COD: Black Ops

NikB said:
I've got into the multiplayer aspect of black ops and really enjoy it now. There are issues but it's much more fun than the campaign.



the good thing is its much harder to boost because of the lack of tactical insertion so the lobbys arn't full of cheating scumbags :thumbsup:
Click to expand...
 
Update done to iron out some "small" :roll: bugs today.
Tried it earier and only lost connection twice in an hour instead of dozens :rofl:
 
Cool. Sounds like they're getting all the connection issues sorted then; maybe time to try again - although I just got Red Dead Redemption too so am busy riding horses and shooting outlaws.

Breaker - that new game trailer looks ace!
 
PS3 - mine has hung a few times - might be the console overheating, might have been the game - etiher way a hardboot was the only solution
 
I've got this game now but am really struggling making the transition from PC keyboard and mouse to console controller. Had anyone else done this and will I ever get used to it. I can't see how the console controller can ever be as accurate.
 
i used to run a few PC game servers (counterstrike) but moved to consoles a couple of years ago, mostly due to all the hackers, laggers and aimbots

It took me a good few months to get to grips with the console pad, but you do get used to it - although for such things as sniping you will never be as accurate or speedy when aiming.

PS If anyone is on the PS3 and play Black Ops add me - PREFER_YOU_DEAD

Rich
 
It was a struggle for me too. Got there in the end, you just have to learn that everyone else is in the same boat so aiming is slightly slower all round.
 
Only opened this today. Seems quite a good game, although remains me more of World and War than MW2.

rank 16 and climbing. :lol:
 
Finished it about two days after getting and then traded it in, was poor compared with MV2. Playing Fallout - Vegas, it's crazy sometimes I wonder why I'm playing it but I just can't stop, top game. Started GT5 at the weekend.

PS3 tag - stinkpig69
 
ranski said:
i used to run a few PC game servers (counterstrike) but moved to consoles a couple of years ago, mostly due to all the hackers, laggers and aimbots

It took me a good few months to get to grips with the console pad, but you do get used to it - although for such things as sniping you will never be as accurate or speedy when aiming.

PS If anyone is on the PS3 and play Black Ops add me - PREFER_YOU_DEAD

Rich
Click to expand...

Thanks but am on xbox myself. Am starting to get the hang of it now. But will never be anywhere near as good as mouse and keys.
 
I've been playing it on xbox today... Bloody hard to get into it after a couple of years of world at war on wii; I can't hit anything!

I'm really only playing it til battlefield bf2 arrives, but if you want to add me: Nick S Harris :thumbsup:
 
Got the game for xmas,but after playing MW2 and getting to level 70 and thinking i was good, but i get totally battered on Black ops.
But i will get used to the maps and my time will come and i will be doing the battering :thumbsup:
 
If anyone wants to add me on the xbox

AnOriginalNik is my tag.

Sick of playing with retards without mikes. :oops:
 
Don't play games often and gave up on the COD franchise after the first one which I liked. Tried the forth one (I think) and disliked that very quickly).

I don't like consoles either. Tried a PS3 but it soon went on eBay, didn't like the gamepad. Graphics not up to what modern PC's can display and all the games I did try for some reason just did'nt feel right to me. Some were way to linear, no free-roaming. You had to walk this way not that way and felt scripted.

As the current consoles are getting old now I wish more game developers looked back at the PC. Super fast graphics cards seem to be released constantly and there is so much power available (and DirectX11) but the software houses seem to develop for the now old consoles first and then do rubbish ports to the PC, often poorly optimised and therefore not efficiently using the graphics power available from the PC.

Currently when I do have spare time I still play the old Stalker game and have the recent DX11 one (Call of Pripyat).
 
The trouble with the PC is that you spec (at the time) a high-end graphics card, which makes your PC/laptop an expensive piece of kit, and then in the space of a year or so the latest games on the PC either don't run or run with major compromises because the technology has moved on so fast. So you are faced with a choice of upgrade your card/swap your PC/laptop or don't buy any new games. The PC games sales are a fraction of console sales for that reason (oh and that versus the cost of a new PS3/X Box versus a high end graphics capable PC or laptop). That's why I changed over to console. You know its going to work on your machine, you know there are going to be loads of other people playing online and you know that because the sales of console games far outweigh PC sales that there will be loads more titles to choose from. I don't think the graphics on the latest PC games can be a huge amount better than PS3/X Box. Add in as well the Kinect (and whatever SOny brings out to try and counteract) and gaming on the PC is a non-starter IMO.

I like Black Ops but it was never going to be as popular as MW2 because a lot of the target audience have no idea of the history (cold war, cuban missile crisis etc). If you start playing it a few months after it's come out you are at a massive disadvantage online because everyone else knows the maps, weapons etc like the back of their hand and you will get annihilated. I've had it for 2 months and I'm on third prestige now and I'm finding a lot of newbies after christmas, they are like lambs to the slaughter ! :rofl:
 
Less hackers, aimbots and laggers on the console environment - Also much more even with standard hardware :thumbsup:
 
original guvnor said:
I don't think the graphics on the latest PC games can be a huge amount better than PS3/X Box. Add in as well the Kinect (and whatever SOny brings out to try and counteract) and gaming on the PC is a non-starter IMO. :
Click to expand...

Maybe true but part of that reason is because many the games on PC are console ports which I believe use DirectX9 still (in the case of the xbox at least). Depends on the monitor but at 1920*1200 any games look better on PC. When I connected the PS3 to the same monitor there was just no comparison. I heard most games do not run at HD resoliutions on the consoles either. On the PC you can run most games at whatever res the monitor supports as long as the graphcis card is good enough.On a console the menu system will be set to for example 1920*1200, but games will only run at whatever res they were developed for, which is often lower than what people think.

Pro's an con's both sides really but overall I still much prefer the PC. With the PS3 I found that yes you know games will run but there were still performance problems with the few games I tried, low frame rates at times. Also can't beat the mouse and keyboard combo of he PC :). If games developers developed more PC only titles I think there would be a huge difference between the current (old) consoles and PC games, in favour of thePC of course
 
It's funny but i never found the switch from mouse and keyboard xbox controller an issue really although I know a lot have.

I started gaming on PC's but in the end i realised that the PC is fighting a losing battle against console machines that are designed PURELY for gaming. The PC has so many other tasks for which users purchase it. That means it will never be able to compete as a gaming machine.

I had a 256MB NVidia GeForce 7800 card on my laptop when I bought it in Jan 06 which was the 'dog's you-know-whats' back then, but i bet compared to the latest stuff that is practically pre-historic. That machine also cost me £1300. It cost me that much because it was specced up to enable me to play games. Compared to £250 for a console that's a massive difference.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom