Call of Duty: Black Ops - Official Thread - Page 18

On November 09 2010 19:37 Tump wrote:
Game is fun and really feels like it went back to the Cod4/Cod2 roots...

But like said before, the game has massive memory leaks, and lags even the best of machines.

On November 09 2010 16:40 prodiG wrote:
Alright, got the game fired up. Here's my first impression:

Console access is fucking great. I got the game looking and feeling like CoD4 (or as close as I possibly could). But the game performs like absolute garbage and my PC should slap this game around like there's no tomorrow, especially on the absurdly low settings I run at (8 physical cores @ 2.4ghz, 16gb ram, gtx 280, nuff said). I couldn't play through an entire round before being split from the game and when I could get into a fight often the game would hitch, I'd teleport and next thing I know I'm flashed and I'm dying. Pretty disappointing to see the midnight launch suck so hard, but I've come to expect it from developers that aren't Blizzard. As far as I'm concerned, the multiplayer is downright unplayable until a patch is deployed or a fix is found (I made a quick google search to no avail).

That said, let's focus on the mechanics and features of the game (or what little I got to experience when I was playing with 40fps and not teleporting). The stock assault class starts with Last Stand. That is fucking garbage and whoever came up with that idea seriously needs to be crucified. Every second guy I manage to take down (which takes quite a bit of work, I'll get to that in a second) falls into last stand and because my weakass gun couldn't kill him before pouring my clip into him and his buddy i'm now forced to try and fall back and reload without the game lagging and getting capped around a corner by a pistol. I stuck to the M16 (assault) and MP5 (specops) classes, and boy does this game ever need stopping power. The M16 simply will not kill someone in a single burst, but the kick is easy to control. The MP5's kick is significantly bigger than it was in MW2 or CoD4 and I had a pretty hard time controlling it (I can't tell if it's because I just started playing, or because I'm playing at 40fps and can't aim and am hitching my pants off every 2 seconds, I suspect a bit of both) and thus I'd find myself shooting 15 shots at someone before they'd finally go down. This is about on par with what I'd expect from some starter guns. Grenades are well-rounded, the arc isn't obscene but you can still lob it over a wall (but not across the map, thank god) and you need to be reasonably close to the blast radius to actually die. The only other grenade I encountered were flashbangs which again seemed pretty balanced. You needed to be pretty close for them to obliterate your vision so hard there is no way you're going to stay alive.
The only killstreaks I saw were spy plane and counter spy plane. Someone called a Valkyrie but I never actually saw it, so I definitely can't say much in that regard.
The maps that I played seemed to have a slightly high number of angles to work around (like in MW2, a lot of the maps were very hard to move around in because all of the paths to move could be crossfired by half a dozen windows, corners and ledges). This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it just changes the pace of the game (and for a player like me who wants to move around and kill people a lot rather than camp, it just makes the skill ceiling higher). All of the TDM games I played (I tried to play through about five) I found myself respawning in the same area every time I died which leads me to believe the spawn system is a little borked, although I never got spawnkilled.
Some other wierd quirks are that when ironsighted, I could still hear my own footsteps so I assume that my enemies can as well. For those of you who played specops classes in CoD4 and MW2, you'll understand that this completely changes the game (right up until you get ghost or ninja anyway). I didn't unlock anything because I couldn't sit through a single roun so I can't go into much depth.

All in all, until the game gets patch or a fix is found I give the multiplayer a 1/10. Completely unplayable, 40fps when I should be able to push 120 is ridiculous on top of the fact that hitching, and five seconds later you're in a wall and two seconds after you're knifed leads to a pretty shitty game experience.
Once the game is patched up and playable, I can easily see this game being at the very least a 7/10, maybe even more once I can play with some of the other guns and unlocks. The game seems to be mechanically sound when it works and I look forward to when I can actually give the game a real chance.

Edit: example of lag issues

-Germany will not be able to purchase the console version (Source)

On November 09 2010 21:37 MaDBread wrote:


From what I read, there is no possible way of playing the uncut version in Germany.

D: I nearly broke my keyboard in half

On November 09 2010 21:39 Caphe wrote:

Import is not possible?

On November 09 2010 21:58 theinvisiblePLER wrote:
Why would you guys want to play on PC anyway? Its ass IMO.

On November 09 2010 17:11 zoLo wrote:


Get it for the PC unless you have friends that has Black Ops on the PS3 and don't mind fps on consoles lol.

On November 09 2010 20:29 Grettin wrote:


Yeah, but this game isn't the only one who was in a 'bad state' for release.

Touched the MP first time. So funny to play a new map with no clue.

On November 09 2010 22:33 limonovich wrote:
Actually can't be arsed. Absolute console port. No optimisation whatsoever. Runs like crap on i7 930 & sli gtx 460s. cod4 was soooo much better at release, it was a product that was actually fit to be sold to the consumer.

On November 09 2010 22:39 Zorkmid wrote:
Glad for all the feedback. PC gaming...........could be so much better. Consoles are the way of the future I guess.

On November 09 2010 22:43 limonovich wrote:


Consoles are crap. They're only the future because of publishers/developers making it so.

"BAWWWWW PIRACY HURTS OUR PROFITS LET'S ALIENATE PC GAMERS TO COUNTER THIS AND TO MAKE CONSOLES LOOK SUPERIOR WHEN IN FACT THEY'RE ALL SHITE"
- the video game industry