Black Ops – initially disappointing
Update #2:
Try disabling shadows – this seems to give the greatest performance boost.
After picking this up last night and trying it for an hour, here are my first impressions;
Huge lag
This is probably due to launch-night strain on the servers, but still very disappointing. Up to 2-3 freezes and a couple of disconnects.
Party Up?
Despite the mass opposition for non-dedicated servers, the IWnet matchmaking allowed for the following:
- Start a ‘party’ (2 or more players on your friends list)
- Join a server together
- and be on the same team of said friends.
There doesn’t appear to be a way of doing this in Black Ops.
I can’t ‘host’ a game of zombies
In World At War, I could host a game of nazi zombies – invite a friend into the game and also allow other people to join my game, again its not clear if this possible.
If it isn’t, this is again pretty disappointing.
Haven’t played the single player though!
This is just a quick first impressions of the multi player modes, haven’t even loaded up the single player yet.
Watch this space for more further impressions.
Update:
- awful mouse lag navigating menus between rounds
- and why does it show that awful video after every single game of zombies and drop you straight back to the main menu?! I’m sure you can replace the .bik with a blank one, but you shouldn’t have to.
Possible fixes?
For the on-line lag:
From a steam forum poster (not confirmed by me)
“Turn off steam overlay in game it worked for me. The game was unplayable now its fine.
EDIT : Steam > Settings > In Game > uncheck “Enable Steam Community In-Game”
True dat
Now even the websites are compaining. Jesus, just be ***** patient! How can you say that a game is dissapointing if you haven’t even been able to play it like it should? Just wait until everything is working as it should, and then complain again, retards.
Replay to ^^ so when a game comes out it will be flawed and as a customer we are post to be happy about this? GREAT IDEA!!
man you are dumb as ****. Game just came out. it should be ready to go from then on.!! why the **** would you want a game that is broken when you buy it from the story. It did not say call of duty black ops. broken ( you know cause it just came out ) on the front of it.
GG you dumb son of a ****!!!
You can’t expect a developer to create a 100% bug/lag wtf ever-free game. That just IS NOT ******* POSSIBLE. There will always be patches for every game that has and will be released. Treyarch said that they will listen to the community carefully. So they will. Just be PATIENT and wait for the problems to be fixed. Period.
GG on the cursing, it clarifies how old you must be.
Thanks for the colourful comments, chaps. Good to know the types of n00bs i’ll be pwning online!
Game made me cry thought it be like md2 with all the great fucking reviews it got .. this is medal of honor .. and i ..HATE medal of honor more than i hate gypsy
The lag and stutter in the new black ops have been really daunting which kind off suck :/ I discovered this site that has fixes for it though. =) Haven’t really had any time to check it yet (at work :/) even though but in case you have difficulties with lag and stutter in black ops here are some fixes: http://codq.info/call-of-duty-7/black-ops-lag-fix/
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later