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Toughest Challenges in BO2

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:17 GMT

I think the Domination Master has to be in my Top 3. The Domination Challenge to hold a 3 flags for 3 consecutive minutes is really hard. The FHJ 18 challenge to shoot 10 player controlled vehicles is also very tough. The Diamond Camo Challenge for the AR's has to be considered as well.

Which Challenges do you think are the toughest?

Need help with Nuclear Killer calling card! PLEASE HELP!

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:51:39 GMT

OK. What is the best class to use to get the nuclear killer? what is the best gamemode, map to get it on? Also, which is the best gun, attachments, perks, wildcard, grenades, ect. I really want this calling card BADLY. I need it for the MASTER KILLER calling card. I know the best Scorestreaks to use is UAV, C-UAV, and Orbital VSAT.

A few questions and something from my POV

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:13:38 GMT

I have a few questions for everyone who is complaining about lag(comp). What is so terrible about putting a one, two, or three bar connection on a more equal field of playing? Is it the fact that you live in an area which offers really good connection types that utilize up to date hardware and believe you deserve a complete and utter advantage over others?

Now from my experience playing, I often one to two bar during peak hours as my ISP's hardware cannot support the load of the area and they don't seem willing to update their hardware to accommodate the load. Anyways, when I have a one bar connection I have to change how I play to do decent and lose soo many gunfights I should have won or get killed out of no where. With a two bar connection things seem a little more even but still lose tons of gunfights. I'm not a terrible player at all but my ability to adjust to my connection is what allows me to play decent to good. When I have a three to four bar I play better than I can ever possibly play when I have one or two bar connection. I get no distinct advantage over someone with a better connection just a better chance against them. When I have a 3/4 bar I don't seem to have a single issue with killing someone that has a 1-2 bar maybe an odd ball death here an there.

Another little note before someone decides to tell me to buy better internet or I shouldn't be playing. I pay my XBL sub and for my internet and sadly nearly the same price as much better ISPs but unfortunately for me it's not avaible where I live. So, I am actually pretty thankful to Treyarch for putting me on a slightly more even field with people who do have the great resources available to them.

So really what's the issue there? Is it that a 1-2 bar stands a chance? Is it because the elitist in you thinks because you have something better entitles you to have the upperhand?

Now time to discuss or answer.

Yet another lag post. Current Discussions

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 19 May 2013 06:49:19 GMT

I know there's a gazillion posts about lag on every COD forum but I've always skipped reading them because in my own COD experience the lag was quite managable and only a few games a night were bad enough to quit out (aside from the horrific lag comp introduced in MW3 of course). But the last week or so EVERY game is lagging at least a little. I KNOW its not just my connection because I ALWAYS play with 3-5 friends and they are all experiencing the same thing I am. Did they wreck something in the last update? I hope with the new consoles coming out they can improve this or at the very least start looking at dedicated servers.

Funny Search and Destroy Fail, but...

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:20:49 GMT

....why is the audio out of sync? Is the rendering tool pretty bad?

Agree or Disagree? How the playlists should look like

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 02 May 2013 09:26:35 GMT

CORE:

Team Deathmatch

Free For All

Domination

Ground War

Demolition

Kill Confirmed

Hardpoint

Headquarters

Capture the Flag

Search & Destroy

HARDCORE RICOCHET:

Team Deathmatch

Free For All

Domination

Kill Confirmed

Hardpoint

Headquarters

Capture the Flag

Search & Destroy

Party Games:

Gun Game

One in the Chamber

Sharpshooter
Stick and Stones

Infected (unranked)

DLC:

Core Moshpit

Hardcore Moshpit

Removed:

Bonus Playlist

Combat Training Playlist (Achievements/Trophies automatically unlocked for those who didn't earn them)

Multi-Team (Integrated with TDM, KC, and Hardpoint. Will appear as voting options in certain occasions. For more into, go here: http://community.callofduty.com/message/414396877#414396877)

Mercenary Moshpit

~RUGGED SAVIOR

New prestiges incoming or just a hacker?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:30:44 GMT

So last night me and a mate were just sitting at the menu, scrolling through the leaderboards, when my mate told me to go to > career leaderboards > then select all and look right at the Bottom, where i saw a certain individual with a suspicious GT (i have gamer tag but won't post) who was Prestige 14!!!

The symbol was two green fists, crossed over each other, and he had 29 days played.

