Black Ops Patch Now Live on Xbox, PS3
On Tuesday we posted a long list of updates that Treyarch were working on to address a number of issues on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Black Ops. Today Treyarch’s Josh Olin sent out a Tweet letting everybody know that these updates are now live on both consoles via a downloadable patch, or “full title update”.
So, go boot up Black Ops, download the update/patch, and let us know in the comments if things are working better for you.
Here is the list of fixes in the patch:
- Improved matchmaking to find matches significantly faster
- · Improved matchmaking to ensure that players are more effectively matched to games with the best networking conditions
- · Improved host selection to ensure that the best host is always selected in the pre-game lobby
- · Improved party system to ensure that parties don’t get broken apart
- · Disable ability to join Private Match, Combat Training and Theater lobbies when searching for Player Match games
- · Server-side and game-side changes to decrease the amount of failed Film uploads
- · Weekly and Monthly leaderboards will now track all kills, deaths and assists properly (All Time leaderboards were not affected by this)
- · Prevention of Combat Training stats getting crossed with Player Match stats under rare conditions
- · Prevention of temporary loss of functionality when a button was being held down at the point of a disconnect
- · Additional fine-tuning of audio levels and ranges for footsteps and gunfire
- · Additional fine-tuning of audio levels for bomb plants/defuses
- · Additional online security enhancements
- · Optimization to prevent friends list from spamming user while in game – will improve game performance for users with large numbers of friends (PS3 only)
We have also noticed that since the patch you can no longer vote for the same map more than twice. So no more Nuke Town over-and-over!
There are still a few fixes “in progress”
- Prevention of Valkyrie rocket exploding upon release under rare conditions
- · Prevention of Gunship failing to give player full control under rare conditions
- · Prevention of a rare issue where a player will get teleported outside the map boundaries under very specific circumstances
PC gamers can keep an eye on this forum thread to get the latest news on fixes/patches. Of course, we will also post any new news regarding PC updates as soon as it is available on BlackOpsBlog.
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I’m so glad they’re being so active in the patches and the such. I really hope Matchmaking makes a good turn.
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I like the fact they’re so active on improving the game, i just wish they could improve some of the players….modded controllers and xboxs and such… i also dont approve of them taking away the gun glitches on the zombie maps….so what if we have more than 2 guns on zombies WE NEED THOSE! they need to reset the leaderboards because the people at the top used those glitches……im in the top 100 and we only used 3 guns on der riese…newayz i had to put my 2 cents in and b!tch at someone……thanks for your time!
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PC is forgotten??
some people cant play the product they bought because of major lag.
(im not one of them luckily)
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PC’S update already constantly happens! the PC doesn’t have most of these problems! especially since host migration isn’t needed..
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I still wish they’d fix sniping..:(
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yeah, they could make an own game mode or something for quick-scoping / sniping only , where the scope goes straight, like in mw2.. :p
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As I understand it, they can’t “fix” sniping, because it’s not “broken”; it’s the way it is by design.
From what I’ve heard, in beta sniping worked similar to COD4 (no SoH quick scoping), which I think is pretty balanced. But the release-day patch added the no-accuracy for 2 secs after scoping effect.
Sadly, I wish it was just broken. If it were just broken they’d be try to correct it. This is a choice. I suppose if people complain enough they’ll reverse the decision and remove the effect, but I don’t see that happening.
TLDR: IMO, Treyarch hates snipers, suck it.
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you can in private match, you put steady aim on and make the crosshairs really tiny and your able to quiockscope
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they did fix sniping….it’s meant to be difficult…..and now it is more difficult rather than based on luck like in MW2
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This should be good…
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I absolutely love Treyarch they’ve easily topped infinity ward on this game and i know that if this was IW they wouldent give a s**t and would just sit back.Sure patches/Updates can be annoying because some take a while but its always worth it in the end
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are you smoking crack ? at least with infinity ward you get to play a game on line .last hour every game has collapsed due to network error . if tesco’s did’nt have a returns policy for software i’d have my 40 pounds back in my hand . the game sucks ass big time.
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I think sniping is ok but it really does kill your ability to play the objective in this
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It’s the same (though not as bad) on PS3 Vaquing. Lag, stutter and crashing oh my…crappy as best.
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Can’t wait to get home and download it, but I am already hearing the patch has done little to nothing to fix the issues it was designed for. Check out the COD forums. Sounds like another fail…
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I downloaded da patch on my ps3 dis morning and da matchmaking was pretty fast. Da matchmaking is better from what i seen.
