CoD: Black Ops

Originally Posted by Tagger

Good idea Chief. I don't have Black Ops yet (on my Christmas list) but I doubt my experience in B/O is going to be much different online than what it's been in MW2.

It's still the "CoD multiplayer experience," but it IS more enjoyable imo that MW2 online.

[[SS]Sabotage]

Originally Posted by OVERDRIVE4825

It's still the "CoD multiplayer experience," but it IS more enjoyable imo that MW2 online.

Couldn't agree more.

[[SS]Chief]

I love the RPG one..... I'm going to try that every match!

Also I had to laugh on the doors.....to funny, with the kicking legs!

[[SS]Chief]

From here

Apparently someone declared world peace, because the Sacramento chapter of Veterans for Peace protested a fake war - a Call of Duty: Black Ops event - at a public library last Saturday.

Protesters stood outside the library during the event (a warm-up in preparation for a December 11 tournament) holding signs with slogans like “No Library War Games,” and “War is not worth one of my grandchildren. How about yours?”

Veterans for Peace, along with several other groups, including Grandmothers for Peace, Progressive Democrats, Sacramento Area Peace Action, Wellstone Democrats, the Green Party, and the Peace & Freedom Party lodged their protests prior to the event.

“We have had three unproductive meetings with the library director and her staff. We decided to involve Sacramento people and host of other organizations who support us to protest in the midst of the video gaming session,” said VFP chapter president John Reiger.

The library, which feels that these game-focused events promote a sense of community amongst youth who might otherwise turn towards illegal activities, responded by constructing a display of books that have been condemned or banned by various organizations for their content, including Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man, Harry Potter, and the Bible.

Looks like Grandma isn't buying someone COD:BO for Christmas....

[[SS]Chief]

From here

Hey Black Ops community –

To answer many questions about the game update / patching process, I’ve provided a short walkthrough below to explain how it works and provide some basic timelines for each phase in the cycle.


Phase 1: Gather feedback, reproduce reports and implement solutions.

• As soon as the game is released, we scour the forums and play online with fans to gather feedback.
• The QA team reproduces all feedback reports in a test environment, enters them into our database, and assigns them to dev team members.

o Like any scientific process, reports must be reproduced in the test lab before they can be addressed. With millions of users playing the game, something reported by only a small number of users may not be easily reproducible. For this, it’s important that all reports in the forums provide as much helpful information as they can.
• Estimated time: Generally 2 weeks to build a comprehensive list, reproduce in the test environment, research cause, and implement solutions. This phase is typically the longest part of the process and can easily take more than 2 weeks, depending on the number and complexity of reports. Once a game is released, every change made is high risk, and adequate time is needed to implement the best possible solution.

Phase 2: Test internally.
• Once the highest priority reports have been resolved, the updated game goes through a rigorous internal testing procedure.
• If new issues are discovered or the original issue is not fixed appropriately, more time is needed to research and implement new solutions. Video games are highly complex pieces of software. Every change made has a potential impact somewhere else in the game, so the entire game has to be tested with each update.
• Estimated time: Minimum of 1 week to thoroughly test the entire game and internally approve the update for release.

Phase 3: Console manufacturers test and approve the update for release.
• As soon as our QA team has approved the update internally, it is then submitted to the console manufacturers for their own testing and approval. At this point, it is out of our hands.
• If the game update is approved by the console manufacturers, the cycle is done and the update is prepped for release. If the game update is rejected, an accelerated version of the entire process starts again.
• Estimated time: Minimum of 1 week to get an approval.

o Note: PC patches do not require manufacturer approvals, but because of the high number of variables in computer hardware and OS configurations, both Phase 1 and Phase 2 require additional time that does not exist on consoles which have standardized hardware. The PC patch development cycle takes about the same amount of time start-to-finish as that of consoles.

Phase 4: Release
• Once the game update is approved by both internal QA and the console manufacturers, it gets prepped for release. This is a very short phase, but it can add time to the process depending on a number of variables.
• Estimated time: Generally 2-3 days.

That is a high level overview of the patching / update process. Time estimates listed above are averages – it usually takes at least a full month to complete a game update cycle. Often, there are multiple full game updates in the works simultaneously, which is why you see less than a month between full game updates. In some emergency cases, this time can be accelerated, but this is very rare.

The description above outlines the process for publishing permanent game updates and does not apply in the same way to hot fixes. Hot fixes are temporary, server-side fixes that are used to patch in simple adjustments to the game. These are not permanent fixes, and they only apply to online portions of the game. Most significant changes to the game cannot be made with a hot fix.

There you have it – hopefully this removes some of the mystery of the game update and patching process. Enjoy the game and continue to communicate your feedback to us!

Regards,
-JD

[[SS]Midnight]

Good stuff Chief. Thanks. I always love what the myth-busters come up with. Always good stuff.

[DatGuy]

I may see you guys on this soon, Im selling my PS3 copy on tuesday and getting it for 360.
The PS3 version is a terrible mess, Connection issues out the ying yang(I consider it a victory if you make it through one match). It has a very poor framerate, and the napalm kills it even more. It looks worse than the 360 version as well.

so after prestiging twice on PS3, its going back, I cant take it anymore...

hope to shoot your faces next week

[[SS]Grifter]

Originally Posted by DatGuy

I may see you guys on this soon, Im selling my PS3 copy on tuesday and getting it for 360.
The PS3 version is a terrible mess, Connection issues out the ying yang(I consider it a victory if you make it through one match). It has a very poor framerate, and the napalm kills it even more. It looks worse than the 360 version as well.

so after prestiging twice on PS3, its going back, I cant take it anymore...

hope to shoot your faces next week

Let me know.....I got a RC car with your name written all over it......

[DatGuy]

you will never see me hiding when I hear those things coming

[[SS]Sabotage]

DatGuy you can't shoot me.... you're foreign.

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by OVERDRIVE4825

It's still the "CoD multiplayer experience," but it IS more enjoyable imo that MW2 online.

I was referring to my K/D ratio. I love MW2 and I'm sure I will fall in love with BO when I get a chance to play it.

[[SS]Grifter]

Originally Posted by [SS]Sabotage

DatGuy you can't shoot me.... you're foreign.

Hahahahahahahaha.........

[DatGuy]

Originally Posted by Tagger

I was referring to my K/D ratio. I love MW2 and I'm sure I will fall in love with BO when I get a chance to play it.

love MW2?

[Tagger]

Yeah, I've enjoyed it a lot. And, I'm sure I"ll enjoy the heck out of Black Ops (even though I hate dags)

[DatGuy]

dogs rarely come out, noobs have trouble getting the 11 killstreak because your killstreaks dont add to your next one...so you actually have to get 11 kills yourself and the AI cant help you