Call Of Duty: Black Ops - PS3, PC, 360 - November 9

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I use hardline simply because I'm not that good. I go with UAV/Counter UAV/Care package and hardline, I find it helps me contribute the most to the team (I play Domination mostly). I think if the playerbase of Black Ops would swallow their damn pride things would be much better. I get frustrated when crappy to average players (like me) use high level killstreaks. Seriously, if you suck, acknowledge it, and go UAV/Counter/Care package or Napalm to help the team as much as possible. The UAV is a very important killstreak, attack helis and airstrikes are much less useful without a UAV, it's really a no brainer. If you're a good player, by all means go with the chopper gunner or attack dogs, but for the average or mediocre players, a UAV with hardline would do wonders for the team.


One thing I really love about this game is the customization and how it helps colour blind people like me. The game's name indicator has an alternate colour scheme designed for colour blind individuals, which is a huge help. I have trouble telling the green names and red names apart on the standard colour setting, I often spray bullets at my own guys or run past enemies without realizing they aren't on my team. On COD4 especially I spent lots of time spraying rounds into my own helis because I couldn't tell on the minimap. However, Treyarch added the alternate scheme, which shows friendly names in what I see as a light bluish colour, and enemy names in a bright orange. This has helped me play much better compared to MW2, and COD4. The other thing that helps me is the customizable red dot sights. I find I lose sight of the red dot on the clear glass when I'm aiming at green areas (trees/grass, etc.), and I've found blue glass with yellow dot is the easiest contrast for me to use and it works well. It's just really nice to be able to just play without worrying about something that I can't change, and it's just an all around great thing for Treyarch to have done.


Honestly, I don't see how more games can't do it... Red/Green works well for the general population, but for the people with red/green colourblindness, the blue/orange pattern Treyarch uses is great.
 
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Time_Attack
Check this **** out. Verizon/Frontier can suck it. đź‘Ť

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đź‘Ť Awesome connection. Can I connect to your wi-fi network? Pleaseee :lol:

noob616
I use hardline simply because I'm not that good. I go with UAV/Counter UAV/Care package and hardline, I find it helps me contribute the most to the team (I play Domination mostly). I think if the playerbase of Black Ops would swallow their damn pride things would be much better. I get frustrated when crappy to average players (like me) use high level killstreaks. Seriously, if you suck, acknowledge it, and go UAV/Counter/Care package or Napalm to help the team as much as possible. The UAV is a very important killstreak, attack helis and airstrikes are much less useful without a UAV, it's really a no brainer. If you're a good player, by all means go with the chopper gunner or attack dogs, but for the average or mediocre players, a UAV with hardline would do wonders for the team.
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I don't use hardline but I roll uav/care package or napalm/attack helicopter.

As you said, the UAV helps everyone although I use it mostly for me because I think it is one of the best kill streaks (it allows me to get so many more kills)
and it requires only 3 kills to get.
Care Package I've been using lately because I couldn't afford Napalm since I prestiged but I hate it. It's cool sometimes I get dogs, helis, etc but for the amount of times I get ammo, grim reaper, valkyrie :yuck: I'd rather just get 1-2 kills with Napalm. Plus Napalm can't be stolen and it's good if you're getting shut down by people camping like crazy.
Attack Helicopter is amazing because it kills people so fast, it has chaffs and it dodges non-locked on missiles.

noob616
One thing I really love about this game is the customization and how it helps colour blind people like me. The game's name indicator has an alternate colour scheme designed for colour blind individuals, which is a huge help. I have trouble telling the green names and red names apart on the standard colour setting, I often spray bullets at my own guys or run past enemies without realizing they aren't on my team. On COD4 especially I spent lots of time spraying rounds into my own helis because I couldn't tell on the minimap. However, Treyarch added the alternate scheme, which shows friendly names in what I see as a light bluish colour, and enemy names in a bright orange. This has helped me play much better compared to MW2, and COD4. The other thing that helps me is the customizable red dot sights. I find I lose sight of the red dot on the clear glass when I'm aiming at green areas (trees/grass, etc.), and I've found blue glass with yellow dot is the easiest contrast for me to use and it works well. It's just really nice to be able to just play without worrying about something that I can't change, and it's just an all around great thing for Treyarch to have done.

