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[CaptainTiptop]

How's Squads? AI still about the same as it was in BLOPS2? Can you play with two local players?

I mostly plan to play Squads and Extinction co-op.

 

[Sandy Nipples]

We drunkenly found it! Well, my fiance did, all props goes to her.

...IW working on Half Life 3? My fiance discovered the source of Half Life 3 on 11/08/2013 8:33PM GMT+2.

 

[MaximusPayne]

True, the maps are larger, but is it just me or do the SMGs fire like lasers? (Especially the vector with a grip). For that reason, I've been doing fine even on big maps with SMGs.

Other observations:

They got rid of Demolition and Search and Destroy, my two favorites, WTF?

Most maps don't have discernible routs, or the routs peak out at other ones, meaning a million lines of site to guard against, and death from any angle. This adds to the utility of SMGs. Gotta be quick.

Spawn system still fucked. They said they fixed this in MW3, which became obviously false when I and a teammate spawned in full view 3 feet in front of an enemy (he saw us pop into view). Have spawned near enemies here, but nothing that bad yet.

Definetly, also I think the spawns are f'ed up because the engineering of the maps.
You're right about the subs, though. All i needed was a flash hider and it steadied it out. Way over powered as of now.

 

[AEREC]

Took a risk and bought this on steam this morning. Was wary since I heard so many optimization issues...but aside from audio skipping during cutscnes it seems to run solid like every other CoD. Max settings on i7 & GTX 760.

 

[vctor182]

So guys, I bought the game in the US PSN and I was wondering if it included the spanish audio. Do I need to buy it/download it from the Latin America PSN?

 

[Dominican Power]

The maps are like mazes. MW and MW2 are the pinnacle of COD games.

 

[CyReN]

SND coming November 15th.

 

[Waaghals]

The PC version just got a patch. Unless I am experiencing the placebo effect performance has improved.

 

[Dominican Power]

SND coming November 15th.

They better add Ground War too.

 

[Malo]

For people that got ghosts through games on demand the 360, have you received free fall yet? I haven't gotten it yet though it says you will receive the map if you buy the game from GoD.

 

[alterno69]

Was there an update today for Ps3? I brought my ps3 to a friends house and it asked for an update, now the game looks sharper on his tv, we have the same tv, maybe he has his sharpness cranked up but it looks a lot sharper.

 

[TheVampire]

Beat the story mode today and damn it was shit.

 

[Apeopleman]

I've been playing since COD4 and my opinion on this game: Best Multiplayer experience out of all CODs.

Killstreaks are all ass now. There is rarely stuff in the sky. You might see a dog here and there, but Gunga dies pretty quickly.

UAV sucks now. You need to strategize with your team to coordinate the placement of multiple ones and get full effect.

Emphasis is clearly all gun on gun. No more claymores, bettys, stupid explosives, etc.

Guns are balanced great. People are heavy in favor of the triple burst and was banned in Gamebattles (as is myself), but it suffers at very far range and very close range.

Best Cod yet. Will juggle between this game and KILLZONE SHADOWFALL for the next few months.

 

[Sojgat]

Beat the story mode today and damn it was shit.

I disagree. It's hardly groundbreaking, and it has a few technical issues, but I think it's actually the best campaign COD has ever had.

I've been playing since COD4 and my opinion on this game: Best Multiplayer experience out of all CODs.

Killstreaks are all ass now. There is rarely stuff in the sky. You might see a dog here and there, but Gunga dies pretty quickly.

UAV sucks now. You need to strategize with your team to coordinate the placement of multiple ones and get full effect.

Emphasis is clearly all gun on gun. No more claymores, bettys, stupid explosives, etc.

Guns are balanced great. People are heavy in favor of the triple burst and was banned in Gamebattles (as is myself), but it suffers at very far range and very close range.

Best Cod yet. Will juggle between this game and KILLZONE SHADOWFALL for the next few months.

I feel the same way. This game seems pretty divisive, people are either loving it or hating it.

 

[cafemomo]

How does this game run on the tripple?

any framerate drops?

 

[Duxxy3]

Beat the story mode today and damn it was shit.

I thought it was pretty solid. The sequel could use a better script and more varied voice actors.

Tough white american number 1, doesn't sound much different from tough white american number 2. Also, I would prefer that the character we are playing as has a voice. This isn't half life.

