Title Update 8 - 4/28/11 - New Xbox 360 Black Ops

Hey 360 gamers,

We are listening to you and we’ve been busy working on updates based on feedback from the community. We have already deployed a number of updates, and there will be many more to come. Stay tuned right here for all the latest info.

LIVE FIXES

4/28/11 Title Update

• • Support for Escalation Map Pack (Releasing 5/3/11)
• • Security Updates.
• • Addition of banner-style Message of the Day on the MP Main Menu.
• • Addition of Hardcore FFA and TDM for Combat Training.
• • Additional sniper rifle tuning changes.
• • Addition of “Competition” Barebones playlist.
• • Replaced RPG with Grim Reaper in Gun Game Wager Match.
• • Prevent automatic weapons from jamming if the player is feathering the fire button on “Default Alt”, “Tactical Flipped” or “Nom4d Flipped”.
• • Fine-tuned napalm and bombing-run damage indoors.
• • Prevented rare invulnerability issue.
• • Additional game mode timer options for Custom Games.
• • Fixed a minor out of map exploit in Grid.
• • General Killcam and death-cam improvements.
• • Improved Auto-Assign reliability in Private Match.
• • Addressed an infinite “joining session in progress” screen under very specific timing conditions.
• • Demolition bombs can no longer explode and be defused at the same time.
• • Spy play now activates in One in the Chamber in all cases.
• • The “Sprint Kills” challenge for Steady Aim perk now rewards the player with the correct number of kills.
• • Contracts purchased but not yet expired no longer count as expired when viewing a friend’s player card.
• • Addressed a rare issue where a hacked camera spike would not function properly if the hacker also had a camera spike that was destroyed.
• • Recording a clip with the speed mode for 2 cameras set to .1 will no longer increase in speed when switching perspectives back and forth.
• • Improvements to Zipline functionality when viewed in Theater mode.
• • Settings from custom games are all cleared and no longer carry over from one custom match to another.
• • Improvements to map voting reliability in lobbies.
• • Nova gas will now affect players that are standing over their tactical insertion.
• • Hardcore players who kill another teammate in last stand now lose the proper amount of points.
• • Players can no longer transfer emblems/backgrounds from Combat Training to Player Match.
• • Player is no longer able to use a primary weapon in Second Chance (rare, specific instance).
• • Improvements to “Community” filters.