Wow, it's fucking Armageddon on the Call of Duty Black Ops forum right now in the PS3 section. Treyarch released a patch today and the online multiplayer won't even hardly function right now, they fucked up bad...really really bad.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops still fraught with issues on PS3 post patch
* December 14th, 2010 11:41 am ET
Treyarch released Call of Duty: Black Ops patch 1.04 to the Playstation 3 early this morning in the hopes of fixing many lingering issues with player connections for multiplayer games and other issues. So far the patch doesn't appear to have done the trick as gamers are complaining about many of the same problems with some of them turning out worse.
Owners of the PS3 shooter have hit the official Call of Duty forums, the Playstation forums, our own articles and elsewhere to voice their frustrations with the game. It isn't clear yet if this is a case of only those negatively affected complaining but there appears to be enough in common between the complaints to cause concerns.
Players are reporting long waits to to find games to connect with, being dropped from lobbies multiple times, getting dropped from games and other issues such as hard resets. Host migration also appears to be an issue when the host disconnects whether intentionally or not.
Some of the comments include:
If this wasn't so sad - it'd be almost funny.
I think the patch was a placebo (sugar pill).
yes to some issues.. no to freeze issues. my ps3 froze twice in 4 games!
Taken 1 hour to play 1.5 games of TDM. When they're actually running, they run really well. But finding a game was frustrating to the max. Often it would do the countdown and get to 0..then do nothing, and sit on the lobby screen with nothing happening.
oh and dont even get me started on hard resets. so here's the stats:
1hr 15mins of time with the ps3 on
11 failure to connect to host
13 times it just couldnt find a lobby (despite 76,000 people in the game list)
2 hard resets
booted from 6 games
games played 4 domination and 5 tdm.
The NAT (Network Address Translation) appears to be one of the main culprits as many are reporting showing a 'Strict' or 'Moderate' NAT status online with the game. Some users have suggested changing the router settings for the PS3 to put it in DMZ to help with that.
The problems do not appear to be as rampant over on the Xbox 360 side of the Black Ops pond but it was more stable to begin with. However, platforms appear to share an unwelcome undocumented change. The ability to mute players in the lobby has been removed.
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