 

[dmg04]

This shit is killing me.
Broke as a damn dog right now. Got the paycheck today and still couldn't manage.

Hope to join you folks in 14 days!

 

[alterno69]

How does this game run on the tripple?

any framerate drops?

Runs great online for me

 

[Apeopleman]

Runs great online for me

Runs great on my end (PS3)

 

[Fistwell]

Runs like putrid shit on PC.

I like that they said there'd be dedis but I'm obviously playing on P2P. (But hey, thank god for games journalists, they're all over that shit. Always ready to stand up for the consumer as usual.)

Maybe dedicated servers are only there for PS3 master race?

 

[Helloween]

Patch seems to have stopped PC stuttering a little, but it still runs like fucking ass. With how terrible this looks, there is no reason why it runs so god damn badly

 

[Beepos]

As someone who never played IW Cods (MW2/3) the rate you die compared to BLOPS1/2 is now ruining it for me.

Someone please tell me this is all in my head and you don't die faster in this? I can't even imagine hardcore mode.

 

[Parallax]

that pc patch that was supposed to fix aiming seems to have made shit worse. everytime i come within 5 feet of any enemy, theres lag. every damn time. running scout is useless unless youre backstabbing.

 

[Fistwell]

Someone please tell me this is all in my head and you don't die faster in this? I can't even imagine hardcore mode.

Check out killcams. You didnt die that quick, it's just that the first 6 shots never registered on your end. (which is bullshit and unbalanced)

 

[kazebyaka]

As someone who never played IW Cods (MW2/3) the rate you die compared to BLOPS1/2 is now ruining it for me.

Someone please tell me this is all in my head and you don't die faster in this? I can't even imagine hardcore mode.

same shit as before, i didn't notice any change from Blops 2

 

[aravuus]

same shit as before, i didn't notice any change from Blops 2

Literally just played Blops 2 right after Ghosts, the change is massive. You die like three times faster than in Blops 2. We wouldn't be talking about fast kill times in such quantity if it was the same as ever.

And yeah, it's what ultimately ruins Ghosts for me too.

 

[eival]

is Veteran difficulty still an on-rails ballyhoo like every COD after World at War has been?

 

[kazebyaka]

Literally just played Blops 2 right after Ghosts, the change is massive. You die like three times faster than in Blops 2. We wouldn't be talking about fast kill times in such quantity if it was the same as ever.

And yeah, it's what ultimately ruins Ghosts for me too.

idk about faster, you still need like 6-10 bullets in order to kill anybody without a headshot, and if you're a precise as fuck. It seems faster, but after playing 30 hours in ghosts and 200+ in blops, i don't notice any significant difference. It depends on guns too, some are faster and more powerful, rifles are 2 shots for kill and sniper rifles are 1. Seems like the same shit to me. But i noticed that in ghosts you can actually run away and hide from enemy fire. You couldn't do this in blops, maybe because of maps layout.

 

[Nabs]

It seems faster because the netcode is shit.

 

[aravuus]

idk about faster, you still need like 6-10 bullets in order to kill anybody without a headshot, and if you're a precise as fuck. It seems faster, but after playing 30 hours in ghosts and 200+ in blops, i don't notice any significant difference. It depends on guns too, some are faster and more powerful, rifles are 2 shots for kill and sniper rifles are 1. Seems like the same shit to me. But i noticed that in ghosts you can actually run away and hide from enemy fire. You couldn't do this in blops, maybe because of maps layout.

It's completely different from my experience lol
Admittedly, you have more in-game hours than me so maybe it's been balanced a bit with later-game unlocks and such, but people definitely died faster than in Blops2 the few hours I played. It's easy to tell.

Also I disagree on the bolded part. You die so fast in Ghosts it's practically impossible. Way easier in Blops 2. Ghosts maps lend to this more though, being so maze-like.

Then again, you've spent more time with the game, maybe my experiences are due to me playing on the release date. For now, I'll stick with my opinion though: Blops 2 is still a lot of fun, Ghosts is fucking horrible and unfun.

It seems faster because the netcode is shit.

I thought Blops 2 was supposed to have pretty much the worst netcode out of the Call of Duty games.

 

[Fistwell]

But i noticed that in ghosts you can actually run away and hide from enemy fire. You couldn't do this in blops, maybe because of maps layout.

I can not run away from enemy fire in ghost. Not once have I been able to. Even if I just need to turn a corner, never happens. Was able to do it regularly in blops2.

