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Re: Actually prefer irons?

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:43:44 GMT

I use only iron sights. To the point where an optic feels like a waste of an attachment. Only put them on for fun usually.

Re: Reverse stats reset.

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:16:23 GMT

Love these threads! Over/under on OP's age? I'll take the under @ 14. Takers?

Re: Lag Compensation Is Back Again & This Time It Means Business.

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:37:59 GMT

I disabled the SPI firewall and disabled filtering of anonymous internet requests. I read up about it, read some forum posts and decided based on what I read it shouldn't be an issue.

Re: Quick Scoping has completely ruined the Online Experience

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:01:39 GMT

thebiindsniper wrote:

The best possible reason why quickscoping remains is due to Call of Duty's popularity. Adding quickscoping + millions of kids who wanted it = more success. It was a developer decision based on future success rates, and not based on our opinions.

I've been asking the devs why quickscoping hasn't been gimped like in Black Ops 1 since the first day of release, and so far no luck.

^^^^^At last, someone who understands business influnces to game design. Black Ops 2 clearly was developed for a slightly younger demographic than BO1. This game was not made for adults. The cheese factor is so through the roof with things like easy-mode snipers, no recoil LMGs, target finders, shock charges, 2 hit kills from pistols at medium ranges...the list goes on. There's so many annoying equipment/weapons/etc to exploit and spam. And they mostly cater to one or both of the following:

1) Kids who want to go for 360 no scopes in objective games

2) Sweaty diamond SMG/Ghost/Lightweight tryhards to stroke Treyarch's 'e-sports' agenda.

Failure of a game, in my opinion.

Re: LagComp Video Discussion: BlackOps2 Edition

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:46:37 GMT

It's not rocket science. Both players gamestates were out of sync with each other. On your screen he was right in front of you when you knifed. On his, he had already side stepped you. His character model/sprite may have still been in front of you in your gamestate, but his hitbox was not.

This is the CoD engine in a nutshell. This happens to everyone in varying degrees of severity. Get over it. It's a game.

Re: why is black ops to so bad ???

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:49:31 GMT

I don't find slow movement speed to be much of a penalty considering the statuesque gameplay of most LMG users I encounter. Just my opinion/perspective.

Re: You'd think this would have been fixed by now.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:30:30 GMT

Are you wired? Try replacing your ethernet cable.

Re: Reset Me

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:14:37 GMT

Hahahaha. I love it when these boosting nerds come on here yelping about being reset! I'm sure that K/D will look great on your resume one day, son!

Re: fix the problems or keep your dlc

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:09:44 GMT

One post too many. Stay in school, learn a thing or two about how a business works.

Re: Can we have "Leave Game" removed.

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:24:06 GMT

You camping apologists are hiliarous.

I never understood why people creep around in CoD like it's a real war. But if you're posted up somewhere in an objective game and defending a highly contested area like a bomb site or hardpoint and don't move for awhile, you'll never hear 'camper' from me.

If you are sitting in a corner ADS at a door or line of sight for an entire match away from objectives, you play like a d-bag. It ruins the game for people trying to play it properly (yes, properly: moving around and capturing or defending objectives as the flow of the match permits).

But whatever, it's just a game. All I ask is if you want to camp go to TDM and stay out of objective lobbies.

Re: B23R = Instant Win

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:09:35 GMT

Even a slight nerf would be fine. They don't need to be completely useless. But you shouldn't be able to run around a large map like Cargo with a Tac 45 and post a 3 KD score. It shouldn't be possible save for against the worst of enemies. I mean the ranges you get taken out by these things is ridiculous. The B23 and Kap40 I can understand a bit of mid-range prowess, but the Tac and Five Seven??? I'm pumping AR bullets into someone and they tap dance through my bullets for a 3 shot pistol kill at a range that is just jaw dropping most of the time.

If secondaries have to be as good (if not better) than many primaries simply because they 'cost a point', your class system is broken and very poorly designed.

Of course the powerful secondaries was probably a very intentional decision, just another thing to eliminate any kind of skill gap and tactical decision-making for the player that Treyarch labels 'balance'.

Re: Couple of Ground wars games this weekend...

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:30:09 GMT

There may be only a couple snipers per lobby but the rest of the team is made up of target finder LMG's, Remingtons, and pistol-only toolbags. Either way it's pretty unplayable these days.

Re: What do you hate about people in this game...

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:58:43 GMT

DuskShotzz wrote:

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People that flip spawn in Domination for points when i'am close too my Orbital VSAT (You know that time u get killed in the back by somebody who Literally just spawned)
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Oooooh spawn flippers are the worst! Morons!

