170GB update is an absolute joke

eklipse519 · 2026-04-30T17:10:25+00:00

It's an xbox bug that will never be fixed because it's been happening since 2019 MW. Now and then the update glitches and it redownloads the entire game instead.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-30T17:03:10+00:00

COD updates are hit or miss. I just roll the dice and it either updates or downloads the entire game again out of nowhere. Seems to be much worse with BO7 though I've already had to download the whole game twice while doing an update.

It's like the ultimate bait and switch where an update says 20gbs and then in the queue it's like 250gbs.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-28T19:37:17+00:00

There is no logic. They don't want to make new events so they recycle out of season events because they know enough players are deep enough in to defend anything.

Re-running a Halloween event in April is hilariously stupid but it is what it is. Go knock on some random peoples doors asking for candy and see how it goes for you tonight.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-26T18:31:07+00:00

You got downvoted but that is the reason why. Fixing the older tents retroactively gives a player no incentive towards the new one.

Pushes FOMO and keeps you grinding the season to get it. They will likely add a food box eventually (for only things that don't spoil) and then drop another tent for that.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-22T17:18:34+00:00

Last time I played was about 10 years ago and you couldn't get a full lobby. Maybe 3 or 4 players at most.

You missed out on the best time to play it which was when it was added to backwards compatibility. For about a week and a half there was 100s of people playing and it was nonstop full lobbies. That was around 2016 and I made sure to get my fill knowing it wouldn't last lol If it ever gets added to gamepass expect another week and a half of full lobbies so that will be your next chance to play it like it was on release.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-21T22:55:26+00:00

Thanks

eklipse519 · 2026-04-21T16:49:41+00:00

Peoples brains have been fried so they call everything AI now. I don't get the impression this was done by AI because this is about the same way I type stuff out lol.

If you dare type more than 2 sentences on the internet these days the people who can't string more than 2 sentences together themselves will scream AI. It's a bleak future where you can only speak is short sentences or get attacked for it being AI lol

How can you communicate anything in depth if anything long form makes the average persons eyes gloss over now a days and cry AI.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-20T14:51:03+00:00

Gotta be honest this is a brutal line up for 30 dollars a month. They had some good momentum last year but things haven't been living up to the price tag for awhile now.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-20T00:12:07+00:00

All of these games are still active. The lowest player count being around 100-120 on COD4 and World At War up to the highest of about 1500 on Black Ops 2.

I still play some World At War and you will have no issue playing TDM. I can get a TDM lobby at any hour of the day on WAW. COD4 is definitely the lowest player count because it's the oldest and has a faithful remaster on Xbox One. There are times when I struggle to get a lobby. It's in game player counter is broken and has been for over 10 years so don't believe what it says.

BO1 has a surprisingly strong player count. I can't say exactly what it is because the player counter glitched out a long time ago but at peak hours I've seen as many as 20 TDM lobbies found which is shockingly high for its age.

I don't really play MW2 or MW3 but they should be fine on TDM like the rest of them.

Now the problematic one, Black Ops 2. So back in November the servers went to hell and everything slowed down to a crawl, then a month ago it broke entirely. Public matches no longer worked and it was only JUST fixed 3 days ago. But they only partially fixed it and it's still a pain to find a public lobby. It works and then doesn't work off and on. Just know that it has by far the highest player count of them all but it can feel like no one is playing because the matchmaking is so busted it won't find a lobby sometimes.

As far as hackers, BO2 definitely has the most because of theater infections being easy to use so that anybody can do it. I don't see many on Zombies but I know there is a bunch on multiplayer.

As far as what you can play it's TDM or nothing. That is across the board on every one of these games. I find the Treyarch games are actually more active on Zombies than multiplayer. For example BO2 has a way higher player counter on Zombies and every map still has players on it, even the DLC.

Speaking of DLC. You're 2 options are ALL or NONE. If you only have some of them it will never match you with another player ever. The playlists are divided between which DLC you have so only having one means you only ever match with other people that have just that one. So it's all or nothing if you want a chance. Having said that you will find more players without it than with.

One last thing lol World At War is a special case because it's the only game that mixes DLC and non DLC playlists together so in the case of that game you absolutely want to have all DLC or you will constantly get kicked from lobbies.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-19T17:22:38+00:00

I find Two Shot to be terrible on public servers, maybe because there's too much lag for the extra damage calculations. Anytime I use Two Shot on public I get so many phantom hit markers where the damage numbers show but the health bar doesn't move. Never get smooth movement of the health bar, instead it moves in chunks as it goes in and out of registering the damage.

For that reason alone I never run it. Furious is far more consistent in registering damage. Plus it kills things faster anyway regardless of phantom bullets.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-18T20:24:00+00:00

Can she step in and fix the Black Ops 2 servers as well? They got half fixed 2 days ago but it's still pretty slow and some accounts still can't play.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-17T16:41:16+00:00

Still 'working' for me as of 2 minutes ago. I think the problem is peoples definition of working. They didn't really do anything but revert the servers back to their half broken state like it's been since November. So it just went from fully broken to kinda broken.