I know i definately saw this but when i checked this morning he was gone o.0 same for my mate, Could this be legit, or could this be some bedroom dweller wo plays on his PC too much?

Getting my stats reset...

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:51:04 GMT

is there a way i can Activision to reset my stats?

The Cod Challenge

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 06:55:45 GMT

Hey guys me and my friend have created a new youtube series called The Cod Challenge. We ask for players to give us an entire pick 10 class loadout (including scorestreaks) to play with and we upload the best gameplay to youtube. At this point you can only imagine some of the crazy class loadouts we get. We accept every challenge so we have gotten all kinds of crazy combinations. For example, one challenge that we have posted was to use only a smaw and tomahawk + scavenger on FFA with no scorestreaks and im happy to say we completed it and the challenger couldnt have been happier. We have gained 82 subscribers in the first month + 2 days. I decided to post here to see if we could atract anyone that would be intrested. If you would like to send us a challenge do so Here [Removed by Moderator]. Thanks for your time and remeber that all we need for a challenge is what class loadout you would like + scorestreaks and what gametype. You control the content and we take care of the gameplay. We will give a shoutout of the challengers name when we upload there challenge. The only rule to the cod challenge is Anything goes........ So be CREATIVE

So I tried search for the first time...

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:31:09 GMT

Is all this game mode is, is a bunch of 10 year olds who think quickscoping and trickshotting make them cool? I swear to god, my team and the enemy team were doing that, and when I used an actual gun they cussed me in high pitched voices.

I can see this is a game mode I can avoid now unless I feel like trolling 10 year olds.

Having fun

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:42:38 GMT

I want to start up a clan with people in it that want to have a good laugh with each other while playing, trolling every now and then, and serious playing would I find anybody on here that would be interested? I'm in Australia by the way .

We, the gamers, who bought ur game 3arc, WE are owed an explanation.

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:35:29 GMT

There has been a steady decline in this game since launch. The ideas that were implemented in the game are great except that target finder. All these title updates and hotfixes seem to fix one thing, but break another.

For the past week and a half, this game is unplayable. Yellow 2 and 3 bar lobbies. Hit markers galore. Getting killed by a lightining strike while im in the engine room on hijacked. The constant empyting a magazine into someones back for them to turn around and shoot you dead.

The spawns are at its worst ive ever seen them now.

Tonight was enough for me. I thought, maybe my internet is messed up. I put in WAW, MW2, BLOPS 1. and MW3. All four of those games ran great. No laggy lobbies Hit detection was spot on. Only gripe is the camping in MW3 and the modz in WAW. So after I played those games, I put BLOPS 2 back in. Still unplayable. I know there are a thousand posts about lag, but this game had problems, a lot of them.

Now you tell me how 4 other COD's ran perfect and BLOPS 2 is the only one with issues.

3arc, it's time you get off your high horse and out of ur really expensive cars (Vahn), and address this problem. It is a problem. It's not on our end, its the game.

We buy ur game and without us, you cant buy ur fancy cars and whatever else.

What kind of pants do you wear when playing BO2?

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:01:30 GMT

I usually wear jeans.

where is the lava flow?

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:49:02 GMT

i saw this in the trailer and i saw some gameplays and i didn't see the lava randomly flowing through the map magma.

watch at 1:03 the lava is clearly going towards the person.

where can i find this

p.s. i know that lava is on the bottom of the map but that just dosn't randomly appear it is always there.

My First Montage - Black ops 2

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:30:06 GMT

Hi Guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLVuiRX0k3c
right here is a link to my latest video on my youtube channel, it is my very first monage, it is a quickscoping montage with a couple double feeds and a bunch of normal quickscopes, i used a few techniques like slowing down and speeding up my clips and a little bit with colour effects and what not.i recorded all my clips from my xbox to my pc using my Elgato Game Capture HD device aand the Game Capture HD software, with using this i am able to record my clips in 1080p so make sure to watch it in full HD and i hope you will not be dissapointed.

Thanks for reading this guys and have a good day!

What's been going on so far. Recapping Black Ops 2.

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:31:49 GMT

Well we are half way through the game's cycle, so lets take the time to see what has been going on so far. We'll start from the first DLC. Also I'll be giving a grade on this game. Kind of like a Mid-term grade.

