Last week Treyarch detailed a handful of the tweaks it's making to the Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer. Today, courtesy of a quick Q&A on Twitter, we get one more: quickscoping is getting eighty-sixed.

Sleight-of-Hand, in conjunction with Auto Aim, is a perfectly legal way for Call of Duty gamers to become Quick Draw McGraw with a sniper rifle and rack up kills with uncanny (read: skill-free) precision. But quickscoping, as it's known, will be no more in Black ops, says Treyarch Community Manager Josh Olin.

When one CoD fan tweeted the Black Ops quickscoping question to Olin, Olin replied with a tweet of his own in less than an hour:

"No. Quickscoping is a cheap way to play. We're specifically going to gimp Quickscoping, sorry. Play straight-up!"

Last week Treyarch also announced that Killstreak kills will not count toward Killstreaks, all Killstreaks will include some form of interactivity, Perks will change the way your character looks (so players can easily ID opponents with the Juggernaut's heavy armor, for example), and a diving-to-prone mechanic will all be added to the Black Ops multiplayer.

Source: GameSpy: Treyarch Removing Quickscoping From Call of Duty: Black Ops - Page 1

The game itself is skill free so why remove another way of getting kills?
If anything they should slow down the speed of the knife, that is by far the cheapest way to get a kill.

I personally hate Quick Scoping, so this is great news, but I agree that the second chance should be taken out, it's bloody annoying. Also the distance that someone can melee you with a knife should be reduced. I've been killed at ridiculous distances with it.