[CoD Black Ops] - MegaBitch thread

TiGeR KiNgS wrote: »

OP trolling ?

raze wrote: »

The game can not be anything but laggy on PS3 and same from what I've seen from PC players. It's a royal screw up where the developers could only have thought about the Xbox as the platform.

Example - on PS3 you can join the game of a player you recently played with even if they're not on your friends list. This is a feature I've seen in Xbox titles, but never on the Playstation Network. So, just as MW2 crashed PSN when it reported the maps and modes you're friends are currently playing, I'd predict Black Ops is going to need PSN to give itself an overhaul at the back end in the near future.

Couple that with frame rate drops causing fps lag while the game stutters to re sync itself, and it's hard to guess how this game could be put in perfect working order. How can you patch an engine that can't keep up?

Has anyone seen a professional review that expressed any concerns about the issues people are experiencing?

Obviously, I am of course talking out of my arse and don't know the first thing about how this will be fixed, but for the time being it's not the host's fault alone if the game is lagged.

I'd like to extend thanks to people posting complaints in this thread. You guys are playing this so I don't have to. Hope the general mood picks up soon though so I can go back to playing it.

Gummy Panda wrote: »

On PC, this game is terrible for multiplayer. Lag and stuttering all the time even on a server with 23 ping. Today it was locking up when you change your weapon selection on outfit screen and now i can't connect to any game.

Really feels half done and a shítty console port to pc.

iMuse wrote: »

Its the same on ps3, Stuttering and lag when on a 4 bar connection. Treyarch developed the ps3 and pc version as an after thought

Hey all, Good news!

I have done a variety of tests on my console and have spent a few hours to get to the route of the FPS-Drops.

It turns out (And trust me, I have sufficient evidence to back this up if Treyarch need it) that the FPS-Drops are NOT in fact caused by the Game engine, Resolution or PlayStation Brand (I.e. Slim/Fat).

The root of the problem actually lies with-in the new embedded friends system in-game. It seems (From what I can see) that every friend you have is being verified very frequently to check their; online status, in a game status and Level. This constant request for information is slowing down the game play as it is needing multiple threads (Depending on how it's coded) running at once to do this, each thread taking up more and more system resources and resulting in fluctuating FPS.

This explains why some people are experiencing it, some aren't and some are only getting low level symptoms. The more friends you have, the more FPS drops you are going to receive. This brings me to the conclusion that all of the rumors going around that "Treyarch can not patch this" are in fact false, as I believe updating the friends system to maybe put a larger interval between checks would counter the problem quite well.

The reason this did not get picked up in beta testing (closed beta) is because the developers systems would not have their friends systems maxed out, Thus they wouldn't have even noticed anything like what we're experiencing. I still believe the whole thing is still due to a bad port to the PS3, it seems to me that they have not checked the ported player/friends system properly and thus this has happened. But still, if this is the case (which I strongly believe it is and have lot's of evidence to support this) then it should be very easy for Treyarch to patch, so don't worry .
If you have any questions please feel free to email me, and hopefully Treyarch read this and sort it out .

Thanks for your time.

Kieron Morris