Since Call of Duty: Black Ops' release, there have some issues with the multiplayer online gameplay, connections, along with some annoying glitches scarring the overall experience of the game. Treyarch has promised that they are currently looking into all the issues, with patches for different platforms are either soon to be released or already out.
According to Steam, updates to Call of Duty: Black Ops – Multiplayer have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Call of Duty: Black Ops – Multiplayer PC Patch details
- Friends fix for join in progress and Friends tab in server browser
- Performance improvement for dual and quad core systems
The upcoming Patch for the consoles will provide,
- Improved matchmaking
- Improved match and host selection
- Additional improvements to party system
- Weekly and Monthly leaderboards stats reporting incorrectly for kills, deaths and assists
Below are some of the fixes for the PS3 version which are already Live,
– 11/5
- Villa: User can clip into rock at west edge of grid zone B2 and see through to the other side
- Crisis: User can clip into LVT between grid zone A3 and B3 and see through to the other side
- User can get an infinite number of 'Sam Turret', 'Care Package' and 'Sentry Gun' killstreaks (commonly referred to as the “care package glitch”)
– 11/9
- Radar sweep when there are only 2 players left in One in the Chamber will stop functioning if the 2 players have multiple lives when the sweep starts
- Crash when viewing content (films, clips, etc) in the Community & Recent Games menu
– 11/10
- Users’ rank and stats can get wiped under very specific conditions
– 11/11
- Online number counts were not updating properly; these are now reporting exact online numbers
- Parties getting disbanded when host did not find a match quickly
PS3 version upcoming Patch Fixes,
- Improved matchmaking to find matches faster
- Improved match and host selection; will result in much better networking conditions for all games (a.k.a., decreased lag)
- Weekly and Monthly leaderboards stats reporting incorrectly for kills, deaths and assists (All Time leaderboard not affected by this)
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Additional improvements to party system
via BlackOps Forums