Honestly, I don't see how more games can't do it... Red/Green works well for the general population, but for the people with red/green colourblindness, the blue/orange pattern Treyarch uses is great.
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I would guess that someone working on the development team is color-blind or has a family member or close friend that plays games who is color-blind. Unless Treyarch calls it a color-blind option then other developers won't take notice unfortunately because it just looks like another regular old customization feature.

I also just have to say that I love dual-mags now and I use it on all my assault rifles. Also, old me used to only use the AA rocket launchers until I unlocked cold-blooded pro or ghost pro and then I would replace the class. I see so much value in those 2 shot launchers now because as a team-tactic, they're just incredibly useful. As soon as a heli comes in or a UAV it's going to be destroyed by me :) I even have the Strela-3 as the secondary on my runner class :lol:

By the way, for you guys who don't check contracts, give them a look! For the next 14 hours the highest paying contracts are:
  • Get a 7 killstreak
  • Finish a TDM match with the highest score
  • Get 9 headshots with an AK47

I did the first two and I only need 4 more headshots for the AK one plus I've only played one match since buying them :)
 
I never really bothered with the contracts after a certain point, I seemed to have more then enough money for what I wanted and now I'm not prestiging as planned I have money coming in simply for buying the guns I don't need to the point I now have every weapon unlocked and pro perk bought of course. Eventually I might end up with every attachment :lol:.

đź‘Ť on running low rewards instead of high if you can't reach them consistently, I always run UAV, Blackbird then the ChoGu, Dogs or Gunship but now I hit at least Blackbird once a game and if not I do the next match. Sometimes if I'm feeling very confident I'll drop the UAV but not often and only for a match or 2, the Blackbird though I know is the biggest contribution to my team and I usually get it at least once a game which usually results in me getting my own air support or a team-mate or 2 getting theirs. I like the idea though that the care package will let some players lower down the food chain pick up a gunship and other high rewards just once every now and then as they are pretty good fun. Some people complain the support is overpowered especially from a package but ultimately it's only as overpowered as a team let it be by not taking it down.
 
Connection didn't help me much tonight. There were times were I could see I had the better connection when I get in a heads up gun fight and the guy is shooting 2-3 feet to my left but I still died more than enough for me to accept. Its hard to believe my K/D is over 2.0 now albeit barely. Maybe it would go up if I stopped using the M16 so much. I'm just so dang tired of the AK74 I'm trying to use everything but.

I will try and get on earlier today/tomorrow and see if I can actually pull host now. I think with my old connection I only ever pulled host maybe 3 times at most. :lol:
 
Time_Attack
Connection didn't help me much tonight. There were times were I could see I had the better connection when I get in a heads up gun fight and the guy is shooting 2-3 feet to my left but I still died more than enough for me to accept. Its hard to believe my K/D is over 2.0 now albeit barely. Maybe it would go up if I stopped using the M16 so much. I'm just so dang tired of the AK74 I'm trying to use everything but.

I will try and get on earlier today/tomorrow and see if I can actually pull host now. I think with my old connection I only ever pulled host maybe 3 times at most. :lol:
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The Commando is my assault rifle of choice for aesthetics more then anything, though it's similar to the AK with a different recoil pattern I to wanted to move away from the AK quite early on and I haven't looked back. That said I think the M16 is my highest KDR gun in the class so don't underestimate it, it's one of the better assault rifles infact, just requires a slightly different play style.
 
Tried this game for the first time today and I had same connection problem as I had in WAW. My net is 10Mb/4Mb so thats not the case.. Even when I was hosting I had worse ping then my enemyes :confused: Anyone know what BO do different in online servers compared to MW2?
 
The problem with the M16 is that right now this is a very close range game. I can get off one burst into someone but they just pull out their SMG every time and mow me down. Even the mighty Famas gets beat out by SMGs.

Also, I tried sniping for the first time last night. I had used the Dragonov before but I decided to bust out an L96 and give it a try. Quick scoping is still possible but that little dance the scope does really hurts the long range game.
 
There's just something mesmerizing about watching the truly skilled go about their business. 6th sense in action or something... :crazy:

 
Awesome ballistic knife shot! đź‘Ť
 
breakpoint
I'm thinking I will like the DOA, but the Zork I just don't care for. I never liked the text based games:tdown:
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I bought this game for my son for Christmas, Sorry I have yet to play it since I have been busy with BBC2 Map Pack7 and Vietnam, not to mention a bit of GT5. He showed me Zork last night, what a cool touch! Needless to say I had to school him on how to play Zork, what a trip in time considering I haven't played this is nearly 30yrs! Memories of my gaming days with a Commodore 64, anyhow I explained to him how to move in the game and some of the key phrases to input to play it.
 
