Call of Duty: Black Ops - 8 Simple Reasons You Suck at Multiplayer

Let’s face it: When one player sucks in Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer, the whole team suffers. And if you don’t realize which guy on your team sucks – well, you know how that old adage goes, right?

[electricshadow]

I'm guilty of the reloading after killing someone. However, it has saved my life more than it's gotten me killed. I try to reload when I know it's 100% safe.

[pangitkqb]

I'm guilty of the early reload as well. Some of those pointers were actually pretty good.

One of the better Black Ops articles I have seen in a while.

[BloodyNapkin]

Dropshots are for noobs that cant aim....

[Corepred4]

i thought it was just because black ops sucks ass. i'll stick with mw2 where your player doesn't feel so light and most of the bugs and glitches (ps3) are patched already.

[-Alpha]

I usually reload and it's a fairly good strategy. Simply use SoH it's extremely useful.

[AndrewRyan]

I always hold down my crouch button as soon as I press my reload button. Then I will be in prone position and less likely to be seen or killed.

I`ve been playing many call of duty games since Call of Duty 4. CoD4 and Black ops are probably the most balanced for me. I have over 24 days on CoD4 even though I have not played it for 2 or 3 years.

I guess you can call me a good player, but I mean sure you can take tips from a website or you can develop your own playstyle and play with it until you master it. I`ve played the same since CoD4 I find my KD to be a lot higher. When I first got CoD4 my KD was like .64 and now it is .85 since I sucked for so long haha.

In black ops my KD is 1.96 which is a lot better I believe.

[the_best_player]

any noob can be good at COD no skill is needed.
Unlike Unreal, Quake, CSS, HL2DM

[-Alpha]

Sure you would. Easy pick up and play =/= automatic victory.

Play against a good player and I doubt you will do well simply because every game requires a level of skill and understanding.

Everybody talks about how easy COD is but doesn't realize that any game has a division of skill, COD included.

[-X-]

@the_best_player

Its true that CoD is easy to pick up. Most people can buy a game, and get pretty good fats, but I also agree with Alpha-Male22. If you want a 20 kill streak or something like that your going to have to plan it out and try hard.

It might not take skill to be good, but it takes skill to be great. You will almost never see someone who just bought CoD get like a 20 kill streak.

[Corepred4]

its needs at least some skill. you can see who has barely started playing the game when they go 0-20 and you actually see them running around trying. I think a lot has to do with memorizing the maps and peoples habits of doing what on said maps.

[Mikeyy]

@the_best_player

B.S. I guarentee you no "Noob" is chaining Chopper Gunners and Going 45-2 in any match.

The average player is going to go like 8-9 for the match.

[the_best_player]

jump into the games I listed and see what happens :)

[Ducky]

I have a much worse problem.

I assume the enemy is dead and reload.
Like, I know I've shot enough bullets to take them down, so I automatically hit the reload button, even though they're still alive.
Usually I guess right, and they die while I'm reloading.

Often, I up being one bullet short and have to do an awkward dance to dodge bullets while waiting for the reload animation to finish. =/
... then there's Last/Second Stand

I've resorted to using pump-shotguns now. =(

Though wow, those points are spot-on for me.

[DarthBigE]

thats why u switch to ur pistol to finish them off instead of trying to reload. Switching to pistol is faster than reloading

[Mikeyy]

@DarthBigE

I carry a Strella. You see, because all you people are so afraid to carry around a Rocket Launcher the Opponents are raking up loads of kills via Spy plane, Counter Spy Plane, Chopper Gunner, ect.

I shoot every single thing out of the sky. Free XP and It saves the match.

It's Puzzling why nobody else has noticed this free XP flying up above, in every match. I should'nt complain though, more for me.

[Undeadwolfy]

@Mikeyy I applaud you sir. We need more players like that who are also thinking of their team. + Bubs

[blackblades]

I agree, the only problem I have is team deathmatch where all my teammates have more deaths then kills except me.
1 thing I do is if a teammate is by you let him go first into a building or whatever.

[Ravenor]

So you bait people? What a grand strategist we have here.

[MidnytRain]

OMG, I am a Reload Whore! I simply CANNOT run around for even a second without a fully loaded gun; even if it's just a few bullets! Sometimes I think I hit the reload button more than I do the fire button. It's like a reflex.

