Help me understand why quickscoping is "cool"

I have a hard time understanding why little minds think quick scoping is cool? So can I be hopefully intrigued and as to why this non-skilled "tactic" happens so much in games? Can you also help me understand how its not ruining FPS's?

It isn't.

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360 no scope > quickscope

lol

even tho i didnt now qs is considered cool, its kind of habit for me idk, i look something i zoom than i shoot

lol 2mlg4u

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@crimsonbrute: lol!!! Nice wow so im not alone, seriously thought id lose hope for gamers

It's because there isnt much to the core shooting/movement mechanics within Modern Military Shooters due to their reliance on pseudo-authenticity.

So players need to find their own way to showcase/differentiate themselves with made up tricks.

people think it's cool because it makes people who suck at fps think they are good. it's annoying... especially when you out snipe someone and they say something along the lines of "lol, you can't even quick scope"

Well it is quick and efficient.

It's a technique that exploits the mechanics of a game to give you a measurable advantage. How much skill it requires and how much of an advantage it gives varies from game to game. So like any other skill that rewards with an advantage (i.e. burst firing high-recoil weapons), being skilled in it is a good thing, not bad.

As for cool, well, I'd say that has more to do with how difficult the technique is; which as stated before depends on the game. Quickscoping, from what I understand, is pretty easy to master.

In Team Fortress Classic there was a way of sniping called quicksniping which entailed getting headshots with uncharged shots. You see, snipers would have to charge their shots to increase their damage and get one shot kills, but charging would slow your movement to a crawl. So to be a mobile sniper, you'd have to get good at shooting uncharged headshots (no aim assist like in consoles) on moving targets while fighting your rifle's speed penalty each time you pulled the trigger. I thought people who could do that well were pretty cool, so I built a sniper map called "tf_quicksnipe" which encouraged quicksniping. I think it's still run on a few servers (one world on-line, i think).

As long as it requires skill, it'll be cool. And as long as the advantage gained isn't too high, it will not be looked down upon. Not sure how it is in Destiny.

@elheber: the problem is that most "quickscopers" actually really really suck at it. The videos that get uploaded to YouTube are cherry picked or just mashed together from single lucky shots over a course of 150 games.

Watch a real video of 99% of the quickscopers out there and you'll see that it just turns into a battle of who gets lucky enough to hit the other one first.

The few people that are actually good at it. Props. But it's really only "cool" because of that YouTube clan Optik or whatever they are called.

I just don't understand the hate. I haven't played Destiny but I played MW2 and MW3 profusely and I can agree with you that the vast majority of quickscopers (in that game at least) aren't great at it. But it's the fact that they didn't gain a significant advantage over me that made the fights fair. This means that to get to the place where someone is good at it, does require practice and skill, and I have met a few people like that.

The reason I don't understand the hate is because it never seemed overpowered to me. I'd understand the disgust if it was overpowered. I feel the dislike of quickscopers is just a counterculture for all the people that do like it, with little-to-no valid reason for the dislike.

I don't even know HOW to quick scope. I read about it and I tried it just for fun one match and I was like how do they even do this..

I've never understood how to do it personally.

I've always enjoyed hardscoping (Holding your breath when zoomed in to the scope) when it comes to sniping in video games.

@behardy24: I know the how... I just never got good at doing it. I never needed to, though, since I almost never used sniper rifles. Console games have a ton of aim assist to help you put your crosshairs on opponents, though for obvious reasons it's either disabled or heavily nerfed when you use the scope. But despite the heavy aim assist, shooting unscoped is very inaccurate because your shot lands randomly instead of the exact center of the crosshair due to the hipfire penalty.

Quickscoping takes advantage of the heavy aim assist when unscoped to quickly land their aim on enemies, then scope-in to prevent the hipfire penalty, and finally quickly fire before the enemy moves too far from where the aim assist had pegged them.

I haven't played many modern shooters, but I CAN'T STAND the quick-scoping that is done in counter strike go.

I think it just ruins the game.

It is not because a hotfix removed it from Destiny.