I think Call of Duty: Black Ops is a great game. I am thoroughly enjoying the multiplayer as it I think it is the best effort in a CoD game thus far. However, the pock mark on the face of this game is Nuketown. The concept of having a map at a 1960′s era Nuclear Testing Site is a great idea. The map itself has great detail, creepy mannequins, a doomsday clock, and even Easter Egg mailboxes from in-game characters. Despite all this, playing on Nuketown is by far the worst thing about Black Ops multi. Here is why.
1. The map is entirely too small for 8 v 8.
The success of a map is dependent primarily on its design. How it looks is secondary. How it plays is paramount. Nuketown creates inevitable choke points that make the game a camp fest. Since you do not control where you spawn, more on that shortly, you have to try to advance from the backyard of a house with literally three terrible options. Left of house is certain death because someone is already there zoomed in on the spawn point. Right of house is the same thing. Option C is go into the house where the other team has already camped and advanced because your team cannot get out of the fucking backyard.
2. The spawn points are way too predictable.
You are going to spawn in or around the backyard of the house. That’s it. Maybe you will pop in inside the house. Most likely it is somewhere out back. This is out of your control. Anyone with a decent camping spot, helicopter, blind grenade throw, RC-XD, etc. knows exactly where to attack. I was killed last night 16 times in a row without firing a shot because someone either napalmed the backyard, had a mortar team hit the house, and to top it off, had the helicopter gunner mow down everyone as soon as they spawned. This makes the map unplayable. You literally have no say whether you live or die, once you get killed of course.
3. The killstreaks are way too powerful for a map of this design.
You think the Nuke was cheap in Modern Warfare 2 — how about the helicopter gunner? You are hundreds of feet in the air. You have unlimited ammo. The gun cannot overheat. All the players are marked with red indicators. This is the ultimate gaming lay-up. And since you do not control the helicopter, it hovers for you over the spawn point. I have played in both Deathmatch and Domination games where people have gotten 25-30 kills in about 15 seconds. That’s not a perk, that’s just spawn killing. Say what you will about some of the perks, on a map this size, you need to regulate the perks as it makes the game, again, unplayable.
There are challenges and contracts that reward you for calling in killstreaks, getting a certain number of kills in a row, in a match, etc. so people will vote this map because maybe they will get on the team that gains the early advantage. Fortunately, you can drop out of lobbies during votes, something Halo does not allow. Whenever I see Nuketown about to gain the majority, I’m Fucking Out like Kenny Powers.
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I die a lot in Black Ops, but on Nuketown it’s a spawn-killing fest. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve been spawn killed by napalm or the chopper.
I like it, it reminds of the map SHIPMENT. Which everyone hated on but I loved. Headquarters on shipment was tough but with proper team play it was a tactically brilliant board Nuketwon is the same way. As a single player with his own agenda it sucks but if played tactically it’s quite enjoyable. I also like it b/c I live in New Mexico and have seen the Trinity site and the surrounding barren housing development. and I think they captured it pretty well except for the bus and moving truck, although with out them it would be a shoot out at the OKay Corral.
As for me, I don’t have any overpowered kill streaks. The highest one I have is that helicopter one that automatically fires on people, not the chopper gunner one. yeah all I have for kill streaks is UAV, package drop and helicopter. The defaults, yet I’m usually either the top scorer or in the top three on the nuketown map, and I don’t camp or spawn kill. I’ve experienced some degree of this problem, but clearly not as much as you guys have. Its one of my favorite maps in fact. Well whatever.
I love the map. Its FUN! Something alot of COD players seem to miss out on!
16 times without firing a shot? I’ve never once had it that bad on the map. It does suck if someone gets a chopper gunner but campers are so easy to flank around on it unless your team is just that bad. The spawning does get messed up if the other team is split up at both houses.
I’m always a run and gunner and do fine on the map. I’ve never been dominated by campers like before. I’m usually in a party so I really never have that much of hard time playing on it.
Sounds like a terrible case of the “Icantplayvideogames”
Quite common when dealing with the butthurt blogs of those who simply are so frustrated when enemies kill them, the simply blame the game itself rather than their own skill or lack thereof.
I like getting hits on the internet too. Successful troll is successful.
Thank you!! You understand how insane our world has become to the extent where a faggot takes out his frustration by posting a useless fucking article.
Wow there was just so much ignorance and hate in your post. I’ll 1up that. People like you who spread hate and ignorance should be exterminated but you are lucky we have laws protecting ignorance like you otherwise you would never survive.
