Well clips STILL won't upload for me, so they're not getting another dime until basic functionality is released to all.

2/1/2011 3:28:16 PM

so fuck no DLC playlist. It took like 10-15 tries to get a new map and like always stadium.

2/1/2011 3:30:43 PM

We were playing in Berlin Wall and one of us (i think it was Fenix) was able to run all the way through w/o getting killed by an auto-turret (hauling ass w/ a lightweight and light gun class i guess)

2/1/2011 3:40:48 PM

Work on some location callsigns for Warrior games. We didn't do a good job of establishing those like we did with MW2.

2/1/2011 3:41:35 PM

i dont like the quadrant system they have for calling out areas, i have to hit start and stand still like a dumbass, look for 'D3' or whatever and usually get shot trying to figure out where D3 is


i like the numbers on the walls of buildings (works well in Firing Range for #2 at least)

2/1/2011 3:44:33 PM

The easiest is just calling out what the building is, ie bookstore or porn shop.

Black Ops doesn't have as many easily identifiable landmarks as MW2.

2/1/2011 3:46:51 PM

yeah for firing range, "garage" and "trailer" are easy ... i call that thing by the spawn (with 2 jeeps outside it up from the tunnel) the "shanty"

the "back" is the place where people usually call in care packages

2/1/2011 3:56:47 PM

Jungle: "Cliff" or "Sniping Spot" for the snipers cliff...below is "River Bed"...across the river and behind are "The Huts"...further back from The Huts are "The Ruins"

^yeah "The Back" is the actual firing range...the other side of the map has a concrete slab, and the building beside it is "The Bathroom"

2/1/2011 4:23:17 PM

when yall say "catwalk" on WMD, do you mean the one by one of the original spawns where you climb the tall-ass ladder or the middle thing where you climb out a window and run across, with an L shape to the platform

2/1/2011 4:39:03 PM

It means whatever the hell you want it to mean.

2/1/2011 4:45:36 PM

have you ever played that map in your few rounds of actual time in the game?

2/1/2011 4:47:01 PM

Only maps I play are NukeTown, Sandlot and Crash.

2/1/2011 4:50:14 PM

Nuketown as Crash in Skidrow: The story of Karachi

2/1/2011 4:53:14 PM

The other 2 story building in Firing Range my friends and I call the "Jaws Building" because the 2nd floor looks like Jaws came in and took a big ass bite out of it

2/1/2011 5:24:13 PM

We call it the Jaybee building for the same reason.

2/1/2011 5:27:07 PM

I've determined my success is 100% due to knowing the maps

I'm sucking a fat one on the DLC

2/1/2011 6:30:17 PM

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"when yall say "catwalk" on WMD, do you mean the one by one of the original spawns where you climb the tall-ass ladder or the middle thing where you climb out a window and run across, with an L shape to the platform"

L-shaped catwalk in the "middle" that goes from D3 to the long warehoose. the tall ladder deal is simply the "tower"


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2/1/2011 6:46:06 PM

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"The other 2 story building in Firing Range my friends and I call the "Jaws Building" because the 2nd floor looks like Jaws came in and took a big ass bite out of it"

if they're downstairs, i'll say "Downstairs in 2" but if they're upstairs I say "Green Sandbags"

and obviously the tower is "The Tower"

2/1/2011 6:55:00 PM

Got my first guy on the zipline

Spawns seem wonky on Stadium and Kowloon

2/1/2011 6:57:48 PM

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" I've determined my success is 100% due to knowing the maps I'm sucking a fat one on the DLC"

2/1/2011 7:03:54 PM

ATTN: hey now

2/1/2011 7:25:43 PM

new maps are a let down so far imo. none of them scream play me.

2/1/2011 8:01:54 PM

I like them all except Berlin.

[Edited on February 1, 2011 at 8:26 PM. Reason : f]

2/1/2011 8:26:15 PM

I like that Korean level. Lots of verticality.

2/1/2011 8:30:31 PM

verticality...come again?

2/1/2011 8:43:07 PM

Maybe everyone's playing cautiously on the new maps, but they all seem campy as hell

2/1/2011 8:51:21 PM

i tried to play some new maps tonight, it was very annoying....either couldn't get a full lobby, would join a game 10 seconds from being over, or the host would migrate constantly and the match would end. took forever to find matches which i guess i would have to blame on not being able to matchmake with people without the dlc i suppose.

