History Main / NoScope

* UsefulNotes/SimoHayha, one of the most renowned snipers in the world, preferred to snipe without the help of a scope, believing that the light reflecting off the scope would give his position away to the opposition, a technique he often used to locate and kill enemy snipers. He also didn't trust the lenses to not fog up in the Finnish winter, which was very much an issue with the scopes available at the time.

* ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'' likewise allows the player to aim their sniper rifles, in third-person rather than actually having to look through the scope. Unfortunately, your accuracy is far lower in third-person aiming unless you use a bipod and/or LaserSight. ''[[VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands Wildlands]]'' significantly improves the accuracy, making sniper rifles useful at all ranges.

** [[CombatMedic Ana]] uses a rifle whose shots can either damage enemies or heal allies, and comes with a scope that may or may not be useful in any given scenario. On the plus side, scoping in allows Ana's projectiles to fire as instantaneous HitScan rather than as delayed (though quite fast-moving) projectiles while hip-firing. The downsides are that it massively reduces Ana's walking speed and field-of-view, and scoping in doesn't alter any shot values (unlike Widowmaker, she doesn't deal more damage by [[BoomHeadshot aiming for the head]]), so it's common for well-practiced Ana players to no-scope way more often than not.

See also SniperPistol, contrast ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon.

* ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'' likewise allows the player to aim their sniper rifles, in third-person rather than actually having to look through the scope. Unfortunately, your accuracy is far lower in third-person aiming unless you use a bipod and/or LaserSight. ''[[GhostReconWildlands Wildlands]]'' significantly improves the accuracy, making sniper rifles useful at all ranges.

* ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'' likewise allows the player to aim their sniper rifles, in third-person rather than actually having to look through the scope. Unfortunately, your accuracy is far lower in third-person aiming unless you use a bipod.

* ''Borderlands'':
** In [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} the first game]], the accuracy of sniper rifles is unaffected by looking through the scope – it's just easier to line up your shot at a distance. One case is an exception: the Jakobs Bessie, one of the rarest guns in the game, has 100% accuracy when scoped, and whatever the listed accuracy stat is when unscoped. Sniper rifles that aren't Gambles always have at least 90% accuracy, but there's still a difference. Similar to the ''Crysis'' example, two snipers – Whitting's Elephant Gun and the Gearbox Rider – come with iron sights instead of a scope.
** {{VideoGame/Borderlands2}} [[ZigZaggedTrope both dissuades and encourages the trope]]. All snipers (save for the legendary Patriot) have Bessie-like perfect accuracy when scoped, but they're still very useful when hip-fired, and there is even a badass challenge (No Scope, No Problem) for killing enemies with a hip-fired sniper rifle. Salvador can treat snipers like high-power but slow battle rifles without being held back by the sniper rounds' small ammo pool. [=Zer0=] has a talent which increases sniper rifle accuracy when firing from the hip; this makes the targeting reticle smaller, so it's easier to see where your shot is going to land without having to look through the scope. Much like the first game, there are two non-scoped sniper rifles: the Buffalo, a very powerful but otherwise regular bolt-action rifle with iron sights, and the Longbow, an [[AbnormalAmmo arrow-shooter]]. The third DLC added Sir Hammerlock's Elephant Gun, a reference to the gun in the first game and to UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, which is even more powerful than the Buffalo but also much harder to aim with because it has ''no sights whatsoever''.

-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJV202TpGrY The "No Scope" Song]]