Call of Duty: Black Ops

[iamcline]

Oh yeah, by the way...last night there were almost 4 million people playing Black Ops on Xbox live...that is crazy!!!

Yea it is, when I first signed on I say 3.8 mil on there. Strangely enough there were a lot of dropped matches.

[venom]

i wouldve never guessed it but this game may be better than MW2 in my book. once i discovered the AUG ive enjoyed this game 1000% more. i think my new favorite option in the game is the map voting system. i joined a lobby last night where we mustve played nuketown 10 times in a row. twas the sh*t!

[TarPanther9180]

If anyone wants to go pwn some people/zombies with me on Xbox, I'm Patricio Shogun

[PanthaSan]

Ok, so i ended up picking up this game yesterday despite saying i wouldnt. Victim of the hype.

So far...i wish i wouldnt have. I played a bit of Campaign and MP last night. Not much mind you. Playing campaign, i knew right away i didnt get that blown away feeling i got the first time i put in MW2. Not sure what it is. Cant put my finger on it, but i had no problem turning it off to watch the end of the Bobcats game(that should tell you something , lol). When I got MW2, i played for hours the 1st time i popped it in. I was so immersed. I dont get that feeling with this one. Again, not sure if its the story line or what. The graphics are definitely incredible.

In multiplayer, im just not enjoying it. I got totally owned. That stupid RC car killed me at least 5 times..its like i i was a huge magnet. Seemed like enemy was spawning on top of me. Constantly dying. Yeah, so i suck, but it still wasnt fun at all for me. I was playing pretty buzzed from drinking vodka, so im sure that had something to do with it. I will definitely give it another try sober. Reading certain reviews, i was given the impression that it wasnt quite a fast paced as MW2. To me it seemed twice as fast. At this point i like MW2 MP much much more! And i got sick of MW2 after a while, and i didnt suck at that.

I think im just spoiled by the gameplay of BFBC2, which is more my style.

Ill give this another try, but im not expecting much of a difference of opinion.

If you dont have the game and want it, i might be selling mine for $50 so keep an eye out.

you'll only get 25 for it from blockbuster, game stop and the like. I'll give you 40 for it.

I'll give you $41.00...

[Zaximus]

Ok after about 3 days of playing this, my opinion is a bit different.

I loved it the first night, and didn't seem to have many issues other than the spawning.

But the next two nights were different. It's very very hard to kill people. Even if you get the drop on them, they can easily turn around and pop you. You may have no problem killing people 1/10 games you play, but damage is very inconsistent. I'm not sure if it's lag cause I didn't seem to have issues the first night. I'm sure theater mode is lagging things out pretty bad too. You can tell who has host on this game way easier than previous games, that's for sure.

The problem is that people are already figuring out that bullets don't kill people, so they are using hardline and getting billions of RC cars for easy kills. It's just a matter of time before people start doing nothing but RC cars and Noob tubes because they are just way more effective than bullets, even head to head, sadly.

If they can fix bullet damage/lag, spawning, and some matchmaking problems this game with be really good. I love actually killing people with bullets though, so I'm really having a hard time having patience with this. Head to head is one thing, but when I get the drop on someone and clearly put a half to full clip just for them to turn around and wax me in 2 shots, it's unbearable.

And the theater mode, you need to go to callofduty.com, get an account, and link your X-box live up with that account from in there. You can only render 30 second clips right now on your x-box. You upload from your xbox but it takes hours for it to show up in your callofduty.com profile. I linked my youtube up to it instead so they get uploaded there instead though.

[car5nc]

I'm digging the game. Is it perfect - no way. I'm still having a lot of fun though. I did not know that multi-player was going to be in 3d as well. It looks sick. Looking down your gun sight is very cool effect. 3d does seem to make the game harder though, probably just need to get used to it. :patriot:

[Zaximus]

No one expects a perfect game, if bullet damage/lag is fixed, it's a good game, spawn fixed, even better.

And commando is still around, just not a perk, I'm still getting knifed through bullets and 10 yards away but that's probably a product of the above problem.

[venom]

ive had no problem with bullet damage. maybe its the lag youre getting?

[car5nc]

No one expects a perfect game, if bullet damage/lag is fixed, it's a good game, spawn fixed, even better.

And commando is still around, just not a perk, I'm still getting knifed through bullets and 10 yards away but that's probably a product of the above problem.

Yeah , I think the knifing problem is from lag, not from "Super Soldiers" like MW2. Once the game is (hopefully) tweaked a little, it will be rock solid.

[venom]

Yeah , I think the knifing problem is from lag, not from "Super Soldiers" like MW2. Once the game is (hopefully) tweaked a little, it will be rock solid.

i remember when MW2 came out it was a hot mess. i want to say all the glitching had been cleaned up around february or so. theyve got some tweaking to do for sure on black ops, once that gets done it will be solid.

[Miaoww]

There shouldn't be glitches though. They've hardly changed the core of the game for years. They should have it nailed down at this point.

[venom]

one wouldve thought that about MW2 as well

[Zaximus]

Everyone is having issues off and on with bullet damage. I did some research, checking twitter, etc, and they are working on patches to fix a lot of things. Ones I remember:

- Bullet damage. They found people aren't dieing like MW2, and I think that's their goal, or close to it. They didn't say this, but I think lag is tied in too, so increasing damage could band-aid this, not sure.

- People making no footsteps, or sounds, etc. Ninja is currently useless, and so is Ninja Pro. People shouldn't be completely quiet. Other problems like not hearing bomb defuses in SnD and stuff is going to be fixed too.

- Knifing at almost commando distances. They are going to patch this.

- Frame rate issues, etc.

- Leaderboard stats. I.E., it's showing I have like 67k kills lol.

- Party system, it's really hard to join with a party right now, you lose people or all people, etc.

- Ghost Pro. Chopper gunners can see people with this etc. I didn't see clear evidence that they mentioned this, but I think it's being looked at.

I know they put out a patch yesterday, just a playlist patch or whatever, I think it fixed some glitches like hiding in a rock, etc.

If they fix these things, that will be a good first step. I haven't seen anything about spawn problems, maybe those are after the above updates.

[Zaximus]

There shouldn't be glitches though. They've hardly changed the core of the game for years. They should have it nailed down at this point.

It's the same with MW2, Activision pushes the developers to meet the deadline no matter what and just fix stuff later on with patches. If they fix it, fine, but MW2 just gave up, which was wrong.