Long List Of Black Ops Updates In Progress
A lot of people have been complaining about a lot of things in Black Ops, and rightly so. Luckily, Treyarch are not sitting back and rubbing their hands together now that the game is out, they are still hard at work fixing every little issue that the community comes accross.
At the moment the Black Ops devs are working on a long list of fixes for Black Ops for the Xbox 360 and PS3 including more lag, glitch, party, matchmaking and audio level problems. The list (below) is “in progress” and no date has been given for when they will take affect. But the sooner the better, right?
IN PROGRESS (Xbox & PS3)
- - Improved matchmaking to find matches faster
- - Improved match and host selection; will result in much better networking conditions for all games (a.k.a., decreased lag)
- - Weekly and Monthly leaderboards stats reporting incorrectly for kills, deaths and assists (All Time leaderboard not affected by this)
- - Additional improvements to party system
- · 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 killstreak selection getting disabled in Combat Training under rare conditions
- · Prevention of Valkyrie rocket exploding upon release under rare conditions
- · Prevention of Gunship failing to give player full control 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
- · Array: Added collision to prevent players from partially clipping into a tree
- · Launch: Added collision to prevent players from strafe jumping onto an invisible ledge at the base of the rocket near B3
- · Summit: Added collision to prevent players from jumping to a location outside of the map boundary when in Custom Games where player speed is maxed out
- · Havana: Added collision to prevent players from jumping onto an invisible ledge above a doorway at C2
- · Nuketown: Adjusted a spawn point that would spawn players on top of a mannequin’s head when that mannequin was randomly spawned in that location
- · Disable ability to vote for a previous map twice in a row
- 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 will update this post when the updates are live.
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Any list of updates in progress for the PC users?
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Only a small list ATM – http://www.codblackopsblog.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-update-now-live-on-steam-more-incoming/ But you can expect a list similar to this for the PC soon. Just keep an eye on the blog, we will post all/any news regarding the game (especially updates/patches).
Awesome, Thanks!
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Looks like we are the poor PC gamers being left out ?
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Nice cant wait thx alot in a good way :]
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Wtf?? 360&ps3 only????
Hot debate. What do you think?
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the PC doesn’t really have these problems, plus the PC version has already been updated
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Just wrote an article about how Treyarch is keeping their promise and applying fixes rather sooner than later and by the looks of this list, they aren’t done yet.
Treyarch is getting a big thumbs up from me for their quick response.
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I’m glad Treyarch are looking into these problems but I didn’t see anything about sorting the spawn locations out, last night it actually worked in my favour where I was running around the outside of the courtyard map and killed an opposition player he then spawned a little further around down the path, where I again killed him. This repeated about 4 times in a row as I progressed around the map! The spawn system needs to be fixed, sometimes it works in the favour of the killer as it did me last night sometimes it works in favour of the player that gets killed (whereas they spawn directly behind the guy that just killed them). The spawns either need to be at a location where there are many team mates or where no-one is around and thus making it fair! please could someone find out when this will be sorted….. if the problem persists I know quite a few people who are thinking or returning 2 mw2!!!
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This is why I love s&d…
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man, just so you do realize spawns are NEVER going to be perfect, and chances are that you were the only one from your team on that side of the map at that point and time, at least the spawns are better than Money Wasted 2
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Thing is I wasn’t the only person in my team on that side of the map…. And if that was the case how come when I have been the guy spawning is it that I have been spawned in the middle of the opposition team where as I am surrounded by them and virtually instantly I get killed?
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Nuketown…nuff said
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Nuketown spawns, nuff said
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PS3 theatre mode – final rendering is broken. ALL PS3 theatre renders stutter and do not playback smoothly when viewed on youtube. Try searching on youtube for proof ( you can see which are PS3 uploads by looking at the distinctly PS3 d-pad ).
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Nothing said about the jacked up spawn system? Spawning is F_cked in this game.. Try playing HC TDM When everyone is spawning right next to or behind echother. Ridiculous.
