well prestige last night thats number 12
and back up to level 22

I am getting pissed off with how rewarding this game is to campers. Especially on Demo. They get so many chopper gunners its not even funny. And whats worse is that they're all like 7th prestige. You really that shitty at the game?

Depends on where they're camping. If you're repeatedly dying in the vicinity of their objective, then that's not camping, but proper defense on their part.
However, if they're just sitting in an out of the way corner and hoping someone passes by, that's camping.

Personally, I never run into campers in TDM.

In fact, I've praised the game in the past because there are so few really camper friendly areas on the maps. Most places have multiple approaches to any single area so that camping is very difficult to do.

So, yesterday I decided to try and get the pro versions of Lightweight, Steady Aim, and Marathon. Managed LW and SA, and am nearly there on Marathon. The point of this post though is to say that LW drew me into a game mode I'd never played before, Capture the Flag. I was getting nowhere trying to get Offense medals on Domination, so I switched to CtF and got the remaining six I needed in four minutes. It helped that when the game started I was the only person on my team, so it was easy to grab their flag and then just shoot six people.

Anyway, having bagged that I started working on Marathon which requires 15 flag captures and I ended up getting completely hooked by the mode. It's so fast moving, there are clear goals and as long as you're on a team where some of them decided to stay back and defend the flag rather than all rushing off to get the enemy flag, you don't lose in 2 mins flat, either. I like the multiple rounds.

I am now 1 First Blood and 3 flag caps away from my goal. I was pleased with getting 12 flag caps so quickly. If you're getting bored with Black Ops, and haven't tried CtF, I highly recommend giving it a go.

GGs to Leo and Tony yesterday too.

nice work eatt i have never relay given CTF a go maybe i will
i know killy is hooked on CTF as well

Went to my friends today to try out the new map pack on his xbox . Multiplayer maps are good but this new zombie map ( call of the dead ) is so epic and challenging and a true kino killer for me , kudos to treyarch for a great job !! . Funnily enough after getting used to xbox controller I was taking on the whole hoard frequently while my mate lay downed , just shows how much of a zombies beast I am ( only joking ) , the main reason I down now is lag or a silly mistake .

Did well online today , got some 2.5-3.0 kd games and netted up a slew of killstreaks so very happy to see a little improvement hopefully !! . Also went up 5 levels to 38 and finally got my hands on the ak47 ! .

ctf is awesome. I actually prefer it over dom too.




A kino killer eh? It must be good

I need to expand on my dom only playing. Can you play other game types combat training or some offline games before getting into a ranked game? I'd just like to know somewhat of what I'm doing.

Good question. I have to admit idk. I dont play C T really.



So this post is just a useless piece of spam.

I'll have to check it out next time I'm on

If anything, the next time we have a better group on maybe we can all go crash ya through it together.

It depends on your play style. Whats great about Dom, and the other obj games for that matter is you can play either offense or defense.

Domination: the trick s to have two of the 3 cap points and hold them.

And with CTF, as I discovered yesterday whilst playing with randoms, the key is NOT for EVERYONE to rush to pick up the enemy flag. If you do, then they enemy takes yours and so even if your guy gets home with the enemy's flag, you can't cap it until yours has been returned. After my admittedly limited experience, here's how I think it should be played:

1. Select some of your team to be offence and some to be defence. The job of the defensive team is to guard your flag spawn and not let the enemy take your flag. The job of the offensive team is obvious, though there is a twist I learnt that REALLY works well and leads to quick victories.
--- First, your offensive team need to make their way to the enemy flag spawn. Probably best if done in two or three smaller squads taking different routes in order to either find an unguarded entry point or flank the defenders.
--- Second, once the enemy flag has been taken, the flag holder needs an escort party home with someone leading point to flush out the intercepts and to protect the carrier. BUT, and here's the twist, you should leave one or two people behind near the enemy flag spawn. Why? Simple. While the carrier makes his way home, the enemy team is probably now all trying to converge on him leaving the flag area empty. When your carrier caps the flag by dropping it on the home flag spawn the enemy flag immediately resets and returns to its own home. And as you conveniently have one or two guys waiting there, they can IMMEDIATELY snag the flag again and make a quick run home before the enemy has regrouped. I did this myself a couple of times yesterday and managed to bag a flag cap within 20 seconds of the previous one. That either put our team 2-0 up or 3-0 up for the win.

It doesn't need to be said, but Lightweight and Marathon are REALLY helpful in this mode.

Dude, sounds like when we all use to play RFoM, that was exactly our strategy!!

CtF in Black Ops is cool. Sadly doesn't appear in Combat Training, only TDM & FFA in there.