Jacob sucks at this game I mostly get +40 kdr on this map
Scott I mean
You should not write pieces, you fail in every sense of the word.
Article Fail.
The map that I get pwned on all the time is, Array, I just can’t get the proper feel for it and I always find myself in the choke points getting wrecked. It always get voted against so I haven’t had a chance to play it too much or I get inserted into a game half way through it or before the final kill in TD.
Multiplayer FPS with auto-aiming full of stacked camping teams that scream all over net about their ”skill”. No thanks ”Treyarch”.
Boo-fuckin-hoo. The way I see it is you have 2 options.
1. Learn to shoot.
2. Quit bitching.
Do one or the other.
I agree- the only time I play nuketown is when I’m warming up against the Ai I’m combat. If I happen to come across it in multi, I don’t run around like a fucking goof. Stay put and keep watching your sides. Stay behind the shed. Fuck the “no camper” business on this map.
literally the best map on black ops and one of the best maps ever to be in an fps game
sorry
ive never been spawned killed on this map ever yea maybe killstreaks are too strong on here but ive rarely seen a i high killstreak on here i think its great,
I guess you were on the other team when i played earlier…
rolling stones music if you do it right, so its the best map.
Play Ground Wars. NukeTown is not in the map rotation. Boom, problem solved.
I absolutely LOVE this map, i dont camp, i dont get spawned kill, its really esay to flank campers, the map is pretty much perfect in my eyes. Every time i play i get minimum 30 kills.
one time i played nuketown three times in a row n i got gunship all three times cause im running around shooting at people and when i run out of bullets, i dont have time to reload so im knifing everyone and before i know it, i have dogs and gunship.
i actually specifically look for this map when searching for a game
I LOVE NUKETOWN SOOOOOO MUCH ITS PERFECT
dude. you just suck and don’t know how to play. you can easily control spawn points. you can easily avoid the left side of the map. and you can easily shoot down a helicopter in the sky. n00b… keep practicing. and hopefully you are in the room with me so i can kill you 16x in a row.
it’s clearly designed for other game modes like wager matches. no arguments about it, if u try playing gun game u almost bever get killed. that is if your skilled
also i forgot to add. anyone with a killstreak reward is easily vulnerable because of the size, all u need is a grenade and a gun and sprint if u dont suck u’ll make it past carefully
Either fix the spawn points on this map to be more random or make the spawning player invincible for say 10 seconds unless they fire there weapon indicating they are ready for normal play.
To be honest the map is awesome, I love it. It’s small, it’s hectic and it’s fast. I’m pretty sure that’s what they were aiming for. Of course If there are too many people playing on it there’s going to be spawn issues. Spawn issues have plagued COD since Modern Warfare. No matter what anyone says they’ve always been there. The smaller the map is, the more it happens.
But come on now. Saying Nuketown is the single worst map in FPS history is a bit overdramatic. There are TONS of god awful maps out there. Just because this one isn’t your cup of tea doesn’t mean it’s the “worst” by any means.
It’s meant to have all those things. The past couple of COD’s have all had 1 very small map that is meant to be very fast pasted and hectic. Thats the whole point of the map. I think you just missed the point of it.
Most COD maps have predictable spawn points anyway…. for example… in MW2 most noted, the Highrise map, the players started on opposite ends in the rooms and an easy first kill (got a 4 multi kill once) can be done with a sniper pointed to the opposite side.
Otherwise Nuketown is by far my fave as well..surprisingly for a small map, i like it. I hated Rust in MW2… so yea… i dunno what your fuss is.
Or maybe, your just bad?
oh my god, I will forever remember the name Steve Kohlbecker. Basically so I can either avoid anything he writes, or only read it when I need a good laugh. Actually Loot Ninja might be more to blame… the editor lets crap like this be posted?
NukeTown is by far the best board on multiplayer. Me and my friends love playing it because its sheer mayhem. This board forces you to run and gun, move forward while using cover carefully. The problem is, this joker is probably a camper and is a slow paced gamer.
Overall the game has spawn point issues. Enemys spawn way too close too often even on this board. At least in Nuketown its small and somewhat to be somewhat expected.
Oh and just for the record, if you can get a kill streak in nuketown’s crazy mayhem, then your opponents suck and you deserved to get it.
Seriously?
You clearly suck at this game.