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how about a update to fix the spawning system all together, cause there’s a lot of spawn killing in this game, u barely have time to throw out a care package before the enemy kills u
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when are they gonna fix the ps3 veterans trophy glitch?
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What is the party system?
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I see that there a lot of problems that players are experiencing in the works to improve the online play so that’s a big plus treyarch. Something that infinity ward faild to do, listen to players feedback. I was wondering it says the dev’s are working on sound quality of plant/defuse of bomb in s&d and sabatoge, so does that mean they ar3e adding sound to the defusal so we don’t have to sit and watch it every 2 sec? And I hope the dev’s will look into richocet like in MW2 on HC games like S&D I hate killing the last enemy player and my teammate kills me while I’m defusing just to get the points that’s a big problem with WAW and now Black Ops that was never an issue in MW2! Please t4reyarch bring richocet into S&D!
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WHAT ABOUT OPTIONS FOR LOCAL SPLIT-SCREEN PLAY? IE: Hardcore mode, time limit, headshots only the list goes on… can that be patched into the game? really disappointed this is not in this game, it has been in all the previous ones, I really cant believe this is left out.
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How about a update to enable me to customize my splitting screen matches offline or if someone Knows please share thanx
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I like that they are making the bomb click again its a pain in the ass to look at it every second but kindof liked that footsteps arnt prevalent because it frees up the third slot for anything and with ninja pro being what it is then its almost going to be a must which locks down the third slot much like stopping power did the second slot
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I have a headset and im saying this
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well that makes no sense because us serious gamers who go out and buy a headset to hear idiots like you not using ninja just got effed. so it makes complete sense to make it where we can here your footsteps. im so tierd of being snuck up on by a dumb A** using tactical mask and i couldnt hear his footsteps. it NEEDS to be changed.
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This is why treyarch beats infinity ward
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There is practically no point in saying that considering it is 1 of OVER 9000 reasons treyarch is better.
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Any chance on nerfing the AK74U or fixing the spawns on that map with the beach (it’s a Cuban one)
I’m not sure if it’s a glitch but darn near 100% of the time both teams spawn on the beach at the same time.
I also think some guns should have idle sway.
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yeS yES YES! Hopefully they get this fixed soon. Of all things, the lag and sound has literally caused blood vessels to explode in my eyes.
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Why are they changing the map voting so, that the previous map cannot be voted more than once. I loved it when i could play nuketown for hours on ps3 =)
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I’d love to be able to, you know, PLAY THE DAMN GAME!!! I can’t even boot up singleplayer, it just crashes after the first cutscene (torture, talk about Castro), same with zombie mode. For some other reason I can’t join 99% of all multiplayer servers, I can click Join all I want but nothing happens. And when I’m able to join I get all the good ol’ stuttery gameplay.
Combat Training works though, and while that too has some stuttering at least it’s proof that PC should be able to handle it.
So I hope we get more info about a big PC patch soon, the game looks incredibly fun.
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No mention of fixing the spawn system? It’s horrible! Sick of getting shot in the back by the guy you just killed 5 seconds earlier.
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any reason this website isn’t up to date when I check on my iphone? i’ve refreshed but it’s always 2 or 3 posts behind. weird.
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Yup, this thing is a camp fest. Between the poor maps layout, bad connection and matchmaking, people posted up in every corner of a room and the lag this game is horrible.
Good thing I didn’t trade in MW2 yet.
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i cant save my classes on pc D:
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sometimes i kill 4 people and i dont get my care package when i used hardline
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There are still a high number of defects or issues not addressed by the updates. Makes you wonder was BOP Nov 9, 2010 multiplayer was actually BOP Alpha release. The hype really did not meet expectations.
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hardcore headquarters?
