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Re: List of reasons why BLOPS 1 is better than 2

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:03:54 GMT

SitRepPro wrote:

How was MW2 innovative exactly?

Basically, I think CoD4 is what really put CoD on the map and drew in the massive community it has today. Then WaW came along and while it was good and unique in some ways, it was VERY similar to CoD4, pretty much all the same graphics and Perks and attachments and styles of guns with a FEW new things like the WW2 setting, the gore, the dogs, the bolt-action-rifles (although those are basically just bolt action snipers without scopes), the War gametype (I don't understand why they won't bring that back) and a few maps that were much bigger than anything in CoD4. But it still had the same core formula as CoD4, the Create-A-Class system followed the same "1 Primary, 1 Secondary Pistol, 1 Grenade, 1 Secondary Grenade, and 3 Perks", most of the perks were the same (SP, Jug, SC was a slightly modified LS, Martyrdom etc.), Recon Plane was the same as UAV and Artillery Strike was the same as the airstrike....

Then came MW2, which completely changed things with significantly better graphics, more killstreaks and the ability to customize them, crazy secondaries like Machine Pistols and Shotguns, just a lot of dramtically different things that made it feel like a REAL SEQUEL and not a rehash. You can argue that noobtubes and the UMP45 are OP and shotgun secondaries and quickscoping and M/L/C knifing is annoying and I would TOTALLY agree with you, except for me MW2 was the most fun CoD game EVER, at least when it first came out and everyone hadn't discovered the SPAS-12 and OMA/DC yet. There were just so many different ways you could play, so much variety, awesome killstreaks (I just love when an announcer shouts "ENEMY NUKE INCOMING!!! IT'S OVER..." or "ENEMY AC130 ABOOOVE!!!") I feel like every CoD game since MW2 has been a quick rehash, and I finally hit my breaking point with BLOPS 2. The sad thing is hackers have already taken over MW2 (and CoD4, and WaW) and Activision is too greedy to just put out a patch and fix it because all they care about is making money off the newest CoD game and the newest DLC and getting people to sign up for ELITE...it really sucks. I've had a lot of good times with CoD, but unless they actually do something interesting with the series this year, I think it's about damn time to move on. Just my opinion anyways.

List of reasons why BLOPS 1 is better than 2

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:30:01 GMT

I finally turned in BLOPS 2 last Saturday. It's the first time I've turned in a CoD game before reaching the max rank. I got to 15th in BLOPS1 and 20th in MW3, but I only made it to 7th in BLOPS 2 before I just couldn't take it anymore. I tried taking long breaks and playing with friends and using all kinds of guns and it just isn't worth it. I feel like I've grown out of the stale CoD formula that I've dealt with every year. I pay for the game, all the DLC, I support every CoD game that comes out, but I don't feel like that's right anymore. I mean FFS they still won't give us public betas or dedicated servers and so far we've had ONE weapon DLC in the history of CoD. I'm 18 now, I'm not buying into this crap anymore. There are better series where the developers actually care about their community, such as Halo and Gears Of War. I'd seriously rather play my Pokemon games now than play more CoD, not even exaggerating. But anyways, here's why BLOPS 1 was SIGNIFICANTLY better than 2:

-All Perks, Killstreaks, and Equipment are unlocked from level 4 and not at completely random levels (like CUAV at 33, or Flak Jacket at 32, or C4 at 40-something)

-The simple killstreak system was way better than the new scorestreak system, you didn't have to get like 4 kills and a flag cap just to get a UAV or RC, absolutely ridiculous.

-Shotguns were useable but not OP, as opposed to the insane 870 and KSG.

-The multiplayer announcers were better, they actually sounded enthusiastic and not monotone.

-The MAPS were so much better, BLOPS 2 literally has TWO good maps: Hijacked and Nuketown, and Nuketown is from BLOPS 1 anyways. Every other map in the game ranges from mediocre to terrible, in fact I'd say BLOPS 2 has the worst maps of any CoD game so far, including the DLC.

-There were a ton more Challenges for XP in MP, so ranking up wasn't such a grind. Yeah there were five more Prestiges but it was just done better.

-You could unlock any attachments(s) you want for any gun you purchase with COD points immediately instead of having to randomly unlock them as you use the weapon, and deal with the weapon prestige crap.

-I don't even like Zombies, but it was better, because you could get all the original WaW maps and even the other maps were better than the garbage we've got in BLOPS 2.

