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Is Black Ops 2 as fun as Black Ops

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:37:03 GMT

Posing this question because my initial impressions of Black Ops 2 are not positive: it plays and is set up more like MW3 than Black Ops, which is a bizarre move because on most votes I've seen Black Ops is a more popular game than MW3. Before BO2 came out I put together a wish list of things for it, and virtually none of that is the case in this game. They've ditched almost everything that made the game satisfying to me. Sure it looks nice and has lovely bells and whistles, but is it actually fun? Not to me.

What does anybody else think?

Re: What about allowing users with good connections to skip lag compensation?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:19:58 GMT

I like that idea - there ought to be some options you can select to make sure you get a good game, especially if know you have a good conection. Be it how the game runs lag compensation or how it selects opponents. Personally I'd rather wait a couple of minutes to be connected to a good game than be instantly put into a crappy game that makes me want to throw my controller at the screen.

Re: What about allowing users with good connections to skip lag compensation?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:08:04 GMT

Alright then - I'll rephrase it (or focus it). What about allowing users with good connections to join games with a different (perhaps just paired down) version of lag compensation operative. Surely there are different requirements for users with good connections compared with those who have bad connections?

What about allowing users with good connections to skip lag compensation?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:57:57 GMT

People seem to be saying that the lag compensation that enables users with crap connections to play on an 'even' playing field is ruining recent COD games for everybody. What about Treyarch offering the option to create/join games that have lag compensation switched off or severely toned down? People with good connections could set it to join those games, while people with crap connections can all play together in crappy games with lag compensation.

Shouldn't be too hard for the devs to make that happen. How about it?

Re: has everyone forgotten about the horrible lag compensation or something.

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:04:57 GMT

Personally I find the lag on Black Ops to be utterly terrible and of game breaking proportions, and I haven't enjoyed MW3 enough to play it enough to gauge how the lag is there. If you people are saying that the lag issues are even worse on MW3, then frankly I think we need to start guillotining developers.

I have the best consumer connection available in the UK which is 40 megabit fibre optic broadband.

I was hoping that Treyarch might be able to spare 5% of their disgusting profits on BO2 to get the main feature of the game (multiplayer) working properly with some dedicated servers, but apparently that was too much to ask. To me that's the equivalent of Ford selling cars where the engine doesn't work - i.e. not an option. But apparently it is an option where games are concerned.

Perhaps they could give the end user the choice of whether to connect to games with lag compensation turned on or games without it depending on their quality of their own connections. At least then maybe those of us with a good connection could have a good time.

Have black ops servers been crippled lately?

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:47:58 GMT

Lately it seems that black ops servers have been crippled so that the games run slower with more lag. I know the game has had lag problems from day 1 but it seems to be worse lately. Even the screens before the game when it's setting up are often taking ages to come up, and I'm sometimes getting loading screens where previously it would just go straight from one screen to the next.

Am I imagining this or is it real?