I thought Blops 2 was supposed to have pretty much the worst netcode out of the Call of Duty games.

On PC, blops2 was kinda bad. Ghost is an order of magnitude worse.

 

[aku:jiki]

I thought Blops 2 was supposed to have pretty much the worst netcode out of the Call of Duty games.

Every game since BO1 has had the same netcode. BO2 actually works better than MW3 and Ghosts because Treyarch acknowledged the lag and nerfed every gun to give players a chance to react while they're being shot. BO2 is the best of the post-netcode switch games, if you ask me.

 

[SmokeMaxX]

Dying fast is just due to lag compensation. Go into private match and test the guns out vs their counterparts in previous CoD games if you'd like. That being said, the netcode is pretty shitty. My team has trouble finding games, getting loaded into the same game over and over, and then having people insta-kill or teleport kill us.

 

[aravuus]

Every game since BO1 has had the same netcode. BO2 actually works better than MW3 and Ghosts because Treyarch acknowledged the lag and nerfed every gun to give players a chance to react while they're being shot. BO2 is the best of the post-netcode switch games, if you ask me.

Oh, alright. I remember seeing a video about some CoD's massive lag compensation, I thought I recalled it was Blops 2. Must have been MW3 then.

 

[Stephen_drewz]

Is the FOV fix still uploaded anywhere?

 

[Fistwell]

Oh, alright. I remember seeing a video about some CoD's massive lag compensation, I thought I recalled it was Blops 2. Must have been MW3 then.

I've seen several for blops2. It's largely worse in ghost.

 

[Nokterian]

Blops 2 on PC is better then the console version since it looks better,plays better and also having ranked dedicated servers and a FoV Slider.

 

[kazebyaka]

I can not run away from enemy fire in ghost. Not once have I been able to. Even if I just need to turn a corner, never happens. Was able to do it regularly in blops2.
.

i was never able to do it in blops, but i do it in ghosts all the time. There's much more places to hide and corners to turn now and you don't stutter when somebody is shooting at you. It's pretty awesome, actually, saved my hide plenty of times.

 

[Fistwell]

i was never able to do it in blops, but i do it in ghosts all the time

Yeah, I read you right the first time. Sounds like we're playing wildly different games.

 

[yankeehater]

For people that got ghosts through games on demand the 360, have you received free fall yet? I haven't gotten it yet though it says you will receive the map if you buy the game from GoD.

I haven't got the map either and I spent an hour on the phone with Xbox support and then told me they didn't know what was up with it.

 

[The Real Napsta]

Oh the ghosts web site it says you can pay $70 up front for both versions (Xbox One and 360) digital download. How does one do this?

 

[IcyBlueStrawberry]

Just finished the story.

It was stupid and I have very little understanding of what happened or why, but it was fun. Pretty too.

 

[dmg04]

Stupid question; Should I install the Play disk??

 

[NIN90]

The Raven and Neversoft splash screens make me sad.

 

[SmokeMaxX]

Stupid question; Should I install the Play disk??

Whoops didn't read it right. I don't think it matters.

 

[jackdoe]

The friendly AI in the campaign is dumb as hell. So dumb I would prefer that the entire campaign had no squad mates. Standing behind the only cover in a room while doing nothing but getting me killed is frustrating as hell.

 

[teokrazia]

Every game since BO1 has had the same netcode. BO2 actually works better than MW3 and Ghosts because Treyarch acknowledged the lag and nerfed every gun to give players a chance to react while they're being shot. BO2 is the best of the post-netcode switch games, if you ask me.

100% agree, the most enjoyable from a pure combat standpoint since MW2.

 

[Toa TAK]

What did you peeps think of the campaign?

A lot better than what I was expecting, although I feel like the writer could've used his academy talents elsewhere.

 

[Gaz_RB]

What did you peeps think of the campaign?

A lot better than what I was expecting, although I feel like the writer could've used his academy talents elsewhere.

Thought it was decent. Story/lore needed to be fleshed out waaaaay more, and I think the dog needed to be involved more often, being one of the only likeable characters. It was fun though.

Ending was awesome. Really interesting set up for next game.

 

[Syf]

What did you peeps think of the campaign?

A lot better than what I was expecting, although I feel like the writer could've used his academy talents elsewhere.

My favorite campaign since COD 4. The story and writing weren't great but I found every level was fun to play, with a lot of variety.