2/1/2011 8:58:59 PM

^^ just campy. very, very campy.
so far, i pretty much hate discovery hands down.

stadium - (B+) - best experience so far, but that's not saying much
discovery - (C-) - didn't know i could get shot that many times by people i never saw
berlin wall - (B) - not much to complain about.. just get lost.. i think there's too many buildings to go all up in
kowloon - (B-) - could be really fun, but i spent most of my time trying not to respawn.. because that just meant somebody up in a higher building was about to shoot me
zombie flying monkey wtf - (?) - probably won't ever play it

overall... terrible map pack imho. of all the 4 new regular maps, i didn't play one tonight that made me say "sweet, i want to play that again". none of them hold a candle to nuketown / firing range.

the rampant use of ghost / m16 contributed greatly to me pretty much hating this game the last couple of days, so that probably isn't helping my perception of the maps that much. i doubt that's the only problem though.

[Edited on February 1, 2011 at 9:21 PM. Reason : ]

2/1/2011 9:21:01 PM

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" took forever to find matches which i guess i would have to blame on not being able to matchmake with people without the dlc i suppose."

Nah, that's pretty much the norm. I'd say 50% of my matches are joined in progress, usually towards the end. 50% of those go through at least one host migration, and 50% of host migrations result in the lobby getting dropped.

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ha, I went like 6-30 on Discovery. It's like day one all over again.

I think part of the problem is that there seems to be a really small percentage of low-level players in the DLC lobbies. I don't seem to do so well without lots of AUG-fodder.

2/1/2011 9:58:08 PM

Yeah I wasn't excited about any of the maps from the trailers, thanks for confirming my feelings.

2/1/2011 10:21:30 PM

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"cool story bro. Now graduate from the 4th grade, get a job, buy an xbox 360, and come play multiplayer with the grown-ups"

lol. I don't play video games enough to justify buying a PS3 or an Xbox 360. Multiplayer is fun, I do play from time to time...on PS3 though, not Xbox 360.

2/1/2011 10:53:11 PM

has the PS3 version of this game been hacked yet?

2/1/2011 11:11:17 PM

yeah, but the last update apparently perma-banned anyone with altered or copied game files

2/1/2011 11:30:03 PM

well I was planning on getting the map pack, mounting, and rejuvenating my interest in this game, but from what ppl are saying here i probably won't buy it. i'll probably be on this weekend some though for the double xp.

2/1/2011 11:49:40 PM

Almost at prestige 2, double XP weekend should push me to 3. Levels 40 to 50 go really fucking fast.

Also, Treyarch designed the worst spawn system of all time.

2/2/2011 1:33:45 AM

looks like they put a first strike playlist up over the night. sweet

2/2/2011 9:32:50 AM

underwhelmed by the xpac maps. Lag was horrible last night too. This game is fast losing my attention.

2/2/2011 9:44:58 AM

We're still not going to play Homefront with you.

2/2/2011 10:48:32 AM

then don't

2/2/2011 11:06:46 AM

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"Also, Treyarch designed the worst spawn system of all time."

MW2's was worse IMO.

2/2/2011 12:31:58 PM

Actually, every COD game has had bad spawn systems.

2/2/2011 12:32:26 PM

You talking about



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2/2/2011 1:45:54 PM

Oh you didn't know?

2/2/2011 1:49:56 PM

Now that my calc test is over I'll be downloading this.

How does the zipline work? Are you stuck on there until the end of can you jump off earlier?

2/2/2011 2:43:23 PM

my early thoughts:

Discovery: lots of camping, good map for Ghost or silenced weapons, seems ok so far
Kowloon: camping, key is to get to high ground, lots of vantage points on the map
Berlin Wall: hard to get your bearings, still learning this one
Stadium: I treat the arena as a miniature Harrelson and have decent luck...seems pretty fast paced as far as the action...my favorite map of the new ones

2/2/2011 2:46:56 PM

"Kowloon" is actually a Chinese word that means "everyone hide in a building and shoot through the window" or "hide by the water tower thing near the B flag"

2/2/2011 2:52:52 PM

Pretty sucky maps overall imo. I liked mw2 dlc a lot more. I think I might go back to that for a while

2/2/2011 3:02:44 PM

No spawn system is worse than Halo Reach. It literally spawned me in the middle of a gunfight of 2 guys that were 10 feet apart. I was probably 3 feet away from the other team when spawned. And it happens frequently

2/2/2011 4:22:39 PM

I think I'm going back to playing COD2 online

I used to wreck shop with the Panzershank

2/2/2011 5:40:21 PM

I will be returning home around 9:30ish tonight from the unpleasantness taking place at the RBC Center, and would be obliged if some of you benevolent gents were to offer me some fellowship over a rousing game of Black Ops. (for the 360)

2/2/2011 5:51:28 PM