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Its one of the most mentioned topics, pretty much amongst every member of this forum, pretty much every day. Try a search, there are numerous topics on this, and most folks agree with you that we are all nervous about connection after MW3.

I personally didn't have any major issues in Black Ops. I had the occasional laggy game, but have never played an online game where that didn't happen from time to time. For the most part, the game ran smoothly and I had very few WTF moments. MW3, on the other hand, is a completely different story. I have constant connection issues on that game.

Nobody has forgotten, we are all wondering how it will turn out and hoping for the best. I Pre-Ordered this game, but my future with CoD is seriously going to hinge on whether or not this game is functional.

I don't think anyone here has forgotten mate.

There are so many threads related to concerns about connectivity & matchmaking.

The PS3 community is continuously asking if Black Ops 2 will perform equally to the XBOX 360 considering Black Ops on PS3 was pretty terrible.

Hell, someone have already started a "Lag Compensation Thread" for Black Ops 2 (even before the game has launched) & I really can't blame the OP for it.

http://community.callofduty.com/thread/200517028?start=0&tstart=0

danielbondnz wrote:

 

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Firstly, Black ops 2 looks great in terms of the new features, maps, gun, everything looks great.

 

However what has to have changed from Black ops 1 is the net coding and smoother connections, cause at times Black ops was terrible. I remember lag spikes atleast once a game, and if the host wasnt perfect, the game would be unplayable.

 

Dont tell me I have bad internet, cause I have some of the best in my country. All my friends agree Black ops was the most laggy cod they have played too. And I have no issues with the other cods.

 

I wonder if some of the hype for Treyarch is actually coming from a lot of Hate for IW and MW3.

 

Lets just not jump the gun on Black ops 2 just yet, ill wait to play it before I judge it.

Just because you have the best internet in your country means nothing. The game doesnt use the higher speed of connections. As well as you might have the best paid connection out there but is it the best quality of a connection ? Like as in PING ? And other factors like how many peices of equipment are accessing your line ?

and if you want to wait before ordering then thats great but why start a negative topic about a previous game in this forum and bring up the lag subject on a game thats a month away ?

PS they are untouchable after they first month of tweaks. The online portion of the game is a free addon of the game used to sell you more DLC and can end at any time that they dont see a profit.

They ONLY have to keep this game patched with a bandaid if need be until all the player get the maps from their Season Pass.

IW for example could legally and still not hurt their future sales if they walked away from MW3 tommorrow. they did that before when they just dropped all support on MW2 four months into its release.

Dudes, play more hardcore. Lag issues vanish when you get out of the kiddie pool.

I cant speak for everyone, but personally the 2 treyarch games are my favorites (with cod 4 being close).

Thats why I look forward to this.  They tend to reward skilled play more than the IW sprayfest, instakill, mindless bs.

Im a bit concerned Treyarch is creeping towards MW3, especially in the maps department, but I still have hope for this game.

The only real knock ive heard on BO is the hit detection/lag some people faced.  Fortunately I didn't suffer from it, so the game was flawless in my eyes.

I guess you're from New Zealand based on your username. I can also guess that due to the weird way MW3's lag compensation worked you would own on American servers, having the highest ping due to location. Hence your opinion that MW3's connection system was fine. IMHO it definitely wasn't. 15 bullets on target and no hitmarkers, even on a fast connection, was annoying.

But I digress.

In all truth, other than the sketchy as **** hit detection and lag spikes Treyarch games have fewer problems than IW games.

CoD 4 had the M16 and pocket nukes ("frag grenades" they were called I think). Sonic Boom made these worse. I've even seen 3x Frag / Sonic Boom / Martyrdom used as a class. Not to mention the M40A3 ACOG glitch that made it a OHK anywhere. Even the feet!

Didn't play WaW as I don't like WW2 games that much.

MW2 had a whole host of problems like OMA DC noob tubes, MLC knife monkeys, nuke boosting, constant trickshotting in SnD for killcams... and the glitches. Most maps had one or more glitches (Estate and Highrise rooftop glitches, and Afghan and Wasteland out of map glitches come to mind. All unpatched).

Black Ops had the lag and hit detection above. As a plus, though - no QS!

MW3 had Black Ops' lag plus a whole plethora of overpowered guns and the Sitrep Pro problem once that was buffed (big mistake IW). Oh and the camping pandemic, don't forget that.

So I have faith in Treyarch to not deliver a game full of glitches and exploits.

i have 100MB fibre optic connection im often host i never lag on black ops but always do on modern wankfail and if im host i get disadvantage