Re: What do you hate about people in this game...

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:49:12 GMT

If I see someone camping in a corner aiming down a line of sight away from an objective I just go troll a little and sit in front of them until they move. At that point I'll usually follow them around, getting in their way until we both get killed. It's worth a death for me to F up their game for a moment in exchange for a loss. Go play TDM if you want to camp. Come get B with me or GTFO.

Although, I guess I'm a big hypocritical, in that if I keep jumping on B and taking death after death with no help, I quit jumping on it and just leave or accept that we are going to lose.

Re: LagComp Video Discussion: BlackOps2 Edition

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:23:45 GMT

mdub wrote:

I understand the predicament that the developers are in. They want everyone, that bought the game, to be able to play. I just know that some connections should not be allowed. Prime example.... cell phone tethering.

I'd imagine Treyarch wishes they could tighten things up as developers. At that point it probably enters the realm of politics with Activision. They likely have pressure from Activision to ensure just about anyone/anywhere can play hence they probably have to ensure they accomodate for sub-par connections, and I would imagine they understand fully the impact it has on quality of play. It's just not something they can parade around as an answer to questions.

Re: LagComp Video Discussion: BlackOps2 Edition

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:23:32 GMT

maccabi wrote:

Bit hard for me when I along with many other people don't seem to have these issues , yes i have the odd bad game due to connections/bad hosts but thats it.

Agree for me connections seemed pretty bad and hit or miss for the first few months but seemed to smooth out somewhere in late December. The day or so after a patch still seems to cause a lot of WTF moments. There's some sessions when I'm in a party where I can't seem to do any better than a crappy 3-bar, but solo I'm generally a happy 4 bar with the occasional string of WTF moments.

This game seems to run more consistently for me than MW3 did in it's prime.

Re: C4 needs to be changed somehow.

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:55:10 GMT

Abuse? I've thrown over 5000. Only been killed by C4 59 times.

C4 is fine. If they feel a nerf is neccessary it will probably be to to distance you can throw it. You can throw it much farther in this game than other titles. Other than that C4 has been the same for ages, no need for this 'no quick detonation' nonsense.

Re: Micro Transactions...

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:38:42 GMT

I'm sure they'll do more camos.

...in before all the venom for offering optional/non-game impacting add-ons. How dare they. How dare they find another way to to appeal to consumers of their product. That's the reason the economy is the crapper, these people who want to make a profit. That's the real problem. Everything should be free, and all consumers are entitled to such freebies. Then the economy would really rebound.

I always get a kick out of these high school and college students trying to talk business.

Re: Upgraded my internet...

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:51:24 GMT

I think doing everything you can to have a 'clean connection' will help. It may not be night and day, but it may be. Here's an example:

Since MW3 I was running the same internet and modem from TWC. I have my own router. I did all the research about going to a wired connection, port forwarding, giving my Xbox a static IP, using Google's DNS servers, putting my Xbox in DMZ, turning off SPI, and did it all. Black Ops 2 felt really rough at the beginning but seemed to even out for me where it plays somewhat consistent solo. Party-play can be a tossup, and the few days after a new patch always lag badly for me.

The other day I decided to see about trading in my modem for a new once, since I've had it for 3 years and surely TWC is giving out newer/better ones standard these days. So I got a new modem (the Motorola Surfboard router/modem combo) and got my speed upgraded a little.

Took the modem home and got it setup, forwarded my ports, basically everything I had done before. I did some pingtests and noticed my ping was wildly inconsistent. Tried the game, and it played awful. It was like the second I saw someone I was already taking damage. 4 bar connection, too. So I read up and tried some tweaks on the Motorola, to no avail. I felt constantly disadvantaged, and I knew it had to be my ping or something.

So I decided to put the Motorola into bridge mode (disabling the router and using it as a modem only) and reconnect my old router with all the same settings. The game now plays smoothly like it did before.

Moral of the story, make sure your connection is as clean as you can get it before you start blaming the game. (But the game is to blame on MANY occasions, not denying that). Do due diligence and forward ports and stuff. At least then you'll know you've done everything you can.

Re: Improve experiencing by learning to avoid. Improve gunskill.

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:51:32 GMT

One big way to improve is to learn to sense an unfair gunfight and pull out to avoid death. If you run out in the open and see someone head glitching in that instant before you start taking damage, run away and take cover. Or pop off a few shots, if you don't get the kill, pull out. Try and think of having a 'fuse' for your gunfights if you get the feeling someone has the advantage. Start getting uncomfortable after your first several shots if you don't get the kill, and pull out if you are exposed in anyway, or know the guy has a target finder or sniper rifle. Will save a ton of deaths.