Blk Ops or MW3 for online play?

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TBH, the COD series is still my favorite online shooter.

However I'm still stuck in the timewarp of COD MW4.

MW2 is an online mess.

What's the deal with Blk Ops or MW3. Are they still using the IWnet system? or online servers?

Which provides the best online experience (i don't bother with single player TBH)
 
BO is the best, best gameplay and has dedicated servers.

The map design in MW3 is just so lazy, get caught in the same chokepoints all the time...gets boring fast.

Black Ops feels fresher to me, the maps are more creative leading to less repetetive gameplay.

Black Ops is actually a pretty decent game, MW3 though is just formulaic and dull to play.

I do still have problems with BO not running correctly on my pc and fps lag, they fixed the issues for a lot of people but for many people the problems still remain.
 
Stick with 4 or go backwards, cod2 is still great.

I want something thats nice to look at on my new 7950 and fun to play. 4 is starting to look dated.

I'm reading conflicting results, some reviews say dedicated servers, and others say lack of dedicated servers..

so which is it? and which is better blk ops or MW3
 
BO is the best, best gameplay and has dedicated servers.

The map design in MW3 is just so lazy, get caught in the same chokepoints all the time...gets boring fast.

Black Ops feels fresher to me, the maps are more creative leading to less repetetive gameplay.

Black Ops is actually a pretty decent game, MW3 though is just formulaic and dull to play.

I do still have problems with BO not running correctly on my pc and fps lag, they fixed the issues for a lot of people but for many people the problems still remain.

hmmm interesting.. so blk ops is very buggy? Any particular type of hardware is this associated too? I'm on a 2600k SB, 7950 with a Z77 chipset.

I can get either for the same price.
 
hmmm interesting.. so blk ops is very buggy? Any particular type of hardware is this associated too? I'm on a 2600k SB, 7950 with a Z77 chipset.

I can get either for the same price.
I have a q6600, 6870, 4gb ram pc and I get stuttering lag, helps if I turn the graphics settings way down making the game butt ugly.

I seem to remember a lot of the problems were caused by particular soundcard configurations.
 
I have a q6600, 6870, 4gb ram pc and I get stuttering lag, helps if I turn the graphics settings way down making the game butt ugly.

I seem to remember a lot of the problems were caused by particular soundcard configurations.

I'm just using the onboard Realtek ALC887 for audio. I'm leaning towards Blk Ops, however it does have me nervous though.. Once purchased i can't take it back.

On MW4, unless i have something plugged into the Microphone, the .exe crashes. This has been across 4 different pc's now. You'd of thought they'd of fixed that by now !
 
I had a Asus Xonar DS and had the lag, I have a Creative Titanium now though but I haven't tested the game to see if the problem still remains.

It might actually have nothing to do with the soundcard and something else to do with my pc is amiss.
 
Another vote for BO, the overall game just feels so much better than MW3, personally I think COD4 and BO are on par
 
Neither really... MW3 if you have to play one of them.

Black Ops is still a buggy mess for most people - those that say its "fixed" are probably the ones who didn't notice how badly it ran in the first place - I've tried the game on about 30 different PCs and ALL of them have the stuttering/hitching problems - if you have vsync on it masks it with the penalty of increased input latency. I still have problems with it randomly losing profile stats or not able to join a game after random changes to my loadouts i.e. I can't equip any light machineguns on all but one of my profiles for some reason or if I do I can't join any server til I change them again for another weapon. While there are some good ideas in it like being able to hack enemy equipment to your side which is a nice counter for claymores overall its a bit weak - the weapons feel "lite" like airsoft weapons, sound design is a bit hit and miss and some of the killstreaks/rewards/perks are just silly too much empty headed style over substance.

Both Black Ops and the new DLC for MW3 have some pretty poor maps - generally quite nice looking but gameplay wise very poor but some of the original release maps for MW3 are quite playable. MW3 tho has a massive cheating problem - which is somewhat mitigated on BO where there are some decent dedicated servers ran by communities with an active player base and active admins that actually know the difference between someone thats good and someone cheating and boot them off.

TBH as much as I love COD - even MW3 - Activision have driven it into the ground, there are still annoying bugs like the mic issue, sound randomly inverting left<>right, inability to set the lobby system to NOT re-join the game you just left all of which should have been fixed years ago and they've killed off competitive/community support without the ability to host dedicated servers properly or make custom maps/modes easily.

I have a blast playing HC TDM in MW3 now and again and really enjoy that but overall the game has become stale.
 
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Neither really... MW3 if you have to play one of them.

Black Ops is still a buggy mess for most people - those that say its "fixed" are probably the ones who didn't notice how badly it ran in the first place - I've tried the game on about 30 different PCs and ALL of them have the stuttering/hitching problems - if you have vsync on it masks it with the penalty of increased input latency. I still have problems with it randomly losing profile stats or not able to join a game after random changes to my loadouts i.e. I can't equip any light machineguns on all but one of my profiles for some reason or if I do I can't join any server til I change them again for another weapon. While there are some good ideas in it like being able to hack enemy equipment to your side which is a nice counter for claymores overall its a bit weak - the weapons feel "lite" like airsoft weapons, sound design is a bit hit and miss and some of the killstreaks/rewards/perks are just silly too much empty headed style over substance.

Both Black Ops and the new DLC for MW3 have some pretty poor maps - generally quite nice looking but gameplay wise very poor but some of the original release maps for MW3 are quite playable. MW3 tho has a massive cheating problem - which is somewhat mitigated on BO where there are some decent dedicated servers ran by communities with an active player base and active admins that actually know the difference between someone thats good and someone cheating and boot them off.

TBH as much as I love COD - even MW3 - Activision have driven it into the ground, there are still annoying bugs like the mic issue, sound randomly inverting left<>right, inability to set the lobby system to NOT re-join the game you just left all of which should have been fixed years ago and they've killed off competitive/community support without the ability to host dedicated servers properly or make custom maps/modes easily.

I have a blast playing HC TDM in MW3 now and again and really enjoy that but overall the game has become stale.

Good deal.. So game enginewise, MW3 is pretty stable... I hope so, cos i've just dipped into my pocket to pick it up...
 
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