Treyarch have released a new update for Call of Duty: Black Ops, which will hopefully fix a number of issues currently plaguing the game.
Update 8, for Black Ops has also been timed ahead of the new map pack hopefully making the experience of playing ‘Escalation’ all the more enjoyable. The map pack comes out on May 3rd for anyone interested in trying out some new maps and a star studded zombie level to add.
Currently there are no details on a Playstation 3 patch due to the downtime, but heres a list of what the patch entails for 360 gamers:
- Support for Escalation Map Pack (Releasing 5/3/11)
- Security Updates.
- Addition of banner-style Message of the Day on the MP Main Menu.
- Addition of Hardcore FFA and TDM for Combat Training.
- Additional sniper rifle tuning changes.
- Addition of “Competition” Barebones playlist.
- Replaced RPG with Grim Reaper in Gun Game Wager Match.
- Prevent automatic weapons from jamming if the player is feathering the fire button on “Default Alt”, “Tactical Flipped” or “Nom4d Flipped”.
- Fine-tuned napalm and bombing-run damage indoors.
- Prevented rare invulnerability issue.
- Additional game mode timer options for Custom Games.
- Fixed a minor out of map exploit in Grid.
- General Killcam and death-cam improvements.
- Improved Auto-Assign reliability in Private Match.
- Addressed an infinite “joining session in progress” screen under very specific timing conditions.
- Demolition bombs can no longer explode and be defused at the same time.
- Spy play now activates in One in the Chamber in all cases.
- The “Sprint Kills” challenge for Steady Aim perk now rewards the player with the correct number of kills.
- Contracts purchased but not yet expired no longer count as expired when viewing a friend’s player card.
- Addressed a rare issue where a hacked camera spike would not function properly if the hacker also had a camera spike that was destroyed.
- Recording a clip with the speed mode for 2 cameras set to .1 will no longer increase in speed when switching perspectives back and forth.
- Improvements to Zipline functionality when viewed in Theater mode.
- Settings from custom games are all cleared and no longer carry over from one custom match to another.
- Improvements to map voting reliability in lobbies.
- Nova gas will now affect players that are standing over their tactical insertion.
- Hardcore players who kill another teammate in Second Chance now lose the proper amount of points.
- Players can no longer transfer emblems/backgrounds from Combat Training to Player Match.
- Player is no longer able to use a primary weapon in Second Chance (rare, specific instance).
- Improvements to “Community” filters.
