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Call of Duty Black Ops 2 – Freezing Issues & Awaiting Textures

12/08/2012 By TLN

Since release Call of Duty Black Ops 2 has had some issues on the PS3.  These issues are mainly freezes that occur at random times, and also when you join the first game of the day, or a game already in progress.  It will freeze on awaiting textures from my experience.  The fix for this issues is patch 1.04.   I do believe that it fixed the awaiting textures black ops 2 freeze, but after I update to the new patch yesterday, the game from on a black loading screen with the trinity black ops 2 loading icon.

It seems as if they fix one thing they break another, definitely not a smooth release, but I am hopeful that they will get this fixed, at least by patch 1.06 :P.

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Black Ops 2 PS3 Update – Patch 1.04 Notes

12/08/2012 By TLN

Here are the updated patch notes of Call of Duty Black Ops 2 patch 1.04 on the PS3.  The issue of lag seems to still be there, and it is pretty aggravating, but overall they did a lot of balance changes and fixed a few glitches etc.

PlayStation 3 Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Patch 1.04 Notes

New Features & Feature Improvements

  • Added support for posting Live Stream URLs to Twitter.
  • Improved audio/rumble responsiveness when hitting enemies with gunfire.
  • Improved overall communication of Double XP when enabled.
  • AAR better communicates how much XP was earned in each match.
  • Added the ability to “View League Teams” from any player’s Playercard.
  • Added the ability to “View Playercard” from League solo leaderboards.
  • Added a number of security system enhancements.
  • Added Hardcore Kill Confirmed playlist to the Hardcore category

Issues Addressed

  • Fixed a rare hang (“Awaiting Textures”) upon loading into maps when joining a session in progress after fresh boot.
  • Game now resets the Care Package for a non-owner if the owner re-rolls the package using the Engineer perk.
  • Players with Black Hat PDA can no longer hack a Care Package faster than the owner can capture it.
  • Addressed an exploit where modified console hackers could maliciously spread infected films to other users.
  • Added a fail-safe to prevent spawn trapping in CTF.
  • Increased sight checks on turrets to improve spawning algorithms.
  • Fixed a number of new UI error messages reported by users.
  • Addressed a number of issues that would cause friendly/enemy color indicators on equipment and scorestreaks to display as the wrong team.
  • Improved overall Theater and Live Streaming stability.
  • Improved film rendering stability and made progression bar more accurate while rendering a film.
  • Addressed issues which prevented some master challenges from being completed.
  • Precision challenge “Wet Work” will now unlock with 10 kills.
  • The wins challenge will now account for all FFA modes when ending a match with a tie (if you are in the top 3).
  • Players that help with the “Synchronized Attack” challenge now get credit for it.
  • Players will not be able to manually take control of their AGR if they die at the exact moment that their AGR deploys.
  • Emblem Editor no longer closes the current emblem when discarding changes.
  • Players using Ghost will no longer be invisible at all times in Custom Games with the mini-map option set to “constant”.
  • Players using Ghost and a Suppressor attachment will no longer appear on the enemy’s minimap while shooting and moving while a UAV is up.
  • The median for the K/D graph in the AAR is set to 1.0 instead of 0.0.
  • Players can no longer get on top of the shrubs in Nuketown 2025.
  • Thermal vision overlay no longer appears using the VTOL glitch.
  • Kills from the explosion on the explosive crossbow bolt now count towards challenges.
  • Counter UAV no longer remains for the rest of the game after a host migration.
  • Clan tag is no longer locked immediately after prestige.
  • Offline profiles can no longer be exploited to join online games when an online profile is also signed in.
  • Multi-team games no longer count as a tie if an entire team quits.
  • Fixed an area in Express where K9 Unit dogs could get stuck.
  • EMP grenades no longer affect the CODcaster HUD.
  • Party Privacy count no longer affects how many bots will spawn in Combat Training.
  • Shadows seen through sniper scopes now render more correctly.
  • Players can no longer stand on invisible collision in Carrier.
  • “Drop Shot” medal is no longer awarded after standing back up.
  • Players can now copy a custom class to the extra prestige slot.

Gameplay Balancing

The following is a list of numerous gameplay balancing tweaks that were made after thorough review of statistical data from usage patterns of weapons, equipment, perks and scorestreaks since launch.
Scorestreaks:

  • UAV: cost increased from 350 to 425.
  • Lightning Strike: added 750ms delay

Equipment/grenades:

  • Bouncing Betty: increased the grace period between trigger and activation by 200ms.
  • Sensor Grenade: increased the range (now 1000 units), frequency (now 800ms between pings), and amount of time (now 6s) that players appear after explosion.
  • Concussion Grenade: decreased movement penalty and turn speed penalty when hit.

SMGs:

  • All: increased hip fire recoil.
  • All: increased max hip fire spread from 4.75 to 5.
  • All: reduced bullet penetration.
  • MSMC: increased recoil slightly.
  • PDW-57: increased recoil slightly.

Assault rifles:

  • All: reduced idle sway for more reliable long-range aiming.
  • XM8: reduced lethal range of 3-hit kills from 250 to 50 inches.
  • XM8 + Select Fire: increased recoil.
  • FAL OSW + Select Fire: increased recoil.
  • SWAT-556 + Select Fire: increased recoil.
  • MTAR: Made auto aim values consistent with all other assault rifles.

Sniper Rifles:

  • All: increased hip fire spread.
  • All + Laser Sight: increased hip fire spread.
  • XPR-50: increased recoil slightly.

Shotguns:

  • R870: reduced one-hit kill range by 45 inches.

Pistols

  • B23R: reduced headshot multiplier from 1.4 to 1.
  • KAP-40: reduced headshot multiplier from 1.4 to 1
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How to own in Nuketown 2025 in Black Ops 2

11/19/2012 By TLN

Nuketown 2025 may be my favorite part of the new Call of Duty game, Black Ops 2. 

I am very impressed that the designers decided to make it have it’s own game mode also.  24/7 Nuketown weekend had HUGE success in the first installment of the Black Ops game so I guess they took some notes.

After playing hours and hours of Nuke Town in the first and second black ops, I have learned a few simple tips to do very well almost every game.   Here are some tips to own on Nuketown.

  1. Be aggressive.   The map is so small that the aggressors usually win.  You can try to camp and take it slow, but after a few kills, any good player will just spam nade your camping spot.
  2. I like to use a SMG on this map ALL THE TIME.  SMG’s seem to have the fastest rate of fire, and are made for smaller areas as there range isn’t the best.  I guess this doesn’t really matter, but I always do the best with the SMGs because of my aggressive play style.
  3. If you can stay behind/in the middle of the busses in the middle, you can usually outplay everyone and get good kill streaks if you are smart and cover both your flanks.
  4. NADE NADE NADE.  DO THIS! I honestly just usually throw both of my grenades away at the early start of my respawn so I don’t get distracted with them later.  I usually get multiple kills a game with just throwing them where I think the enemy is off the bat.
  5. When you are in one of the two houses at the windows, don’t stand directly in the window, stand to the side so you can’t be seen by everyone, only the people who come into your path of fire, giving you the advantage every time.
  6. Lay some mines or whatever defensive item you have at the door up from the stairs so you don’t get knifed while in the house.
  7. If an enemy has a massive kill streak reward and everyone is getting slaughtered when they spawn, camp inside the house until it is over!!

Honestly these tips are very minor and most players who have played a while should know this stuff like second nature, but there are a few, and I know this because I slay them in Nuke Town every day, who could use this information.  I hope it was helpful, don’t get upset or frustrated just try to get better!

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