If you can do fine without it then that's ok but personally it has helped me get 2.0 and 3.0 KDR games in. People are so reliant on the UAV that they become easy prey.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II |OT| Black to the Future
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If you can do fine without it then that's ok but personally it has helped me get 2.0 and 3.0 KDR games in. People are so reliant on the UAV that they become easy prey.
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
Hey guys, any way to perm mute everyone on pc in this game? Hearing these half ass comments seem like a constant reminder that people as a whole just suck.
A perm mute would the best feature this game can have. Tired of always muting everyone and then someone jumps in and you can't mute...
A perm mute would the best feature this game can have. Tired of always muting everyone and then someone jumps in and you can't mute...
LowParry
Member
I find myself being the counter uav spammer player where as the rest of the randoms on my team use uav's all the time. So it works. Oh and having the ability to keep using your Death Machine till it runs out of ammo is odd.
I honestly don't get why some of the weapons are exclusive to single player or Zombies. They have alot of the original Black Ops weapons in the Zombies mode.
http://au.ign.com/wikis/call-of-duty-black-ops-2/Zombies_Weapons
Noteable examples
AK74u
Galil
M14
M16A1
M1911
MP5
Olympia
Python
RPD
Barret M82A1
So thats at least 10 weapons more they could of added to the MP.
http://au.ign.com/wikis/call-of-duty-black-ops-2/Zombies_Weapons
Noteable examples
AK74u
Galil
M14
M16A1
M1911
MP5
Olympia
Python
RPD
Barret M82A1
So thats at least 10 weapons more they could of added to the MP.
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
TangoAlphaLima
Member
Leveling up in this game is ridiculously quick with Double XP. I feel like I've hardly played at all and I'm almost at Level 30 already.
I can't really decide whether I prefer the MP7 or FAL at this point. Both serve different purposes, but both are quite good. Regardless, it's nice to have such quality weapons as relatively early unlocks.
I can't really decide whether I prefer the MP7 or FAL at this point. Both serve different purposes, but both are quite good. Regardless, it's nice to have such quality weapons as relatively early unlocks.
I would have assumed that they didn't want to keep all those as they had designed more "futuristic" ones and I imagine most people online would go back to what they know along with having to sort out balancing with new weapons. Most of the new weapons essentially fill the same roles anyway and just seem like name and model changes.
To be fair we are still using weapons to this day from the 1970's or in some cases WW2.
Exactly most but not all. But Black Ops 2 doesn't have weapons that feel or act like the Python, Olympia, RPD, AK74u, MP5 for example. I would of loved Dual Wielding some Pythons in this game.
edit: fuck double post.
I'm at .68 hahahahaha! I've never been this low before. Every killcam shows me standing around like a dumbass.
I just skip killcams now, no point in watxhing it lol
I only watch them in case someone steps on my bouncing betty while i'm dead lol.
crimzonflame
Member
Same. Last week it was over 1 now its at .75 and dropping.
10 more weapons you won't use because you're too busy abusing PDW, you mean?
Nah i abuse Vector and Ballistic Knife
Freezie KO
Banned
Just reached level 8 in Wii U multiplayer. Impressions:
Wii U Specific:
- First, a bit of unexpected awesomeness. The Wii U pad. No, I'm not playing with it. But I have it on a stand on my coffee table. It displays the entire map (what your pause menu would usually show).
Now, I get an extra HUD, which actually helps. Rather than pausing, I can quickly glance at it to see where all my teammates are and, if there's a UAV, where my enemies are. The difference between glancing and pausing is the difference between getting shot or not. It's pretty cool, but I do have to get used to it being there. I was looking too long at the map and did get shot once.
- All the pointer control options you loved from Blops 1 are still in this.
- The game is moving really fluidly. No slowdowns. 60 fps. No people teleporting around from lag.
- I played 1 game where my pointer aiming was a little jittery. Not sure if it was the game's connection though, or if the problem was on my end (too high camera sensitivity, light coming in, etc.). It was only one game, but it's worth mentioning as I haven't played that much.
- I haven't been doing well, but I don't feel it's lag compensation. I think when I die, it's mostly my fault. Most guns feel weaker in this, so I put four hitmarkers into someone and they didn't die, but I think that's a Blops 2 thing, not a netcode thing. If it's a netcode thing, it feels uniform both when I get hit and when I hit others, so it evens out.