I've finally decided to link my PSN and create a new gaming channel on youtube. I will start uploading clips like everyone else and maybe eventually buy a PVR and start uploading full games. We'll see. Anyway here is my first clip. Give it some time to finish buffering. Hopefully the audio quality will improve.

 
I love it when I play against people who just seem to be baffled by flanking:)
 
Its my favorite time. You would get a kick out of that full game. I went 23-2 and I still had an air strike and a chopper waiting to go up.
 
I really get annoyed by the RC car, so I love it when I catch someone using it:)


 
When I run up on someone using it they usually just blow it up and kill the both of us.
 
This is my second precision valk missile kill I have, I posted the other a while back. I like running this killstreak because most people can't use them, but for some reason I always get doubles and above with them, and get them places you wouldn't think they would go:dopey:



Had two funny looking caps as well, flying spaghetti monster holding someone up, and hands up!
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People actually die when then they put a tactical insertion and I put a claymore by it. YAY!
 
Crazy "after life" kill. After a couple of dozen views I still have no idea what my target was trying to accomplish with their random grenade toss, but it sure worked out well for them :grumpy:. And it found a very unfortunate final resting spot for my avatar :ouch:.

 
:lol: that's a pretty crazy death right there.

I've been chipping away at the trophies when I get a spare moment recently, well on my way to platinum bar the two zombies trophies which require an extra player (revive a player with pack-a-punch ballistic knife, get 6 kills by shooting a PAP crossbow at a team mate). Zombies is pretty damn addictive, though I much prefer Kino to Five, something about Five is just to enclosed which makes it very difficult to get a consistent tactic.
 
Dragonistic
:lol: that's a pretty crazy death right there.
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Right. You can imagine what was going through my head when I first watched the kill cam. Some of the moments this game produces... quite humorous indeed :lol:.

Time_Attack
Clearly outplayed.
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Suppose it is always possible, one truly never knows in this game ;)
 
I unlocked the Commando, I checked the stats online and the Commando, AK-47 and Galil have the same stats, so I go with the Galil because I like the sights better. I dunno, the Commando's cool, but I like the Galil better for some reason. I never really liked the AK-47 for some reason, I think it's just cause the AK74 has been my go-to gun for a long time and they look really similar.
 
The stats aren't actually the same for those guns though, although power and rate of fire are the guns aren't identical as they have differing recoil values which is where the different feel comes from for the most part. That and of course the iron sights and such, I for one don't like the look of the Galil as a whole so I don't use it even though it's a perfectly good weapon.
 
I like the AK over the others, the recoil is just straight up and really easy to control. My setup with it is scavenger pro, hardened pro, marathon pro. Works pretty well for me, I'm more of a run and gunner with a little caution thrown in because I really don't like to die in the game.
 
I think I do best with the AK, but I try to avoid using the best gun out preference. I generally run Ghost, SoH and Hacker or Marathon (all pro) on my assault rifle classes and dual mags so I don't need Scavenger to often. I just feel naked without Ghost when I come up against a half decent side (which is ultimately where it starts to matter what your set up is). I'd like to run Scavenger or possibly Lightweight more but I feel as if a good team will expose the lack of Ghost and ultimately stop me doing work so easily.

Alot of people think I'm silly for using Ghost and an unsilenced weapon (and not camping) but ulimately being able to move unseen is a big plus and it stops the enemy having a chance of fighting back if they don't know you're coming until you already open fire.
 
Dragonistic
I think I do best with the AK, but I try to avoid using the best gun out preference. I generally run Ghost, SoH and Hacker or Marathon (all pro) on my assault rifle classes and dual mags so I don't need Scavenger to often. I just feel naked without Ghost when I come up against a half decent side (which is ultimately where it starts to matter what your set up is). I'd like to run Scavenger or possibly Lightweight more but I feel as if a good team will expose the lack of Ghost and ultimately stop me doing work so easily.

Alot of people think I'm silly for using Ghost and an unsilenced weapon (and not camping) but ulimately being able to move unseen is a big plus and it stops the enemy having a chance of fighting back if they don't know you're coming until you already open fire.
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đź‘Ť Plus some people rely so heavily on spy-planes that they start to think it is safe where there are no red dots on their map. Usually that makes them easy targets.
 
Zombie walk achieved:tup:


 
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