Call of Duty: Black Ops

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My outlook on the game.

Multiplayer , love it feels like COD-MW2. Lags like crazy with various bugs and issues. Including crashing randomly. Another peeve when your zoomed in with cross-hairs and you are under a weapon pick up that weapon pick up text covers the cross-hair which is rather stupid placement in my opinion.

Singleplayer, So far its mysterious how it starts out its so far great action and game-play. One BIG issue though, the game froze when I entered the sugar fields on the first mission. The Xbox froze completely where I had nothing left but to shut the console off and turn it back on. Also I lost the whole mission and have to start from scratch. SUCH BS for a final release.

Basically the game so far is great. Unfortunately having played for hours today noticing all of the issues it has I am sorely disappointed in the games final release quality. I played the game on 2 different consoles with 2 different discs with same issues, lag, crashes and freezing. Hopefully this will be worked out soon.

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What was wrong with BC 2's launch for PC?

Everything. The server browser didnt work, the matchmaking was hardly better, if you somehow got onto a server you'd probably get kicked off within 3-4 mins by Punkbuster.

That was the experience of the first few days of BC2 :p

CoD:BO is better yes, but still bad atm. They need to sort this bug so the game stops jittering around. It's not connection lag its a game issue so affects all modes, online and offline :(.

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The single player is lame. There is just so much action going on that it's way over the top. Every mission is a super battle vs the computer.. why isn't there any fun levels either? Each mission is shoot and get from point A to point B.

Have you never played a CoD game before, or do you just play them with your eyes shut? :laugh:

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Hedon

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The lag issues, are people experiencing them on the PC or the 360? I played this morning and ramped up a few ranks and I didn't experience any lag. I was playing team death-match under core.

BTW, so far I am loving all the MP maps. Haven't touched SP yet though.

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Olemus

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The lag issues, are people experiencing them on the PC or the 360? I played this morning and ramped up a few ranks and I didn't experience any lag. I was playing team death-match under core.

BTW, so far I am loving all the MP maps. Haven't touched SP yet though.

Seems to be a problem for the majority of PC owners, console games are fine.

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Sethos

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Nuketown is an abortion of a map, novelty wears off within seconds.

Have to agree, as much as I love the game, Nuketown is the ADHD-cesspool of the game - Oddly enough, it's always the screaming noisy kids that seem to like it. That map just needs to GTFO out of the voting cycle. Fortunately, most players I've been playing with feel exactly the same and I only played the map once. I do love the rest of the maps though, each very unique and balanced that provide a lot of possibilities. I've taken a liking to Radiation.

On another note, I'm really loving theatre mode - Progressive slow-motion, pausing, free-cam! I am in heaven and the timeline even shows kills and deaths.

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Hedon

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Seems to be a problem for the majority of PC owners, console games are fine.

OIC. I thought PC gamers were getting a dedicated server?

I also love the fact that the game now shows you who is actually in a party chat, so now you know why they are not talking/responding.

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Sethos

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I also love the fact that the game now shows you who is actually in a party chat, so now you know why they are not talking/responding.

Yeah and the talk-icon shows up in-game - Brilliant feature. Been playing a ton of new people and it's a great way to get familiar with their voices. Hated that in other games when you were playing with new people, no idea who was talking which meant their tactical advice and shout-outs were useless :p

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Olemus

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OIC. I thought PC gamers were getting a dedicated server?

I also love the fact that the game now shows you who is actually in a party chat, so now you know why they are not talking/responding.

The PC version does have dedicated servers, the problem is not network lag, its FPS lag/stuttering. Happens in single player/zombies for lots of people as well.

Mine hasn't come yet (Thanks royal mail) but I'm not looking forward to getting on and having an unplayable PC game that cost twice as much as regular games.

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Sethos

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The single-player latency / choppiness have been present ever since Call of Duty 4 on the PC - I've had it in every single game, can be running at 60-100FPS and it still feels like the image can't "sync" up to to speak ( No, not Vsync ). Shame they still haven't fixed that =/

They say it can happen on any hardware configuration and it's completely random.

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Olemus

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The single-player latency / choppiness have been present ever since Call of Duty 4 on the PC - I've had it in every single game, can be running at 60-100FPS and it still feels like the image can't "sync" up to to speak ( No, not Vsync ). Shame they still haven't fixed that =/

They say it can happen on any hardware configuration and it's completely random.

It's a lot worse in black ops:

(bad quality video, but only one I can find)

There's something not right with it, a huge amount of people are reporting they have that even with i7 rigs etc..

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Sethos

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It's a lot worse in black ops:

(bad quality video, but only one I can find)

There's something not right with it, a huge amount of people are reporting they have that even with i7 rigs etc..

Holy hell, that is a million times worse :| Even the PS3 is having problems I've heard, FPS drops etc.

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Olemus

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Holy hell, that is a million times worse :| Even the PS3 is having problems I've heard, FPS drops etc.

Worst thing is Treyarch took their forums off-line all night last night, and they still haven't even publicly acknowledged there's a problem. Same old, same old huh.

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Sethos

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Yeah, really is a shame - Just glad I'm a 360 player now, everything is working just fine except the overloaded matchmaking server.

Oh and by the way, for the gamers with female avatar: The codes for the two outfits in Hardened / Prestige plus the Gamestop code ( and where else it was given out ) was for the male avatar only, apparently.

Here's codes for the female versions

GYVF8-PF7RY-28D7V-VGWV8-CFGRM 71 Flight Suit

R76BQ-CR3MF-G2TTF-9G36R-BQWJD Woods Outfit.

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Sethos

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Hmmm, had to try and take a screenshot in theatre mode to see how it turned out on when uploading it - Forza 3 esque miniature pictures

screenshot.2047e45c9aaa5e43c9f4f259a5eb9bcc.31214976624_med.jpg

Oh no wait, my bad :laugh: there's a tiny download button and voila:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/473845/Black%20Ops/screenshot.2047e45c9aaa5e43c9f4f259a5eb9bcc.31214976624.jpg

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