The AWP isn't a "noob gun" any more than any other gun, like has been said. In a competitive setting, it's important to have someone good with the AWP holding an area of the map down, but you likely won't see full teams running AWP because it's too expensive and too risky to drop for the other team.



The only time the gun feels noobish, to me, is on pub servers that run $16k starting and don't restrict it. The entire game becomes an AWPfest, which is less like a real game of CS and more like playing DM - it can be fun, but not The Real Thing™. ;)



I have no problem with the AWP on an $800 starting server with serious players, though.

well tbh, calling the awp a noob gun is pretty much saying every other gun in css is a noob gun. awp is one shot kill yes, but that means you actually have to shoot what your aiming at, not spray off like most idiots do with their m4/ak. and for those doubting Chromo's gun knowledge > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_International_Arctic_Warfare < check it all out there. I've put many a hour into css just like chromo learning just when to fire down mid to hit someone through the doors of mid. so not really a noob at all, there isn't really such thing as a noob gun in the game tbh, all part of the game, all take a certain skill set to use effectively, people just like crying about em i guess.

Nah, the damn auto shotty is the noob weapon IMO

I used to play in a computer lab with a lot of people who said it was noobish. All because my buddy sniped them while I was being bait. They were being stupid and walked into a trap and hence tried to make the gun banned from all players in the area. Yes, a n00bish act indeed. And one day in Aztec I split from my team. While they all got slaughtered, i single handedly took out all of the opponants. Then they tried to get my weapon, the BULLPUP and .45 tactical banned. People only complain when they lose. But seem to find every justification when they are useing it. That...is n00bish...

i think if you complain about something that makes you a "noob" yourself cause there is always ways around anything everything is balanced no matter what people may say or think, its not like people are running around with a BFG9000 from Doom and just off loading shots.....and BUMP it up :P

People say that in a way about the Longshot from Gears of War. I suck with it but it still takes skill to weild that MFer

facing the awp:

1) RUUN!

2) Don't walk into open areas

3) Out smart them, run around,

4) Or AWP them back

The AWP in rl, is a 338. Lapua Magnum btw

The only noob gun out there is the M203 grenade launcher in cod4 other then that..i have no problems with the other guns...but i know its part of the game my clan mate Goldeneye tells me. But to get shot across the map over buildings like a inch away from your spawn then yea..we got a problem

what do people actually think its a noob gun besides people who only do a 24/7 office pub . . .

So I officially love you for knowing the REAL size of the bullet. hahaha. That totally surprised me. Few and far people know that it's a .308 round. Because I have a .308. And whenever people say it's the other round. It pisses me off. WOOT FOR YOU! And I can't use the AWP. I'm not a noob what so ever. So good job for anyone who can dominate with it. It's a hard gun to master..

I only play on Gun Game servers nowadays (preferably DM) basically because conventional CSS is just too damned repetitive. No AWP in the GG lineup, although it if there was it would be most useless gun in the game, even the scout can be a pain in the arse on the smaller GG maps where the AWPs power simply can't be utilised.



The AWP may have a lot of punch, but all that oomph means absolutely no versatility. AWPers are lovely targets for knifers, and it never gets old seeing a AWPer frantically try to get a hit on a zig-zagging knifer.



Even if the AWP had the firerate of a BFG it wouldn't make any difference in terms of fairness. It's accessible to everyone on the server, it doesn't matter how you died...the fact is you're dead, noob.



One of the other things I love about DM is the fact that the message box is fairly clean, instead of everyone whinging about how they died unfairly and that everyone on the interweb is a complete noob...they just die, a lot.



It's not just CSS, there will always be people who fail, at gaming, and in life. Unfortunately instead of having the decency to stick their head in a microwave they hop onto the Interweb and try to justify their patheticness.

