Call of Duty: Black Ops

Steve_bullockuk said:
Don't think it can be helped. Think its simply to do with the volume of people playing the game at present. It will settle down eventually. Hopefully Treyarch will release patches to ease the situation.
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Yeah I remember the same on MW2 at the very start. Just very annoying.

Really enjoying Zombies with mates. We aren't very good at it though. Those dogs scared the crap out of us lol
 
I played online for about 2 hours last night. Is it me, or is this game just MW2 with worse maps and player models?

The graphics are no better than MW2 (in fact in some ways Id say MW2 was better), the whole game has a more 'amateurish' feel to it (the menus for instance dont seem as slick and well laid out as in MW2) and it just doesnt seem to 'feel' like a well put together game.

One thing I have noticed, there seems to be less killstreaks, but I see ****ing stupid RC bomb things every 3 minutes. Seems like a stupid silly little addition to me :/

And when I tried split screen with my girlfriend the other night, we couldnt find a hardcore mode setting? I know you still have to earn it online, but why cant you set hardcore mode straight away in split screen? I only ever played MW2 in hardcore mode, non-hardcore is too annoying to play with an HUD full of crap and having to empty 15 rounds into someone only to have them not die.
 
Conscript said:
I played online for about 2 hours last night. Is it me, or is this game just MW2 with worse maps and player models?
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I'd say the maps are much better.

Conscript said:
The graphics are no better than MW2 (in fact in some ways Id say MW2 was better), the whole game has a more 'amateurish' feel to it (the menus for instance dont seem as slick and well laid out as in MW2) and it just doesnt seem to 'feel' like a well put together game.
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COD has never had great graphics this gen. It's not even HD res. Personally, I prefer the menu layout.

Conscript said:
One thing I have noticed, there seems to be less killstreaks, but I see ****ing stupid RC bomb things every 3 minutes. Seems like a stupid silly little addition to me :/
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It has fairly low splash damage and you're vulnerable while using it. Seems fairly well balanced. Personally, I prefer the Spy Plane.
 
buchtis said:
Anyone completed the game on Veteran on the PS3? I thought I just did but apparently I didn't, honestly this game is ****ed up hardcore. Will I have to re-play the whole campaign on Veteran again or can I just do the selected levels?
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I'm fairly sure you can just go to mission select after the game has ended and do it that way but the question is if you are going to complete it again why not just do it in order? Oh and as everyone else said, yeah, the napalm barrel stabbing was a mother ****er on Vet. The weapons it gives you at the start of the level are just useless so I picked up the M16 ACOG and the M14 ACOG and it was much easier, took about two attempts. I found it odd how the next part of that level where you have to fight uphill is about 1,000 times easier even though the enemy should have the height advantage and whatnot, still it's been a pretty good game so far though not as memorable as some of the missions in CoD4.
 
EVERYONE WATCH THIS


I am yet to kill anyone in this game as quickly as he does, this is just PURE host advantage, Sandy does exactly what we all do there is no OMG moments he wanders round sees someone shoots and they die but wow do they die fast. At one point he picks up the Enfield I think it's called and kills a guy with what seems like 2 rounds, it's as quick as the UMP on MW2.

Anyway,

Last night we played some ground war and had 2 bar connection constantly, I have no idea what is going on but it was like having god mode enabled the enemies were so easy to kill and dropped quickly almost as fast as Sandy kills in the vid.

So far it seems like 2 bar is for the win!! :S


Check out his other summit vid on his channel I knew the AK74u was a good weapon but in his hands it just kills soo damn fast.
 
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Shame he needs to do that on Domination. He got about 2 flag captures. Pretty cheap way of getting kills when people are playing a gametype like that.

about 40 of those kills come from killstreak rewards too.

It's not just host advantage.

Not saying I could do it (!), but I wouldn't do that in domination. Bet he wouldn't have that ration in DM, TDM.
 
anticonscience said:
You going to be on tonight?
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yep basically I will be on from 2pm ish till 2am ish, I want to get the Prestiege done tonight! Level 42ATM so not long to go.