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Please fix or find an answer to ghost pro. I bought run it and still get kill by the dogs, so b4 anybody tells me it doesn’t work on dogs read under perks on here 4 ghost pro. Tks
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also in snd u cant see the person ur spectating perks u only see the last peron who kilt you perks
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This game is a nightmare to play! It’s slow and sluggish,,, it lag, lag,,,LAGS like no bodys biz! It’s as if other players can see you 1-2 seconds before you see them!!! Updates didn’t do swat! It takes forever to get into a free-for-all lobby! Spawning chumps right behind you! After a week I’m already losing interest in playing it! And I played mw2 for over a year straight!!! For me Glitches & Elevators made MW2 Fun!!! Remember the unlimited ammo glitch??? I don’t care who you were,,, THAT WAS PURE FUN!!! Launching grenade after grenade,,, rocket after rocket,,, don’t get no better then that!!! (((maybe not so fun if you were on the other end of that grenade or rocket))) but it was still exciting!!! Elevating high into the sky,,,, sniping someone while your next to GOD =’s FUN!!! Getting out of the map was and is fun!!! Now Black Ops is just plain,,,,dull & dark,,, no fun at all,,, being locked into a map w/ invisible barriers! I don’t care if it’s not fair,,, it was still fun as hell while it lasted!!!
Black Ops is far from sniper friendly,,, I call it the “drunken sniper waver”,,, Quick scope no way!!! When are they going to make a COD thats sniper friendly??? I want to be able to get up on to the roofs if i’m sniping,,, snipers should automatically come with a rope and grappling hook to do just that!!! Anyway Black ops is boring,,, it’s a regurgitated version of WaW,,, What I do like about Black Ops is the customization of the emblems, reticle sights, and face paints! Other then that it’s BORING,,, and the game will end up collecting dust w/ WAW in about a 2 weeks!!! Infinity Ward hurry up and make COD 8 and show these TREYARCH guys how to make a Call Of Duty game!!! Treyarch I want my money back!!!
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Really? They’re making a patch to prevent a glitch in PRIVATE match? what does it hurt? I think they should at least bring quick scoping back for private matches, that’s the only reason I still have MW2 really is to quick scope.
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If noob tubes and china lakes (thumpers) have a minimum distance it takes to detonate then why not for stingers?
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In PC mode, how does one destroy the rocket at the aux control bunker after you get the rock launcher? I’m stuck here. I fire the rocket launcher but it always displays “failed to stop launch”.
Can anyone help?
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Got the same thing on the PC. Anyone got a solution on this? How to steer the rocket on the PC?
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I have blown the rkt several times. After you blow hole in wall look up at rkt
When the gun appears in your hand right click mouse and aim at lower rkt area. follow that part up into the white rkt cloud and press trigger and hang on steer in the white cloud.
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make the blood effects better treyarch please.
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Alright everyone chill about the camping, quickscoping, spawns, etc. The problem clearly isn’t the game, its the players! Everyone wants to just sit in the corner and get 10 kills per game. Maybe try an smg! I guarentee you wil get loads more points than corner camping. As for the glitches, treyarch is clearly working on it.
Calm down and PLAY THE DAMN GAME!
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i hope the spamming thing gets done soon because i am tired of getting spammed while trying to play a simple game of domination.
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This got a little long but I tried to bring up some issues that weren’t mentioned in other posts I read like the G11 being pretty much the M16 except you have to earn and pay for it and other things like that and how I miss the Martyrdom perk!!! Having played all the CODs I can say I was excited to get this one but a little worried about Treyarch making it and not IW. They had HUGE success with MW and MW2 and TA had a lot to live up to. I tried my best to not just think it was me expecting too much but it isn’t me. This came is seriously flawed. MW was possibly the best most balanced game of the series. The guns were actually different and acted like the charts listed them as acting in terms of damage, accuracy, etc. In BO it seems like all the guns are damn near equal despite adding rapid fire or better scopes, etc. If you look at Halo, the reason it is so great is because you ALWAYS have a reticle when walking so you can scoot and shoot. Granted it leaves when you run and you can’t run and shoot but you can zoom in with the guns and when not in zoom, you can still hip fire because you have a reticle that stays constant. The one thing that is a problem with hip firing in COD is that the cross goes from barely useful when standing or walking slow to so huge and useless when jogging or sprinting that hip firing is a guessing game even with steady aim perk on. IF they took just that one thing from Halo it would greatly increase hip firing. Remember, it was Treyarch that took a great franchise in Tony Hawk and ruined it. IF you think about it, COD wasn’t a household name until MW. Then MW2 sealed it as THE wartime FPS (Halo is still the standard for how games stack up but I love many series). So Inf. Ward put Activision’s game on the map and then ACT. goes and screws IW? Also, why is the numbering screwed up or is it me? You have COD 1, 2, 3 and then WAW which should be COD4. Instead they call MW COD4:MW. I know they came out at different times and its a minor thing but WTF.
