User:Smuff/100 things I hate about Black Ops

"The worst game developer of all time. Totally ruined the Call of Duty series."

- The 1st description of Treyarch on the Urban Dictionary

I hate Black Ops, it's just another piece of garbage churned out from Treyarch's ass. Every time I play, the only guns I'm killed by are the AK74u, Famas, AUG and Galil. Every map is a campers dream, the hit detection is horrible, I get randomly killed from across the map by some noob spraying one of the above without the screen so much as blinking red. Anyone who defends it either cried about the M203/GP-25/Thumper in Modern Warfare 2, is an absolute Treyarch fanboy or someone who pisses with the above Assault Rifles to hell and back. Black Ops is by far the single most overhyped game to have been released in years.

And before you say anything: No. It's not just a game. I spent £45/$72 on this game. Considering how rare it is I purchase a game, or infact anything for that price, I expect to get at least some enjoyment from it, but I don't. But, for those of you who watch soccer/football, which is a mystery to me, how do you feel when you see the World Cup? I have seen grown men cry when their country, or even club, loses a match and is knocked out of whatever they play in. I'm sure you're devestated when the team you love does horribly. So don't read this thinking "Oh this is just a game, why does he take it so seriously?" In the United Kingdom, the majority of matches are free-to-air. Black Ops cost me money. I have the right to moan at it.

While Black Ops may be playable for some, there's just so many problems I can find with it. Great concept, hoprrid execution. Before the game I was like "''Oh my God! They're doing this! And that! And you can't do this, yeah!" Then when the game came out the first day, I recall yelling at my Playstation 3, "WHY WON'T YOU WORK!" with the sheer amount of lag. That shouldn't have happened. Treyarch could have gone and assumed, "Oh look, we have lots of preorders, let's make sure we can handle all the traffic." It's not that hard to do, a monkey could figure it out faster than JD2020. Black Ops is by far the single most overhyped game to have been released in years. When I got Modern Warfare 2'', it worked!

Right, from the gigantic list underneath, this looks like a rant, yes? Well it's not. Below is all the problems I have with the game, and it doesn't even scratch the surface. Some, like the AUG not having a trigger, are jokes, while ones like the Famas literally make me lose my voice yelling at the TV. I found some nice stuff to complement it, and with showing that the Famas is OP I even did some nice little calculations.

I don't have a blind hatred for Treyarch, that needs to be said. I hate Treyarch for the crappy service I've got, in Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2, I had no service problems, 2 years on in World at War and I still can't join parties properly, and it's the same in Black Ops. I don't hate Treyarch blindly, I hate Treyarch for by far the crappiest experiences I've ever had in a video game.

So ok, it's not exactly 100 reasons. But most of it needs said.

And here we go...

