Black Ops 2 Multiplayer

[Sheperd80]

Weapons: selection could be bigger but its got quality guns and seems well balanced. SMGs are very strong in this game which i love.

Pick 10 System: the new custom class system allows you to get really creative. You have 10 points to spend on all your gear, so u can drop anything for more of something else. You can have extra perks or attachments in place of tacticals or secondary weps, or whatever you can come up with.

Game Modes: not much new here except hardpoint which is alot like hq. And league play mode seems promising. However i think kill confirmed is totally broken now. Because of the new scorestreak system, picking up dog tags is more important than getting kills and unless youre a rusher youre gonna get jacked alot.

Scorestreaks: huge selection of streak reqards, most are good. You now get streaks from points instead of just kills which is great. Capping objectives, defending, assisting, etc all work toward your scorestreak rewards which inspires teamwork and objective play over camping for kills. I miss the specialist option from mw3 though. Its a little harder to get to the really high streaks now in tdm. But in objective games you can rly rack up the pts.

[bob7122]

server lag is due to you not filtering your games correctly. change your filter to pick the games with the best connection. hope that helps.

[Sheperd80]

server lag is due to you not filtering your games correctly. change your filter to pick the games with the best connection. hope that helps.

Yeah i always set it on "best" and i still have issues. Some lobbies are good and some arent. I can tell by watching killcams. I'll turn a corner, spray rounds right into an enemy and die. Then on the killcam it wont even show me getting a shot off before the player kills me. So apparently what im seeing during gameplay is a second or so behind what is actually happening when im lagged.

I find myself on the winnimg end of that alot too though. Ill see players come around corners and ill easily mow them down before they react.

Ive heard that this game features lag compensation like black ops. So people with higher ping have a slight health bonus. Not sure if this is true or not.

[supermanuf]

Here's my problems with the game:

Not really excited about any of the maps. Not enough hardcore objective modes. And, if you're gonna have friendly fire on in the available hardcore game modes, they need to work on gamertags showing up better. So many times, I'll see some guy's head pop up, but no gamertag--so I shoot, and then turns out it's a friendly. Finally, the spawning system is seriously flawed. So many times they spawn me right in front of a bad guy, I'm dead before I get a chance to move.

I feel like this game was a huge step back for Treyarch. The new zombie modes are cool and fun, but which they would have diverted some of that energy into making the main multiplayer better.

[fighterpilot562]

Every time i play online, it seems the connections going out, and my internet is fine.

[oldsmoboat]

Can a keyboard/mouse be hooked up to the USB ports on an Xbox and used to play?

[Sheperd80]

Here's my problems with the game:

Not really excited about any of the maps. Not enough hardcore objective modes. And, if you're gonna have friendly fire on in the available hardcore game modes, they need to work on gamertags showing up better. So many times, I'll see some guy's head pop up, but no gamertag--so I shoot, and then turns out it's a friendly. Finally, the spawning system is seriously flawed. So many times they spawn me right in front of a bad guy, I'm dead before I get a chance to move.

I feel like this game was a huge step back for Treyarch. The new zombie modes are cool and fun, but which they would have diverted some of that energy into making the main multiplayer better.

Ive heard alot of complaints about spawns and i really dont see it. There have been a handful of times where ill spawn right by someone but its few and far between. I figure you have to spawn somewhere, and with people running all over the map theres always a chance of an unlucky spawn. I just dont see it as a huge problem.

Im growing to love the maps. I think they found a good balance. Most maps can be played effectively with any gun type. The campers and snipers have their spots but its dangerous to play stationary so those players are forced to be smart and move around. And there are well designed flanking routes everywhere so u can mostly avoid the sniping isles if youre a rusher like me.

I agree about the gamertags. Thats been an annoyance to me in all CoD games. Also the domination nav icons are annoying. For example on Meltdown, if youre on the C side of that center ramp, the A icon blocks the sniping window on the A side so you cant see if a sniper is there from some angles.

Im loving this game. My main complaint is still the lag caused by the hosting system. $500 million on the first day and they cant give us some dedicated servers?!? This game beat mw3 as the largest entertainment release ever....they owe the fans some solid hosting.