I've played CS since '95 and well i didnt take me hours and stuff to know every gun in the game, i know the weaknesses and flaws of every gun in the game and well theres people and theres people, it takes more skill with other guns than the AWP thats a simple fact, it just depends on the people and their finger and brain skill, plus most know that AWP camp a lot, so face it AWP lovers will always have the down side, scope fighting = gay, nothing like a short range pistol dual to the death, funny how people say the AWP is hard, anyways you take too much time into one gun that when the time comes to use another you suck, 1 gun pro whores simply are noobs also, take more pride in knowing the game than just saying and blabing how awsome you are with one weapon or that you are top rank in a website or been to tournaments.. etc. i say it in general, most go pro to be attention whores than to really love the game (my quote)

good blog + bump

It's a tough one I think, I myself I don't use awps because I know for a fact that I can't use them as well as others can.



However as for people commenting on that it is a noob weapon are simply people who are unable to dodge and outwit the person behind the weapon.



You have to understand though, even though there are servers dedicated to CAL standard clans, new people are still going to visit those servers.. so there's not much of an excuse there.



Personally, dependant on how it's used I think it could be classified as annoying or as you said "n00b"-like, by this for example I mean that if a counter-terrorist is camping a bomb site and is purposely looking in the same direction for a long period of time until he gets his kill.. i'd classify that as a bad way of using the gun because it's literally instant death.



However, there are the odd occasions where people do show great signs of skill such as lightning-fast reflexes and no-scope shots which have educated guesses behind.



Interesting topic to write up about though, nice one. +1 bump for you good ma'am!

still for n00bs ;D j/k

The Awp imo is not a cheap weapon..

although.. when playing a server that is completely full..and rapid spawn.. and over half of the people are awping.. then yes.. i would call them noobs.. esp. if it's on cs_office.. "insert luls here"

NO, p-nut u did NOT copy and paste this, just the 1 sentece about the gun's bullet size since i really could not re-word that. I am pissed and insulted that you think that i would plagiarize.

Well being not so good at CSS, I can attest to the fact that the AWP is not a n00b weapon. Its not exactly one of those weapons you can just pick up and go with. And CS isn't exactly a n00b friendly game either.

Anyone who says the AWP is cheap obviously can't use it

Just my 2 cents :P

you just copy and pasted this .... and also... the awp has a 10 round clip not a 5+1, in real life yes. 5+1, but in the game there's 10, i'm not disagreeing with you that it takes skill to use and it's not noobish. but the disandvantages are (like you said) you have to be standing still. But there is a trick around that... while you're moving one way as soon as your crosshair gets on someone you tap the opposite direction of the way you are moving as soon as you fire, and the kill will happen.

These people have obviously never witnessed an LMG in COD4, now theres Noob Gun. Also, isn't the point of the Sniper Rifle meant ot be a one hit kill. I mean c'mon, most guns in the world ARE one hit kill :p

I think the AWP is good in moderation. Like I believe it was made to be a gun that only one person per team carried (which most servers do). There are people like you that have put lots of time and work into it and then there are noobs that wanna get 1 shot 1 kills and are just bad and when i go to a server with 1 of you and the rest of that team is the latter all using awps... It gets annoying... This is just my opinion...



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Yea the awp is like every other gun in the game if it had some kind of unfair advantage over the other guns, valve would have nt put it in, it has its advantages and disadvantages like every other gun, so awp haters stop complaining and play the game.

Haha I totally agree. I think they say its the second noob cannon on there is because of its one shot one kill ability. I mean..it is sort of perfect for a noob of course. at least the ones that are like "hey..this is a one shot one kill weapon, that means I have the advantage over everyone else!" but yet I still haven't saw a noob who has great skill with one of those. I must agree though..THAT GUN takes a lot of skill. I remember the amount of hours I had practicing with that gun on AWP_Arena. Now I'm kind of terrible with the gun now. but thats only my fault. I keep playing the damn game on and off. I'm not really a sniper as you already know. I'm more of an M4 whore. *smiles* and if I do snipe..I usually just pick the scout. I still awp occasionally though. not that great with it though



Regardless, you're still the awp rapist that I know. *thanks god for all the times you were on my team*



remember kids...fear Chromo's awp o doom! she'll shoot your eye out!

the AWP is the most powerful weapon in the game, if people dont like it they should be hacked and banned



plus the AWP PwNs N00Bs