Sometimes my bullets disappear.

No hitmarkers, even though I'm firing a gripped Spectre (which is basically a lazer gun), and the sight is directly on the guy. WTF.

This makes me want to cry.

Well, not really. But it does make me question why I'm still trying to play.

Sometimes I get knifed while shooting someone by the guy I'm shooting


it makes me want to cry :'(

I've never had probelms with the hit detection in Black Ops; it's from your connection.

Now this, I had problems with all the time:


Watch the amount of blood vs. the number of hit markers, both from the NS2000 and the Grach.

DrBob276 wrote:I've never had probelms with the hit detection in Black Ops; it's from your connection.

Now this, I had problems with all the time:


Watch the amount of blood vs. the number of hit markers, both from the NS2000 and the Grach.

yeah but blood =/= damage

if you shoot your teammates blood flies everywhere

The only weapon I recall not registering when I see blood is the running knife. The stand still/walking knife is just fine though. Maybe you have connection problems with just the EA servers?

I agree with Cramtron™. It seems to happen quite a bit even with my 4 bar 20meg connection.

He's not the only one. Check any forum and one of the biggest gripes is the spotty hit detection.

BO hit detaection blows!!!! It has nothing to do with connection as 90% of the time I have 4 bright green bars.

Still like the game and its fun as hell to play though.

ya last night hit detection was bad. i decided to use M14/FAL and many times my red dot was right on them and no hit marker

I love it when the final kill cam pops up and you can see how bad it is in slow motion. I have had one kil cam where my sight sway bad on and off the bobdy and I get hit markers the whole time. Cracks me up!

I still think it is a good game though and the balance feels good to me. I have had some GREAT CTF games! The only map I do not like CTF in is Hanoi bnecause a few of the buildings makes it to easy to camp if both teams have the flag and the game just drags!!!

Yeah, in other words, if I hit somebody, and they're bleeding, and I get no hitmarker, that's bullshit, because last time I checked, hitting somebody should cause damage. Silly me, to think that bleeding means I hit somebody, must be my bad aim right? Bleeding means I definitely missed, because human beings and other sentient beings don't bleed, I must've hit the house next to him, or the dumpster, because last time I checked those bleed a lot.

Like I said, Black Ops hit detection is spot on, if you have a good connection. It's just like WaW; the game has good hit detection, just like CoD4 and MW2, it's just that Treyarch's games are more dependant on connection for whatever reason. If you have a 2 bar, in any CoD, you have to lead shots, and fight "unfair" fights (ie, shoot people when they can't see you), because otherwise, they will win. Black Ops/WaW it's just more exaggerated. I used to snipe in GW in WAW on a 2-bar connection. You want to see bad hit-detection? Lol.

Black Ops hit detection is NOT spot on HAHA It's a great game so don;t think I am bashing your game fox but the hit detection is the only thing that I hate in this game. THe spawns suck sometimes but whatevs nothing new there.

I always have 4 bars in a game and a great connection but I'll be shooting someone standing still and get no hit detection, and then sometime my red dot, or sights will be off their body and giving me hit markers. Hit detection in this game blows!

Either you or them are lagging. It's exactly like WaW. The only other time hitboxes have issues in CoD is usually when someboy throws a grenade; as they pull the pin, they are invincible for a split second, at least in CoD4 it was this way. I've never had any hit detection issues when I'm host, or have a 4 bar. Even a 3 bar will make it difficult to gun with the chopper gunner sometimes; like I said, connection difference in this game is exaggerated, like in WaW. If you have 3 bar, and try to fight somebody with a 4 bar, you will lose, even if you shoot first by a little bit. It's stupid, but it's just the way it works.

Modmasta is right man. Same for me and I usually have a 4 bar connection. My connection only drops to 3 when people are listening to music or watching videos on one of the computers.

Although it could also be that it's programed so that recoil is a visual effect and your bullets don't actually go where your gun is pointed (like BC2). It could also be that they do go exactly where pointed but the left/right tilt to the sites makes it look like you're spot on but the tilt means you're actually not.

I'll have to do some super slow-mo theater tests...

The bullet goes to where your sight is pointing, I could test this out. Some of the sights, are intentionally slightly misaligned; if you turn in CoD, your sights are angled while you turn, unlike BC2, which for some reason, makes everything perfectly straight while you do. All CoDs are like that; when you turn, your gun is now at an angle, along with the sights, slightly, causing you to compensate with them.

As far as real hit detection, the game, with an equal connection, is fine. If you shoot somebody, they take damage, unless you are already dead, because you never actually fired your weapon (it's stupidly weird, like a parallel dimension), because they had a better connection. When you shoot somebody, they will actually take damage though, if you aimed correctly.