official Call of Duty: Black Ops

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

A little over half way through the campaign. Very nice, loving it. My only complaints really would be that there was actually a section where it was entirely a cutscene and you got an aheevo for that. Really?

So far, much better than MW2 online and off.

Pretty sure that was only because that cut scene was also the end of the level. And/or what I have seen happen is I have gotten a few achievements for doing something within the level, but they do not kick in until the whole level is done.

I am about to fire up the last level of the SP, so chances are I will beat the campaign very soon, and after that I will be all about the MP.

Just another accolade for the SP... I actually find myself killing myself on purpose with a grenade, etc., just so I can replay a certain part over again... that is the sign of a good campaign.

[Hedon]

Pretty sure that was only because that cut scene was also the end of the level. And/or what I have seen happen is I have gotten a few achievements for doing something within the level, but they do not kick in until the whole level is done.

Well, I had just received a 10 point acheevo, followed by a cutscene and then another 10 point acheevo. Unless the one prior was delayed in activation.

IIRC, it was the VIP, taking orders from Lancer....where you are walking through the Pentagon not really do any actions.I think I had just received "give me liberty" acheevo. Is it just me, or was "Lancer" really JFK?

[Livin in a box]

I'm thinking about setting up an Xbox Community Playdate on a Friday sometime over the next few weeks playing Black Ops. Would anyone here be interested in joining?

[bruNo_]

it's because nuketown demonstrates the failed spawning system better then any other map

I really hope they fix that in the next updates...

I'm thinking about setting up an Xbox Community Playdate on a Friday sometime over the next few weeks playing Black Ops. Would anyone here be interested in joining?

I'm in. (Y)

[Chasethebase Veteran]

Whoever said the AK-74u with Grip is godly is correct, it's an amazing weapon. (Y)

[rajputwarrior]

Whoever said the AK-74u with Grip is godly is correct, it's an amazing weapon. (Y)

The famas even with the silencer is pretty accurate too.

[sweetham]

The map voting ****es me off. We played Nuke town for 4 plays! I left after that, I don't know if they voted for it again. the voting system needs fixed.

Nice to see someone else agrees with me on this. When I get locked into nuketown I end up using my special nuketown class and going to town on all the tools who keep voting for it over and over again. I will have my revenge one way or another.

[Livin in a box]

Galil + orange dot sight = win.

[sweetham]

Whoever said the AK-74u with Grip is godly is correct, it's an amazing weapon. (Y)

SMGs are the last weapon I have been buying because the AK74u is the only gun I feel I need for an SMG. I just started using the MAC11 today and the only thing I can think of is why can't it be more like the AK74u.

Galil + orange dot sight = win.

It is funny because I was the first on my friends list to unlock the galil, first to use it, kept telling everyone it was a solid gun. They just blew it off like I was crazy. Then I start hearing them asking multiple times, what gun a dude on the other team is using because he is dropping people like flies with it. I respond everytime that he is using the Galil. They just blew me off like I was crazy. And then like 2 days later when they finally unlock it, they will not stop raving about how good the galil is. I just blew them off like they were crazy.

[mattmatik]

I'm thinking about setting up an Xbox Community Playdate on a Friday sometime over the next few weeks playing Black Ops. Would anyone here be interested in joining?

I'd be interested, too, but Fridays are tough for me (work nights). Monday nights on the other hand...

Pretty sure that was only because that cut scene was also the end of the level. And/or what I have seen happen is I have gotten a few achievements for doing something within the level, but they do not kick in until the whole level is done.

I am about to fire up the last level of the SP, so chances are I will beat the campaign very soon, and after that I will be all about the MP.

Just another accolade for the SP... I actually find myself killing myself on purpose with a grenade, etc., just so I can replay a certain part over again... that is the sign of a good campaign.

LOL can't say I've gone that far but I am enjoying SP as well. I'm actually fighting the urge to start MP so I can finish SP (something I did with CoD4 and was glad I did). And this is coming from someone who had ZERO interest in Black Ops. I just hope the MP is fairly enjoyable for us casual folks.

