Black Ops 2, info released...

[Bryce]

Double xp up and running. Nuketown 24/7 included. Just racked up 24,000 in a domination match. Haven't heard yet. Is dlc going out system wide on Tuesday or just xbox?

[JP Z]

I Can NOT wait. Need get my kill on in Nuketown......with Assault weapons.

[Bryce]

32,000 in hard point. In the mid 30's and ranking up every game and a half. Sweet.

[Bryce]

Caution for spawn trapping on Nuketown. Some teams are getting very good at it. Especially easy to perform on demolition. Played once against it and once on the team using it. The team in the against version had vtols stacked up that they kept parking over the spawn and then kept releasing the hounds. Felt like crawling into a corner and hugging myself after that beatdown.

[hookjunior]

Has anybody played the new maps yet? If so how are they?

[Bryce]

Waiting to get into store to activate my season pass.

[Scott K]

I plaid the new Zombie map, pretty cool. I tried playing some of the new maps on multi player, but I never got any new ones. Always the sos as before.

[LMITOUT]

Caution for spawn trapping on Nuketown. Some teams are getting very good at it. Especially easy to perform on demolition. Played once against it and once on the team using it. The team in the against version had vtols stacked up that they kept parking over the spawn and then kept releasing the hounds. Felt like crawling into a corner and hugging myself after that beatdown.

That's why I don't bother even trying Nuke Town anymore.

[fishuhalik]

I played Nuketown all weekend & didn't get spawn trapped once. Well, a couple times guys would sneak in & get a kill or two but that was it. Started at 0 and after the weekend was at level 42! first time I've played bo2 in about a month.

[Bryce]

Be prepared to have patience. 1/2 hour into the download and just hit 60%.

[Bryce]

I tried playing some of the new maps on multi player, but I never got any new ones. Always the sos as before.

Sure you had them downloaded? I clicked on public match, revolution, team death match and all I played were new maps.

Played 3 of the 4 new ones. Bigger maps but don't have a real sniper feel to them. Maybe Downhill will become one. Watch out for the moving gondolas or receive the same treatment as the bullet train. Grind and Hydro should favor run and gun but lots of hides for mobile camping. Good vertical play. Picked up the new weapon a couple times and will probably set up a class around it.

I didn't investigate real closely but appears that Nuketown map is included in the dlc.

[LMITOUT]

1.86GB. Really?

53%...

[LMITOUT]

I played Nuketown all weekend & didn't get spawn trapped once. Well, a couple times guys would sneak in & get a kill or two but that was it. Started at 0 and after the weekend was at level 42! first time I've played bo2 in about a month.

On Friday I started at level 28 and went "around the horn" and got back to 31 by Sunday. I put some hours in, but I wouldn't say that I was burning the midnight oil or living in my recliner for the entire weekend. With XPx2 it doesn't take long.

Played one game of Nuketown and said screw that. I get more points playing other games and don't feel like choking someone when I'm done.

I don't know if it was the XBOX update that was pushed out on Friday or the number of people that were logged in due to XPx2, but I don't recall that many "host migrations" and lost server errors before. Something was definitely awry with the system and it had been playing fairly decent up until Friday.

[Bryce]

Kept getting kicked out of xbox live tonite. Anyone else? Or was it my interweb?

Get your hands on a peacekeeper asap. Can't imagine that beast of a weapon being around long...or getting nerfed.

[LMITOUT]

Got a handful of matches in before getting booted a little bit ago.

In the short time I got to play three of the new maps showed up. I'd guess they have them set on heavy rotation so everyone can get a taste. The skate park map is a snoozer with everyone rushing to the center room over and over. Got put into a game on Hydro that was almost over so I didn't get much of a chance to feel that one out.

Wasn't that impressed with the Peacekeeper so far. Lots of bullets to get a kill and constant reloading but need more time to get used to it.

They nerfed the FAL with the latest update in their never ending quest to socialize the game and make gameplay fair for everyone. The thing waves back and forth like a windshield wiper now.

[DTro]

You can play the new maps if you pick Revolution game type.

The Peacemaker is alright, nothing special. I like the new maps, especially Downhill.

Only took 25 min for me to download.

There's a glitch though that you have to setup the Peacemaker every time you sign in.

[JP Z]

I tried to logon and play around 9:30 last night and couldn't logon to Live....oh well I'll try today maybe.

[Deitz Dittrich]

OK, heres my take on the new maps.. BTW I downloaded early tuesday morning. Took my system about 51 mins to complete..