 * 1) RC-XD can be achieved from a double kill yet can get a multikill.
 * 2) The RC-XDs timer and speed mean you can't escape it, which is rubbish, since when can battery operated RC cars go at that speed?
 * 3) The Claymore doesn't tick, even if it does have the same detonation time as the previous versions the lack of a tick still means you only realize you've stepped on it when Treyarch pull the two fingers at you in the KillCam.
 * 4) Thanks to the equipment slot, campers now have Claymores and Semtex!
 * 5) The lag makes shotguns unusable, hit detection is useless with them.
 * 6) Activision sold out to Mircosoft.
 * 7) Matchmaking is a fail and rarely works.
 * 8) The Famas is whored to hell and back, has highest fire rate of any assault rifle and can kill in 3-4 shots and thus the potential damage of the Stoner63, all while being unlocked at level 14.
 * 9) The FAMAS in inaccurately capitalized "Famas."
 * 10) The Famas generally is the first weapon I'm killed by 60% of the time.
 * 11) Treyarch claimed that every weapon is balanced, which makes me dislike them and the game even more.
 * 12) Second Chance invincibility period wastes ammo. RC-DX.png
 * 13) Second Chance only gets me assists when I clearly loaded a magazine in him.
 * 14) Shotguns were both made primary weapons AND nerfed.
 * 15) Warlord's pro perk is shit unless you're a grenade spamming noob.
 * 16) The graphics are poor compared to MW2.
 * 17) The game lags for about 10 seconds when you get a trophy.
 * 18) 3rd perks are essentially useless, the only decent one in BO is Hacker.
 * 19) No Stopping Power means guns are unbalanced against the FAMAS and AUG etc.
 * 20) Zooming down the scope takes too long, I never got killed by "l33t" quickscopers to begin with.
 * 21) The party system rarely works on PS3, groups are constantly broken.
 * 22) Treyarch will probably force you to go into lobbies with players who have DLC maps, meaning matchmaking will be even worse.
 * 23) The DLC is also more expensive than ever before thanks to some zombie map I'm never going to play.
 * 24) Every noob in the game runs around with Ghost and gets stealth kills with a freakin' silenced FAMAS.
 * 25) Commando knife range by default.
 * 26) The Semtex timer gets you killed constantly by grenade lobbing noobs on Nuketown.
 * 27) The only maps ever played are Hanoi (shit), Jungle (shit), Nuketown (decent without explosives), and Radiation (boring).
 * 28) People keep saying how good Treyarch compared to IW are when the only IW game they've ever played is Modern Warfare 2.
 * 29) Create-a-Class 2.0 was overhyped, the only difference is you have the choice of some shitty camouflages, facepaints and a Clan Tag you can't see behind the camouflage.
 * 30) People spray to hell and back, which causes lag and makes the game unplayable.
 * 31) Treyarch couldn't be fucked to make a different helicopters for each side with things like Gunship, instead they cheat players with a Hind helicopter with different markings.
 * 32) The claymore goes off too quickly, there's no escaping it.
 * 33) Half the players online panic knife.
 * 34) BO is worse than MW2 for campers.
 * 35) The secondary slot is useless apart from noobs who lob crossbow bolts across the map wanting cheap kills.
 * 36) IR sucks compared to Thermal.
 * 37) The storyline dragged out too long in Vietnam, Payback was enough.
 * 38) Credits don't let you test out weapons without spending 2000 a time, often end up with nothing upon discovering guns such as the Enfield can't beat the FAMAS.
 * 39) Emblems like Nazi symbols lost their humor instantly.
 * 40) Theater mode is poor quality compared to Bungie's equivalent in Halo.
 * 41) Dogs are useless thanks to the Commando-by-default stab range.
 * 42) Care package weapons are useless, you're often killed using it by an RC-XD.
 * 43) The ability to dive to prone makes you look like a tard.
 * 44) Diving to prone kills you more than it saves you.
 * 45) The subtitles are fail in the sense they block the swears while not blocking the swears being said.
 * 46) SMGs were once again whored to hell and back with a huge choice while LMGs only have 4 in their category.
 * 47) SMGs also have that stupid full mobility while in ADS feature.
 * 48) I still have to listen to French people spray their diarrhea language down my mic.
 * 49) It takes longer to mute people because of that stupid menu that appears with every name.
 * 50) Black Ops has too many loading screens versus the other games.
 * 51) The storyline was once again shorter than in MW2 while the multiplayer feels generally unpolished.
 * 52) I get less lag in and  multiplayer than I do in BO, which is frankly appalling.
 * 53) Spiltscreen is useless and only used by power levelers.
 * 54) The spawn system is somehow worse than the one in Modern Warfare 2.
 * 55) I'm tired of getting told to play Combat Training because of the lag, I shouldn't have to play CT cause of Treyarch being useless at providing basic connections.
 * 56) Bots on veteran have by default.
 * 57) There's even more console promoters on the wiki thanks to Black Ops and the stupid lag.
 * 58) Treyarch don't clamp down on hackers half as much as they say, the flying RC-XD continues to take off and take me out.
 * 59) 3D was stupid and only provided that extra experience for the few, all while taking up space that could be used for something decent everyone could use.
 * 60) 15 prestiges is ridiculous, is Mark Lamia actually that stupid to believe I'd prestige 14 times for a golden camouflage which costs ?!?!?Idiot
 * 61) The main menu looks rubbish, you'd honestly think you're playing a PS2 game.
 * 62) The trailers made it look like there would at least be some destructible buildings, I was disappoint.
 * 63) In the words of Callofduty4, "Where the fuck was "alternate ammo"?
 * 64) Grenade Launchers aren't fun anymore.
 * 65) At any point does it actually explain the numbers properly?
 * 66) In the words of Callofduty4, "Half the guns suck penis."
