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

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I heard that update 1.06 hit today for PS3 and it fixed all of the lag and frame rate issues, and it now runs as smooth as it does on the breakbox. Have you downloaded the patch and tried any games yet Legendary?
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I am not even going to bother playing the game again just because it got patched. When I do eventually pick it up again in maybe a months time (thats what I have been doing) I will have to patch it and see if its good.

Then again, I may have no need to play it at all depending on how good TDU 2 is 👍.
 
1Mbit is fast enough to play 6v6, Anes/TA. You're sending one packet and receiving 11 every .1 of a second or whatever, each packet you're receiving doesn't need 100kbit of bandwidth. The packets are likely to be all of 3kb each.

And BO on PS3 has a reputation of not working correctly - I can't get open NAT in BO despite type 2 NAT in the PS3 network settings and open NAT in every other game I have. But it works fine for you Anes, so it must be my internet's fault, right?

ftr. I have 760k upload and have hosted many many games in MW2 and BO without a problem. If 700k up is more than enough to host, 700k down is more than enough to play...
 
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1Mbit is fast enough to play 6v6, Anes/TA. You're sending one packet and receiving 11 every .1 of a second or whatever, each packet you're receiving doesn't need 100kbit of bandwidth. The packets are likely to be all of 3kb each.
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This reminds me, I have played Call of Duty capped. When I used to have a lower download limit and I got capped it would go down to just about dial up speed. I don't know whether my capitalisation of KB/s is right but lets say if I were to download something while capped it download 7KB/s and can upload around 3KB/s. Believe it or not, that is also very smooth playing on call of duty as long as you have all of the bandwidth spare/ going straight to the PS3.
 
👍 Ping is much more important than line speed anyway.
 
Again, you can always open up your ports.
 
Five new maps are coming soon: Discovery, based on the "Project Nova" mission; Kowloon, based on "Numbers"; Berlin Wall, a map that was originally scrapped (and because the storyline maps are based on the multiplayer ones instead of the other way around, the implication is that the story was set to feature Germany at some point); Stadium, set in North America and based on a map called "Munich" that was scrapped; and Ascension, a zombie map based on a abandoned Cosmodrome, possibly a re-lit "Launch".
 
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Again, you can always open up your ports.
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IMO PS3 always on DMZ. It's the easiest thing in the world and you never have to guess if it's your ports or the game or wtv.

I know you don't really care about BO Legendary but you should try anyways, it might improve other games as well (even if they aren't broken).

In terms of connection no you don't need a big pipe to play, just a good ping. Almost every connection will choke if you are running other stuff on it, I have a 7Mbps connection and even using Youtube will give me annoying lag in games I really notice it in (Street Fighter for example). Common misconception people have is that more bw = better ping. My friend lives close to me and has a 20Mbps cable connection, I have a 7Mbps DSL connection and we always get within 10ms ping of each other playing CS on servers that give us ~90ms ping.

Besides my friends and I have all had a lot of problems on BO online, so it's not just Legendary's internet, being in Montreal I should have a good connection to most of the east coast and a lot of good games to choose from, but I used to rarely get put into one. Even playing against French people (obviously close to me) I still get lag occasionally. I have yet to try the patch and I hope it resolves most if not all of the issues.

Anyways guys, no need to get aggressive. Chill :)

BTW Legendary, small b is for whatever your ISP tells you your connection speed is and speed tests as well. Big B is for whenever you see your connection speed while downloading a file or whatever.
 
I like the sound of the stadium map. It might be just run and shoot, no cover.
There's a couple of game I do with my friends(Not sure if they're custom rules or set rules by the game) one is sticks and stones. You get 2 weapons, a crossbow explosive tip and a ballistic knife and the rest is a free-for-all. The second one is you have a pistol with one bullet, kill someone and you get a second bullet, miss and you have to knife them. It's great fun and actually makes nuketown look good.
 
