Call of Duty: Black Ops

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I thought it took into account some form of a players skill, kinda pointless not to surely, atleast to me it would be, lol.

Not really because Rank means dick all, yes it may show a bit more experience but there is no correlation between skill and rank - Over 700 hours combined of Call of Duty 4, 5 6 and now 7 has shown me that.

So it's pointless to sort after rank, might as well get the fastest matchmaking speed by finding the best connection and that's it.

Anyone else having issues of where you are in a party of 2, you search for a game but it kicks your friend off and you're just in the game? Highly annoying.

Yes, it's the matchmaking servers being borked. We spent two hours combined over the last two days in the lobby alone, with 5-6 people trying to get everyone into the same game - Really frustrating.

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found a weird glitch in single player, in Vietnam (You weren't there man!!!) after i planted the C4 and poop -> fan as i was shooting the commando and walking forward every time a shot fired it jumped forward, so with a fully automatic i leaped forward into where the enemy was and died. Sucks >.> happened on the reload again but not the 3rd time?

As for glitches i was hoping for some javelin type glitches or grenade launcher attachment glitches like we had in MW2, i found them really fun :p

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Chasethebase Veteran

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FAO PC Users:

Care to post your button config?

I'm really struggling to find a comfortable setup :angry:

WASD as normal

Q for special grenade

E for lethal

CTRL for toggled crouch

space for stand/jump

C for prone

left mouse button - shoot

right mouse button - ads

middle mouse button - melee

5 for grenade laucher etc

6 for killstreak

Well so far I've been using default setup while I've managed to play, but I'll probably change to the MW2 default because that was more comfortable for me. Reason it's similar to CoD4/WaW's controls is because leaning is back. (Y)

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richardsim7

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found a weird glitch in single player, in Vietnam (You weren't there man!!!) after i planted the C4 and poop -> fan as i was shooting the commando and walking forward every time a shot fired it jumped forward, so with a fully automatic i leaped forward into where the enemy was and died. Sucks >.> happened on the reload again but not the 3rd time?

As for glitches i was hoping for some javelin type glitches or grenade launcher attachment glitches like we had in MW2, i found them really fun :p

YEAH! That happened to me! :laugh:

Except it sorta went in my favour :p

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I enjoy it, love the money system and playercard customizations.

That being said I still need to get used to the mechanics of the game. I never played WaW so I didn't know what to expect, but I do like it.

Oh and the lag is annoying but I got used to of after an hour or so, can't wait till it's fixed

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ramsy66

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people having any FPS problems on PC, go here: Steam Forums just edit the values it says here to 0 in the config file. oh and turn shadows off. i can run the game completely smoothly now, works perfect. playing against people who are lagging up isn't fun as you sort of have an advantage if you're not lagging and they're stuttering around. oh and the final killcam will still be dodgy but at least you'll have a good FPS.

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Corris Veteran

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Hey Setho's since you hate so much on the PS3 :p what were you talking about the other day about the PS3 only running 600p? Elaborate?

Are you asking him to purposely hate? Lol.

And I think it has to do with the PS3 resolution of Black Ops only being 600p, if not less.

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presence06

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Are you asking him to purposely hate? Lol.

And I think it has to do with the PS3 resolution of Black Ops only being 600p, if not less.

Why is that though? The box states it can be run at 1080p/i and 700p and so on..

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presence06

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Mine is working fine. I picked the hardest level and now I'm stuck at the 'Kill Dargowich' mission. Been playing for 3 hours, no luck.

Haha, I started that last night. I'm at the part where you have to climb the tower. I keep ****ing dying! :crazy: lol. I don't know, I guess the game looks as good as MW2 did.. so I'm not understanding the 600p stuff... :rolleyes:

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Corris Veteran

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Why is that though? The box states it can be run at 1080p/i and 700p and so on..

The Xbox 360 and PS3 both have the ability to increase the size of the image from a game, so if CoD:BO is 600p natively, the PS3 is then told to produce a 720p image to the TV, essentially it just makes it a size the TV can understand as TV's don't have the ability to display just any resolution to the viewer.

The difference between Native resolution and a scaled one is that the former will be of better quality than that of the up-scaled picture you would get.

The reason for games not having a native resolution can come down to many things, the hardware used and not having the resources for a higher quality image, the way the engine works, etc.

It works the same way for the 360 and a bunch of PS3 games that say 1080p, most games that have 1080p on the box are just a lower resolution being up-scaled, a lot will be 720p just made bigger, but there are a good number of funky resolutions that games use between 576p/720p/1080p and are just scaled to an appropriate size for a TV as that is the best the game can produce.

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Chasethebase Veteran

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people having any FPS problems on PC, go here: Steam Forums just edit the values it says here to 0 in the config file. oh and turn shadows off. i can run the game completely smoothly now, works perfect. playing against people who are lagging up isn't fun as you sort of have an advantage if you're not lagging and they're stuttering around. oh and the final killcam will still be dodgy but at least you'll have a good FPS.

Still didn't work for me, noticable improvements but not 100% back to normal like MW2 is.

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Yusuf M. Veteran

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Has anyone had any success in maintaining a high K/D ratio? I was at 1.84 and I dropped down to 1.77. My excuse is lag. I'm usually put into a laggy game where the enemy seems to see me before I see them. Also, rubber-banding is possibly the most annoying aspect of this game (aside from the bizarre spawning system).

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jmc15john

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What guns have y'all been using. I've been using the AK74u with a grip and a red dot site and it's extremely accurate and doesn't kick very much. I like that black ops lets you buy only the perks and attachments that you want so I don't have to spend countless time upgrading through a gun to get the things I want from it.

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