Treyarch and Activision did release a patch within a couple days to fix a lot of the lag/CPU usage issues, and overall the MP experience is a lot better with the stuttering reduced in most situations dramatically. Overall the MP experience should be as good as previous versions and is so similar it’s really hard to tell the difference.

The most noticeable difference I’ve heard from fans of the series are based on the snipers “Quick Scope” ability and the fact that there has been a delay added to reduce this skill dramatically in game. I guess this is one way to even the playing field for less skilled players, Other than that, fans seem to be happy with the newest sequel. Many people I’ve talked to are already anticipating the mod and map tools that were promised, more so in hopes that this game doesn’t end up getting played out like so many other FPS shooters have this year.

I would also like to note that I was impressed by the response of Treyarch and Activision on fixing the game bugs and how quick they put out a patch. However, it did little to gain back the lost respect for them that was suffered by their initial responses to problems, including rolling back to DX9, and even the community manager blaming the need to change settings on the server’s hosts. It just seemed a bit irresponsible in my humble opinion, and I would have liked to see them admit they didn’t do proper QA/beta testing to make sure this wasn’t the case. I guess that’s what I’d expect from a company that seems more intent on making money than any goodwill to the gaming community. Maybe I was the only one that noticed, while competitor games honoured our veterans on Nov 11th, neither Activision nor Treyarch even made a comment in any of their social media platforms about the soldiers experience’s that they portray and continue to make millions off of. A simple “hats off to our veterans out there” would have gone a long way to making me believe that Activision is about the community and not the money.