 * 67) You can't prestige in Combat Training.
 * 68) There's no good multiplayer voice-overs like the Bambi fan.
 * 69) Semi-automatic Dual Wield shotguns only have the range of a decent spit contestant at best.
 * 70) It tries and fails to be super serious.
 * 71) The campaign in Vietnam was generally weak.
 * 72) Generally stupid Easter Eggs.
 * 73) No Saving Private Ryan references.I want my obscure easter egg!
 * 74) Treyarch decided to shit all over the SUSAT scope.
 * 75) Anons now come on the wiki defending the FAMAS, AUG and AK-74u, all while lying through their teeth saying they aren't overpowered because they use it.
 * 76) The game wasn't funny enough to make an Uncyclopedia article about it.
 * 77) No ability to play co-op in the campaign like in World at War, Treyarch can't even get it right there.
 * 78) Hipfire accuracy decreases in accuracy with shotguns while moving.Ghey.
 * 79) The AI coding for the SAM Turret is useless, it kills you more often than the enemy helicopter.
 * 80) The detail in the pick-up icons is minute compared to that of the guns in Modern Warfare 2 like the TAR-21.
 * 81) People now hate IW for no reason.IW ftw
 * 82) WA2000 and Dragunov got some serious nerfin'.
 * 83) The MP5k now looks rubbish.
 * 84) Pistols suck without Dual Wield.
 * 85) UAVs only do 50% of their job nowadays since 50% of players use Ghost.
 * 86) Grip is an underbarrel attachment but can be used with Warlord.
 * 87) Masterkey sucks and isn't even resupplied.
 * 88) Flamethrower isn't resupplied and can't be used with Warlord because Treyarch thought that all underbarrel attachments were OP.Failures.
 * 89) Crossbow is a grenade launcher with a huge range that gets resupplied but no-one complains.
 * 90) The only way to match Ghost is with an 8 kill streak.
 * 91) Grenade launchers suck, Treyarch might as well have removed them from the game.
 * 92) The FAMAS gets a special camouflaged Grenade Launcher yet no other assault rifle does.Favoritism much?
 * 93) Veteran bots shoot you before they see you.
 * 94) BC2's Vietnam expansion is more fun than BO at 1/4 the price, plus cost proportionally there's more guns with it than in BO altogether.Lazy ass developers.
 * 95) Reznov was made a central character for absolutely no reason.
 * 96) Unexplained Zombies in the Pentagon.I call BS!
 * 97) The PPSh-41 should have been featured more, the MP-40 got a place in Kino!
 * 98) There are so many things wrong I was able to make this page.
 * 99) Connection Interrupted. That is all.
 * 100) No gore in multiplayer, space was taken up by the 3D ability which >2% of people can use.Showoffs.
 * 101) U.S.D.D. is a waste of space.
 * 102) ACOG is cluttered to hell and back.
 * 103) Contracts only reward players who can get severely high killstreaks guaranteed.
 * 104) No portal references.
 * 105) No rewards for completing challenges, callsigns are simply purchasable.
 * 106) "I'm in a top secret military project but I can only sprint for four seconds!"
 * 107) All the cool stuff is only done in cutscenes.
 * 108) Due to the lack of people who no longer use shotguns, snipe or use underbarrel attachments other than a grip on their AK, shooting is now a boring activity where you try shooting the noob with the FAMAS before he pisses over you with that gun of his.
 * 109) The multiplayer main menu takes 1 minute to load.
 * 110) Marathon only gives like an extra 3 second sprint and the pro is a bitch to unlock.
 * 111) Local only search doesn't work, even in cities. Unionjackfail.png
 * 112) Most of the guns weren't even invented in the time frame of Black Ops, let alone in prototype stages. (Including the AUG, Famas and AK-74u...)
 * 113) Gas zombies. I thought they were failed German experiments. Seriously, what the hell?
 * 114) Care package loot sucks, ammo drops are much more common.
 * 115) Treyarch removed the MP40 as a killstreak reward from the Care Package.
 * 116) WHERE IS ELEMENT 115 NOW?!?!?!I think it's in the sink
 * 117) No Easter eggs like the Infinity Ward Times.
 * 118) I miss Burger Town.Full stop.
 * 119) Treyarch can't even get the Union Jack flag right.
 * 120) The annoying main menu theme makes the game look like it was made for PS2.
 * 121) That stupid tune in the multiplayer backround just loops over and over again, combined with bad matchmaking you have a right headache.
 * 122) Treyarch put in backround noise so I can't be a sound whore.I have a $300 dollar pair of Turtle Beach!
 * 123) Why does the AUG have no trigger in Create-a-Class? Vorkuta2.png
 * 124) Treyarch having Russian soldiers using M249s as turrets in Vorkuta and WMD is lazyness, they just poorly used it as a placeholder and couldn't be bothered replacing it.
 * 125) Golden Camouflage generally looks rubbish, it's more brown than it is gold.
 * 126) Why did the tweak with the AK47 so much? The Modern Warfare version was perfect, the AK in Black Ops looks nothing like the actual one did at the time.
 * 127) No co-op mode.Space used up by 3D probably.
 * 128) No Project Nova weapons in multiplayer.
 * 129) Black Ops' engine was just a redesigned version of an already redesigned engine.Make a new engine Treyarch, it's good practice.
 * 130) No-scoping with the L96 is ridiculously easy.
 * 131) The grip attachment on the AK-74u being nerfed resulted in the Famas being whored even more.
 * 132) Sniping is weakened by the annoying lag.
 * 133) Stakeout fail.jpg Chopper Gunner is even stronger than the MW2 one, it requires 2 less kills and now stuns the enemy, thus the player being shot at can't even escape.
 * 134) Pro perks are unnecessarily hard to get, who on earth plays CTF?
 * 135) The grip attachment in 3rd person is held spastically.
 * 136) 4 ARs have the same RoF: Commando = AK47 = Galil = Enfield, making them all boring as hell.
 * 137) The campaign fails to deliver the same drama and impact that the campaigns in CoD4, WaW and MW2 did and is far more "Hollywood style" than any of the others, so much so they hired a Hollywood script writer.