-NO QUICKSCOPING, enough said.

-Domination was better, BLOPS 2 ruined it and turned it into a terrible spawn-trap-fest like Demolition.

I'm sure there's more but that's just the stuff I can think of off of the top of my head, it's sad how bad this series has become, there hasn't been real innovation since MW2, it's all rehashing, but MW3 was even better than BLOPS 2, and I never thought that would be possible. It's just so angering and boring. I recommend you guys all do what I did and turn that **** in before you tear your hair out, leave the game to the hackers and the 13-year-olds, I imagine they're the only ones dumb enough to still think this series is good.

Re: Enyone Having Troble with there Live Streming on BO2!!!!!!

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:29:59 GMT

Yeah it's not working for me either, it worked for me this morning for a little bit but now it's giving me an error message...really frustrating.

Re: Problem with linking my YouTube account for Live Streaming? Please help!!!

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:28:10 GMT

Also now every time I follow the link to my live stream it brings me to a page that says the video is unavailable...I'm really confused....

Problem with linking my YouTube account for Live Streaming? Please help!!!

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:17:01 GMT

Hi, I tried out the new live stream feature with this game, and it worked, except I decided that I want to change the YouTube account I have linked. How exactly do I go about doing this? I went to ELITE, went to "My Vault", and it said I didn't have any YouTube account linked, which is weird because I definitely did. So I tried to link the other account and it seemed to work, I signed in and clicked "Allow Access" but now it keeps saying I don't have an account linked. I really want to do my first live stream for my subscribers, if someone could explain what is going on, like if it's a temporary glitch or I'm doing something wrong, it would be much appreciated.

Dual Wield Kills Prestige Challenge glitch?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:07:37 GMT

I just played two matches of KC, one on Raid that I joined really late and got 8 kills with the Dual Wield KAP-40s, but when I checked my Challenges after the match it said I only got 3 kills with them. Then in the next match on Slums I got about 25 kills with them, and I checked my Challenges again and this time it said I only have 22 kills towards the 50. 8 plus 25 is 33, not 22. What is going on? I'm 5th Prestige btw.

WHY are Tactical Insertions still in this game. Friggin' unbelievable.

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:32:37 GMT

Ever since MW2, there have only been TWO reasons that people have used TIs: For BOOSTING and SPAWN TRAPPING. Why is this tolerated? I was just playing Demolition on Hijacked, and there were like four quickscopers on the other team, literally. I had Engineer on so I could see their goddamned TIs just a little past our spawn. And these quickscopers literally just stood behind the wall and sniped us as we spawned at the end of the boat, over and over. The only chances I had to get out of my spawn were if the quickscopers missed their first couple shots and I could run up to them and hopefully get off enough shots of that full-auto shotgun to kill them. But even then they'd spawn right around the corner and quickscope me again, and because of Demolition's absolutely retarded spawn system I would spawn right back at the end of the boat. One of the quickscopers got over 70 kills, and no that is not an exaggeration.

Then the next match it was Domination on Nuketown, and these quickscopers did the same damn thing. One of them got over 50 kills that time. By quickscoping. For two five minute rounds. I switched to my sniper class and managed to get about 35 kills but since I didn't have a TI and I couldn't spawn trap them, I got a lot of deaths. Is anything going to be done about this? Quickscoping is one thing, but spawn trapping is a whole other beast. It needs to be fixed.

Re: I'm sorry, this game is just not fun.

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:33:30 GMT

Oh and another thing about the unlock system, I liked how in Black Ops 1 you got all the Perks, Killstreaks and Equipment right from level 4. It's so ridiculous having to be level 18 to get an RC-XD, or level 50-something to get a stupid Claymore.

I'm sorry, this game is just not fun.

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:40:51 GMT

I am a die-hard CoD fan, I made it to the max rank in both Black Ops 1 and MW3. I am now 3rd Prestige in Black Ops 2, and I am absolutely sick of it. I can't tolerate it anymore. Just so much unbelievable BS, so much repeated mistakes, so much flaws...I think I'm finally wising up to how the last four CoDs have all basically been the same. Activision's master formula no longer works on me.

I wanted to like Black Ops 2 really badly, I really did, I wanted to LOVE it, but I'm incredibly dissapointed in so many ways. Here are just a few examples:

-The unlock system is completely screwed up, you hardly get ANYTHING good or useful until ridiculously high ranks. For instance, you don't get Flak Jacket until 32 I think, you don't get the Counter-UAV until 33, you don't get C4 until 41, you don't get Ghost until 55, you don't get many fun or good guns like the KAP-40 until like the 40s. Now this wouldn't be too bad, except there aren't nearly as many Challenges as in other CoDs, so ranking up feels much slower and more of a grind (to me at least).