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I like the sound of the stadium map. It might be just run and shoot, no cover.
There's a couple of game I do with my friends(Not sure if they're custom rules or set rules by the game) one is sticks and stones. You get 2 weapons, a crossbow explosive tip and a ballistic knife and the rest is a free-for-all. The second one is you have a pistol with one bullet, kill someone and you get a second bullet, miss and you have to knife them. It's great fun and actually makes nuketown look good.
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I haven't tried sticks and stones yet. One in the chamber I didn't like because people just end up camping the whole time but when there's action it's fun.

You should try the other two modes:
- gun game where everyone starts with the same weapon and each kill gets you a new one, the first person to get a kill with all the weapons wins (getting knifed puts you backwards one weapon)
- sharp shooter where everyone always has the same weapons and every 45 seconds the weapon gets changed to a random different one

I suck at gun game but it's fun, so is sharp shooter.
 
akmuq
I like the sound of the stadium map. It might be just run and shoot, no cover.
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The trailers shows that all the maps have cover in them. There are no maps that are simply "run and shoot". The only new feature is the ability to zipline - kind of like a flying fox - on Kowloon. You can traverse the map quickly, but you cannot fire a weapon while using it and it leaves you totally open and exposed.
 
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The trailers shows that all the maps have cover in them. There are no maps that are simply "run and shoot". The only new feature is the ability to zipline - kind of like a flying fox - on Kowloon. You can traverse the map quickly, but you cannot fire a weapon while using it and it leaves you totally open and exposed.
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People are going to get slaughtered using it :lol:

I want the snow map with the bridges, it looks like it will be fun except the collapsing bridges might get annoying.
 
Looks like the Monkey's don't help you anymore. Bad Monkey!
 
Wager matches with a full party are hilarious.
 
New personal best Kino der Toten solo.

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I find by that stage Zombies starts to drag, I made round 36/7 solo and got fed up. So I traded in my Porters Ray Gun and Zeus Cannon for a pair of HS10s and China lake (upgraded them both) and proceeded to play like a moron and then still didn't die so I killed myself 👍:lol:. It doesn't really get harder it just drags on and on in those later rounds, you could probably make any round you like TA if you made 30+.
 
I started off using the Stakeout and M14. I upgraded both and I made it passed level 25 before I had to trade either in. Eventually the stakeout became a 4-5 shot kill so I had to give that up to. I finished off the game with the Zeus cannon and an HK21. I could have kept going but I was out of ammo trying to use the box when I got jumped by a gang of the undead. Its a shame to because I had just gotten another RPK out of the box but didn't have time to pick it up.

I know I could do better. I was using my Shi no numa strategy of running around in circles.
 
I run around in circles to, to be fair you could buy a weapon of the wall as you circle and pick at the horde forever, you'd gain the points back and be able to buy more ammo simply due to the sheer number of zombies. Ultimately that's all you can do on the really late rounds if you run out of ammo, though I've never been forced to it myself. That's why it literally doesn't get any harder, just takes more time each round, getting a good weapon only speeds the process up so long as you have ammo left in it.
 
I ran around in circles on Kino because I had no money nor ammo for the horde.
 
So I'm finally getting close to my first level of prestige. Its odd I know since I was at the midnight release you might think I'd be ranked higher but I just hit 49 tonight. I should be hitting the button in the next few days. Hopefully I don't regret it. My stats thus far are K/D 2.15 W/L 1.7.

Anyway I have recently found out how good the MPL is. I'm running it with dual mags and grip with lightweight, warlord and marathon. This thing tears like there is no tomorrow. I had a game on WMD earlier that even though it didn't reach the score limit I still went 30-4. It might not be the AK74 but I think this just might be my new favorite SMG.

And finally I had one question. I played CTF for the first time this morning. I killed a guy camping his flag on summit but I didn't get an offense medal for this. Anyone know why? The guy was sitting right next to the flag inside a building. Do I have to get the flag first or something?
 
