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Re: Agree or Disagree? How the playlists should look like

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:20:26 GMT

iivrruummii wrote:

How playlists should be in my opinion.

Ranked-Based off of team wins and losses.

FFA-Multiple Gamemodes(Oddball, HP) 8 Players.
TDM-Multiple Varients(such as KC and VIP) 4v4 only
Team Objective-(CTF, Demo, "Oddball") 4v4 only
Team Control-(Hardpoint, Domination, Search) 4v4 only
Squad Battle-All gamemodes(parties of 6) 6v6 only
Team Snipers-All gamemodes and multiple varients. 4v4
Hardcore-All gamemodes with HC varient. 4v4
MLG-Select gamemodes, rules, and maps. 4v4

Unranked-No stats are tracked.

Social TDM-Multiple Varients. 6v6
Social CTF-Multiple Varients. 6v6
Social HP-6v6
Social Dom-6v6
Social Oddball-6v6
Social Demo-6v6
Social SND-6v6
Ground War-Select gamemodes-9v9

Party/Community Created Gamemodes.

Party playlist-8 player FFA
Infection-18 players FFA
Community playlist-community ideas playlist

New Gamemodes

"Oddball"-Basically it is like Team Defender, from MW3, but instead of kills counting toward the score, time holding the flag counts 1:1 toward the score. First team to 250 wins. 10 minute time limit.

VIP-Basically a player on both team has only a Pistol, but has increased health that never regenerates, let's say 1000 health, the first team to kill the other team's VIP wins the game. Best of 3 rounds of 3 minutes. Tie breaker is the team that did the most damage to the other teams VIP.

Some community created ones that can be tested out, and if they end up being good they can make their way into a new Social playlist. Users vote every month on a gamemode. If a gamemode gets 2 votes then that gamemode gets a spot in the Social playlist.

Really some excellent suggestions there. Hopefully there would be room for some HC variants too though!

Having a social playlist is something I would be a big supporter of. I think the idea of just playing the game for fun has kind of got lost a bit with the devs desire to focus more on promoting the competitive aspects of the game.

Re: cannot aim anymore please help!!!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:51:11 GMT

You're lucky so - I always do terribly bad when I get host

Re: cannot aim anymore please help!!!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:59:53 GMT

nice post my friend... always nice to see well constructed and well-informed quickscoping post

@OP... It might not be that your aim is completely gone. If you're doing okay against bots and not online then that's probably more indicative of latency issues. I see it all the time myself. Some lobbies my shot is just really on the money (good connection) and other lobbies I can't hit the guy 2 feet in front of me while he's crouch-walking (bad connection). Par for the course in the modern CoD

Chopping and changing your sensitivity is probably not going to do you any favours really. Best to just stick to one sensitivity and keep grinding away until you get really used to it again and let the muscle memory develop for that sensitivity.

Re: questions about host vs. non-host/connectivity, quick scoping and auto aim

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:22:58 GMT

1. I find having the search preferences set to "Best" and my NAT type set to "moderate" tends to yield the most consistent results, but depending on the time of day you are playing, the amount of players online and in your proximity, you can still find yourself in laggy lobbies. It's par for the course with multiplayer games on P2P connections.

2. Quickscoping has always been possible in Call of Duty (been playing online since CoD2) and is growing in popularity, so much so that I really don't think you'll ever see a CoD game without it. It's not an exploit, it's just a technique. It's simple to learn, but very difficult to master. To do well with it you need a really good knowledge of spawns, positioning and high traffic routes because you need to be able to predict where your targets are going to come from because being able to prepare your shot is half the battle. You also need to have pretty good twitch reflexes and accuracy. It's a lot more challenging in my eyes than using any automatic or semi-auto weapon. That's just my opinion, and you're perfectly entitled to disagree with me, but the simple fact is, if quickscoping is that big of a deal for you then maybe you've picked the wrong franchise.