-The Scorestreak system is also messed up, how come I can get a Care Package just by killing like 2 guys and capping a Hardpoint (which takes like half a second), but in FFA and TDM it takes FIVE kills JUST to get a freakin' UAV?

-Some of the Challenges for getting Gold Camos are just stupid, like getting 150 kills without attachments or Perks on the gun you want Gold. And how come to get SMGs and ARs and Pistols Gold, you need a hundred headshots, but for Snipers and Shotguns you just need OHKs?

-I really don't like how SoH, Quickdraw and Stalker have been made into attachments, because those have always been crucial for me, so now I have to use those instead of sights or a Silencer or Extended Mags or Rapid Fire or whatever. Also, it's stupid how you can't have Fast Mag and Extended Mag at the same time.

-The Shotguns are incredibly annoying, particularly the 870 and KSG--the KSG has RIDICULOUS range, it's seriously like pre-patch 1887s from MW2.

-The LAG, the lag man it's just game-breaking, and I have a good wired connection with an open NAT. It's just not fair that we can't have dedicated servers. I know Activision has the money for them.

Anyways I just don't know if I can keep playing this game, even with friends it's just too frustrating to bother with, I've been having much more fun with much older games like Oblivion. I'm seriously ready to give up on CoD, and I was one of the few people who would always defend MW3, which I now consider to be the worst CoD ever made. It's not that Black Ops 2 is horribly unbalanced or something, it's just terribly flawed and laggy.

Re: Bring back Nuketown 2025 24/7!!!

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:52:59 GMT

But I don't get what the logic behind that is. It's everyone's favorite map, good for Shotguns, good for Snipers, good for explosives, good for pretty much everything FUN.

Bring back Nuketown 2025 24/7!!!

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:45:33 GMT

Why did they replace it with this stupid "Chaos" Moshpit? Why can't Nuketown be permanent?

We need Hardcore Domination/Kill Confirmed!!!

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:42:49 GMT

Why did Treyarch pick the absolute worst gametypes for Hardcore?!? They all have respawn timers, something I DESPISE because it completely detracts from the generally fast pace of CoD games and either way it doesn't make spawns better. Even MW3 has HC Dom and KC, what an embarrasment for Treyarch!

Black Ops 2: The Good And The Bad (What's yours?)

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:44:54 GMT

So I reached 1st Prestige yesterday, and I figured I'd start this thread. In your opinion, what are the general pros and cons of BLOPS 2, particularly in comparison to other CoD games? For me:

THE GOOD:

-Spawns are way better than MW3

-Multi-Team is awesome

-MP7 is fun to use but not OP like in MW3

-Grenade Launchers are useable in Core again

-Camos for everything

-Combat Knife with 6 Perks in FFA is fun as hell

-Scavenger resupplies explosives again

-Sniping on Nuketown 2025 is really fun

-Ghost isn't unlocked until level 55, haha campers

-Rank pacing seems really good, although that might just be because of the Double XP weekend but in general it seems like ranking up isn't as much of a grind as it was in MW3

-10-point system is pretty sweet, particularly the 3 attachments on Primaries

-None of the maps are really terrible, although none of them are incredible but I'm sure I'll grow to like some of them a lot

-According to my friends sound whoring is pretty much impossible, now all the tryhards will actually have to sprint and look at the radar to get kills

-Finally, FINALLY no Second Chance or Final Stand or Last Stand

-No Deathstreaks

-So far the overpowered killstreaks like Dogs and Swarm seem really hard to get, unlike in BLOPS 1 where people would get Dogs and CGs like five times a match. The objective is finally more rewarding than killwhoring. Because of this, KC is also awesome.

-Don't seem to be any OP guns yet, though I'm sure people will find them soon

-No glitches or mods or exploits that I've seen

-Way less lag than other CoD games, consistent 4 bars for me at least

THE BAD:

-Quickscoping and panic knifing are back 120%, ugh. I've been Commando-lunged by people holding ARs after I put a Shotgun bullet in their chest and even though Aim Assist is gone on Snipers quickscoping is still EXTREMELY easy

-Speaking of Shotguns they are generally terrible, at least the 870 and KSG. No range even with Long Barrel and incredibly inconsistent hit detection.