- Adding Friends to your Overall Wii U list is easier than Friend Codes but, at least for the General Wii U Friends' list, you don't get a notification that someone Friended you. You both need to enter in each others' Nintendo IDs, as opposed to one person enters and the other merely confirms. This is contrary to what I read prior, and it's kinda lame.
Overall Blops 2 impressions:
- Way too early for me to say this, but I already like the maps more than MW3. MW3 is a disastrous clutterfuck. This seems to have sightlines that make sense, and even on a small map like the ship, there's some verticality and places you can get campy and relax (a bit) if you want. Even though Treyarch wanted a faster pace, I feel the maps actually have a logic to them.
- That said, it's more fast-paced than Blops, so you have to think on your feet a lot. I've been hipfire sniped on kill cams with an SMG, so Hipfire plays into this HUGE. I hope hipfire gets slightly nerfed.
- GAWD, the UAVs! Early impressions were not kidding. Without Ghost/Assassin, the UAVs are coming in full force. I'm doing my best to shoot them down, but I've been killed a few times with my rockets out. Expect a lot of Pac-Men chasing dots.
- Spawns are decent. They could be better. I've only really spawned in front of someone once. I've been shot in the back a lot, but I'm not sure if that's the spawns, the constant UAVs, or the fast-pace of the game.
- Juries out on matchmaking. I got a bad match up once with highly ranked players (like over 10 :lol) all on one team, and the rest very newbies like myself. It hurt.
- As other console players have noted, I was a 1.8 KDR player on Blops, and now I'm sucking. But my game is very map-awareness-based, so I may just need to learn the maps more.
- And I'll add obligatory bitching about having to unlock stuff. But overall, I'm having a lot more fun at this point than I was with MW3.
Wii U Specific:
- First, a bit of unexpected awesomeness. The Wii U pad. No, I'm not playing with it. But I have it on a stand on my coffee table. It displays the entire map (what your pause menu would usually show).
Now, I get an extra HUD, which actually helps. Rather than pausing, I can quickly glance at it to see where all my teammates are and, if there's a UAV, where my enemies are. The difference between glancing and pausing is the difference between getting shot or not. It's pretty cool, but I do have to get used to it being there. I was looking too long at the map and did get shot once.
- All the pointer control options you loved from Blops 1 are still in this.
- The game is moving really fluidly. No slowdowns. 60 fps. No people teleporting around from lag.
- I played 1 game where my pointer aiming was a little jittery. Not sure if it was the game's connection though, or if the problem was on my end (too high camera sensitivity, light coming in, etc.). It was only one game, but it's worth mentioning as I haven't played that much.
- I haven't been doing well, but I don't feel it's lag compensation. I think when I die, it's mostly my fault. Most guns feel weaker in this, so I put four hitmarkers into someone and they didn't die, but I think that's a Blops 2 thing, not a netcode thing. If it's a netcode thing, it feels uniform both when I get hit and when I hit others, so it evens out.
- Adding Friends to your Overall Wii U list is easier than Friend Codes but, at least for the General Wii U Friends' list, you don't get a notification that someone Friended you. You both need to enter in each others' Nintendo IDs, as opposed to one person enters and the other merely confirms. This is contrary to what I read prior, and it's kinda lame.
Overall Blops 2 impressions:
- Way too early for me to say this, but I already like the maps more than MW3. MW3 is a disastrous clutterfuck. This seems to have sightlines that make sense, and even on a small map like the ship, there's some verticality and places you can get campy and relax (a bit) if you want. Even though Treyarch wanted a faster pace, I feel the maps actually have a logic to them.
- That said, it's more fast-paced than Blops, so you have to think on your feet a lot. I've been hipfire sniped on kill cams with an SMG, so Hipfire plays into this HUGE. I hope hipfire gets slightly nerfed.
- GAWD, the UAVs! Early impressions were not kidding. Without Ghost/Assassin, the UAVs are coming in full force. I'm doing my best to shoot them down, but I've been killed a few times with my rockets out. Expect a lot of Pac-Men chasing dots.
- Spawns are decent. They could be better. I've only really spawned in front of someone once. I've been shot in the back a lot, but I'm not sure if that's the spawns, the constant UAVs, or the fast-pace of the game.