Mirage- Set in China in the sand.. Its a fairly largish board. lots of places to camp, be very careful of someone camping in the room above the sand flooded swimming pool, there is only one entrance in and two people can camp it hard and lock down a side of the board pretty easy if they are good. The main room of the building sees a ton of action and has 3 if not 4 entrances to it and multiple levels. Domination is fun on this board as its not your typical lock down A and B or B and C.. seems that its easier to try and lock down A and C.

Downhill- Great graphics. Fun board. Most of the action seems to play out in the main building. Be careful of the moving gondolas/ski lifts, they kill you if they so much as touch you. Plenty of small back routs to ger around the board, very large open area in the middle. I have not played domination on it, only death match.. but very fun board. After extensive research, Dtro and I found out you can shoot the hat off the snow man, and shoot the axe out of the block of wood.

Grind- Skate park. I had "thought" this was going to be the new Nuketown.. a small map.. Not the case at all. Maybe the largest of the new maps. Not all that open really, plenty of places/windows to camp and hide behind. What seems different about this board is it has multiple neck down areas, so not all the killing is in one area. Each side of the board and the middle area get plenty of action. (if you shoot the sunglass case in the main room it spins like crazy and shoot the glasses everywhere.. its awesome)

Hydro- My fave of the group, though I really have no dislike for any of them.. if I had to pick my least fave it would be mirage... Hydro is a thinner longer map, with multiple levels, And above ground and a under ground/water area. The water is moving, and makes me a tad dizzy at times. Be aware when the dude starts yapping and you cant understand what he is saying.. he is saying, get out of the water you twit or die in the flood. Much of the action takes place at the middle of the board at the main bridge area both above the bridge at the look out point and both sides and small rooms adjacent to the water spill way. Again. great board.

Wizz and I played a little bit of the zombies.. Was fun, we had it on easy mode and still did not make it far, kept getting to like level 5 or something and then getting taken out by some monkey things... LOL

[Deitz Dittrich]

JPZ-- You have bad luck my friend. Something goofy happened at about that exact time. We all go booted from our live acts and had a heck of a time getting back in. Was weird, we still had chat capability, but could not party up for about 10 mins.

[Scott K]

I had lots of errors last night, and got kicked often with server issues. I like all the new maps, I think my favorite is the skate park, then the sand one. I got into a lot more of them in the evening, compared to none at mid day after trying about 6 times. I like playing hard core, so it is more random.

I have noticed that in hard core recently, it takes a lot of bullets to drop someone. You get hit markers, but unless you get a head shot, or foot shot, they take a few more bullets then before. Almost like if you were playing regular core. That is what annoyed me about regular core, and it is why I switched to hard core. If I put one in someones mid section, I expect them to drop. But it seems I need to either hit them in the head, or the foot, and they will fall right away.

Ya, I do spray once in awhile

[ted4887]

Can someone tell me why exactly, when I have a 100 MB download connection, it's still taking me over 40 minutes to get this new map pack? I'm not a real techy person, so it boggles my mind. Do the Xbox servers cap download speeds?

[NKLCOLT1911]

Got a handful of matches in before getting booted a little bit ago.

In the short time I got to play three of the new maps showed up. I'd guess they have them set on heavy rotation so everyone can get a taste. The skate park map is a snoozer with everyone rushing to the center room over and over. Got put into a game on Hydro that was almost over so I didn't get much of a chance to feel that one out.

Wasn't that impressed with the Peacekeeper so far. Lots of bullets to get a kill and constant reloading but need more time to get used to it.

They nerfed the FAL with the latest update in their never ending quest to socialize the game and make gameplay fair for everyone. The thing waves back and forth like a windshield wiper now.

i also noticed the FAL was extra sloppy last night and not dealing out as much damage as it did before, what i think is carp is if you put a suppressor on a LMG it dosent kick at all but they keep trying to balance an assault rifle.

[Scott K]

Can someone tell me why exactly, when I have a 100 MB download connection, it's still taking me over 40 minutes to get this new map pack? I'm not a real techy person, so it boggles my mind. Do the Xbox servers cap download speeds?

Your equipment might be able to handle 100mb down, but I would bet your actual speed to your house in considerably less. run a speed test, and see what speeds you are getting.

[Scott K]

Brett, I have been trying to get the diamond camo for the assault rifles, it was easy to get gold in the first few guns, now it really sucks. I am not even sure which gun I am on, but it was much better when I first started using it, compared to now. But I almost have that one gold, then I will move on to the next gun.

[LMITOUT]

Double XP again this weekend.

If it plays as bad as it did last night I won't even bother. Not sure if it is the number of people online due to the new map pack or the update they pushed out, but it's terrible again.