-The host can still end a match by dashboarding, this is ridiculous

-You still can't customize classes during a match, seriously what's up with that you can do it in BF3 and even Halo 4 now

-Assault Shield is pretty crappy

-No Marathon

That's what I can think of off the top of my head, what are your Good and Bad for BLOPS 2?

Re: Now if I'm playing solo I can't use a mic....

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:54:30 GMT

You must be new to online gaming. People have been trash talking over Xbox Live since its inception. There is nothing immature about it. If you're an adult, and you're talking with other adults, in what is supposed to be a fun and competitive environment, you're going to be cursing occasionally. It's natural. CoD multiplayer is not supposed to be like a game of chess with some tea and pastries, it's supposed to be crazy action. The whole "Report for offensive language" feature is just downright asinine.

Now if I'm playing solo I can't use a mic....

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:11:04 GMT

Why is Treyarch trying to censor our freedom of speech on a game that's rated MATURE - 17+?!? If parents don't want their kids to hear adult language then they shouldn't allow them to play online (Game Experience May Change During Online Play!) And not only that, but there IS a MUTE PLAYER feature! I can't play with my mic anymore unless I'm in a party because for some reason Treyarch is banning for "Offensive Language". It's ridiculous. Reporting someone for swearing at you when you could have muted them is like getting mad at a noobtuber when you could have used Flak Jacket. Is Treyarch actually enforcing this? What constitues as "Offensive Language" to them? Can I get banned just for yelling "SH!T" when I get panic knifed or saying "F@CK YOU!" back to someone who started trash talking? I admit I rage pretty hard when I play online games, but I don't understand what's wrong with that. I mean, there's homophobic and obscene language in the Campaign, and not to mention the whole point of the game is KILLING PEOPLE!

Spawn trapping - LEARN FROM IWs MISTAKES!!!

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:44:30 GMT

There are a bunch of maps on MW3 where spawn trapping is pretty much inevitable, at least in Domination (Hardhat is a prime example, whoever gets A and B first pretty much wins the game). And I know people will say, "Well just rush forward and break out of the spawn trap!", but when the enemy knows where your spawns are and are sound whoring and the spawns won't flip, it's nearly impossible to break out of a spawn-trap. And some people will say "spawn-trapping is part of the game, it's not unfair"--give me a break. Spawn trapping is INCREDIBLY unfair, especially in MW3 where the spawn-trappers can use Tactical Insertions and Portable Radars at THE SAME TIME to keep the spawn trap going. You can hold two flags in Domination and not completely spawn-trap the enemy, spawn trappers are generally spawn-trapping intentionally. For example, look up on YouTube "most MOABS in one game", I can pretty much guarantee it will all be Terminal spawn-trap videos. Aside from Demolition, I think Black Ops had much better spawning than MW3, I just hope Black Ops 2 can continue that. I'm really sick of MW3 spawn-traps....

"Lost connection to host."

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:35:10 GMT

Will I still be seeing this message every other match when a host dashboards in Black Ops 2, or has Treyarch finally figured out how to fix host migration?

Will IW still support MW3 after BLOPS 2 comes out, or will they let hackers take over like MW2/CoD4?

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:30:09 GMT

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Re: I really hope there's a counter to dogs this time.

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:28:43 GMT

You know, there are a lot of people who have marijuana references in their usernames but nobody ever says they're "inviting marijuana discussion". Yes, my username is sort of a dumb joke but honestly I will be voting for him in November, no friggin way am I voting for big business Romney or anti-abortion Ron Paul.

But anyways, this whole BB/CG/Dogs combo happens a LOT, particularly in Domination. I'm not kidding when I say that I see people who use this setup consistently get 50-80 kills a match REGARDLESS of whether they win or lose because once you have all that crap going it just completely subdues the other team.

It's true that I'm usually playing with randoms, but unfortunatley all my friends either play Modern Stealth Bomber 3 or Boringlands 2....

Re: I really hope there's a counter to dogs this time.

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:02:02 GMT

I don't want to get into a political debate on CoD forums, also using a Silenced Famas plus Ghost, SoH and Ninja and a nice small area to "tactically defend" makes it very easy for the tryhards to get their killstreaks, even if most of the other team isn't doing bad. All it takes is one idiot who keeps running back to the camper. That's why killstreaks should be more team-oriented, and not just be about the individual.