Why Black Ops is kinda sucky - That Soviet Guy

An honest look at Black Ops and why it kind of sucks. It is a personal objective view from the eyes of a hardcore gamer, not a fanboy.

[hc2706]

In soviet russia, black ops s... no.

thats not funny anymore

[Red_Orange_Juice]

that soviet guy? really?

[BattleAxe]

Is that Soviet Guy the same guy that shot about 30 rounds with 3 different guns into MW2?

[B_Rian89]

Im returning my copy to Amazon

[venom06]

FINALLY .... SOMEONE IS HONEST ABOUT THIS "CAMPING INDUCING" GARBAGE!!!

[FAGOL]

true people who rush have to camp or there's no point in playing. Maybe if they fix the spawning issues people will start to move around more freely. I mean what's the point of going around the map just to find the whole team spawned on the other side. Let's see what Treyarch will do.

[-Alpha]

They hotfixed the spawning already. If there are still issues I'd like to hear what you think they are. They were mind-numbingly bad before, but TA has hot fixed the issue with the spawns.

Also, I'd like examples as to how this game is "spawn induced" I doubt venom has played it.

Sometimes people say COD is people running with their heads cut off. Sometimes they say its camping induced. Which is it?

Camping really isn't an issue in Black Ops, I'd love to hear some instances from people

[FAGOL]

@Alpha-Male22 Are you sure they fixed the spawning issues? I'm playing on PS3 and on big maps like jungle the enemy spawns right behind you even though no one is on the other side of the map. You would think travelling to an area where there are less team mates would equal to enemy players. So at the moment there is no real point of moving. You can just wait for the enemy to spawn around you.

[-Alpha]

@Fagol

First, I don't understand what you mean by this:

"I mean what's the point of going around the map just to find the whole team spawned on the other side"

Then you say

"I'm playing on PS3 and on big maps like jungle the enemy spawns right behind you even though no one is on the other side of the map"

Did you make a mistake on the first comment? Because I assume you would want teams to spawn on the other side, right? Are you sure people weren't using TI's? Or that players didn't have a captured objective nearby? The best way to check is to fast forward on a zoomed out map and see where people spawn.

TA said they hot fixed it and I haven't heard issues yet from people. There was this one great video on YT that showed perfectly the issue of enemies spawning not even 5 seconds from the exact spot you spawned:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

As you can see, the spawning made no sense whatsoever.

Here is TA's fix:

"Improvements to the spawn system to resolve an issue where negative spawn influencers from specific game events were not always being deleted after the danger had cleared – in some matches, this was causing good spawns to be erroneously flagged by the game as bad spawns, which in turn forced actual bad spawns to get selected later in the match"

http://www.callofduty.com/b...

Now, I haven't checked personally, I intend to do so tonight, but judging from the quietness of the community (they were in an uproar before), I see no reason why TA would lie. There could still be issues with the spawn, but they claimed to have fixed the one that caused the random spawning.

[FAGOL]

@Alpha-Male22 'Because I assume you would want teams to spawn on the other side, right?' Yh that's right. And no i'm sure they ar'nt using TI's (I use hacker and I actually have'nt come across any yet). I don't really play objective based games more of a tdm guy. I can't speak for other game types but in tdm there is still an issue.

[GLoRyKnoT]

I rush & 80% of my deaths wur campers yet, i get why & adapt.

@Alf; Everytime you kill or die, y'all spawn close! that simple. (revenge system) Played mostly sab & cap on 360

Bottomline: It's FUN! (what else matters)

[BARF]

if the spawns are apparently fixed now, i am trading this game in, cause they still suck. i have wondered while playing BO if treyarch has a bunch of retarded people working for them. how could they not have noticed?

i swore to not buy another CoD after MW2, but all the new things that were added made me curious. too bad none of these things fix the fact that the base CoD gameplay kinda sucks. im done with CoD from now on (hopefully).

[JeffGUNZ]

@ BARF

The spawn system is fine now. People always point at Nuketown as an example. Seriously though, what is it suppose to do when half of the team is on oneside camping the back and the other is rushing to the other side of the map? That means one team is on both sides. so, where would you like them to spawn you? How about this for a quick fix; One team spawn on WMD and ther other spawn on Crisis, and we will all meet in Nuketown. Even when the spawn system wasn't patched it was not a game breaking element. I still have a 1.4 - 1.5 K/D ratio and it hasn't changed since they improved them.

BARF, you posted that you didn't want to buy another COD and you eventually caved in and game it a shot. Looks to me you went in the game looking for a reason to jusitfy your past belief. This game is by far the best COD since COD4, and one of the most content packed COD's to date. This game is excellent and a lot of fun. Play it with an open mind and just have some fun.

[tacosRcool]

Its like that in all the Call of Duty's

[Simco876]

I have to agree. I will take the lesser of the two evils and choose MW2.

[The_Darkest_Red]

*dies from thinking about a world where MW2 is less evil than something*

[FAGOL]

I would'nt go that far

[JeffGUNZ]

Black Ops blows MW2 out of the water and IW should be ashamed of that crap they released and never supported.

[CrzyFooL]

Wooooo Nuketo . . . fuck I just spawned and died.

[SmokexFFx]

CrzyFooL has joined the game
SMOK3xFFx has killed CrzyFooL
CrzyFooL has left the game

[DarkFantasy]

CrzyFooL you rage quiter!!

[Highlife]

The game keeps freezing on me. Well I guess I'm done.

@Turkish I'm with you on to KZ3!!!!

[paladin_veltron]

the killzone beta is really good. waiting to see what else they got in the full game. Highlife and turkish if you guys wanna play sme kz3 add me. paladin_veltron.

[shwisha]

For someone who plays a lot of multiplayer games it's easy to see how different Black Ops is compared to MW2 and CoD4. But from the average players POV they might not be able to see/feel the changes. I don't expect a huge breakthrough in gameplay from game to game, especially those released once a year.

I think the big differences in Black Ops vs MW2 are 1. It takes more to take people down. 2. you need to work as a team more - taking one two players who have their back to you isn't as easy. 3. The new maps are well balanced (for the most part).

I think Black Ops is a big improvement over MW2 which really catered to newbs. Black Ops now lets skilled players win and do it with dignity, rather than having to resort to shady techniques to get high k/d ratios.

[jetlian]

same thing l've been saying. Noobs are upset they can't run around knifing and noob tubbing

Edit: he says its the same as 3 years ago yet didn't mention splitscreen online or the gunship,sam KS,VALKRYIE, rc.

[JeffGUNZ]

I know man, I thought the same thing. The game is filled with new content and things the COD franchise has never seen. I agree, a lot of the nooob-tubers and knifers are pissed that they can't cheat and win like they use to. This game is much more competitive then MW2.

[kasasensei]

This review is an epic fail...
The guys never played the game... Just read the zombie paragraph....
He never played COD4:Modern Warfare either...
That site should be banned.

[JeffGUNZ]

Yeah, you could tell he just doesn't like that COD releases a game every year. The game is 10 steps ahead of modern warfare 2 and this game has put Treyarch on the top tier for this franchise.