- Juries out on matchmaking. I got a bad match up once with highly ranked players (like over 10 :lol) all on one team, and the rest very newbies like myself. It hurt.
- As other console players have noted, I was a 1.8 KDR player on Blops, and now I'm sucking. But my game is very map-awareness-based, so I may just need to learn the maps more.
- And I'll add obligatory bitching about having to unlock stuff.
But overall, I'm having a lot more fun at this point than I was with MW3.sweetvar26
Member
Good games we had there fellow gaffers.
BruiserBear
Banned
Nintendo
Somnium986
Member
Good lord Hijacked is the absolute worst place for FFA. Slums is somewhat bearable compared to this crap. But the game just LOOOOOOOVES to drop me in to a game there.Also why do I have to wait ages just to unlock a suppressor for an AR? SMGs have that unlock pretty much from the get go. As if they didn't have enough advantages already...
God I hate playing at this time of night sometimes, get stuck in some really shitty games, the last one had two guys just running around with SMGs killing everyone, which isn't anything new except the game kept spawning me infront of their running around and gave me about a second to find and kill them before they killed me.
Just left in the end, this game can jump from an enjoyable experience to a downright frustrating punch a kitten annoying time, lol.
Just left in the end, this game can jump from an enjoyable experience to a downright frustrating punch a kitten annoying time, lol.
rocksteady1983
Member
So I played about 2 hours of Blops2, lag, couldn't win a gun fight to save my life, barely went positive. Decided to put in MW3, just to see the difference. Man it felt so much better. Played for about 2 hours, no lag, no bullshit, constantly went 2:1 kd. Sad that I enjoyed MW3 more. I'm just gonna hold off playing Blops2 for a while till some patches or something is done.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I'm pretty good at this game when I play by myself. Playing in a party I can barely break even most of the time.
maximum360
Member
I have noticed that too. The AR clips seem smaller than in other MW games as well. :/
Throwing knife in MW2 let me express better the 'savage' approach I always had in MP, since CoD1.
First Black Ops gave me improved tools:
http://youtu.be/w9t1P8S2xGc
I didn't want to buy Black Ops II, because I have a huge backlog and sometimes I think that taking a sabbatical year with this franchise is only a good thing, but here I am:
http://youtu.be/JpuTXuXAlEw
In the damn tunnel again. ^^
Now let's get back used with crossbow!
First Black Ops gave me improved tools:
http://youtu.be/w9t1P8S2xGc
I didn't want to buy Black Ops II, because I have a huge backlog and sometimes I think that taking a sabbatical year with this franchise is only a good thing, but here I am:
http://youtu.be/JpuTXuXAlEw
In the damn tunnel again. ^^
Now let's get back used with crossbow!
rangersfan414
Member
Yes... for a while still
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
They go by Pacific standard time so you've got like 18 hours left I think.
I'm better w/ B23R than I am w/ semi-auto ARs.
I think it has to do with memory. The issue was brought up during MW3 when people wanted gun DLC and devs said it wasn't possible.
BruiserBear
Banned
Already noticing a ton of people unlocking ghost with their first prestige. I don't even think most people realize how it's been nerfed.
I had my prestige unlock choice narrowed down to a couple guns. The Chicom CQB and the M8A1.
I ended up going with the M8A1. It unlocks 12 levels higher than the CQB. Both are burst fire and I love them.
For me, the M8A1 is probably my favorite gun in the game. Reminds me of the M16 in MW1.
I had my prestige unlock choice narrowed down to a couple guns. The Chicom CQB and the M8A1.
I ended up going with the M8A1. It unlocks 12 levels higher than the CQB. Both are burst fire and I love them.
For me, the M8A1 is probably my favorite gun in the game. Reminds me of the M16 in MW1.
Nerfed Ghost is only an issue for campers. If you run and gun like me it's still very much useful.
madmaxx350
Member
every pistol is over powered in this shit. except maybe the first 1. OMG @ The one that shoots shotgun shells, lol
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Its my favorite map at this point.
BruiserBear
Banned
Same. I also love Cargo, and I think it's obvious why Treyarch chose those two maps to showcase when the game was first unveiled.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Don't know if you can survive direct contact, but my kamikaze drones have actually hit markered you flak jacket wearing bastards. So yeah, it's pretty useful.
Empty Space
Member
The prestige token that resets your stats is it just your K/D ratio and wins or do I lose everything?