We were (possible still) excited to get new maps as well as a new gun. Hydro, Grind, Downhill, and Mirage were the maps for the 1st DLC (Revolution). As of right now if I were to pick one map that I like from that DLC, I would pick Downhill. The Peacekeeper, the most popular gun that came out gave way to possibilities of more gun DLC in future DLC map packs or stand alone packs. Well we all wanted some new weapons after the peacekeeper, but treyarch isn't going to create weapon DLC for free, and they are not going to start a pay-to-win scenario.

2nd DLC (Uprising), Magma, Encore, Vertigo, and Studio. Those are our current new maps, and so far I can not choose between which map Is my favorite. It is definitely not going to be vertigo. Studio, it is great to have a re-skin of the map firing range for the futuristic look, and I still remember some of my tactics from Black Ops 1. Magma, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say some of us were disappointed to not have a great amount of moving magma/lava. I was kind of expecting the volcano to blow up half way through a match, but that was just wishful thinking.

Now I've heard a lot of problems about lag not only here on the forum, but in-game chatter as well. Now I do NOT want a discussion about how lag works on this thread. I'll consider it spam and report it in this thread. If you want to know about how lag works, go look at maccabi's and/or deamonomic comments under this discussion: http://community.callofduty.com/message/414433879#414433879 post there if you want to as well, or you can go to the technical forum. Possibly a better discussion about lag: http://community.callofduty.com/thread/200627467?tstart=0 Now from what I can tell lag is bad, possibly at it's worst, in this order: Christmas, DLC, Double XP, and post patch are times when lag is horrible.

Weapons, as of right now all guns are ,or somewhat, balanced until treyarch says otherwise. Do not discuss which guns needs buffs/nerfs in this thread either. I'll do the same thing just like the above paragraph. Reason being there are already threads on nerfs/buffs of certain weapons. Now here is something interesting and has not been discussed yet, so it can be discussed here. when it comes to hackers and cheaters, I only saw one patch update on security system enhancment Dec 22, 2012: http://community.callofduty.com/message/413598236#413598236 Unlike Black Ops 1, which had a few more security improvements, this game only had one, so here is one thing to discuss. Why is there no more security updates? If there is security updates how are they implementing this?

Game modes, for Core players they're good as is, but what about HC players. HC modes started off with five, but went down to four because there was not enough space for it. Sad isn't it. Well I've been thinking a lot about HC in how to add more HC modes. Discussion for that will be under "Things to discuss". Now we move on to probation. Probation a lot to almost every player's worst/irritating part about the game. Yes it is a good idea, but it was, sadly, poorly implemented from what I've read here on the forum, and what I hear on the in-game chatter. Foxhound_Pro posted somewhere about how you can get put on probation. This is all that I can remember:

Dashboarding, shutting off Xbox, pulling the Ethernet plug, Signing out of profile (Intentional)
Loss of Connection (Unintentional)

Team Kill (50-50 Intentional/Unintentional), Hard for the game to tell the difference.

Things to discuss

1. Why is there no more security updates? If there is security updates how are they implementing this? Hotfix maybe?

2. What would be your favorite map from black ops 2 standard maps (Nuketown is considered standard map, even though it says DLC, because it is free for everyone), revolution maps, and uprising maps?

3. Talking about adding HC mode. Is it possible to add HC modes in the bonus playlist, If not, then why? (No more discussion about HC modes. Question anwsered, Any further discussion about HC modes will be considered spam after this date & time May 20, 2013 7:50pm Central time.)

(Also it would be great to hear a moderators exprience/opinion of this game)

Grades (Not doing plus or minus)

What I would grade it as:

Standard Maps: B

DLC Maps: B

Weapons: A

Attachments: C

Perks: C

Tactical & Lethals: A

Wildcards: C

Scorestreaks: B

Overall: B

~Allen D Rainwalker~

Specialist

Message was edited by: Allen D Rainwalker Forgot to add a scorestreaks grade, Added an extra link for info about lag.

Business Related Decisions.

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:40:29 GMT

Throughout the years of Call of Duty, I realized something. Since the game is becoming so popular, there are features that I hate the most that are still present within the games. Despite their flaws and how they upset the balance and flow of multiplayer, their ever growing popularity allow those features to remain alive and well. Here are some examples of what I believe are those same upsetting features:

Quickscoping - A trend that started in COD4 and became popular in MW2. Inspired kids to look cool and raised the bar on Call of Duty's popularity. However, this ultimately destroyed the balance of the sniper rifle by making it a one hit kill weapon at ANY RANGE. So why keep it? More profit can be made based on its popularity, and since Call of Duty grows ever so popular, more methods of acquiring dough have to be performed.

