TIPS:
Before you chose what game type you are going to play, press X or Square to change search preferences. If you play by yourself often, putting it to "Best" will benefit you. If you play with a group, I don't think it will help because what's best for the host might not be the best for the whole team.
orangeNblue wrote:This may just be my experience, but I am extremely disappointed with the game! On xbox, its very easy to get into matches, and the graphics are really nice and crisp, even the levels are well laid out and even the killstreaks are really fun to use. However, the actual gameplay is terrible. I am a 1.5-1.7 KD player typically, but I can't kill anything in the xbox version. I say this as I can not KILL anyone, but I can dern well light em up. I get about 8-10 hit markers and no kill. Its as if my gun is crazy weak, and I get killed in about 2-3 shots. It's awful and I've never experienced anything like it.
The culprit is lag compensation; this NEEDS to get patched because the game is extremely inconsistent now. It will almost always come down to to has the host advantage, and you can tell from a mile away.
Scenario #1: Not having host advantage
- Walk around a corner Aimed Down Sight (ADS)
See an enemy and shoot, get 3 hit markers into them
They kill you nearly instantly.
Scenario #2: Having host advantage
- Carelessly sprint around a corner
OH SH*T, person behind the barrel!
Whew, I'm such a beast CoD player, I managed to kill that person.
Or my these guys are freaking clueless!
It sucks. Sometimes I am fu*king Neo from the Matrix and other times I am using a water pistol instead of a PDW-57. I have games where I go 5-23 and can not avoid dying and other times I manage 30-5 games. Even in competitive matches, when playing VS people who REALLY know what they are doing, I don't go 5-23
(I usually get a 1K/D in competitive matches). It's ridiculous.
My Cod Stats
- MW3 1.8K/D
BLOPS 2.4K/D
MW2 1.8K/D
MW1 1.4K/D
BLOPS2 .9K/D
orangeNblue wrote:And the spawns are worse than they have ever been. I am actually to the point where I have no desire to play the game at all because its in every game mode and only about 1-2 matches have I NOT experienced it.
I think this is because you are applying MW3 spawn rules to BLOPS2. Most people don't know the spawns and so many people go too far into an area that causes people to spawn to the right of you. As people become more aware, they will realize that you can't go soo far into an area before spawn swapping etc. Once the spawns are figured out, then I think it would be fair to make a judgement about it they are fair or not.
I know the map Hijacked the spawn traps are very deep.
Legend:
- Yellow Dots = Where you can be with out swapping spawns.
Red Line = Where you spawn when people are at those yellow dots
I've been on both sides, the spawn trapper and the spawn trappee. As long as you are around those yellow dots and NOT looking at the spawns, people will pop up and before they can defend themselves, you can kill them.
orangeNblue wrote:So my overall experience with the game is, I think I'd really like it if I could actually play it like I've played every single other COD, but for now, its been a complete waste of money for the way I want to use it. I'll be playing campaign until these issues are fixed I guess.
Perfect advise; play the SP or Zombies until things get squared away. BLOPS1 had a MUCH worse opening week than BLOPS2 and BLOPS1 turned out to have a good multiplayer experience. MW3's opening week was bad too, couldn't play much of it, so I stopped for nearly a month and when I came back things were much less rocky.