Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2

[Allan]

Had a 30-3 match and it hasn't saved it in films. I'll never, ever manage that kind of score again either.

 

CoD TV -> My Channel -> Recent Games

[Chairman Meow]

It's not showing. I bookmarked it as well but it's not showing for some reason.

[Allan]

I had a look at your channel earlier, and all your games were showing up as 75-0 defeats, so probably an annoying gremlin in the works.

 

EDIT: Have you check Elite? Hopefully it would have tracked your game on there.

[Chairman Meow]

Too later to edit last post.

 

There might be some server/update issues going on. Elite is miles behind me on game info so hopefully it might magically appear later. Running at 1.49 K/D so far, will be easier once TK is involved and causing some havoc.

 

Edit: Then saw yours. Hopefully it will update, my Elite is only showing games from this afternoon although it has up to date K/D and wins etc. It reckons I will have prestiged within a day though!

[Allan]

Elite on your PC rather than the console app?

[Allan]

Your 24/10 game on Yemen is there, so it must just be Elite running like a dog again.

[Chairman Meow]

Yes web app. I never really used the app on console and didn't bother installing it again when I put the new drive in.

 

The one I am looking for is on Slums, suspect I had either a good or bad connection depending on what works in your favour on this version.

[Chairman Meow]

Had a message from TK this morning, he's purchased and says he'll be on tonight.

 

Any idea when Nuketown 2025 appears for those who pre ordered? I've had nothing from Amazon with a code or anything yet.

 

Edit: Forget that, just looked in the box and seen the voucher for it.

[Chairman Meow]

Servers have been down for a bit tonight. Had a few clear games then as soon as I partied up with TK we couldn't get a lobby so we had to play some private matches with bots.

 

The bots seem to be a lot better in this version and until I figured out I could switch sides I actually managed to kill TK once. Which was nice.

[Allan]

I'd seen a few tweets today to say that there have been some minor issues for PS3 that were being resolved within an hour or so of the problem being reported.

 

I've also seen a few tweets reporting problems with the vault/personal channels, but more specifically rendering videos from the vault/channel.

 

Did your 30-3 game turn up in the end?

 

EDIT: If you don't already, I'd recommend following David Vonderhaar over on Twitter.

[Chairman Meow]

Still not appeared, Elite seems to be off altogether and the other game I had bookmarked doesn't even show up as bookmarked now. Seems the 30-3 is lost forever. Fucking typical when I actually have a game like that for the first time ever!

 

The servers are fucked up in general this afternoon. The lobbies just sit showing "Need more players to balance teams" and no one can get in.

 

Although the status on callofduty.com says "ALL ONLINE SERVICES ARE ENABLED. OCCASIONAL TEMPORARY INTERRUPTIONS CAN BE EXPECTED AS SERVERS STABILIZE TO ACCOMMODATE NEW USAGE LOAD." Which roughly translates as "the servers are fucked right now but we don't actually want to say that"

[Mendoza]

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[Allan]

Can't understand how Woody hadn't seen that before now. The very same option was available in Black Ops. May also have been available in MW3, but I can't remember.

 

I'm still waiting for my Xbox copy to turn up so I can directly compare the performance on both platforms. Nice one Amazon, thankfully I wasn't too fussed about having my pre-ordered game arriving on release day...

 

I've still not heard/read anything that suggests the issues being experienced at the moment are anywhere near as bad as those that were experienced during the launch weeks of BlOps or MW3. That's got to be a positive, right?

 

This coming weekend is going to push things to breaking point, so we'll see how they cope. Double XP weekend, and far more players will just naturally be online due to lack of school/work. I, myself, will be online a fair bit from Monday afternoon/evening, once I've got this run of nights out the way.

[Kopite Pete]

I'm really enjoying this game. It has bought my enthusiasm back for it after the mw3 let down.

[Sweeney287]

Can't understand how Woody hadn't seen that before now. The very same option was available in Black Ops. May also have been available in MW3, but I can't remember.

 

I'm still waiting for my Xbox copy to turn up so I can directly compare the performance on both platforms. Nice one Amazon, thankfully I wasn't too fussed about having my pre-ordered game arriving on release day...

 

I've still not heard/read anything that suggests the issues being experienced at the moment are anywhere near as bad as those that were experienced during the launch weeks of BlOps or MW3. That's got to be a positive, right?

 

This coming weekend is going to push things to breaking point, so we'll see how they cope. Double XP weekend, and far more players will just naturally be online due to lack of school/work. I, myself, will be online a fair bit from Monday afternoon/evening, once I've got this run of nights out the way.