But relax! Treyarch anticipated that there would be lots of noobs like you and create the “Combat Training” section just for you. You can go in there, set the AI bots down to tard level and then you can be the king of the map! Do everyone a big, big favor and drop out of online multiplayer and hang out in Combat Training until you get better.
In fact, how about you march down to Gamestop with your 360 and trade it in for a nice shiny new Wii. And you can waggle your arms, wave your hands and have a nice happy tard good time.
You are a pussy. I like killing and killing fast. U can throw a nade or drop one before u get killed. Small maps are way better than having to run across the world to only be shot in the back by the opposite team that is spawning. I don’t camp unless I got 5 kills to try n get 2 seven for the chopper. You probably like to camp n snipe or sumthin, and are mad because on that map others beat u to the camp site. So shut up crying!!!!!
I think people who hate this map fits in to this category:
1 – He thinks he is good
2 – He got pwned by someone better
It is a map, a small map, use team work.
Nuketown is the best because you can rack up on everything with no cowards refuge. Perfect. You should play Halo, it’s slow, and people snipe all gay day.
I went 15-55 on nuketown (domination) the other day when the enemies called in 3 chopper gunners. I was trying to unlock the shoot down planes challenge for ghost pro. My launchers wouldnt lock on fast enough to fire a shot before id die again. I was so frustrated that I just kept spawning as fast as I could thinking I must be able to fire this before he kills me one of these times. Id probably leave the game if that were to happen again and I die 2+ spawn deaths.
Nuke town is the best map you guys just all suck on it, I think it is one of the best maps that happened to call of duty because it is so fun
16 times no shot???!!! come on now, i dont believe that for a second. A video would be great to prove this.
Nuketown is a better map than Rust was, but Rust was restricted to free for all, which is what should happen to this map. Don’t call a map terrible in a blanket statement, it’s not good for 16 man team games, agreed. It is good for small games of FFA.
Noob. You can’t tell me that Nuke town is worse than Shipment or Rust. They are “fun” maps meant for ridiculous deaths and kills. Take it for what it is, a novelty. Nuke town is far more playable and practical compared to those other 2 maps. Stop your whining.
It maybe bad for other game modes, but its fantastic for search and destroy. It’s impossible to spawn camp in that mode.
P.s. I’ve not had any problems with that map otherwise
The hell is with you retards attacking this guy? Hes 100% correct.
Wow! Attacking someone for voicing their opinion? Some people just hate for the sake of it. He raises lots of valid points. I think most of the maps are lacking compared to Modern warfare or mw2′s. Most are too big and when you get a small one like nuketown they fuck it up.
I’m sorry that you’re bad I’ve never gotten a negative K/D on nuketown
Who invited all these jackwagons into the comment section? And people ask why I don’t play COD online…
ya…it’s small…it’s different. I’m not an elite COD talent, but i have the ability to run, aim and shoot like everyone else. for the most part you’ll be around a 1.00 kill / death ratio. If you’re really good or get lucky sometimes (like me), a lot higher. If you suck well then I’m sorry but odds are you’ll suck in every other map too. i can see why people don’t like it. for all the perk worries though…play ‘barebones’ modes
Lol I personally think that map is great cuz of the inability to camp.its so small and u know every spot on it.fast paced and a lot of gunfire,exactly what a respawn game should be.dieing 16 times without firing sounds hilarious.next time just remember u don’t HAVE to hit respawn
what’s with the ‘no camping’ unsaid rule anyway? if you don’t like somebody camping…go shoot a load on the back of their head. I do camp sometimes in plain site and if you can’t fuckin’ see me then I’m gonna shoot you until you do.
“1. The map is entirely too small for 8 v 8.”
have you ever heard of a playlist called ffa?.
but i have to agree with you on the other points.
I think you are being a pussy. I regularly rape on Nuketown, without camping, employing traditional run n gun tactics. You must be incredibly swift and willing to use spy plane as your first killstreak, you have to react when the enemy starts spawning behind the house behind your back, and most importantly, you have to be faster and more deadly than the enemy, no different than any other map..
How can it be the worst map ever when anytime I play this map it gets voted for over and over again? I swear, once the map comes up I end up playing it at least 10 times in a row because the WHOLE ROOM votes for it, even the terrible players like you that just got owned. And talk about exaggeration! 16 deaths in a row with no shots? yeah right. You act like none of us have played CoD before. That is just impossible.
Unfortunately that is not allowed anymore (on X-Box Live anyway) because you can’t play the map more than 3 times in a row I think before you can’t vote for it again.
^ You’re real sharp you know that?
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