Black Ops 2, info released...

[fishuhalik]

Whatever happened to being able to have a sniper rifle without a scope? I was super excited about this after seeing it in a pre-release video but I haven't seen any attachment or anything that allows me to do this?

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Its only available on the Ballista. Ive yet to see someone using it in game myself.

[Bryce]

First time I had played the game in over a week last night. Hope the servers were maxed out due to the holiday because it was horrible. Laggy and very poor match making. Hope the next maps get stretched out a bit on the first release and the sniper rifles get nerfed. Kids were running and gunning with sniper rifles in hijacked even last night.

[LMITOUT]

Quote:

21 Nov 2012 – Xbox 360 Game Update Notes:

*Made infrastructure and performance improvements to Live Streaming.

*Made streaming performance improvements to video playback in CODTV.

Addressed an issue where flight range parameters for airborne vehicles could be deleted in the middle of a match due to a network interruption.

This fix resolves the following symptoms reported by the community:

*Escort drone flying under the map

*Inability to call in the Dragonfire

*FHJ-18 weapon level is now increased by destroying Scorestreak vehicles and aircraft.

*Care Package/AGR canister exploit has been addressed.

*Patched a small map exploit in Aftermath.

*Addressed a rare situation that would cause the Emblem Editor menu to overlap other menus.

*Balance pass on spawn influencers to improve cases causing non-optimal spawning under certain conditions.

*Improved performance for emblem uploads to prevent an occasional hang. If there is an error connecting to servers during an upload, you will now be able to re-try your save.

*Emblems and Clan tags will now appear correctly on the Assault Shield when stowed on the back.

*Addressed all reported UI error code messages.

*Elite Clan Friends list no longer actively sorts players when their status is updated. The player list will refresh after closing and re-opening the tab.

*Improved a number of emblem icons in the Emblem Editor.

*Junkyard IV reward added to Calling Cards.

Thank goodness they got those emblem icons fixed.

[LMITOUT]

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17 Nov 2012 – PS3 Game Update (1.03) Notes:

*Made performance improvements to matchmaking and lobby timers to start matches faster.

*Addressed an issue contributing to the majority of reported freezes. A small number of low frequency cases continue to undergo investigation for the next patch update.

*Many backend updates have been made since launch to streamline servers for load balancing. This results in many general improvements to matchmaking, user content servers, leaderboards and online security.

*Made infrastructure and performance improvements to Live Streaming.

*Made streaming performance improvements to video playback in CODTV.

*Addressed an issue where flight range parameters for airborne vehicles could be deleted in the middle of a match due to a network interruption. This fix resolves the following symptoms reported by the community:

*Escort drone flying under the map

*Inability to call in the Dragonfire

*FHJ-18 weapon level is now increased by destroying Scorestreak vehicles and aircraft.

*Care Package/AGR canister exploit has been addressed.

*Patched a small map exploit in Aftermath.

*Addressed a rare situation that would cause the Emblem Editor menu to overlap other menus.

*Balance pass on spawn influencers to improve cases causing non-optimal spawning under certain conditions.

*Improved performance for emblem uploads to prevent an occasional hang. If there is an error connecting to servers during an upload, you will now be able to re-try your save.

*Emblems and Clan tags will now appear correctly on the Assault Shield when stowed on the back.

*Addressed all reported UI error code messages.

*Elite Clan Friends list no longer actively sorts players when their status is updated. The player list will refresh after closing and re-opening the tab.

*Improved a number of emblem icons in the Emblem Editor.

*Junkyard IV reward added to Calling Cards.

[NKLCOLT1911]

Well i finally got the game and go far it's what I expected it to be, typical call of duty in the opening weeks.

[LMITOUT]

I know the phrase "epic failure" is overused, but if there are any words that succinctly and perfectly describe this game it would be exactly that.

Laughable. Absolutely laughable.

[Deitz Dittrich]

says the guy who has already logged 33.5 hrs?

[LMITOUT]

I keep logging in hoping that they fixed the game, but always come away disappointed...and usually ready to throw my controller half way across town.

[DTro]

“Logging in” is one thing, but 33.5 hours of gameplay is another.

Cmon, admit it, you are addicted just as much as the rest of us. Its so much fun to dominate, and not so much to be dominated.