Dropshotting - Again, a popular feature in Call of Duty. A (near) exploit that looks cool that is advertised among the pros, despite it being an extremely cheap method of play. We never liked how people could "blopshot" with Second Chance, yet dropshotting is exactly the same thing--only with more health, deadlier weapons, and it can easily be performed at any time. Hell, even modded controllers were made to allow a one button dropshot. Don't believe me? Google it!

Reward System - Let's face it, the reward system isn't going to dramatically change any time soon. The whole idea of Call of Duty's reward system is to amass a large killstreak without dying. It's been that way from COD4 to Black Ops 1, and it hasn't changed much even during MW3 and Black Ops 2. Objective players are the minority, while Slaying and K/D is more demanding. Why? Again, it's based on popularity, which the franchise needs to offer in order to become a growing success.

So you basically get the idea. When a game becomes more popular to the point where making a profit is more important, the ideas of balance and equality are thrown out of the window. Until I can hear from a developer denying everything I said, I will continue to believe that Activision is continuing to tighten the leash around the developers.

P.S. - I definitely want to know why quickscoping was left untouched in Black Ops 2, considering the devs were entirely against it in Black Ops 1.

~RUGGED SAVIOR

How close do u sit away from your tv while playing Black Ops 2?

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:52:19 GMT

I have a 36" and I'm about 4 to 5 feet away from it.

What do you think a good distance is and for what size tv?

So... we get to choose the next Personalization Pack?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:03:26 GMT

So OneofSwords, Activision's Community Manager, is reporting that we are going to get to vote for the next Personalization Pack. We have four choices...

COMICS: Add some retro-heroic POW! to your matches.

CYBORG: High-tech stripes let you go with the glow.

DRAGON: Reptilian scales and a scarred hide for your personal firebreather.

PALADIN: A noble suit of armor for your noble defense of the B flag.

The vote will be on the Message of the Day, and the two highest vote-getters will be added, with Calling Cards, Reticles, etc. Thoughts? Any ideas for Camos they haven't had yet? Favorites? (If you say "Pack-a-Punch" you get a pie to the face)

Not wanting this to become a debate about the necessity of Personalization Packs, that has been discussed to death. They are here for this title, would hate to see this discussion devolve into that same argument. Looking forward to your responses!

My Choices? Digging the Comics Skin and the Paladin. Source:http://oneofswords.com/2013/05/you-choose-the-new-personalization-packs-in-call- of-duty-black-ops-ii/

Analyzing Match 0 of 49/matchmaking issues

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:03:56 GMT

Since last Friday, the TDM playlist has been plagued with matchmaking issues that have never occured to me before. As TDM is the most populated playlist, it should take a few seconds to join a match. Here is the breakdown of what happens:

Finds 50 matches
Resets search
Finds 50 matches
Analyzes Match 0 of 49(varies from time to time)
Resets seach and repeat the above a few times

From there, this occures:

Analyzes Match 1 of 1-5(varies)
Joins a matchs out of that handful, if not, repeat the process in the bullets above until 1 or 3 occures
If repeat as per Analyzes Match 0 of 49(varies), a new lobby is created

This process slows down matchmaking in the most popular playlist in BO2. I usually now have to go to the Uprising TDM playlist where it will quickly let me join a match even though it has far fewer players. Here is some basic information that can be helpful to Treyarch:

Nat type: Open

Connection type: Wired

Time of problem: May 17-ongoing

Playlist: Core/Team Deathmatch

Geographical Region: 36

Platform: Xbox 360

Reproducable by Treyarch: Not 100% sure

Video: None

I will produce more information apon request to a developer from Treyarch or a moderator by PM.

Does anyone else experience this issue? If so, what playlists?

PS: I know that there are many threads about matchmaking and that this thread may get locked, but this is a problem that I recently experienced and would like to resolve that has yet to be documented on the forums.

Update: Given that there is nothing else for me to try on my end that could solve the problem, I will consider contacting customer support over this if the matchmaking issues persist or worsen. While the purpose of fixing my matchmaking issues now falls to Activision/Treyarch support which isn't helpful most of the time, the purpose of finding others with this or other matchmaking issues remains.

However that is best served by the exisiting threads on matchmaking issues so moderators, if you find it apporiate, go ahead and lock this thread given that the last thing to try is to contact support at the bottem of this page which probably won't help. Otherwise, anyone with this particular or anything related can post here about it in hopes that someone at Treyarch reads this and does something about it.