Black Ops Xbox 360 and PS3 patches go live

Activision’s released the first patch for Call of Duty: Black Ops for PS3 and Xbox 360.

The patch takes care of various issues that the current build suffers from.

Here’s the lowdown on what the patch sorts out for both the versions.

PS3 updates as of 11/17 (full title update)

Improved matchmaking to find matches significantly faster
Improved matchmaking to ensure that players are more effectively matched to games with the best networking conditions
Improved host selection to ensure that the best host is always selected in the pre-game lobby
Improved party system to ensure that parties don’t get broken apart
Disable ability to join Private Match, Combat Training and Theater lobbies when searching for Player Match games
Server-side and game-side changes to decrease the amount of failed Film uploads
Weekly and Monthly leaderboards will now track all kills, deaths and assists properly (All Time leaderboards were not affected by this)
Prevention of Combat Training stats getting crossed with Player Match stats under rare conditions
Prevention of temporary loss of functionality when a button was being held down at the point of a disconnect
Additional fine-tuning of audio levels and ranges for footsteps and gunfire
Additional fine-tuning of audio levels for bomb plants/defuses
Additional online security enhancements
Optimization to prevent friends list from spamming user while in game – will improve game performance for users with large numbers of friends

Xbox 360 updates as of 11/17 (full title update)

Improved matchmaking to find matches significantly faster
Improved matchmaking to ensure that players are more effectively matched to games with the best networking conditions
Improved host selection to ensure that the best host is always selected in the pre-game lobby
Improved party system to ensure that parties don’t get broken apart
Disable ability to join Private Match, Combat Training and Theater lobbies when searching for Player Match games
Server-side and game-side changes to decrease the amount of failed Film uploads
Weekly and Monthly leaderboards will now track all kills, deaths and assists properly (All Time leaderboards were not affected by this)
Prevention of Combat Training stats getting crossed with Player Match stats under rare conditions
Prevention of temporary loss of functionality when a button was being held down at the point of a disconnect
Additional fine-tuning of audio levels and ranges for footsteps and gunfire
Additional fine-tuning of audio levels for bomb plants/defuses
Additional online security enhancements