[COD Black Ops] - Patches

Magill

SoulTrader wrote: »

Can someone explain why being host is now a disadvantage? During all the talk of MW2, all I ever remember was people talking about host advantage, and how much easier the game is when you are host. When I host a BlOps game it's much easier for me. Has this changed with BlOps? Why would two yellow bars make you confident that you would have a k/d of 4? Genuinely confused here.

Being host is without a doubt a disadvantage in blops. At least for me, my frame rates drop massively when i host. Im not sure if its due to my connection not having a fast enough upload or whether its the same for everyone. In mw2 i could host fine as long as it wasnt groundwar, which again dropped my framerates to almost unplayable levels. I think this might be the main issue with blops for everyone

The hosts connection is not good enough to handle the strain of being host. the hosts PS3 either crashes or gets kicked without enough time being had for a host migration to take place.. everyone in the lobby gets the cannot connect to host ****e.

shawpower

Dunnel009 wrote: »

What i have noticed on the cod site (and you are right that thing always crashes) is that since the patch the US guys are saying lag has improved but all the european guys, IRL, UK, Germany, Holland and sweden are all seeing worse issue..

If this is actually true, which I'm not sure about, then we're screwed. Royal style! If they have gotten the US market sorted, the chances of them spending time on the EU market is slim enough I reckon.

Nuri Sahin

sssssiiiiimon wrote: »

Sorry my bad should have posted there.

No worries.

I wouldn't waste my time spamming the official COD forums btw. You'd be wasting your time. They really couldn't give a flying you know what about us IMO.

Shammy

Had 2 games , but since then its a nightmare trying to get into a game and usually the host either freezes or turns off the system.

iMuse

El LoCo Ade wrote: »

No worries.

I wouldn't waste my time spamming the official COD forums btw. You'd be wasting your time. They really couldn't give a flying you know what about us IMO.

Everyone is spamming the ps3 forums which treyarch ignore anyway :rolleyes:

baldymac

its basically called tough ****

SoulTrader

Magill wrote: »

Being host is without a doubt a disadvantage in blops. At least for me, my frame rates drop massively when i host. Im not sure if its due to my connection not having a fast enough upload or whether its the same for everyone. In mw2 i could host fine as long as it wasnt groundwar, which again dropped my framerates to almost unplayable levels. I think this might be the main issue with blops for everyone

The hosts connection is not good enough to handle the strain of being host. the hosts PS3 either crashes or gets kicked without enough time being had for a host migration to take place.. everyone in the lobby gets the cannot connect to host ****e.

Thanks.

Hosting (PS3) seems to work ok for me on BlOps. I was almost never host on MW2, but host a few times on BlOps. My friend, who lives on the same island as me, is often host too and when he is, we dominate. Which is nice, but it's kind of a hollow victory when you're two seconds ahead of everyone else.

spider_pig

how do you know when ur actually the host only way iv ever seemed to know is when i quit a game it says finding new host

SoulTrader

spider_pig wrote: »

how do you know when ur actually the host only way iv ever seemed to know is when i quit a game it says finding new host

Right at the start press select to bring up the scoreboard. There will normally be one person with 4 green bars and the rest with just one or two bars. As they connect to the host their bars will increase to 3 or 4 green bars.

You can also do this after a host migration has been completed.

FlawedGenius

Something needs to be done!! I can see people even getting an Xbox just to play Blops without any problems!! SONY should kick Treyarch up the arse, there costing them customers imo:eek:

F1ngers

Have been playing for the last hour or so with no issues.
Just a blip or has it improved for others too?
PS3 btw.

spider_pig

still getting connection interrupted followed by lost connection to host then few seconds later game lobby closed only been on half hour and this has happened 3 times now

TherapyBoy

baldymac wrote: »

i have NAT 2 on my PS3

but on blops my NAT type is still MODERATE

any1 know why?

