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Black Ops 2 Thread - 11-13-12

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joshsquall said:
That guy cares way too much. If you don't like the game, don't play it and stop buying each new iteration.

Being someone who understands programming and networking, I know how difficult it is to compensate for latency, especially in a very fast paced game with 12-18 players. I play on PC and I'm pretty terrible, but I still have fun. I notice the lag issues in some of my killcams, but it really doesn't bother me. I'm not playing for money or pride - just trying to have some fun. The penalty for death in most CoD modes is so minor that I really don't care.
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Yes, every COD had the same problems and I still had fun, but this game however, the consistency is non existent. The same problems usually don't show up each match which drives me nuts, and it gives me little chance to compensate for it. Maybe I do care too much and I'm just raging, but it is frustrating.
 
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Played a lot this weekend and had issues getting into full lobbies while in a group of six. Once we did though, things seemed to run rather smooth. Only time we would get lag issues is when I was host. I live very far away from the people I play with so it would cause issues for them and not me.

I am really liking the PDW. I like the clip size because it helps while running a flag back and not having to reload a bunch.
 
I wonder what the number is on DLC purchases with the first map pack release. None of my friends and myself as well are not getting it. We're all pretty upset about how half ass this release is. Sad, this genre is ready for some competition.
 
fbrdphreak said:
What is it exactly you were expecting?
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Compared to Black Ops 1... the game just heavily lacks attention to detail. There's nothing interactive, the announcers are boring, hit detection is horrible,the maps just don't seem like they were planned out very well, etc... I remember getting excited when you'd hear that music before a match started in blops1. No longer do I feel that way.

I think they've gone way out to please the purist. There's nothing exciting about the game. It's the same run n gun, reflex only gameplay, and if your connection is not in par durring a session, good luck!!

I remember in past COD games, depending on the maps and gameplay varian, I'd use different classes and guns. Can't do that in this one, it's smg or bust. Sure, I can sit back with a lmg or AR at times, but when I get a jump on an smg runner and lose the gun fight.. forget it. Back to the smg.

Also Zombies suck. Remember all of the interconnecting doors and creativity from the original zombies. Not here, makes no sense. I've tried it many times, and it's not the same. Zino der toten alone blows these zombie maps out of the water. Zero life and characters in the cia and scientists in this new zombies. Given how great blops was, we expected alot more from this one, but what a set back.
 
fbrdphreak said:
So you don't like the game, not the DLC. To each his own.
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Yeah. If they bring back some old maps in a DLC, Jungle\Havana, I might be intrigued to get them just to see how they stack up in this new one vs. the old one. Would be interesting at least. Jungle with out ICE Cube announcing and Viets screaming Do Ma would be pretty lame though.
 
Blops1 had some endearing parts to it, sure. Blops2 lost some of those, but added some good parts of its own. Every COD game has had its pluses and minuses.
 
Is there any hidden nuke/moab this time? I am not good enough to ever get one but also havent seen or heard of one yet so I was curious.
 
I had an idea about map packs. I think that the weekend before maps go live, they should allow everyone to access them for free, just for the weekend. Then everyone can play them and see what they think. I have been burned by buying crappy maps, so now I am to the point that I just don't buy maps anymore. But give people the option to demo the maps for a weekend, and you might start selling more.
 
Sixguns said:
Is there any hidden nuke/moab this time? I am not good enough to ever get one but also havent seen or heard of one yet so I was curious.
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Nope. You can get various "Nuclear" player cards for getting high gun streaks. I think one is a 25 kill gun streak in pretty much any game mode and I know there's a separate one for getting a 30 kill gun streak in FFA. THere may be others. But nothing that affects game play, nope.

American Gunner said:
I had an idea about map packs. I think that the weekend before maps go live, they should allow everyone to access them for free, just for the weekend. Then everyone can play them and see what they think. I have been burned by buying crappy maps, so now I am to the point that I just don't buy maps anymore. But give people the option to demo the maps for a weekend, and you might start selling more.
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Me likely +1
 
American Gunner said:
I had an idea about map packs. I think that the weekend before maps go live, they should allow everyone to access them for free, just for the weekend. Then everyone can play them and see what they think. I have been burned by buying crappy maps, so now I am to the point that I just don't buy maps anymore. But give people the option to demo the maps for a weekend, and you might start selling more.
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It could work the opposite way as well. People could demo the maps and see how crappy they are then decide not to buy. This would erase a bunch of season pass purchases upfront when the game is released as well.
 
thegimp03 said:
It could work the opposite way as well. People could demo the maps and see how crappy they are then decide not to buy. This would erase a bunch of season pass purchases upfront when the game is released as well.
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Well then the developers should work to put out good maps, easy as that.
 
American Gunner said:
Well then the developers should work to put out good maps, easy as that.
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So true. I got all the maps with MW3 but I also had elite from the Hardened edition so I didnt pay for them. I wont be buying them for Blops2. If they believed in their work they would do this. I say push them out for the weekend and offer 2XP to get more players trying them out. I think you would get more sells that way.
 
Sixguns said:
So true. I got all the maps with MW3 but I also had elite from the Hardened edition so I didnt pay for them. I wont be buying them for Blops2. If they believed in their work they would do this. I say push them out for the weekend and offer 2XP to get more players trying them out. I think you would get more sells that way.
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Exactly. Make some good maps and they will sell.
 
There are now 1000 corners in every map argh! I can deal with that, but the firing blanks and hit markers need to be fixed.
 
Played some last night and the latency lag is just disgusting.

I've got a solid internet connection at home and I'm usually showing 4 green bars, but last night I was dying before I even saw the enemies turn through the corner. Hell, sometimes enemies wouldn't even be looking at me and somehow bullets would magically hit me.

Very frustrating.
 
Im pissed that I wasted my perm unlock on Ghost. I guess I should have actually read it better but since I play hardcore there is very rarely a UAV up so its pointless. Unless you use perk 1 greed and pair blindeye with it.
 
Sixguns said:
Im pissed that I wasted my perm unlock on Ghost. I guess I should have actually read it better but since I play hardcore there is very rarely a UAV up so its pointless. Unless you use perk 1 greed and pair blindeye with it.
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Doesn't ghost only work when you're moving too?
 
Got back into it a bit this weekend with the double XP and spent some time and got two gold guns. What amazes me is the amount of people with diamond guns, those guys have put a TON of time in the game.
 
The double xp weekends are pretty much the only time I play, but with those I've now prestiged this weekend and are back up to lvl 23 with less than 4 hours played. This is the first COD I've actually cared enough to prestige in which is pretty impressive. I also have no idea what I actually want to perm unlock as the SMG I use most often is unlocked pretty quickly. I did unlock and try the last AR you get and liked that more than most of them, so I considered using it on that but I'm just not sure.

Also I hadn't noticed the diamond guns until a few rounds ago, and after looking at what it takes to get them I'm stunned.
 
I came across some boosters yesterday in KC. Im guessing that there were working on headshots but I ruined that party serveral times. I was the host so I couldnt get kicked for team killing so I just killed them both over and over and over again.
 
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