3. There is no auto-aim. There is aim-assist or target-assist as it is known in 3arc games. It's just a sticky aim that slows your crosshairs down as you run them across a target. It's purpose is to compensate for the lack of precision afforded by analog sticks when compared with a mouse. You can turn it off in the options menu

Re: Bring Back Chaos Moshpit!

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:43:21 GMT

I wish they would bring back Chaos Moshpit and send that horrible f**king Nuketown map back there and out of the regular playlists...

Re: quick scoping & the like

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 10 May 2013 08:50:53 GMT

Darkdyllon wrote:

the point is that QSing is to easy.
even easier then MW3 was at the time

Eh no... that's just absurd. MW3 quickscoping is significantly easier than Black Ops 2 quickscoping. I don't believe you've ever quickscoped in either game if you think that's the case.

Re: Should the combat training online playlist be removed?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:04:04 GMT

No, I don't think it should removed. I play it daily to warm up or when I don't want to have to put on my sweaty try-hard pants. It is the one playlist that is pretty much always fun. It's population count isn't the highest, but neither are those of CTF, Hardpoint, and Demolition, not to mention League play.

The only way I would say they should remove it would be for a "social" moshpit playlist where stats are not recorded and people just play for the fun of playing. People should be able to level up and complete challenges too. The only thing I would do is make leaving mid-game still count as a loss, just to encourage people to gut it out till the end of a bad match and leave between rounds, may not make a blind bit of difference to the amount of people leaving the game, but I think it would be an interesting experiment.

Re: Disable DLC MP Maps

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 09 May 2013 08:45:24 GMT

Noob_Lyncher wrote:

Lol, because I have to sit on my ass for most of the day for $8.65 an hour at walmart,

that would have had much more impact if you said work your ass off rather than just sitting on it... now it just sounds like you get paid to do nothing

Re: Gamemode for negative k/d players

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:32:28 GMT

Absolutely - I always go play some CT before I go into pubs. It's a great way to warm up. It's also great if you want to just play against a few other people and not feel like you have to get sweaty and win. When winning and losing doesn't matter in people's minds there's a lot of fun to be had.

Re: Girl gamer new to BO2. Need advice

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:49:30 GMT

I wouldn't bother with Toughness in HC - you die too quickly for it to be of any real benefit... Would recommend Scavenger instead so you can resupply lethals, tacticals and ammo - much more beneficial in my experience

Re: Remember when black ops 2 was fun

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:08:19 GMT

Last night - FFA - Ballista w ironsight - making the SMG kiddies rage - awesome funz

Re: quick scoping & the like

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:35:24 GMT

non-Toughness snipers? Man, I've very rarely seen anyone like that - I've tried using the snipers without toughness and the scope bounces all over the place when taking damage... that's why I always put it on my classes now. What I do notice though is that flinch doesn't kick in until after ADS with the sniper, so if I was going to go out purely quickscoping I don't think I'd be ADS long enough for it to matter.

Re: B23R = Instant Win

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:16:02 GMT

adw1983 wrote:

To you lot who say secondary weapons should be as good as primary weapons:
No.

Not saying that they should be as good as primaries at all... just that since they cost the same amount as a primary, they can't be sh1t either.

If I lose a gunfight to a B23R I'm usually quite sure that I would have lost that same fight against any of the primaries in this game. If it's not that gun that kills me, it'll be another....

Re: quick scoping & the like

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:01:22 GMT

malditor wrote:

Anyway, the lack of flinch is the only issue I have with snipers. When looking down a scope with magnification any slight movement is amplified and exaggerated yet a sniper getting shot while ads barely gets any movement in their sights.