A question of overpowered?
As you can tell, I myself believe the AUG and the Famas are both severely overpowered. Firstly, I shall show you the stats for the two guns: As you can see, both guns are unlocked early in the game yet can pull the same TTK as the Stoner63 LMG, while with Assault Rifle movement traits. Now, we shall compare them to much higher level Assault Rifles: The Famas and AUG can both kill a target in 82% of the time it would take the AK47 or Commando to do so. And if that's not enough, let's bring in some guns from Modern Warfare 2, which apparently has "unbalanced guns." These two assault rifles both represent the statistically strongest assault rifle and the assault rifle with the highest RoF. Not only do the Famas and AUG both have the 3-4 shot kill properties of the TAR-21, even with stopping power, the F2000, with the highest RoF of all Assault Rifles, takes longer to kill than the AUG and Famas do, with higher recoil as well. The Famas and AUG overpowered. Those are the actual stats, they haven't been manipulated, the TTK was worked out with the standard delay x (shots - 1) They can't be argued against, the AUG and Famas are overpowered in firefights against other guns.
 * Famas: 3-4 shot kills, 937.5 RPM, TTK = 0.128 - 0.192 seconds, unlocked at level 14.
 * AUG: 3-4 shot kills, 937.5 RPM, TTK = 0.128 - 0.192 seconds, unlocked level 26.
 * AK-47: 3-4 shot kills, 750 RPM, TTK = 0.16 - 0.24 seconds, unlocked at level 38.
 * CAR-15 Commando: 3-4 shot kills, 750 RPM, TTK = 0.16 - 0.24 seconds, unlocked at level 44.
 * TAR 21: 3-4 shot kills, 750 RPM, TTK = 0.16 - 0.24 seconds, unlocked at level 20.
 * F2000: 4-5 shot kills, 925 RPM, TTK = 0.195 - 0.26 seconds, unlocked at level 60.
 * F2000 with Stopping Power: 3-4 shot kills, 925 RPM, TTK = 0.13 - 0.195 seconds, unlocked at level 60.

