Bunch of new COD: Black Ops info

[HighJump31]

Originally Posted by Livewire

The obvious shit wrong with MW2 has been pointed out but...

Guns need recoil... fuck anyone can pick up MW2 and spray an ACR across the map for easy kills.

One huge reason COD4 was so much better than MW2 is you had more health. In MW2 anyone can spray a fucking SCAR hit you twice in the leg and you die. In COD4 you could run around and take a few shots and the player with faster more accurate aim would win the gun fight.

pulled this from a VG247 article:

"Recoil increased

Moving along. Standard multiplayer modes in Black Ops are like slipping into a comfortable pair of shoes. The main glaring difference we noticed – killstreak gimmicks like the RC car and the dogs (yes, they’re back) aside – was the dispersion and recoil on most of the weapons we tried was noticeably increased. When quizzed later on this, Suarez stated this was just a game balance technique, although we had a hard time finding any weapon which would fire bullets with the kind of precision of some of Modern Warfare 2’s.

The result is firefights which can last a beat longer than you may be used to. If Modern Warfare is blink and you’re dead, Black Ops is more blink and you’re at death’s door. If you’re not playing a Wager Match, it’s a safe expectation that if you’ve picked up Modern Warfare title in the past, you’ll know what to do right from the start."

So that's good news. Recoil is increased. Reward the players that actually have skill instead of rewarding the people who get lucky and just spray their shots everywhere.

[HighJump31]

here's a gametrailers video of the wager modes. you can see the recoil on some of the weapons. I do see a shotgun in the video though...so... but the ballistic knife looks like a ton of fun.

edit: forgot link http://www.gametrailers.com/video/wa...call-of/703938

[Livewire]

Awesome info Highjump. Glad to see that it is possible for skilled players to beat players that camp in corners now rather than have no chance because you died way too fast in MW2.

Also Shotguns are in Black Ops but are not primary weapons. Which is fair and balanced. Like in COD4 no one really used the shotguns because then they were stuck with a weapon that had zero range.

[Lefty]

Originally Posted by Livewire

The obvious shit wrong with MW2 has been pointed out but...

Guns need recoil... fuck anyone can pick up MW2 and spray an ACR across the map for easy kills.

One huge reason COD4 was so much better than MW2 is you had more health. In MW2 anyone can spray a fucking SCAR hit you twice in the leg and you die. In COD4 you could run around and take a few shots and the player with faster more accurate aim would win the gun fight.

Exactly. In MW2 the only gun with legitimate recoil is the AK-47. And the note on health is spot on, and the lack of health in MW2 has lead to people abusing the burst-fire weaponse: M16 (which was admittedly overpowered for its accuracy in COD4 too) and FAMAS. And there's no reason any sub-machine gun should be accurate enough for a kill from across the map, the UMP is the biggest offender of this.

[HighJump31]

Well shucks. Apparently Tactical Insertion is coming back for this game. I used the Tactical Insertion for one match in MW2 and that was so that I could spawn in the basement of the house in Estate. Eventually they caught on so I stopped using it. The only people I've seen use it were nuke boosters and people who used the elevator glitches on maps before they were patched. This was one piece of equipment that needed to leave the game, but they brought it back. Kinda disappointed, but oh well.

[CODE_BLUE56]

no nukes=very nice

[Livewire]

Originally Posted by HighJump31

Well shucks. Apparently Tactical Insertion is coming back for this game. I used the Tactical Insertion for one match in MW2 and that was so that I could spawn in the basement of the house in Estate. Eventually they caught on so I stopped using it. The only people I've seen use it were nuke boosters and people who used the elevator glitches on maps before they were patched. This was one piece of equipment that needed to leave the game, but they brought it back. Kinda disappointed, but oh well.

What the fuck, even though the spawn were fucked up in MW2 part of objective game modes is containing spawn points. Any asshole can plant a tact insertion in the bushed behind the other teams base and keep trying to run flags... that is such bullshit.

Most people just use them to boost anyway which is even gayer.

MW2 is an easy game to master, I have a legit 2.85 K/D ratio... without boosting. I also don't camp I run around with Marathon Lightweight Ninja and a UMP or I play objectives with a Famas. If you need to boost for good stats then you suck.