I agree with most of the complaints here and I got the game on the east coast at 12:01am launch day so I saw the MP growth. IT went up and up until on about day 3 they showed roughly 3.2 million people online. That is HUGE. However, after that day the number dropped almost as quick and stayed around a million and today averages about 500,000 or so. That is still 10x what the newest Halo is at now and they just released a new map pack. I honestly hope Activision will realize the stupidity of the IW scandal and get those guys back on board and have them create a great new COD. And BRING BACK MARTYRDOM. Some of the perks are downright stupid. You can keep second chance but martyrdom used to kill even the most experienced player when caught snoozing. I do notice that there are almost NO snipers in the sense that there were in the MW games mostly because the guns are underpowered and there are no good spots to stay hidden for long. I also wish they would put the stacked kills back with the killstreak. A kill is a kill and if I get it with my gun or the napalm, who cares, count it and move on. I also noticed that early on it used to say that killstreaks carried through to the next round which I don’t think ever worked but they used to scroll it in their hints at the bottom. Spend time on the gameplay and don’t worry about how good the rocket launching in the middle of a round looks. Yeah its cool but I would rather have good lag free gaming then a great playground with crappy in game play.
I haven’t gone back to MW yet but I still have them and I am tempted too just to see if I set the bar too high or if they really were better games than this one is. THe one last gripe is that when you play the campaign you go back to WWII and use some of the guns that were in WAW like the PPSH and other WWII era guns. Why couldn’t they throw them in as bonus guns? And WTF is up with the G11? You work to get that and all it ends up being is a box version of the M16. The M16 and G11 would be killing machines if they were full auto. I mean that is what the G11 should have been. You work all that way and essentially get the damn gun you start with!!!
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it sounds to me like most of you just suck. hip firing is fine, l2p. the guns are fine, l2p. This game is loads better than MW2 which sucked complete d**k. I have been killed by tubes like 6 times and i have 8000 kills, thats awesome. Once again, most of you just need to l2p. The only thing this game needs is the ability to cycle through killstreaks. Even not hearing footsteps is awesome, coming from a guy with a headset. i enjoy using hacker or marathon over ninja. Even losing the ability to sound w***e the bomb in snd imo is good. It takes no skill to sit in a corner a hundred feet away waiting for the click of the bomb, and you guys cant say i suck cause my kd is 2.9 and i dont camp…..so once again….l2p or dont comment
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what about the aiming? is there gonna be a fix for that? ive died countless times stairing down a doorway in search and destroy and someone walks through at a funny angle and my auto aim gets all messed up and i cant move it without taking my finger off the left trigger. jus sayin its kinda bothering me i wish it was like aiming in mw2. to much pull in blackops
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I think that the right way to play this game is to stop caring about the k/d ratio and just play for fun!!!!!!!
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Fix the failed RC-XD kills (mostly when you are killed while calling the RC-XD), and fix the failed semtex grenades. I always throw semtex grenades and get shot in my back or sides just after throwing it. That semtex sticks to, or lands next to the person I threw it at and it fails to kill them because I am dead. I hate that. I hate the flag locations in Domination and the spawn camping is still ridiculous as it was in 2010. Hope it all gets fixed or Im gonna play Battlefield 2..
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you just got to learn how to play call of duty black ops the right way
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