So why do people not complain about it then? Well, let me bring back our old friend/foe, the Model 1887. The outcry for the Akimbo shotguns to be nerfed was huge. Why? Because it was unlocked at level 67. Therefore, not everyone could use it. If you can't use it but your opponent does and manages to get an advantage, you'd call it overpowered. So why isn't the Famas called overpowered? It's low unlock level. The Famas is unlocked at level 14, so it's availble comparatively early. Thus, the majority of the community can and do use it, so will defend it, rather than point out it's obvious superiority against other guns.

The lack of variety
As mentioned above, the Famas and AUG are both OP as hell. Thus, every time I'm killed in Black Ops, it's nearly always by either the Famas, AUG, AK74u or the Galil. I have 4000 deaths in Black Ops, 800+ of those are by the Famas, 600+ by the Famas, 400+ by the Galil and 200+ by the AUG. My KD is 0.95 - If there was no Famas it would be well above 1. There's NO variation in this game, Treyarch wasted their time making 44 weapons of which only 4 are used.

I use the Stakeout. I hate all the full auto weapons in Black Ops. None of them have the right feel in the game, and there's no point using them when the noob hipfiring the AK74u has an automatic advantage over you. In Modern Warfare 2, every Assault Rifle was different: the SCAR-H had a low RoF and low recoil, the TAR 21 has a high RoF and a strong recoil, while the AK-47 was in between. In Black Ops, 4 of the ARs have 750 RPM (Commando, AK47, Galil and Enfield). How does that make sense?

The lag
I heard a very good quote from YouTube:

"The ping latency programs that they [Infinity Ward] used is superior in Infinity Ward games, Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2. That's just the way it is, there's lag lag; You don't get "Treyarched" as much. You know what I mean, Treyarched? When you're running around a corner, shooting, and you see some guy, pull behind the corner, "BLEGH," and you die and you're like "...What just happened there?" And then you watch the killcam and he's like totally shooting his entire clip into you and you're still standing there going, "Uuulh, Treyarched." That's called Treyarched."

- NextGenTactics

As you guys can tell, I find the lag incredibly annoying, so much so some people like pointing out I've mentionned it 5 or six times, (I can't find them all). Well it's annoying! Nothing is more annoying in this game when you think you've completely outplayed someone and even though all your bullets are in line with them it turns out they're been pissing at you with their AK74u Rapid Fire for the past 2 seconds, or you have the same AK74u spraying person lag your game up to hell and back. The G18s in Modern Warfare 2 with Akimbo have an RoF with 2,000 RPM (technically) and they don't lag my game up the way one gun with 937.5 RPM does!

Quotes
"I'm done seeing Call of Duty games from Treyarch."

- NextGenTactics on Youtube. "lol you actually play the abomination of a game that black ops is on ps3?"

- StB

"Treyarch stated they would listen to the community regarding MP. But they did too good a job of listening to complaints. EVERY weapon in BO, bar the FAMAS, AUG and a few others, sucks now, taking most of the fun out of MP."

- Sgt. S.S. on Treyarch with Black Ops.

Videos
thumb|300px|left|From his page, he mentions this: "This games flaws are so much more annoying to me than MW2. The OMA-DC-TUBE spam was large and in charge but you knew you were the better player deep down and thats why if you equalled the playing field and had a 1 on 1 gun situation; you'd always win. In this game the lag and randomness simply eliminates skill from the equation and is about whos connections to the host is better. When you lose a gun fight, its not you being outplayed, its the games information being sent to you later than the other person."

thumb|300px|right|Here's something I taken from theater mode that I was fairly amused by. Firstly, the quality sucks and the sound gitters at times. Secondly, I encountered 6 people in that video, 3 of them were using all using a Famas with Ghost. I can sympathise with the comments from the guy's video beside me, I'm obviously going to kill the person I'm shooting at with my 3rd shot yet out of the blue some random guy comes out with Ghost with a Famas while my UAV is out to pretty much kill me without my screen even indicating I've been hit, it's that crap that annoys me about Black Ops.

thumb|300px|right|I really don't need to comment on the phantom knifing, do I?

thumb|300px|left|Taken from just a match in [[Cracked, I got killed by Claymores twice, the second death never even happened to me once in Modern Warfare 2.]]