The team at Infinity Ward wants to express our sincere thanks for the recent dialogue we’ve had with the competitive community. Each constructive conversation, message board post and reddit thread has had a positive impact on our development process. We’re always lurking and listening!

As we tweeted last week during UMG Philly, we'd like to announce some updates we plan to roll out as soon as possible to support competitive Call of Duty based on your feedback. These will appear as both hot fixes and TUs in the coming weeks alongside planned changes to the areas of Ghosts affecting all players, such as spawns. As a guiding principle, development priority is assigned to those issues which we deem to have the largest immediate impact or those affecting the broadest group of players. We'll keep the Upcoming Improvements to Call of Duty: Ghosts page updated in this respect. Watch out for more info coming soon.

Regarding eSports specifically in the immediate future, we aim to:

• Restrict Ghillie suits in competitive rules.
• Restrict Tracker Sights in competitive rules.
• Restrict Danger Close in competitive rules.
• Disable third-person spectating in competitive Private Matches.
• Add a kill feed to Broadcaster mode.
• Address Broadcaster mode stability (squash crash bugs).

Additionally, we’re committed to delivering the below (in no particular order):

Rules:

• Removal of split-screen in Private match when eSports rules are enabled.
• Add eSports rules to Clan vs. Clan playlist.
• Open Clan v Clan playlist to allow solo player entry & mixed clan teams.
• Modify Dead Silence/Amplify functionality.

S&D:

• Resolve the defuse timer animation discrepancy.
• Modify the defuse time sound effects if the defuse process is cancelled.

Broadcaster Mode:

• Add game action overlays where needed (flag captures, etc.).
• Resolve the leaderboard’s red death indicator delay.
• Roll over player in scoreboard to highlight arrow in mini-map.

New Platform:

Investigating the addition of Xbox One LAN support.

We realize this doesn't cover every request made to date; only those we are confident we can deliver at this time. We'll keep you posted regarding future updates. We are committed to providing the best possible multiplayer experience we can and will continue to work on improvements to make it better. Please keep the communication coming, thanks for your support and we’ll see you online.

A Respawn employee has confirmed that highly-anticipated FPS Titanfall will allow snipers, but quick-scoping and no-scoping will not be effective.

In a post on Respawn's official forums, Respawn employee "Scriptacus" said this:

"SNIPING IS IN THE GAME, BUT DUE TO HOW THE GAME PLAYS IT'S A PRETTY DIFFERENT ANIMAL THAN YOU'LL FIND IN YOUR RUN OF THE MILL MODERN MILITARY SHOOTER. QUICK SCOPING AND NO SCOPING ARE INEFFECTIVE."

This will undoubtedly come as good news to some, and bad news to others -- namely, YouTubers and community members who thrive on the act of getting cool clips of sniping for montages and such.

The upcoming UMG Philadelphia will forever stand as one of Call of Duty's most memorable tournaments as it will mark the end of the line for the game's all time winningest player, Will "BigTymer" Johnson." As one of the earliest members of OpTic Gaming, BigTymer has experienced enormous success in titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, capturing tournament after tournament and helping to build the social media machine that is OpTic Gaming. Over the years, the name BigTymer has become synonymous with success in the Call of Duty scene.

With the end of his illustrious playing career coming to an end, BigTymer took the time to announce that he will become the coach of OpTic Gaming in 2014. Using his vast knowledge of the game and its players, BigTymer will remain a huge asset to OpTic's hope of recapturing the team's former glory.

nBk Squad started the 4th Clan Wars for Ghosts and in its first few hours managed to rank up 168CP, Looks like its 4 wins in a row in the platinum division.

The site was recently activated to the public and needs lots of work still, so while that's being done you can post on the forums. All nBk members need to register ASAP so i can give you permissions to access different parts of the site.

Also you can find us on twitter @nBkSquad