Call of Duty: Black Ops – First Update Details

With the Call of Duty: Black Ops just being released on Tuesday, Treyarch is already hard at work making sure everything is running smoothly, even the little things.  Treyarch’s Community boy Josh Olin let us know what is in store for some updates on various platforms.  Here are some things that will be included in the next patch for Black Ops:

• Improved matchmaking
• Improved match and host selection
• Additional improvements to party system
• Weekly and Monthly leaderboards stats reporting incorrectly for kills, deaths and assists

Playstation 3 players have some problems and with some already fixed here is the latest for info for the PS3 version:

LIVE FIXES

11/5
• – Villa: User can clip into rock at west edge of grid zone B2 and see through to the other side
• – Crisis: User can clip into LVT between grid zone A3 and B3 and see through to the other side
• – User can get an infinite number of ‘Sam Turret’, ‘Care Package’ and ‘Sentry Gun’ killstreaks (commonly referred to as the “care package glitch”)11/9
• – Radar sweep when there are only 2 players left in One in the Chamber will stop functioning if the 2 players have multiple lives when the sweep starts
• – Crash when viewing content (films, clips, etc) in the Community & Recent Games menu11/10
• – Users’ rank and stats can get wiped under very specific conditions11/11
• – Online number counts were not updating properly; these are now reporting exact online numbers
• – Parties getting disbanded when host did not find a match quickly

IN PROGRESS (for all platforms)

• – Improved matchmaking to find matches faster
• – Improved match and host selection; will result in much better networking conditions for all games (a.k.a., decreased lag)
• – Weekly and Monthly leaderboards stats reporting incorrectly for kills, deaths and assists (All Time leaderboard not affected by this)
• – Additional improvements to party system

For PC players some fixes that have already been taken care of (Steam will automatically update) including the massive lag issue are as follows:

• Friends fix for join in progress and Friends tab in server browser
• Performance improvement for dual and quad core systems