Sorry I took so long to reply!
You rant about some thing, and find that ther are even more terrible things you forgot to mention! Black Ops has a VERY bad camper problem. I haven't encountered camping like I'm finding in this game, since the days of Resistance Fall of Man - it's shocking! Honestly, there is a hardcore, almost a majority of gamers that have taken to camping, and it is ruining the game.
I've been playing split-screen online the past couple of days, and to tell you the truth... I'M IMPRESSED! Serisoulsy, I was dubious about how Treyarch could manage to pull it off, but they have some how, and I have not noticed any significant problems with doing it. This is something that is worthy of praise! 👍
The more I play this game, I find also that it is a different challenge to MW2. Basically, the game is much, much slower. Once I realised that, my enjoyment has increase significantly. MW2 seems to be zooming, compared to Black Ops, which seems to be on a stroll by comparrison.
I like the idea that you can't use Scav and Ghost (force a compromise), before all the Perk 2 slots (bar stopping power) on MW2 were all in for a fair shout against each other and forced you to make a decision. Use dual mags instead of scavenger, in order to run ghost, it's a compromise but it just keeps on meaning that there's no instant go to class meaning yet more variety.
Good points here. TBH, I've got over the dissapointment of not being able to have a true scavenger-ghost class, as I have recently discovered the barebones game modes!
Dragonistic
The pro perks I feel your complaint, some challenges are irritating but they also force people to play the objective in those modes if they want to get it which is a good thing to balance out the bad. Honestly why shouldn't people have to learn new skills to get a perk labelled 'Pro'?
I can see you point here, but as I only play with clan, and they are TDM junkies, the opprotunitiies to get pro for some perks is slim. 👍
Dragonsitic
Use an SMG like an SMG and the 74u isn't as great as everyone says it is, you can put on Rapid Fire to cancel that out but then you lose it's better mid range (where it should still be dominated by assault rifles and is). What the 74u is, is a versatile but not perfect gun at multiple ranges (not like a certain sub in MW2, the UMP which carried more power then an assault rifle at long range!).
The AK74u IS awesome, you just need to NOT use rapid-fire. I got caught up in the whole rapid-fire-grip setup for the AK74u, but I found (as you say), mid-range accuracy was spoiled, and long range was, well, unheard of. Extended mag-grip (with savenger pro), is where the AK74u is at! If you can ride without the grip, plop on sleight of hand pro, then you have an SMG with the stamina of an LMG, with the firepower of an assault rife! 👍
Dragonistic
The spawns may seem sporadic but more often than not it's because an enemy pushed to far into the spawn and we don't want another Highrise from MW2 where you could absolutely demolish a team from inside their spawn for a long period of time. Whether they'll change those to, who knows, but Black Ops keeps getting better with each patch and I hope they sort out the servers for the PS3 version so people can really give it a chance.
To call the spawn system in Black Ops sporadic, would be to lay upon the game, an undue compliment - they are not sporadic, they are schizophrenic!
As another example, last night I was on Summit, and as is normal if you are not on the attacking wave, I was running back into my own spawn to kill the opposing team, but I found that every time I respawned, I was either in my own spawn area, or theirs! This was happening almost every other kill. I'd either have to run the whole map to get to the opposing team, or about face and deal with the opposing team that had just spawned in the same area as I had.
The biggest complaint I have about the spawn system though, is that I cannot get a feel for the scope of the battle. In MW2, you could sense the flow of the match, and plan your tactics accordingly. in Black Ops, there seems to be no flow, just random encounters. One minute the area you are in is dead, next minute half the server has spawned right where you are! That is really bad spawn management, no matter how you look at it! 👍
Dragonistic
Don't get me wrong I liked MW2, but as I wrote in my review of it for gamespot (not actually gamespot themselves but through member reviews), most of the changes from previous games just provided imbalance between players and/or frustrations. If we want to talk about stupid ideas, Commando (it is still longer range then BO), Danger Close, One Man Army, get harrier earn nuke without shooting your gun again, nuke despite losing an objective game gain insta-win, literal zero recoil guns, sleight of hand pro uber quick scopes, secondaries better then alot of primaries, the list goes on.
Yeah, I agree with you on these aspects, there are many things in MW2, that could have been done differently, but I have rarely suffered from any of those problems. Yeah, I get 'fortied' every now and then, but it was never enough of a problem ofr me to rant and rave about.
If you find you are suffering from problems like that, then you should play with a clan. Solo play in MW2 is crap, plain and simple. Don't get me worng, you can learn some stuff from the game playing like that, but MW2, really starts to shine when played with teammates you trust. My clan has a six-man team that plays the game to death, and we never fear any of the flaws you have mentioned.
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