Liam O wrote: »

NAT 2 is moderate AFAIK? NAT 1 is open

I've got NAT 2, always "open" on MW2. Changes between "open" & "moderate" on Black Ops from day to day :rolleyes:

Luap

It's impossible to get a party into a game. But when I go into barebones it works a treat.

2smiggy

was taking me ages to get into games earlier. when i finally got in i played a good few games with no issues. when i tried to join another game again later it was again taking ages. usually getting the host migration message, then game lobby closed.

on the ps3 btw

spider_pig

2smiggy wrote: »

was taking me ages to get into games earlier. when i finally got in i played a good few games with no issues. when i tried to join another game again later it was again taking ages. usually getting the host migration message, then game lobby closed.

on the ps3 btw

exactly the same here now for me

Headshot

how the **** do I mute people ?

before the patch it was easy now I cant find the option

FlawedGenius

Headshot wrote: »

how the **** do I mute people ?

before the patch it was easy now I cant find the option

Square.

Leeg17

Did they fix the issue with a mic not showing when people had theirs on, and not necessarily speaking?

Kersmash

They did, but now the majority of the time you can't mute people in the lobby.

Headshot

FlawedGenius wrote: »

Square.

ah im taking about before I go into the game

Leeg17

Kersmash wrote: »

They did, but now the majority of the time you can't mute people in the lobby.

/facepalm
At least before you could toggle people you thought were talking

Headshot

Leeg17 wrote: »

/facepalm
At least before you could toggle people you thought were talking

they are one of the worse developers iv ever seen

talk about school boy errors

Dunnel009

i am sooooo pissed off...... I just had 1 whole hour of lag free gameing....

Why pissed of i hear ye say (yes ye are that loud!:D)

now i know what this game should truly feel like, but i am gone back to lag again so am ragein!!!!

SoulTrader

Kersmash wrote: »

They did, but now the majority of the time you can't mute people in the lobby.

This does my head in. When I select any of the players in the lobby the mute option doesn't appear. Then, a few minutes later, if I de-select and select again, it appears. Wtf is going on with that?

Dunnel009

SoulTrader wrote: »

This does my head in. When I select any of the players in the lobby the mute option doesn't appear. Then, a few minutes later, if I de-select and select again, it appears. Wtf is going on with that?

And at times when you select a player and then hit B to back out you are brought into your friends list.... i truelly do at times wonder how they test this stuff..

The_B_Man

FlawedGenius wrote: »

Something needs to be done!! I can see people even getting an Xbox just to play Blops without any problems!! SONY should kick Treyarch up the arse, there costing them customers imo:eek:

Dont forget, the Wii version has been working pretty much perfect since release!!!

bigdogbarking

Dunnel009 wrote: »

And at times when you select a player and then hit B to back out you are brought into your friends list.... i truelly do at times wonder how they test this stuff..

This friends list popping up every time i tried to mute somebody just started happening to me since last night! all these small things are starting to mount up and really P1SS me off now, over a month since its release and none of the issues seem to have been fixed, i'm still losing connection, migrating hosts, spawning in the middle of firefights, lobby closing, scores disappearing, taking up to 15 mins to find a match, joining tdm games when one team has a score of about 7000 etc etc
Btw I'm playing on PS3

RGDATA!

seems like it sucks to have this on PS3, i feel for y'all

as far as the gameplay changes from an xbox perspective... I like the thinking behind most of them, not played enough to really assess stuff like the "subtle adjustments" to the knifing etc.
i hope the fact that there weren't more gameplay tweaks is more to do with them finishing what they could for the christmas rush, and not because they thought these were the only issues that needed fixing.

i keep seeing the lobby scroller telling me "notes on what we're working on are in the callofduty.com forums" but I wasn't able to find anything there any time I checked - no official thread, nothing in the faq/support sections.
are they actually talking anywhere about what they're working on before patches are released?

Big Baby Jaysus

earlier today was playin and it was horrible, froze once or twice and kept disconnectin, but tonight i played a few hours and it was perfect, im ps3 btw!