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Call of Duty: Black Ops II |OT| Black to the Future

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bluehat9

Member
Servers down on ps3? Status online says up and running but I keep getting an error message when I try to connect. PSstore and other online games are working for me too so I don't know.
 
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IdreamofHIME

Member
bluehat9 said:
Servers down on ps3? Status online says up and running but I keep getting an error message when I try to connect. PSstore and other online games are working for me too so I don't know.
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Phew, thought it was just me. A friend gave me a Nuketown code today and I just downloaded and installed it, then suddenly I can't connect to the servers.
Thought the two were connected.
 
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Makoto

Member
rangersfan414 said:
Anybody else disappointed with this games multiplayer soundtrack?

To me, MW2 was the best and I don't know if it'll ever be beat. The menu music/spawn themes/victory and defeat were all amazing. Even the "jungle music" for time is running out is the best.

MW3 is 2nd best to me. The main menu theme for multi is prob the best in the series. The themes are better than black ops, but nothing special.

Black Ops 1 had a good main menu theme, but thats just about it. Very few spawn themes/victories were good.

In Black Ops 2, i can't even hear any spawn and victory/defeat music at all. And yes i have music volume all the way up. The main menu music is a bust too. It definitely falls behind MW3, MW2, and Blops 1. The only song I like or have even heard besides the menu is the one in the plaza club :p It also plays in the campaign credits.

And how annoying is it that they keep having avenged sevenfold make the zombie easter egg songs -__-
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LTTP but I was thinking this lately. CoD4/MW2 had some really memorable pre-round/post-round music.

One other thing I'm also kind of disappointed by is the lack of emotion when the announcers call out enemy scorestreaks. They'll say "Hostile Swarm incoming." But it doesn't have as much urgency as it should, not like in MW2 where announcers went crazy over the higher hostile streak rewards.
 
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computers putin'

Member
Makoto said:
LTTP but I was thinking this lately. CoD4/MW2 had some really memorable pre-round/post-round music.

One other thing I'm also kind of disappointed by is the lack of emotion when the announcers call out enemy scorestreaks. They'll say "Hostile Swarm incoming." But it doesn't have as much urgency as it should, not like in MW2 where announcers went crazy over the higher hostile streak rewards.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1m7u4WU2hs

hearing the sheer terror in the voices of the announcers when an AC130 was called in was almost enough to make you shit your pants. It was great.
 
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Radec

Member
Yeah, the music is awfully low even at max volume.

Why cant they add a victory music like in Battlefield 3 a few seconds before the round ends. I love hearing that. Maybe sonetime ill record that victory theme and play it before the game ends.
 
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adelante

Member
computers putin' said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1m7u4WU2hs

hearing the sheer terror in the voices of the announcers when an AC130 was called in was almost enough to make you shit your pants. It was great.
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Gotta say, I do miss the nerve-wracking feeling of hearing those announcements that's usually accompanied with the sounds of absolute chaos. Now, you get a raspy voice saying random stuff like "I'm sick of this asshole, get rid of him!"..and it usually catches me by surprise and I'll be thinking "woah hey take it easy there". lol hilarious line
 
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lamaroo

Unconfirmed Member
SMG's dominate my combat record but that's because I've been forcing myself through golding them, only the chicom left. I have 1 try hard class with PDW that I use for Domination, but the rest are just random classes featuring a different gun.
 
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celestial body

Member
It's so sweet to see Vondehaar do his little SC2/esports balancing patch whilst hitboxes still lag 10 feet behind a moving player. in splitscreen. The only advice he's ever taken on this game is from his MLG pals, not the other 99.9% of the community.
 
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Kyzon

Member
Magic Ovaries said:
Looking at random players' combat records, literally every one's best weapon is a SMG. Has anyone else discovered someone who doesn't use SMG as their main weapon?

Mine is the MK48...
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Ballistic Knife is my main weapon I believe.

Anyone still play on Wii U? I'm on now

NNID: Kyzon_Xin
 
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rangersfan414

Member
Nebula said:
Happened to me when I was trying to manually control my AGR. Might be a glitch with all tablet based killstreaks.
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Apparently it happens with Stealth Choppers too. It's very annoying cause it's very common and takes away so many options to choose from. I'd be so mad if i got a warship and couldn't use it and just stared at my tablet. Nobody knows if those are affected though, cause they're way less common of a killstreak.

Anyway since it's nuketown, i've been rolling with vsat-escort drone-warthog anyway since the tablets constantly get me killed and don't work half the time.
 
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zeelman

Member
This weekend has made not want to play this game again. The connections have been terrible. In the last game I played tonight, there was guy with a two-bar who was unstoppable. He just lagged through all my bullets. Every game the enemy team got host. I was playing with really good people (three people had over 2 K/D and high SPM), so we crushed them, but I didn't enjoy it at all. I play very aggressively, and I kept getting killed when I fired first.

I shoulda bought the PC version.
 