I need 476,700XP to do that lol. I have currently accumulated 785,800 XP as each Prestiege on this one requires 1,202,808 XP per prestiege. So even though I an level 42 I am still only approx 2/3 of the way through.

Now mw2 had 2,434,700 XP per prestiege so black ops is a lot less grinding as the XP bonuses are the same value as MW2.

/End of pointless info lol
 
AFAIK Sandy Ravage is a 360 player.

Not pointless info, adds a little glimmer of hope for me as I wont have to grind so much to prestige in the short amount of play time I get.
 
skippi90 said:
I'd say the maps are much better.
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They feel much less atmospheric to me. Ambient effects seem to be missing, some of them seem too colourful, whereas MW2 maps seem to have had a grittier, more realistic feel to them.

skippi90 said:
COD has never had great graphics this gen. It's not even HD res. Personally, I prefer the menu layout.
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Personal preference I guess. See above, they seem less 'gritty'.

skippi90 said:
It has fairly low splash damage and you're vulnerable while using it. Seems fairly well balanced. Personally, I prefer the Spy Plane.
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Whether well balanced or not, it spoils the game for me when one minute Im engaged in a firefight, then the next Im getting chased aorund Benny Hill style by a poxy remote control car with a flashing light on top. Once in a blue moon I can handle, but in one of the matches I played (15 minutes?) I must have seen about 10-11 of them.

Just to add...the sound effects also dont seem as good. The guns seem to have lost some of the punchiness they used to have. I thik this issue has been raised by someone else in this thread.
 
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WeOwnTheSky said:
Shame he needs to do that on Domination. He got about 2 flag captures. Pretty cheap way of getting kills when people are playing a gametype like that.

about 40 of those kills come from killstreak rewards too.

It's not just host advantage.

Not saying I could do it (!), but I wouldn't do that in domination. Bet he wouldn't have that ration in DM, TDM.
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Lol yep every game he pulls host on he has "that ration" in. As I said in the post look at his channel and the FFA he plays - Host advantage for the win again because this game requires more bullets fired to kill then any other cod I think Sandy is going to have a field day.

Another point listen to simon at the start of the video commenting on Sandys 30/30 NY based Fiber Connection.

I have seen Sandy playing when not host and he certainly doesn't have the huge advantage (depending on the connection) like in the videos we all see, I have also seen him negative and quit matches.
 
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5punk3monk3y said:
yep basically I will be on from 2pm ish till 2am ish,
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Lol duuuuuuude.

I'll be investing some time in this tonight, I managed an hour or 2 last night after picking up it up at lunch time yesterday, loving it so far but it feels a bit dumbed down compared to MW2. We shall see how I feel after more time on it.

Might pick up a set of x11's at lunch today as well.
 
Conscript said:
They feel much less atmospheric to me. Ambient effects seem to be missing, some of them seem too colourful, whereas MW2 maps seem to have had a grittier, more realistic feel to them.



Personal preference I guess. See above, they seem less 'gritty'.



Whether well balanced or not, it spoils the game for me when one minute Im engaged in a firefight, then the next Im getting chased aorund Benny Hill style by a poxy remote control car with a flashing light on top. Once in a blue moon I can handle, but in one of the matches I played (15 minutes?) I must have seen about 10-11 of them.

Just to add...the sound effects also dont seem as good. The guns seem to have lost some of the punchiness they used to have. I thik this issue has been raised by someone else in this thread.
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I had the same problems with WaW at the start. Hated the maps. But now, I think they were some of the best maps of COD. Don't think I liked any of the MW2 maps.

As for the RC cars, why not shoot them then? Or even better, semtex.
 
Sp00n said:
Lol duuuuuuude.

I'll be investing some time in this tonight, I managed an hour or 2 last night after picking up it up at lunch time yesterday, loving it so far but it feels a bit dumbed down compared to MW2. We shall see how I feel after more time on it.

Might pick up a set of x11's at lunch today as well.
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lol my Austrian secret weapon will be on all day too, If you want to join in my GT is in my sig. We play objective mainly and play to win, and get all wound up if we don't :)

Oh and don't waste money on a headset just for this game ATM, There is no advantage to them as of yet and

NINJA PRO IS USELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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