31/10/2012
Although I have considerably less interest in playing Black Ops II long term than I had before (due to pc server revelations) I still feel that as I had already drawn up a list of sugggestions that could help improve the game, and that the game as a public game will be fun to play, it's worth publishing some of my suggestions which will hopefully help in some small way. Obviously this post is too late to influence the game on launch in any way, but maybe if found to be useful some of these contributions could be patched into the game. Some of the things I feel will help Black Ops II:
Louder bomb plant/defuse noise. Bomb plant can only be heard from a few metres away even with surround sound headets and most promods for black ops as well as in other games of a similar nature allow you to hear the bomb from further away.
Glass effects are buggy in killcam, theatre mode (glass is not in the state it was at the time of the action).
In theatre mode, white markings showing distance you will skip back/forward to after first playthrough make it hard to see green and red bars representing kills/deaths. Maybe move this above colour bars to improve visability?
In theatre mode, red bar always takes precedence when there is a kill and death within one second. maybe a half red half green bar could fix this.
In game mute is very counter intuitive. something such as that in csgo/black ops on xbox would work well (Up down arrow plus pressing a button on a players name to mute/view steam profile would be much faster).
Possible variable for dropping the bomb such as that seen in previous modded call of duty games (would add much more depth to search and destroy).
Extended theatre mode, more spaces(Not sure if this has been confirmed or denied already. Forgive the ignorance).
More functionality for when using democlient, fast forward, etc (I realise some features have been confirmed to have been added, but basics for using theatre cannot be forgotten).
More favourite servers, removes from favourites when server goes offline permamently. Increasing the amount of servers that can be favouritted was a very 'hacky' solution to this problem.
Colour pre match screen retaining the Red Text. Black and White is annoying for some and unneccesary when the red text portrays the message obviously.
Console for the sp game so more commands can be used
Include option for pre match at the start of each round would be a huge bonus and an easily added variable for private games which would help a lot in matches.
Spectate all players (View player outlines like that in Cs:go) for shoutcast mode would be very beneficial for shoutcasting/spectating. Something to be turned on/off at the press of a button.
If you would like to add some other suggestions to this list, please leave a comment on this blog, message me on twitter (@PattonIRL) or add me on steam (endad).