COD Black Ops looks pretty good on PC

Scotsmania said:
I felt the same way after playing it for a few hours last night. The continuous stop 'n start way they did the missions started to grate on me after a while when combined with being herded through so quickly that i barely had time to stop to admire the backdrops or even scope out where most of the enemy were.

I was going to say that games like Fallout are spoiling us but that's not the case at all, it's about time we get a game with Bethsedas talent for letting you explore and games like CoD, BF's etc multiplayer expertise. It's times like this that i yearn a little for a really good mmofps even though i know they don't work very well.
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on some missions you can just sprint to the checkpoints and ignore the people shooting at you entirely..

its just a bunch of triggers , the bit at the start where they try to make it seem like your in control of the car is just as bad, press the mouse button let go , oh look the cars still moving, then there the bits where your carrying a body but you cant move anyway but "forward"
which i think happens twice in the game
its not a game , it doesnt feel like your playing and its not much fun
 
Loving it now, just kinda peeved at the exclusion of bolt-rifles (Thought I might see a Mosin Nagant after the single player), and keep getting kicked for 'hacking'.
 
I'm trying to like this game, but the mission in Vietman when you're trying to go down the hill is just ridiculous, you can't even pop out of cover for a second to shoot or you die, straight away.

This is another one of those games where you have a massive bullseye painted on your chest, as soon as you appear, the enemy stop shooting at your team.
 
"seta sys_configureGHz "0.0132769" - black ops

"seta sys_configureGHz "15.5421" - MW2
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compared config_mp's.

i heard the sv_maxrate is way off for the servers, but i cant see why the cpu usage is 100% on multiplayer.
 
deko said:
I'm trying to like this game, but the mission in Vietman when you're trying to go down the hill is just ridiculous, you can't even pop out of cover for a second to shoot or you die, straight away.

This is another one of those games where you have a massive bullseye painted on your chest, as soon as you appear, the enemy stop shooting at your team.
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Seemed easy enough. Just gotta head for the barrels and keep your head down.
 
arknor said:
on some missions you can just sprint to the checkpoints and ignore the people shooting at you entirely..

its just a bunch of triggers , the bit at the start where they try to make it seem like your in control of the car is just as bad, press the mouse button let go , oh look the cars still moving, then there the bits where your carrying a body but you cant move anyway but "forward"
which i think happens twice in the game
its not a game , it doesnt feel like your playing and its not much fun
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Spot on.

People throw the words too linear around all too often when it comes to games but this one took those words and made a very expensive fur coat out of them. Honestly it felt more like watching TV or a movie than actually playing.
 
deko said:
I'm trying to like this game, but the mission in Vietman when you're trying to go down the hill is just ridiculous, you can't even pop out of cover for a second to shoot or you die, straight away.
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On that part of the mission all you have to do is kick over a few barrels of napalm and jobs a good un'.

Much to my surprise when I was holding the place out for about 15 mins and running out ammo. :o

Though the vietnam section in no way compares to the likes of BF: Vietnam or Vietcong. :(
 
Things is...people will just run and buy the next COD in record numbers again anyway. No wonder they churn out unfinished rubbish.

What exactly can we do about it?
 
Blackhawk47 said:
On that part of the mission all you have to do is kick over a few barrels of napalm and jobs a good un'.

Much to my surprise when I was holding the place out for about 15 mins and running out ammo. :o

Though the vietnam section in no way compares to the likes of BF: Vietnam or Vietcong. :(
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Thanks, I had no idea about kicking over the barrels, I was doing exactly the same thing, I battled for ages to get to the bottom of the hill to the waypoint on my HUD and when I eventually got there, nothing happened and I got shot to pieces.
 
Anyone having the stuttering do this

Cl_maxpackets 100
Snaps 30
In Task manager set both steam and the game itself to core 0 and make the game high and steam low.

Sorted.
 
Forde said:
Things is...people will just run and buy the next COD in record numbers again anyway. No wonder they churn out unfinished rubbish.

What exactly can we do about it?
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Nothing.

The fact that there hasn't even been a hotfix for the MP issues shows that Treyarch couldn't care less for PC users.
 
R5Rich said:
Without going through the entire thread, is there a fix for the damn name thing?
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Some posts on the Steam forums say that you'll get 'Unknown Soldier' if your name is fewer than 4 (possibly 5) characters long, or if your name contains non-alphanumeric characters.
 
Glad I resisted buying it, all in all it looks like a fun game. I enjoyed MW2 for awhile although I had many peeves with the kill streaks no servers etc, but Black ops just isn't worth the price tag, not even at 30 pound, I know I haven't even played it but from playing previous cods and watching videos, opinions I'd rate it at 25 pound odd. I'd probably buy it in a snap at the price, but the current pricing is ridiculous.
 
WalkeruK said:
Anyone having the stuttering do this

Cl_maxpackets 100
Snaps 30
In Task manager set both steam and the game itself to core 0 and make the game high and steam low.

Sorted.
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Putting it on 1 core made the game run like crap.

edit - Changing the priority to High seemed to fix the stuttering though, lag is still pretty unplayable.
 
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deko said:
Thanks, I had no idea about kicking over the barrels, I was doing exactly the same thing, I battled for ages to get to the bottom of the hill to the waypoint on my HUD and when I eventually got there, nothing happened and I got shot to pieces.
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I did exactly the same, spent ages trying different things. Had a LAW on me still so i shot at the barrels after he mentions them in the conversation before you start running down the hill. Nothing worked, it wasn't until i was getting fed up and happened to take cover at a barrel that i realized what to do.
Glad it wasn't just me being stupid!
 
Has rather a lot of issues :( they need to set a default multiplayer max packets than 30 ffs! and pauses quite a lot when playing... seems like a fairly decent game all in all and nothing a patch or 2 won't fix.

I completely dominated my first mp game too :D which is always an encouraging start.


Still think MW2 is better tho for pure gameplay... black ops is a little fiddly to play in comparison - but atleast they seem to have given back the stuff you need on PC - i.e. FOV, proper server options, ingame console, etc.
 
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Musty Pie said:
Lag issues aside how does it run visually on that card mate? (same as mine)
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TBH I'm not really sure how well it runs, it "seems" fine, but the lag makes it kind of unbearable. I hate lag. This is how it felt back in SWGs most populated days running through Theed with a crappy FX5200 (worst gfx card ever made) This was like what 8 years ago? probably more I cant remember.
 
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