Problems seems mostly isolated to the PC version, granted. Of course, it’s hard to tell now that Activision have taken the Black Ops forum offline.
The Cod Blops forum isn’t offline.
Wait, the post times look like it was down for about seven hours today.
I think that’s fair to say. It’s a mish-mash of stupid plot and gunplay with manufactured difficulty, because until you take a checkpoint, enemies keep spawning. Even Infinity Ward cut that shit out last game.
Is your player vulnerable while this happens? At the beginning I thought BO might be the one game where I can start off with an above one overall KD, but that’s being hindered by this and other factors.
Is it normal not to be able to check out your stats? (kills, deaths)
Also, I’ve played like 10 games and my theatre mode screen seems to think I haven’t played any. Has anyone else got this problem?
on the plus side: FONV has had a recent patch. Graphics now lovely and smooth. Except now the game keeps telling me someone with no name is unconscious.
I want to play this game but the motherboard on my gaming PC decided to fry itself. It lasted a good 4 years so it was about time to upgrade anyways.
Based on what I see here, I may wait a while before I pick this up. Is it just me or are too many games being released with issues that should not be there when the game goes gold?
I’ve bought the game, but it’s still in the shrink wrap. I’m in no hurry to open it, although I will some time soon.
Yes, you are vulnerable during FPS spikes, you just sit there like an idiot until someone comes along and ends your misery or you recover from the lockup.
Also, the G11(the classified gun in the assault tree) is the new 1887 Akimbo. It’s absurdly overpowered – it’s an assault rifle, with the range and power of a sniper rifle and the speed of a SMG. I’d give it a week before everyone and their mother is abusing it.
So… is anyone else able to see their games in theatre mode on the PC?
Anyone???
About a fourth (maybe?) of my game are visible to me on my theater list.
I’m actually surprisingly meh about it. Nazi Zombies was fun, I dislike the multiplayer, and the campaign, while I played it for hours the first day I haven’t picked it up since.
So yeah, meh.
I don’t feel like it’s a re-skinned MW2, but there are of course some similarities. There’s something about the movement of a treyarch game that just doesn’t feel “right” to me. There was something about MW that felt like your toon had weight to it or something. It’s not a big deal, but I notice the difference.
The maps are usually pretty good, but I find it hard to distinguish between friendlies and enemies at times. I think I’m just not used to the different faction uniforms yet.
I kinda really like the unlocking perks/guns thing. I have yet to run out of CoD points, but I’m a little frugal. I buy guns when I can get a classified weapon, but I’ve only really used a few of them. I’ll probably specialize in a few once I prestige, but I’m just kinda trying everything out my first go-round.
Claymores don’t have a delay on them at all, anymore. You trip one and you’re a dead man. I kinda like that. In MW2 I always felt the “I should have gotten away from that one!” feeling and I don’t get that in Black Ops. I feel less bitter when I die to a claymore now.
I do miss maps that are good for snipers, though. I have yet to have fun sniping in Black Ops, and that makes me sad. Maybe it’ll be more fun on Hardcore, but I haven’t played much of that just yet. (I still need the maps for the levels.)
I LOVE the “Gun Game” modes. Those are super fun. There’s nothing like finally getting past the sniper classes (which are a pain in the ass) and getting stabbed so that you’re back in a sniper class. You have to gamble some CoD points, but the lobbies I’ve played in on the 360 have had good people in them. Maybe it’s because you don’t get xp in Wager Matches, and the people who are just obsessed with levels aren’t in there with you.
Me and my friend concluded that they researched human reaction time and designed the claymore in COD4 to explode exactly 1 millisecond before you can react to it. It’s the exact perfect amount of time that you realize you’re fucked, start to take an action, and blow up. Which makes it very frustrating.
I find the bots in combat training to be a bit like that. I tend to treat them like I treat human opponents so my actions sometimes fail against them.
Of course that balances out by their stupidity. One example: you can take cover from them and invariably they’ll follow you into whichever room you just went into, so you just wait, pointing your gun at the entrance.
Combat training is surprisingly fun.
Heh, that happens most of the time against real players, too! I love running away from someone and then just waiting for them to come after me. If you look scared enough they almost always take the bait! 
After sucking at World at War and then sucking at Modern Warfare 2, I decided to once again take the plunge and now I suck at Black Ops too. This time around I’ve taken a pledge with myself that I won’t totally give up on Multi-player once I suffer through my 10th game in a row with 1 or 2 kills and 25 deaths. I just bought the game yesterday, so I’m only on the 5th consecutive suckage right now. I will try to get better. I just have no idea how.
Here’s the thing … as far as the 30 times in 10 minutes I just happen to walk right in front of an enemy who caps me with one shot, and the 0 times that an enemy just happens to walk right in front of me … fine, maybe that’s on me. Maybe I need to know more about the levels I’m playing on and where people go and what I should do and all that. I’ll work on it.
And as far as the being head-shotted by a sniper from the other side of the map, well, not much I can do about that. It’s not like I will ever know that they’re even there until I’m re-spawning anyway.
But I have got to figure out how to kill someone who is directly in front of me before they either shoot me in the face or walk up and stab me like I’m not firing a gun at them. I just don’t get what I’m doing wrong in the aiming department. Does anyone have any tips at all? Should I concentrate on something I’m not thinking about – maybe where my cross-hairs are when I’m stalking, or which stick I should fine-tune with, or the timing of when I go to ADS … it’s got to be something, unless I’ve just fried my synapses to within an inch of their lives and my reactions are in the bottom percentile by now (which, by the way, is completely possible).
I would really like to enjoy this game, but I don’t see how if I will if I can’t generate a kill-streak longer that 1, and if I keep getting stabbed by people I’m firing machine guns at. I’m afraid this game will end up being another $60 stuck in a drawer somewhere that I’ll just curse at whenever I trip across it.
I’m J_Q_Batty in PS3 land, if anybody ever wants to school me in that milieu.
I’ve had good results picking the MG option first and aiming a bit lower than the chest. Make the length of your bursts proportional to the proximity of the enemy. Don’t worry too much about using ammo; chances are you’ll run out of life before you run out of bullets. Stick to groups; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at and you damage the enemy faster.
I’m keen to fire it up after work tonight. The last level I played yesterday saw me get to level 5, which gives me a full-auto assault rifle – I didn’t get a chance to test drive it, though. I was struggling mightily to get any kind of results with that three-burst only jobby.
Yep go with the Famas if thats the first full auto.
Play Combat training and set it to free for all and give yourself the max computer players and make give them a low skill setting. This will give you a great place to practice and get used to guns and very importantly the maps. You really need to know your way around and where is the most likely place the other people are spawning. Play lots of combat training to get up to speed on the actual shooting part first though.
Have a look at this vid. This guy is VERY VERY good but he doesn’t just run and gun in the open. Watch his and another guys (hutch) videos to get some pointers and to see the game being played by some of the best
As mentioned in the video posted above… stay on the outsides of the map… you will get more opportunity to shot at peoples backs instead of face to face confrontations…