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Haven’t downloaded it yet, but some friends are already reporting mixed reactions. Some say matchmaking is better, other say worse. Everybody said host selection, lag and frame rate are still bad. One guy is actually having his PS3 crash more now with the patch.
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Fa realz yo? Is dat wut da update dun did up in dere?
Learn English.
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I played a few free-for-all games and noticed I got into a game super fast and also the hit detection and lag was much improved.
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If hit detection, lag, and sound are fixed I will be balls-deep in this game!
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Sound is much better, but I’ve got booted from more games and the host selection is still very bad.
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i got the patch on ps3 thi morning it was going good till i played on WMD and i had 3 care packages fall under the map from every location i put them kinda annoying
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I love nuketown but they still picked that map over and over again on xbox live. i hope they fixed that.
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I tried it solo without a party. It’s better but still not fast like MW2 (AH CURSE ME FOR SAYING MW2 IS BETTER IN ONE WAY!)
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Badass! This is the same crap that’s been pissing me off since I got the game! Nice job to treyarch for being so responsive to complaints and bugs. I have to say I’m glad about no quickscoping though… I’d get my ass hit quite a few times a game because those ass holes were waiting down the hall for me! Plus I couldn’t ever do it. Anyway, kick ass game!
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I found matchmaking has gotten worse… It takes forever to find a match now and when I do I get stuck in syncing game settings. And they messed up sniping more than it already was… I don’t quickscope but I want to be able to shoot the guy at least a second after I aim in. After two seconds they are gone… Treyarch f**ked over a huge class of players.
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that patch gave me so much trouble wen i downloaded it yesterday,wouldnt let me connect with friends in america so the improved match makings b.s and the biggest new problem since the patch went up is falling thru the map….anybody notice ur care packages falling thru the map and wen u die u fall thru the map???fukin bulls**t.good try treyarch seems uv made everyting worse except making sure a stag cant be replayed more than once
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why do people keep saying this game sucks go play other games if you really think that
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poor hit recognition , connection problems , spawning problems , like enemies just respawning behind you randomly fix these and youve got a good game
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Despite the update, the lag issues and hut detection are still way off. Perhaps that wasn’t addressed in this update, i hope not. If it was, it didn’t work. Multiplayer AND combat training will see me having to empty ten or more rounds into my enemy, complete with visual and audio hit detection markers, only for them to turn round and shoot me nce, maybe twice, and i die immediately. Why so uneven? If i’m shooting someone, often in the back, repeatedly, why won’t they die? And yet you only have have to show me a bullet and i’m pushing up the daisies. Please, please address this issue. A war game that includes guns that don’t kill, or enemies that won;t die, is not a big bag of fun to play.
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Patch has done nothing still get kicked from games only play friends in private matches when will they sort it out it’s ok saying how much they make they should spend money on sorting the online side out going back to mw2if not
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Is it just me or has this patch not improved the disbanding of parties? over the weekend I have been attempting to play in a party with my friends and more often than not our party would end up all over the place…. Some of the people would end up in game, some would end up back in the party screen and some would even end up back at the main menu or combat training! When will this problem be fixed???
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they need to bring back the god damn quickscoping it was so fun to quick scope and now i cant even snipe it takes me like 3 shots to kill one person f**k treyarch
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i just want the spawns to get fixed so we don’t have this crazy madness of spawning in the middle of each others teams. too many times have i cleared rooms and have a guy spawn before my eyes and shoot me or spawn behind me even when there 5 feet between me and the edge of the map. (Nuketown for example has terrible spawns) The spawn system definitely needs tweaking and no this is not because of that equipment that lets you set spawn. Its really annoying when im holding a defensive area with friends and a guy from the other team magically spawns behind or in the middle of all of us and wipes the group out cause we knew the team was in front of us not magically spawning behind and around us. its happened to me too. i will spawn and suddenly the enemy is three feet away from me and i just get to go happy lucky on them. it kinda ruins strategy and all around fairness when the spawns rip you off like that
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Hi, am having the usual problems with Black Ops… Using the 1st generation ps3 console (40gb) and keeps crashing, poor connection in multiplayer and poor matchmaking etc etc. Nothing is popping up automatically for me to download the latest patches. How do I get the paches onto my system? Any help much appreciated. Getting very frustrated now
Thanks.
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