[SMOK3xFFx]

Reason 9. Because I'm on the other team.

@electricshadow

SoH fixes that problem.

[Serjikal_Strike]

LMAO @ pic

"Mai pew pew gunz dey ar out of ammo"

[HK6]

This should be re-titled "Call of Duty: Black Ops - 8 Simple Reasons It Sucks at Multiplayer" and the #1 reason can be that it doesn't even work on the PS3.

[Jac5al]

It's working fine now... still some issues that need to be resolved although.

[AllroundGamer]

hm well my PS3 is freezing after about 4 rounds, so yeah it's working fine now... :D (and no, my PS3 doesn't do that with other games)

[BloodyNapkin]

I have no issues with the game other then all the noobs that dont understand HQ.

[Undeadwolfy]

I think one of the main problems and this is across both platforms, is that the graphics are sub-HD, worse for the PS3.

In this day and age, a series of games that has had 7 versions (especially in the year 2010), late into 2010 I might add, you'd think that they could optimise games multiplatform in HD for both consoles. All you have to do is look at the exclusives for both platforms to point the finger at CoD games and say "what are you playing at?"

I think Microsoft and Sony need to have some sort of policy where only HD games should be allowed on their platform. That will get some more quality looking games out and separate the men from the boys. Especially since both Sony and MS can boast that they have HD gaming. In extreme circumstances I think it can be looked over such as launch titles.

I am dissapoint Treyarch and IW.

[Serjikal_Strike]

I played it on 360 and ps3 and B.ops is equally shitty on both consoles:/

[Dart89]

Because i don't play a kiddy shooter lol.

[Arup02]

I never saw a kiddy shooter with zombies and gore.

[Dart89]

Well now you have.

[Arup02]

@Dart89 true.

[BloodyNapkin]

Another butthurt person that gets owned in COD....

[TheFreak]

True that.

And it's popular to hate on black ops on n4g so they think they will get bubbles if they write shit about it hahaha

[BLACKBOIJONES]

Lol..same her, not only in cod but in every FPS game i play online i reload after a kill and it cose me alot of times.I try to wait now but i just tempted to push the reload button :p

[-MD-]

Is it even possible to suck at Call of Duty?

[Dart89]

Only if u play cod4.

[guigsy]

Haha I was playing domination on cracked the other day and the amount of people that died going for B was insane.

[Craptain_Steel]

My friend who thinks he's incredible fits all of these descriptions.

He is the worst player ever, and he has little man syndrome just to top it off.

[MarcusFenixITA]

The thing with the little man syndrom sounds scary to be honest. But I had to smile ...

[TheFreak]

Haha look at all the hate COD is getting. I am guessing half of you have not played it

[Corepred4]

That's retarded. What if most just don't like it? I played it and think its horse ish. BUT... I do like MW2 a lot.

[TheFreak]

Ok fair enough other way around for me, but I guarantee you that many here are hating just to hate. It's N4G at it's best.

Can I ask what you don't like about black ops?

[Corepred4]

Well I'll start off by saying I loved cod4 and mw2! hated w@w and do not care for blops. To me its just a totally different game given they are made by two different developers. Just the feel of the game is what I don't like. Feel too light. That and I hate the guns.

[MarcusFenixITA]

I decided between MW2 and Black Flops and took MW2 simply because it's better in my opinion. I like the MODERN moren than the Vietnam etc weapons.

[xstation79]

They hate on it and call it a kiddy game because they suck at it. The game has obviously upset them otherwise why would they spend the time to come into this article in the first place?

[hennessey86]

just got medal of medal of honor and it blows black ops out of the water. i wish id bought that in the first place.

[huzzaahh]

I played Medal of Honor and, honestly, it sucked big time. It's basically a shitty version of Bad Company 2. I'd agree that Bad Company 2 has better multiplayer than Black Ops, however.

[hennessey86]

i found the single player to be better than black ops and bad company 2, i havnt got into the multiplayer yet as iveonly just got the game

[Undeadwolfy]

Iv recently been playing the MoH multiplayer and it has its upsides and downsides.

Clearly it was meant to be a competitor to CoD hence the removal of the bullet drop and "score chains" (killstreaks).

The graphics are a lot better and the sound is phenomenal.

