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Call of Duty: Black Ops 1.06 Patch Live Now!

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Treyarch have finally released their 1.06 patch for Call of Duty: Black Bug Ops. Unfortunately it’s not the update I was expecting. Treyarch keep releasing a large “in progress” list and then only do a few updates at a time.

Fair enough, they are now starting to fix the bugs with Black Ops, but why keep promising that they are going to give us features that have been in the Xbox 360 version for some time now! I was really looking forward to the dolly cam and the fix for the red diamond that appears when in the Gunship, Valkyrie Rocket and Chopper Gunner.

  • Backward compatibility for films created before Patch 1.05
  • Issues with weapon purchases after prestiging in some cases
  • Leaving a server and joining a different server, could briefly show the Map of the previous server
  • Duplicate player name on a server now becomes playername+slotnumber instead of ‘Unknown Soldier’
  • During a ‘Demolition’ match, the ‘Auto-balancing teams’ options may cause a ‘Defender’ player to respawn with a ‘Bomb’ icon in his inventory
  • Minor Shader Warming speed increase
  • One In The Chamber no longer counts democlient as a live player
  • 16x AA menu option for compatible graphics cards
  • Additional Stability improvements

There are still a few bugs with Black Ops which have not been addressed in the latest patch. A few of these are listed below,

  • You can now play older theatre recordings
  • Maps now load quicker than before with Shader Warming on, although not significantly
  • The stutter when leaving a map has still not gone
  • Kill-cam slow-mo has still not been re-instated
  • Cannot choose class when map is in pre-match mode after pressing escape
  • Game still has random crashes under certain circumstances

Anyway, the patch has now been released. Lets just hope they have fixed more things than they broke / not fixed!

Steams New Feature!

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Valve announced on the 1st Febuary that they have released a new feature for steam. Although in beta, it’s sure to become popular quite quick.

Once you have signed up for the Stean beta, all you have to do is press f12 in any game to take the screenshot. Once taken it will be uploaded to your Steam community page with an option to add a caption.

This should be a welcomed new feature to Steam, as the only way to take screenshots and upload them on the fly is using an application such as Xfire. With Steam intruducing this feature, now eliminates the need for Xfire for such things.

The next logical step after completing this stage would be to introduce video recording in partnership with Youtube. Record the video with Steam, compress it ( with various options for HD and lower resolutions ) and then upload to the users Youtube account.

This is how it looks on the Steam overlay when screenshots have been taken!

There are however a few bugs that need to be fixed in the upcoming releases of this new feature. Some of which are listed below.

I look forward to seeing how this turns out as it has great potential for integration into the steam store, allowing a games users to essentially advertise the game they are playing! Mean while, you can check out the screenshots that I have taken.

EA / Crytek Encourages Piracy?

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All along I have been saying to everyone that the gaming industry is full of shit and that they are the ones to blame for the majority of the piracy that goes on.

Today EA have released a new video of their upcoming game Crysis 2. The video is to demonstrate the multiplayer aspect of their game and to advertise that there is a multiplayer demo being released for the Xbox 360 platform only!

If you read my other post regarding the gaming industries claim of losing money to piracy, you will see that this could all be avoided very simply. All they have to do is release that demo on the PC and the Playstation 3 and what ever other platform that the game is going to be released on.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 1.05 PC Patch

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It seems I have missed an important update to Black Bug Ops. Here is the latest change log;

  • MP Audio stuttering on certain systems.
  • Playercards sometimes not showing properly.
  • Added three Private Match Server Settings: Team Change, Team-Up Period, and Keep Balanced Teams.
  • Added Alternate Color Scheme for accessibility: Settings / Multiplayer / Player Name Indicator.
  • Changed Team-Up Period countdown interval to 10 seconds.
  • Combat Training sessions are no longer counted in Server Browser Unranked tab.
  • Friends on your team will now show as blue on your minimap.
  • Prevention of various exploits.
  • Objective markers localized for all languages.
  • Various stability improvements

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