 

Same for me as well. Got the despatch confirmation on Monday and still no game. Am fuming as their poor service.

[Allan]

Same for me as well. Got the despatch confirmation on Monday and still no game. Am fuming as their poor service.

 

Turned up about half hour ago.

[Chairman Meow]

I'm still liking it so far. Couple of maps like Hijack and Carrier that I am not keen on but that's the case on any version.

 

The 10/10 class system works well I think, got a stealthy but quick run and gun setup with hardline included but no secondary or tactical (I generally pick up a secondary from someone else anyway).

 

Game feels more like what I was expecting MW3 to be than a Black Ops follow on.

[Sweeney287]

Turned up about half hour ago.

 

Same as mine, 20 minutes after I got off the phone to Amazon customer services. Got my p&p refunded anyway.

[Sweeney287]

Had a couple of quick goes and I've remembered how poor I am at this game compared to others!

[Allan]

Just in case you were not aware, double XP weekend has started. It's running through till Monday afternoon/evening, so there's a chance that I may see the tail end of it...

[Allan]

PS3 patch due to hit.

 

[Kopite Pete]

The spawn system is a bit shit in this.

[Allan]

The spawn system is a bit shit in this.

 

Below is what Vonderhaar had to say about spawn. Trying to find the video that I watched when he talked about this, but can't find it as yet.

 

"A designer on my team named Matt, has spent a majoirty on this project... One of his tasks is to consistently tune and fine tune the spawning system. In very Macro level spawning works as such: We're trying to find a spawn that is not so far away from the action that you feel you have to run forever to get back into the fight, but isn't so close that you feel you're in immediate harms way. So whenever you spawn in the game we actually log that. We log what we call a bad spawn, it means that I took or received damage within 3 seconds of spawning. So we're trying to eliminate occurrences where you would have a so called 'bad spawn'. It is very difficult thing to do so in a very small map like this (Nuketown 2025). There is only so much space in the map and the 12 players you run out of spawns really fast and good spaces to spawn, but we go to a lot of trouble to make sure the spawning works in a way where you feel protected, but no so far removed from the action. Right now we have less than 2% bad spawn rate. We are measuring all the time and we're fine tuning what we call a spawn radius. Spawn radius is basically how far away an influencer is that makes a spawn bad or not. That is a lot of dev mumbo jumbo, we're working our asses off to make spawning better."

 

EDIT: He talks about it in the Nuketown 2025 Gameplay video that I posted earlier in this thread.

 

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[Guest LFD]

Have they got rid of those remote control cars that carry bombs? I didn't like them in the last game.

[Allan]

Have they got rid of those remote control cars that carry bombs? I didn't like them in the last game.

 

The RC-XD is still there, but I doubt many people will use it. I reckon that the Hunter Killer will be the small lethal scorestreak of choice.

 

Scorestreaks

 

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Score Requirement Scorestreak Description

350

UAV Show enemies on the mini-map.

 

450

RC-XD Remote controlled car strapped with explosives.

 

525

Hunter Killer Drone Airborne drone that seeks out and destroys a nearby target.

 

550

Care Package Air drop a random Scorestreak reward.

 

600

Counter-UAV Temporarily disables enemy radar.

 

650

Guardian Projects a microwave field which stuns and impairs enemies.

 

700

Hellstorm Missile An air-to-surface missile which can be scattered into a cluster bomb while falling.

 

750

Lightning Strike Launch a coordinated lightning strike on three locations.

 

800

Sentry Gun An automatic sentry gun which can be remote-controlled.

 

850

Death Machine Your own personal handheld Minigun.

 

900

War Machine Grenade launcher with rapid, semi-automatic firing.

 

975

Dragonfire Remote-controlled quadrotor equipped with a lightweight machine gun.

 

1000

A.G.R. Air drop an autonomous ground robot that searches for and destroys enemies. Can also be remote controlled.

 

1100

Stealth Chopper Call in a stealth helicopter which does not appear on the enemy's mini-map.

 

1200

Orbital VSAT Shows both enemy position and direction on the mini-map. Cannot be shot down.

 

1250

Escort Drone Get personal air support from an escort drone.

 

1300

EMP Systems Temporarily disables enemy electronics.

 

1400

Warthog Jet aircraft that provides close air support with several strafe runs.

 

1500

Lodestar Lase missile targets remotely from the Lodestar.

 

1600

VTOL Warship Be the gunner of a powerful VTOL Warship.

 

1700

K9 Unit Attack dogs that hunt down the enemy.

 

1900

Swarm Call in a swarm of lethal Hunter Killer drones that search and destroy enemies.