Oh that's awesome news! If it's literally impossible to run around a use a sniper effectively in this game i'll be so happy! Relegate the snipers to well... sniping from a stationary position as they provide overwatch for their team. THAT, i'm all for. The run and gunning with a 1 shot kill weapon that should never be able to be used like that... lame.
Thank you Respawn!
I mean... I guess f you had enough time and where looking directly at someone in the first place you could pull off a quickscope, but it wouldn't be a quickscope by definition as I'm quite sure you need the reticle up completely to get the full accuracy of the shot... I could be wrong, going off of beta experience with that.
I was an awful sniper n the beta with the DMR variant AND kraber.. I generally don't snipe in games period,, so yeah.
I couldn't hit shit with the pilot wallrunning everywhere, almost like a snipers natural enemy.
However people who are actually GOOD with a sniper rifle have some pretty great gameplay vids out there.
I was pretty much just R101.
Ended the beta w a 4.3 vs pilot K/D wich isn't awful, but not god tier either.
Will be much higher in the full game.
I have seem videos of people getting s ton of hip fire/medium range kills with the DMR sniper as its scope is short anyway, so its just as effective at mid range as well as long.
Im sure if you wanted to... You could hip fire it.
I have seen someone scope on and kill a pilot pretty quickly whilst the pilot was climbing up onto the ledge e sniper was on, so thats the amount of time it would take to kill someone close range, and even then the pilot was defenseless due to climbing, i think the sniper would have been dead, had that been a different situation and the climbing pilot was able to use his weapon.