Treyarch has perfected the love/hate relationship with this game. They are geniuses. It’s a perfect balance. When we are loving the game, the other guys are hating it, and when they are hating it, we are loving it.

I will say this, you know right away when you are in a bad match and when that happens the odds of winning any gunfight with any gun is very low because the other guy has about a 1 second advantage.

[LMITOUT]

Treyarch is far from being geniuses, nor does this game have any resemblance of balance.

You don't have to wait until the match starts to know if you'll be in a bad match...that happens as soon as I insert the BFlops disc.

[brian6715]

I will say this, you know right away when you are in a bad match and when that happens the odds of winning any gunfight with any gun is very low because the other guy has about a 1 second advantage.

This is a very good point, I always chalked it up to myself playing like God one day and then playing like dog carp the next.

I really like this game though. I feel like it is way better than MW3. The maps are pretty solid, except for Turbine... can't stand that one!

Is anyone else sick of snipers though? I mean, I am tempted to join them, because those guns are SO effective... but it just isn't exciting to me. I am getting real sick of them though!

[Scott K]

I try camping once in awhile, but my ADD kicks in, and after camping for more then 10 seconds, I get bored and start running around. I die a lot more, but atleast it is better then staring at a tv screen with nothing on it, no movement.

[Deitz Dittrich]

We had one of those moments of dominating and then being dominated the other night. Ground war, the other team was incredible! INSANE and yes they had the other hand on us.. THAT SAID, i have never ever seen a team work so well together. Was almost fun to watch. . almost.

[NKLCOLT1911]

We had one of those moments of dominating and then being dominated the other night. Ground war, the other team was incredible! INSANE and yes they had the other hand on us.. THAT SAID, i have never ever seen a team work so well together. Was almost fun to watch. . almost.

good teamwork in that game will make a huge difference, also not pushing the spawns.

[shnelson]

Enjoyed jumping on with you guys the other night, even if we got schooled for the first few games.

It turned in our favor after a few lobby hops, my stats welcomed the rare win-streak .

FAL is my new favorite weapon by the way. Iron sight, FMJ & stock attachment seems to dominate everything but extreme CQB.

[LMITOUT]

I switched over to Kill and Confirm this weekend. I figured if I'm going to suffer with this craptastic matchmaking I might as well get more points for it.

[DTro]

FAL w cheater scope, fmj, and select fire is my go to

[TurnUpTheFishing]

good teamwork in that game will make a huge difference, also not pushing the spawns.

Exactly. Thats why I play Mercenary exclusively when running solo. I dont like getting stuck going up against a team. Understanding the spawns is part of what makes a good team dominant.

I sometimes play with a group of guys and we dont need to do much for call outs, everyone is on the same page, and it is just utter domination most the time.

I dont get how you guys can run with an unsilenced gun.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Played a game last night and for the first time in the game was spawn humped.. Keep an eye out for it, it was on Hijacked.. the boat.. and our spawn was in the back of the boat not the front.. Anyway, they had 2 guys that camped the way back of the boat and we would spawn part way up the rear and they just sat there and plucked us off, didnt even really have time to turn around. Not sure if they will fix that or not.. almost makes me want to try it.. LOL

[DTro]

Drop a smoke grenade

[shnelson]

I logged in last night, and knew right from the get-go that it was going to be nothing but frustrating.

This game has horrible latency management. All it takes is a few ms for someone to get the advantage, you're dead before you even see them come around the corner.

Will try again tonight, hopefully it's in my favor this time around!

[NKLCOLT1911]

I logged in last night, and knew right from the get-go that it was going to be nothing but frustrating.

This game has horrible latency management. All it takes is a few ms for someone to get the advantage, you're dead before you even see them come around the corner.

Will try again tonight, hopefully it's in my favor this time around!

the way this game goes from good to bad is enough to tick a guy off.

[Scott K]

How much of these complaints are from your internet provider, rather then the game?

[CJH]

I logged in last night, and knew right from the get-go that it was going to be nothing but frustrating.

This game has horrible latency management. All it takes is a few ms for someone to get the advantage, you're dead before you even see them come around the corner.

Will try again tonight, hopefully it's in my favor this time around!

It played really bad for me yesterday too (PS3). By far the worst day I've had.