniper down my thraot just feels idiotic, and short being killed by them, there's plenty of times I've seen people die from trying to do it. Hell, I recall one time I saw someone spinning around with an Intervention fireing shots while I just stood there, aimed down my ACR's sights and dropped him without a single wound, easy kill for me, but when they're on my team, they're a waste of a spot.

So in short, quickscoping as a defence mechanism is fine by me, sometimes it's better to try and aim at someone because pulling out your sidearm just isn't going to work, and a hipfire shot would be too risky. But run round the map and try and think that makes you somehow better, and it's an idiotic tactic.