I started on Hardened but would like to go back for Veteran later. There's already story parts I've either missed or forgotten.

[Dane]

Nice to see someone else agrees with me on this. When I get locked into nuketown I end up using my special nuketown class and going to town on all the tools who keep voting for it over and over again. I will have my revenge one way or another.

what do you use on that map?

[sweetham]

what do you use on that map?

SPAS-12 with lightweight/sleight of hand/marathon. Eight rounds of death before a reload. Once I get in their spawn im getting between 2-6 kills every time. The bum rush will get them everytime, especially when they have their focus on other things. Vary your running routes into enemy territory and use the cover in the middle to your advantage.

[Hardcore Til I Die]

God I'm sick to death of rubbish people playing Hardcore Search & Destroy, people who doesn't have a single shred of tactical ability or sense in their body. Most of the time dies within the first 15-20 seconds because they feel rushing at 350mph is the best approach, none of them could hit a barn door with a shotgun and they run around in big lumps of 3 people, getting blown to bits by a single grenade. You expect people have got your back or at least, the other entrance but then you realise they died AGAIN and you tend to get shot in the back or have to watch around you 360* limiting your effectiveness. I see myself alone so often and the matchmaking system always seem to throw me on the most incomptent teams ... Eugh.

Don't ****ing play HC modes and especially not S&D if you suck that bad and don't know any tactics whatsoever, it ruins the game for the rest of us - Thank you.

God I wish the TrueSkill system was implemented and working.

/Rant

Tough ****. I suck at cod but I'll play what I like, and the hardcore modes are fun :) If you don't like it, search with a full team..

[SkyDX]

Thanks to a lucky wink from my brother I have the PC version too and god I thought that day would never come but I truly have to say, the PS3 version is superior o.o

I did like every possible fix:

- Disabled Multi GPU in config

- Enabled Multicore in config

- Set maxpackets to 100

- Give BO CPU priority

the performance still sucks epicly, the fps in itself appear to be smooth just every now and then they drop to hell for a few seconds if I had a fps chart it would look like this:

\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

and my ping is always +-70, the PS3 version plays like a dream compared to this sadly...

I agree the spawning system is not quite perfect but I quickly adjusted to it, whenever I play Nuketown and spawn, I walk backwards till I reach the house insides :p

As for gamemodes, I found Domination quite fun, even had good team play on Summit two times so far (PS3)

[Sethos]

Tough ****. I suck at cod but I'll play what I like, and the hardcore modes are fun :) If you don't like it, search with a full team..

Yeah Sherlock, I would if the matchmaking system worked with parties.

[Dane]

SPAS-12 with lightweight/sleight of hand/marathon. Eight rounds of death before a reload. Once I get in their spawn im getting between 2-6 kills every time. The bum rush will get them everytime, especially when they have their focus on other things. Vary your running routes into enemy territory and use the cover in the middle to your advantage.

Awesome thanks!

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

Well, I had just received a 10 point acheevo, followed by a cutscene and then another 10 point acheevo. Unless the one prior was delayed in activation.

IIRC, it was the VIP, taking orders from Lancer....where you are walking through the Pentagon not really do any actions.I think I had just received "give me liberty" acheevo. Is it just me, or was "Lancer" really JFK?

Yeah, I thought the same thing. And hmmm okay about the achievement, weird then.

LOL can't say I've gone that far but I am enjoying SP as well. I'm actually fighting the urge to start MP so I can finish SP (something I did with CoD4 and was glad I did). And this is coming from someone who had ZERO interest in Black Ops. I just hope the MP is fairly enjoyable for us casual folks.

Yeah I always play SP first more often then not, as hard is it is, especially with everyone else I know going right into MP, I find it to be a good warm up so to speak for MP, and at the end of the day if I had to choose just playing SP or just playing MP, I personally would take SP every time. I just enjoy getting lost on my own in a game world. With that said, I do enjoy MP as well, and I can say I think you will also enjoy it. I just checked out 2 matches on my own real quick, and it is definitely enjoyable, although as expected, I was pretty much dominated. I went 9-11 and 9-7 my first 2 matches. Not horrible, but not great by any means.

