Velen van jullie zullen op dit moment Call of Duty Black Ops al in de kast hebben staan. De game had een enorme hype om zich heen en velen hadden de game dan ook al lang voor release gepreorderd. Het vervolg van de inmiddels wel legendarische shooterreeks had enorme beloftes van de producer meegekregen. Door deze beloftes werden veel twijfelaars makkelijk over de streep getrokken.

Inmiddels is misschien al wel bekend dat de game toch tegenvalt. Dat hij tegenvalt in vergelijking met de hype is logisch maar velen zijn de slechte connectie, vervelende bugs in de game en schijnbare cheats zat. Iets wat in deze tijd toch niet echt meer zou hoeven. Hoewel de makers van de game al hadden gehoopt in de fine-tuning fase te zijn, is dit duidelijk niet het geval.

David Vonderhaar van ontwikkelaar Treyarch heeft op het officiële forum van Black Ops enkele dingen bekend gemaakt die veranderd zijn of zullen worden. Hieronder kunnen jullie zien wat er waarschijnlijk allemaal veranderd zal worden.

I had hoped by this time in the game life-cycle we would be engaged in a series of constructive debates about the game tuning. Tweaking a few things one way or the other.

These are some of the key things on our minds. The ones in bold are done already as of Jan 5th.

We think the AK74U grip variant re-center speed is too quick. Although the tuning in line with other grip variant weapons, the gun itself has a very perfectible kick and other attributes or attachments that make it a popular weapon to use. We have slightly de-tuned the AK74u grip for version 1.06.

We are considering giving full kill credit to the guy who drops someone in Second Chance and Assist credit for someone who finishes them off. We are also considering allowing you to only be revived one time. We are even considering increasing the revive time.
– Forum users like to complain about the “invulnerability period” when someone is dropping. I went through the script over and over again. At least in script, nothing like this exists. Forum user also complain about someone can knife or use a primary when dropping. We are investigating.

We are evaluating the RC-XD minimum and maximum damage and damage radius and it’s movement speed. Changing the kill requirement isn’t feasible at this time.

We are largely okay with the sniper rifle and knife tuning at this time. No changes are currently planned for either of these for version 1.06.