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Ok then I finally finished off level 51 so I can prestige next time I hop on. 25 hours and 46 minutes spent. 151 games won, 82 games lost. K/D 2.16. W/L 1.83. Accuracy .00000035% approx.
 
Nice W/L ratio there, despite my own performances I seem to lose loads of games even if I absolutely trash the other team it's almost as if the game chooses teams to basically make it me V 6 guys with the expectation that I can pull my team with me which to be fair I do manage with reasonable consistency. It's still above 1, around 1.15-1.2 with a 3.38 K/D, I should probably try to party up with people more if I cared about winning to much but I only care about a loss if I feel I didn't help prevent it.
 
I play Merc TDM almost exclusively now just to avoid facing full parties. I'll do some lobby shopping until I find a good game and if its a map I don't like I won't rush out in the middle. My kill streaks are also team oriented with a 3-4-5 setup. I don't mind dying so long as I get my first two kill streaks regularly.

Of note though I was just looking at the TDM leader boards and my weekly K/D is over 2.80. Not bad especially since I rarely use the higher lethal kill streaks. I don't even have anything past attack heli unlocked.
 
I'm all about the 3-4-8, yup you guessed it, spy plane, counter spy plane and blackbird (seeing as I usually get at least one 8+ streak per game). Sometimes swap out the counter for a ChoGu or Dogs if I'm on a roll and I'm fed up of trying to help useless team-mates :lol:. I should consider diving into Merc TDM myself a little more but I just don't think about it anymore like I used to in MW2 because I generally take COD less seriously now I have some diversity in my gaming life.
 
Running blackbird is a good idea but I like the napalm strike because it can cut off routes and flush out campers. I can also get more of them in a game. I may get an 8 kill streak in a game but more often than not I die soon after getting my counter spy plane. I really seem to run around a LOT more in this game than I did in MW2. I would almost never use SMGs in that game but in BO I actually have not one but two SMG classes.
 
Hungh interesting, well at least they are trying something:
PS3 Firmware Update “Bans Black Ops Hackers”
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The newly-released PlayStation 3 firmware update appears to have led to a slew of players being banned from playing Call Of Duty: Black Ops online.

As we reported yesterday, system software 3.56 introduced new security measures designed to keep pirates and hackers off Sony’s online service, PSN. Existing custom firmware spoofs official 3.55 firmware, and with PSN updated to only allow users on 3.56 to sign in, the hackers were kept offline.

Temporarily, at least. A circumvention method was soon found involving changing DNS settings, enabling the hackers back online where they were free to continue ruining the online gaming experience of legitimate consumers. Or so they thought.

Posters on the official Black Ops forums are complaining that, when they went to play Treyarch’s shooter online after updating their PS3’s firmware, they were greeted with a message telling them their console had been banned from playing Black Ops. Of course, most of them are making up convenient excuses or denying having hacked their systems.

“I went to get on Black Ops a few hours ago and it said I was console banned WTF I never hacked my PS3 WTF Treyarch,” writes one poster, who rather gives himself away by posting under the handle ididtheblackopsprestigehack.

If the reports are true, they suggest Sony has decided that banning users from playing specific games, rather than banning entire systems, is its best course of action. It would make sense: that PSN accounts are free to create means account bans are not so much of a deterrent as they are on the Xbox 360, and a complete console ban would be both punitive and could have a detrimental effect on future sales of online titles.
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Lock those mother ****ers out in the cold. I'd kick every last one of them in the nuts if they had any. Boo hoo they can't play online. I'm playing the worlds smallest violin just for them.
 
Yeah personally I report every glitcher I see in BO, but given the nature of the way the PS3 was hacked it all still seems kinda pointless to me. However like I said, at least they are trying something. If it helps keep only a few cheaters at bay I'm still all for it.
 
I encountered a hacked 15th prestige user last night. I think he was using a lag switch as well because we all had a terrible connection.

Sad thing was even though he cheated, he couldn't beat us.



sorry camera on monitor only. I'm unable to set up my easycap.
 
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