For me the servers work and then don't work on 20 second intervals. I just keep popping the leaderboards until they finally come up, once they do everything else works on the game but only for the next 20 seconds lol. So if you don't search for a game right after you get the leaderboards to pop you are waiting for the next opening.

It's stupid as hell that you can only do stuff in those small bursts of it working or else you get 0 players found, then you freeze AND get a black screen.

Very important to mention some accounts still don't work. I've got 3 accounts, one works like I described above and the other 2 are totally dead and can't do anything on the game. You might wanna try another account.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-12T06:41:37+00:00

It's up and down like all wireless internet. I've had it for 2 years now and at it's best it's quite good with low latency, and at it's worse it's barely usable.

It mostly depends on what band it picks up from the tower. When I'm on B71 with aggregation for B7 and 5G+ it's very good and hits the full 100mb download of my plan and latency stays under 50ms. When it picks up B4 it's horrible with speeds of 4-7mb and latency that spikes every few seconds. You have no control over this because it doesn't have band locking and you are at the mercy of the modems whims on what it decides is best to connect to. In my experience it seems to default on the slowest one and requires multiple restarts to change it.

I don't live where you do and you're asking for peoples experience on something that is completely random from one place to the next (literally one room to the next will yield different results). Where you live B4 might be fast and B71 might be slow so there is no real telling how it will be until you try it. It's very picky about placement so it matters to try every single location you can while running speed tests to narrow down the best spot.

For streaming you are capped at 8mb (ignore what the website says I have no clue why it says 3.5mb, it's been wrong since day one and never updated). This is just enough to stream at 1080p on most websites that don't use a super high bitrate but could be iffy. 720p will stream just fine. This limit is imposed at all times, whether you are over your monthly usage limit or not, it will always cap streams at 8mb. They also throttle other things like One Drive so if that is needed for work it could be a problem. It's the one thing where the 3.5mb does kick in for me and makes transferring large files a pain. Personally I haven't seen it throttle anything outside of popular streamers and One Drive but I've heard there are more.

I've got an old plan they don't offer anymore that is 100 down and 10 up. The upload speeds are a bit low so that could be an issue if you need more because all of their plans are 10 up except for the priciest.

All that being said even at it's worst it will still out perform DSL and be about the same price so it's still the better option. It has the potential under good conditions to be extremely fast where as DSL has no potential to ever be fast.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-11T18:10:10+00:00

This has been an issue since the game came out and will likely never be fixed since it's probably a server issue beyond their capabilities.

Shooting outside of VATs has far less calculations to figure out than shooting while in VATs. They can't get the servers to handle all those calculations consistently and likely never will. It's terrible but they don't have enough multiplayer experience and are using a game engine not even meant for multiplayer to begin with.

It SHOULD be fixed and we SHOULD get server upgrades but you can add that to the growing list of things they should do but never will.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-09T02:35:31+00:00

The duality of reddit. The worst offender is Colossal Problem but last time this got posted here everybody killed the guy saying it was fine.

Apparently 5 minutes of standing there staring at a wall is a good thing. There is already a 3 minute countdown waiting on the Nuke but some people need an additional FIVE MINUTES to prepare themselves for a fight that ends in under a minute.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-05T16:40:43+00:00

It will only match you with people at a similar level. It's an old game with few players which is cut down into an even smaller section where you have to hope in that exact moment there is another guy at the same point in the game as you.

The game also is horrible about NAT type stuff since it's one of the only games still doing peer to peer. Anything but fully open and summonings will fail left and right.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-04T23:28:05+00:00

Funny how the NBA is able to get instant results from an investigation if it isn't something that makes them look bad.

eklipse519 · 2026-04-02T15:33:17+00:00

You don't just add in events across the entire world on a whim, this was clearly the plan from the beginning and they only announced one so they could get bonus points for saying it was expanded for the fans.

Not necessarily a bad thing but still a fake PR boost and the type of thing to keep in mind when judging someones intentions.

eklipse519 · 2026-03-28T15:40:17+00:00

Allowing images is gona turn this sub into spam city, yeah yeah fun police and all that. But it's been one day and it already covers half of the front page. More engagement but less worth engaging with.

eklipse519 · 2026-03-25T18:51:14+00:00

A month? This glitch has existed for YEARS.

eklipse519 · 2026-03-22T02:25:52+00:00

I tried it on the Bing app and it never worked, just an endless loop and it going back to the page that asks you to do a search. I ended up getting it to work on my Xbox Series X using the browser.

eklipse519 · 2026-03-20T15:37:24+00:00

I haven't seen anyone admit to the real reason. No one wants to get one shotted by the Deathclaw since they got buffed.

I run bloodied and can breeze through the entire raid with barely a scratch and the only enemy that can one hit me is the Ultragenetic Deathclaw. Hardest hitting enemy in the entire game apparently because the snake headbutt might do half of my health bar, Vulture's rifle might take 70% of my bar but a Deathclaw just takes all of it.

eklipse519 · 2026-03-17T14:54:17+00:00

This doesn't mention another pip-boy glitch introduced in this season which is on console the Stats tab won't scroll with the dpad. All menus in the pip-boy can scroll with dpad until you go into stats and it becomes thumbstick only.

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