In that situation no, that's like where quickscoping shines the most. Depending if you hit or not you can chose if you want to run for cover or take him on with your pistol.
To me quickscoping is about mobility, I'm an aggressive player when it comes to fps. I hate camping, it bores me to death so I run around to try to find kills so I often end up in cqc if I play with a sniper weapon.

1. You get mowed down.

2. He's mows you down after you pop out

3. You make it to cover and he chases you, then mows you down.

4. You open the distance and use your pistol/rifle.

Keep in mind, your probably going to wish these rifles were like the EBR. It seems to take up to 4 shots against and heavy with no buffs.

And what happens if you don't hit? Quickscoping is notoriously inaccurate.

i just don't get how people can do that...

and if you can, i'd say you need a handicap whenever your using a sniper rifle-ish gun, just so the other players can enjoy their game

It's simple.
Brink = fast paced
Sniper's = camp and slow paced, because of high damage, high recoil, few bullets and Semi-auto. Therefore, Snipers are not intended for close combat. WE, and I'm pretty sure I'm speaking for a lot of people, don't want sniper rifles or sniper players who actually abuse their weapon in close combat.

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Ofcourse, you could now say that SMG's can also be used long range if you are skilled enough. It's true, but the game reduces SMG damage over range. On some wolf ET servers, you had to do 6-7 headshots to kill someone with an SMG over long distance, allowing to player to escape. This means a game-mechanic is limiting the weapons from being overpowerd. When you use a sniper rifle in close combat and you keep getting a lot of kills, means that there's no game mechanic limiting your weapon from being overpowered.
To make it short: SMG's get an additional penalty for shooting long range, while snipers don't get additional penalties for doing close combats.

Short answer is - he marked his screen

It still takes an insane amount of skill to aim for someones head when its a half a cm or less on your screen, but once you have played long enough to gain that skill, all he has to do is line up the dot and either press a quickshot macro button or right click and then left click for an instant, accurate shot.

and Zernok, several people have said it in other threads, myself included - Quickscoping will have no purpose in Brink as far as anyone can tell, as all of the rifles in the game will be accurate without a scope. Quickscoping is a solution to get around horrible accuracy with no-scopes. The only time you will ever have to use a scope is to improve your aim, and that's not a quickscope.

Marked his screen? You mean the crosshair that we can color, change size and shape on? :rolleyes:

Get a small piece of paper (crosshair dot alike), put it on your screen's center. Achievment unlocked: Mark screen.

Sniper do indeed have penalties for close combat, if you miss you die. All you have to do against a sniper in close combat is to make an evasive maneuver to make him miss his shot.
SMG takes a punch from distance damage falloff.

quickscoped sniper rifles are one of the best close combat weapons is what I came to understand after playing CSS for years...awp - 1 shot kill, scout - 2 shot kill (1 in head) all you need is 1 sec to aim

In real life you don't need to quickscope, really. A rifle is just as accurate as an assault-rifle in close combat. The fact that they are less accurate from the hip in video-games is just there to make them less powerfull in CQC.