Once I played the 2 matches, I had to check out the theater mode, and seriously it is so damn cool. Yet another great addition to this game. Seriously as far as bang for your buck, this is definitely the best release of the year. Between SP, DoA arcade game (which I also checked out real quick on my own), Zombies, and then just straight up MP, really does not get much better then this.

Here is my first screenshot playing around in Theater Mode.

I did get the game winning kill in my first match online.

I made a quick little video of it from the same angle, but it is not showing up on the CoD website, and now when I try to upload it, it just does nothing, so I guess they are still working some kinks out there. In all fairness, the site does say Theater mode is still in Beta. But definitely very cool.

So tomorrow morning EST time I should be on playing some MP if anyone else is around. I may wind up playing Zombie mode with a few friends, but if not, definitely into playing MP, and the more the merrier is how I see things. Hoping to be on around 11 AM EST, and will probably play until at least 1 PM, and if not a bit longer, all depends on if I want to watch some football or not.

[Sethos]

I really like you get a humongous image, unlike other games where you get some tiny crappy image - Hello Forza!

Has anyone tried the recording function and uploaded something to the Tube? I'm curious about the quality.

[Chemaz]

ergh, the stuttering is so bloody annoying, i put the fps indicator on through the console, and watch my average fps of 60 drop to 15 every 20seconds or so for no reason, dropped the graphics right down so averaged at 90 but still dropped down to 10-15. I thought the latest patch was supposed to fix this :wacko:

I had to just quit the game now as it was getting more frequent, it was like i had a ping of 300 or something (when it was actually 50), i hope they get this fixed very soon, as its bloody frustrating, one second no1 is in front of you, next second ur dead as some1s run upto you and knifed you

[Chasethebase Veteran]

ergh, the stuttering is so bloody annoying, i put the fps indicator on through the console, and watch my average fps of 60 drop to 15 every 20seconds or so for no reason, dropped the graphics right down so averaged at 90 but still dropped down to 10-15. I thought the latest patch was supposed to fix this :wacko:

I had to just quit the game now as it was getting more frequent, it was like i had a ping of 300 or something (when it was actually 50), i hope they get this fixed very soon, as its bloody frustrating, one second no1 is in front of you, next second ur dead as some1s run upto you and knifed you

Hrm, the patch fixed it right up for me. Don't know why some people are still having issues.

Galil is awesome, and finally unlocked camo now so I'm rocking Siberia or Ice on everything. (Y)

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Things are a little better now. There's less lag and my friends and I are having better luck with finding a match as a party. The spawning system is still as bad as ever though. I feel so bad when I use it to my advantage (e.g. killing people as soon as they spawn).

[WastedJoker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USvsRGa1jOU

Some of the hit detection :laugh:

not a particularly exciting round but I was distracted by the boxing so I had a lot of odd pauses for reloads..which inevitably got me killed :facepalm:

[The Guvnor]

Just started with the SP today, it seems very engaging. Hopefully ill have be able to renew my XBL subscription by Tuesday & i would be able to check out the game MP as well .

[Hardcore Til I Die]

Yeah Sherlock, I would if the matchmaking system worked with parties.

It does? I always search with a party. Usually 3 of us but sometimes 4/5/6.

It's not my fault if you can't get basic features to work!

[Sethos]

It does? I always search with a party. Usually 3 of us but sometimes 4/5/6.

It's not my fault if you can't get basic features to work!

God you are dumb as a barn door, definitely my fault the matchmaking servers aren't working - Are you even talking about the 360 version :rolleyes: ?

Anyone here can confirm they don't work very well with parties at the moment, it's neigh on impossible to play with friends especially when you are more than 3 in the party, it goes all to hell.

All this because you get offended over ruining other people's playing experience.