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Magik

Member
I think its time to put this game down for a bit. The constant frustration with the lag comp, spawns, and other stupid nonsense in this game is wearing me out to the point where it's just not fun to play anymore.
 
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Dug

Banned
Anyone know if Nuketown 2025 will be able to be bought of the Xbox Live Marketplace? I didn't buy the game in it's first run so I never got the map.
 
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computers putin'

Member
This patch has been great so far, SMG's are no where near as powerful and I've yet to be insta-killed by someone rounding a corner. Player models seem to skip around a bit more but I'll take that anyday over being instakilled by someone moving a million miles per hour around a corner. Hit detection has been great too( I still can't believe the guns weren't fully accurate immediately after aiming down the sight while moving at the same time before this patch. wtf?). Game feels good right now, I hope it keeps up for me. I know there wasn't any changes addressing the lag and lag compensation listed in the patch notes, but the game feels dramatically different right now so something changed somewhere for me.
 
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Mr. Enigma

Member
VGChampion said:
I miss MW2 so much. Being addicted to the Stinger my little group and I never had a problem with all the air kill streaks. Plus, they still have my favorite maps. I don't think there's a thing I disliked about that game.
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Commando? One Man Army/Noob Tubes? Nuke boosters? Revenge spawns? The Stinger glitching out and not hitting the Harrier?
 
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M.W.

Member
It's amazing how playing alone makes the connection so much better. I generally party up with 5 others, but when we do, the lag/lag compensation is unbearable.

For instance, started the night partied up and after 3 games (usually only play objective game modes) I was:

17-14

18-22

23-20

Once I decided to go solo, the next 4 matches:

46-4

40-10

55-3

38-6

It's insane. Playing alone is boring, but I feel like this is probably the only way to play for me from now on. LOL
 
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rangersfan414

Member
I wonder if the new DLC is going to have achievements cause they're usually posted on xbox.com days before the DLC comes out and now that the patch is out already for the DLC, there hasn't been achievements added in game or on xbox.com.

It'd be kinda strange for it to not have achievements :/
 
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maomaoIYP

Member
Radec said:
Well if you can perfectly time it.

Screw emp users. They keep destroying my tact insert lol.
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Whenever I spot a tac insert with engineer I track which player it belongs to, plant a C4 at the insert, and detonate it when I see his insert disappearing. Free kills man.
 
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JHall

Member
Magic Ovaries said:
Looking at random players' combat records, literally every one's best weapon is a SMG. Has anyone else discovered someone who doesn't use SMG as their main weapon?

Mine is the MK48...
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FAL is mine.

Also, I just finished my last golden weapon. I now have everything diamond and maxed out.
 
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Nebula

Member
Magic Ovaries said:
Looking at random players' combat records, literally every one's best weapon is a SMG. Has anyone else discovered someone who doesn't use SMG as their main weapon?

Mine is the MK48...
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Think mine is the M1216 and before that it was the KSG. MSMC came close once but I haven't touched it for a while.
 
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maomaoIYP

Member
Radec said:
Seems like too much effort than to just destroy it or put a betty in it.
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Yeah I know...there's this dude I bump into every night, I'm sure he lives near my region but every game he's in, he's only got 3 bars and he's almost impossible to shoot because he's teleporting everywhere. And he loves tac insert. I do this JUST to piss him off.
 
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zeelman

Member
Marcellus Wallace said:
It's amazing how playing alone makes the connection so much better. I generally party up with 5 others, but when we do, the lag/lag compensation is unbearable.

For instance, started the night partied up and after 3 games (usually only play objective game modes) I was:

17-14

18-22

23-20

Once I decided to go solo, the next 4 matches:

46-4

40-10

55-3

38-6

It's insane. Playing alone is boring, but I feel like this is probably the only way to play for me from now on. LOL
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Either this game doesn't know how to manage a connection with parties properly, or it just doesn't like them. I have the exact same problem in this game.
 
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maomaoIYP

Member
I've hated domination in this game with a passion because of the poor map design. So I got bored and decided to mess with a shield class. It's actually pretty fun as long as you have competent team mates who take out the enemies as you distract them while capturing.
 
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Slizz

Member
maomaoIYP said:
I've hated domination in this game with a passion because of the poor map design. So I got bored and decided to mess with a shield class. It's actually pretty fun as long as you have competent team mates who take out the enemies as you distract them while capturing.
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Lollllllllll

Team selection is ridiculous in this game. Had a team the other day 5 a side, 3 of my players were the 3 bottom players on the lobby leaderboard and the 4th guy was middle of the leaderboard.
 
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KoreanBarbecue

Member
Slizz said:
Lollllllllll

Team selection is ridiculous in this game. Had a team the other day 5 a side, 3 of my players were the 3 bottom players on the lobby leaderboard and the 4th guy was middle of the leaderboard.
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If there are two guys playing in a lobby that have significantly higher SPM/K/D than me and the rest of the team, 99% of the time they'll end up on a team together, while i get stuck with the dregs. So annoying. I usually just quit out of a lobby most of the time if that happens.
 
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