I think that's because they all pretty much use Toughness. I personally never make a sniper class without Toughness because without it the flinch will mess up your shot. It's not just snipers that get the benefit of Toughness though. Plenty of times I've come across someone using an AR with toughness, hitmarked them with the Ballista, lost the gun fight and then watched in the killcam as my shot didn't make a blind bit of difference to their aim. Can't complain though, that's just the perk doing what it's supposed to do - sometimes I'm on the good side of it and others the bad - sh1t happens

Re: quick scoping & the like

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:35:34 GMT

Yeah, I think there is a lot more random BS to deal with when usingthe Ballista, but the OHK hit boxes are smaller for the Ballista and i think latency probably plays a part with it too. When I warm up offline it's much more consistent. I still prefer it to the DSR because of the faster handling and the extra bullets by default but I'm always much more confident that my shots will kill with the DSR

Re: quick scoping & the like

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:17:42 GMT

ge0rdiemark wrote:

Notice how DSR gets used more than Ballista ?

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actually, it's because it's a more consistent OHK than the Ballista (which often gets hitmarkers even in areas it shouldn't)

Re: quick scoping & the like

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:12:22 GMT

quickscoping has been around since the start - so it won't be going anywhere now

Re: B23R = Instant Win

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:06:21 GMT

There's no denying it is a very powerful back-up weapon - but it has to be since it costs the exact same as a primary weapon, otherwise it would never make sense to use a point on it. It's OK at medium range but you'll pretty much always need 2 bursts to put anyone down at that range and really, if you're up against anyone even remotely competent with an SMG or AR, you're going to lose those mid-range gunfights 90% of the time.

I've hit master prestige and got all my guns diamond, so to keep myself interested I'm trying to do as many challenges as I can, so I started recently working on the akimbo challenge using the B23R. Up very close it's super effective, but outside of about 10-15 feet it is practially useless since the spread is so wide, at least that's how it feels to me.

Overall, while it's an excellent weapon, I don't think it's quite as good as the Raffica was from MW2. They could nerf it - but it would just mean everyone who wanted a decent secondary would move on to something else, probably the Kap 40. When you think about it though, for the same cost of the B23R plus 1 attachment, you could use overkill and have the MP7 or skorpion as your back up.

I think in that context, the power of the pistols in this game is justified.

Re: Class setups (Share your classes Or Comment on classes)

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:04:21 GMT

In Core

Ballista w Fast mag and iron sights

Kap 40

Flak Jacket

Perk 2 Greed w Toughness/Fast-Hands

Tac Mask

DSR 50 w Ex mags

Overkill

Skorpion

Flak Jacket

Perk 2 Greed w Toughness/Fast-Hands

Tac Mask

In HC it's either

Type 25 w suppressor and quickdraw

Flak Jacket

Scavenger

Perk 3 greed w Engineer and Tac Mask

Bouncing Betty

EMPgrenade

MP7 w Suppressor and Laser sight

Perk 1 Greed w Lightweight and Flak Jacket

Perk 3 Greed w Tac Mask and Dexterity

Bouncing Betty

Re: Just played MW3.

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:30:11 GMT

I try not to blame the weapon my opponent is using. Most of the time, when I die in a gunfight it's because I made a mistake (or because lag comp didn't want me to win the fight)... All of the guns in this game kill so fast that I have to assume that It wouldn't matter what gun the other guy had, he'd still have beat me that time. Of course, some people use cheap tactics (headglitching, camping corners etc) and that does annoy me, but I try to keep that annoyance from turning into rage because I only end up playing worse then.

Every weapon and playstyle has a tactic to counter. Work on finding the best way to deal with the players that bother you or you have difficulty dealing with. Quickscopers a pretty easy to deal with because they are predictable - they always want to be in the same spots on the map so it's easy to flank them. Shotgunners don't want to be out in the open so they will stick to high traffic CQB areas. Try to control your engagements to put you in a stronger position. That will often mean having to completely change how you are playing, sometimes you will need to rush hard and sometimes you will have to hold back and be much more conservative. As soon as you start getting pee'd off with it though, either stop playing or go chill out in combat trainining where nothing matters a damn anyhow