However, I think what EA did is thought, "Lets relaunch this game. It did really well before and since it has MoH on it, it will be WIN".

They took it to DICE but they could only do so much to the game and its pretty similar looking to BFBC2.

The Score Chains are pretty good, I like that. At least its not like a "Win button" as it was in MW2, (Predator, Harriers, Choppa).

The maps are lacking (only 5) and the online pass thing is a little annoying. I took the risk in investing in the Tier 1 edition. I still have yet to input the pass for some extra content, but I'm not sure i'll be playing it much longer. I might be able to squeeze a few extra £ out of it when I sell/trade it in.

However, the multiplayer gameplay is very competitive and IMHO i find it very satisfying when I get a kill. There is a lot of tension compared to CoD games.

Hopefully, if there's a sequel, it will have something really compelling and revolutionary to stand up to the Medal of Honor name. Id give it a 6/10. It has the foundations but not the content.

[Szarky]

Vietnam!

[TheFreak]

Vietnam kicks ass, very good dlc for bfbc2

[ShadowJetX]

Reason Number 9, your actually 12 years old or younger.

[DFresh]

By the time I get Killzone 3 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 I won't give a flying f*** about Call of Duty anymore.

My PS3 deserves better online games so no more Call of Duty for me.

COD4 = Epic Win!

COD: WAW = Win. Though not as good as COD4.

COD: MW2 = Fail. It's so unbalanced.

COD: Black Ops = Epic Fail. Not even playable at all.

>:(

[Corepred4]

W@W sucks nuts! The guns were so bleh! Only thing that saved it was the nazi zombies. I agree COD4 is probably the best. But on MW2 I don't get how its unbalanced when both sides could do the same things. and yeah Blops sucks too!

[ambientFLIER]

I started playing it again today and realized something...Black Ops doesn't suck so bad if I don't play hardcore, but stick to the core modes. That way when somebody is shooting me in the back while I'm spawning, I actually have a chance to turn around and blast the guy if he doesn't have perfect aim.

[corrupted_sharingan]

Simple Reasons You Suck At Black Ops Multiplayer. If these description fits you then decide yourself what type of player you are
1. You think you are too good by using AK74u with rapid fire which is the most insanely powerful weapon
2. You camp the whole round with motion sensor placed nearby you
3. Your favourite perk is Ghost and you can't play without it
4. you can't play with other weapons rather then AK74u
5. You don't leave the bomb site and pretend that you are defending it when you know yourself that you have been camping
6. You keep aiming toward the entrance continuously and it's even worse if you're in a prone position

[BoneMagnus]

I'm guilty of the reloading - and of not using my grenades - and I do notice that when I'm doing well, my movement is more deliberate - and I get sloppy when I start to get tired - result in a lot of sense-less deaths.

[MetalJedi]

Black Ops is loads of fun. I suck at the game but make sure I use everything I have before I die. Don't understand all the hate for the game. Oh well, to each their own. Any one can pick it up and play. It's hilarious to watch my 8 yr old son getting head shots and getting shot out the air trying to jump out windows. The deaths have to be some of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. There's nothing better than taking out someone else before you die with the Second Chance perk.

[Mozilla89]

Yeah, I'd agree with you, I have a lot of fun with the game. I think I like it more than MW2 even. But then again, I have it on the PS3 and haven't experienced these problems the majority of people have had.

I know I'm guilty of doing pretty much everything on this list. Particularly running around all the time and sticking to assault rifles for EVERYTHING. I tried following some of the tips and it actually helped out quite a bit.

[BlueEye]

Cheap way to be "good" at BO multiplayer: Use the AK74u. Its the most easily wielded gun and its rather unbalanced with a god damn Noobtube on it!

Man it would also be nice to see less Famas's (The gun itself is not that good its just become popular for unknown reasons and the masses blindly use it cause its the most popular AR), LMG's are still very very underrated and unsurprisingly the AR's are still dominating Multiplayer unlike what people thought as a lot of people thought the SMG's would dominate (The AK74u is 95% of the SMG's used)

[ambientFLIER]

I didn't think that you could put noob tubes on submachine guns...

[Koromaro]

You can on the Ak47u

[starkiller99]

black ops is like the best game in the world.

online playing is awesome.

[HungPHATx]

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