CtF is the only objective mode I enjoy. I can never work out what is going on in Headquarters, Domination is just me spawning and dying over and over. Can't remember which is which but mode with the bomb where if you get killed you have to wait till the end of the round? hate that. The one where you start with a bomb is OK.

Can anyone explain to me how headquarters works? I just don't get it at all. I go to headquarters and nothing happens except I eventually get killed. Then I go back and starts 'capturing' it. Then my score starts going up until I get killed. Sometimes other stuff happens. Lucky there are no Pro perks that need HQ so I just don't play it.

SpongeBobNoPants wrote:

Dude, sounds like when we all use to play RFoM, that was exactly our strategy!!
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Well fancy that! I think I played something like five games of CTF on FoM and never really worked out what was going on. The forcible immersion in the game (thanks, Marathon Pro :-)) has led me to discover just how to play it. I've never been good on working out tactics and strats for TDM or Dom, etc. but this one just seemed to obvious. Maybe I've found my niche at last.

Boutz time Eat.

TonyTeabag wrote:

Can anyone explain to me how headquarters works? I just don't get it at all. I go to headquarters and nothing happens except I eventually get killed. Then I go back and starts 'capturing' it. Then my score starts going up until I get killed. Sometimes other stuff happens. Lucky there are no Pro perks that need HQ so I just don't play it.

First off, you can't capture the headquarters until it's active. First you'll hear a message saying it's been found. "Headquarters Located!" That's just telling you where to go.
About 1 minute after that (there's a timer in the corner of the screen) you'll hear another message saying the headquarters is now active. "Headquarters Online!" This is when one team can start capturing it. As with other objective matches, the headquarters can be captured while members of one team are near it, but not both sides. Also, the more team members capturing it, the faster it'll go.
Now, once you've captured it, you have to defend it for about another minute. During this time, if you die you won't respawn until the headquarters is destroyed by the enemy, or the timer runs out. The opposing team will spawn as normal. This keeps one team from holding it the entire time with no trouble.
As long as a team has it, they will gain points (and experience, I believe) every few seconds until it shuts down or gets destroyed. First team to reach 250 points wins.

Why don't they tell you that when you buy the game? They give you this instruction book but all it actually tells you is a) how to put the disc in and b) to take breaks every 45 mins.

Good explanation monk.
I used to Loooooooooooooooooooooooove HQs in MW2
For some reason, I just didnt get the same feeling from it in BOps. IM not sure what to attribute that too. It is a good Objective mode, and I like/d it a lot. Im probably due to give it another shot.

The trick in headquarters is to lurk around the outside perimeters of the designated hq just after its been located, and pick off the enemy team on their way to nest in. By the time you get done killing them all off, the HQ goes "live" and you can just waltz right in and cap it.

The reason I love this mode is the rush to the point. Unlike dom, and ctf where you know where the points are at all times, they move around in HQ meaning their is little time to sit still (true camping), it throws out most basic map starts in the routes, etc.
I dont know what the school ground game might be called in the area of the world any of you the readers of this post might live....but Ive always seen HQ as steal the bacon.
First one there wins........as long as you have some gun skills to take on the enemies also out for your bacon.

Not Cobalt Monkey wrote:

The trick in headquarters is to lurk around the outside perimeters of the designated hq just after its been located, and pick off the enemy team on their way to nest in. By the time you get done killing them all off, the HQ goes "live" and you can just waltz right in and cap it.

No, no. The trick in headquarters is to lurk just outside of the outside of the perimeters of the designated HQ just after it's been located, and pick off the enemy team that's trying to pick off your team on it's way to nest in. By the time you get done killing them all off, the HQ goes "live" and you can just waltz right in and cap it.
(And now we play the Metagame...)

Thanks Monkey, I'll give it a go when I've got a few pros back. I never noticed the timer. I would go straight to the HQ and then couldn't figure out why nothing happened, tried shooting the laptop and just end up getting killed.

eatthemonkey wrote:

Why don't they tell you that when you buy the game? They give you this instruction book but all it actually tells you is a) how to put the disc in and b) to take breaks every 45 mins.

Does anyone actually do this? I always put my constant headache down to the kids.

Edit: moved second post to this one, oops.

TonyTeabag wrote:

eatthemonkey wrote:

Why don't they tell you that when you buy the game? They give you this instruction book but all it actually tells you is a) how to put the disc in and b) to take breaks every 45 mins.

Does anyone actually do this?

If you start by drinking 3-4 pints (60-80 oz) of liquid before you start and then keep topping up regularly then you're pretty much forced to.

^I do that^

Me too!

*Neatly folds up ten metre length of garden hose...*

He he he... Noobs.