(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The new Call of Duty: Black Ops patch went live yesterday, and PS3 players are furious. According to Eurogamer.net, the new patch took the problems with multiplayer connectivity to eleven. There is a thread on the Black Ops Forums titled "The retard 1.04 patch" where gamers have gone to vent in hilarious and sometimes vulgar fashion. Note: that is not the official name of the patch. The new patch was supposed to improve matchmaking between moderate to strict NAT types (Network Address Translation, for those of you who don't speak 'tech'*.) Apparently, the patch has had the opposite effect.
The bottom line is that PS3 owners are having their connections interrupted, systems freeze, and a general crappy time playing the game. Josh Olin, the Treyarch community manager, says it's you, not them. If you are having problems:
That means your Router has a strict NAT, causing your lag. It's not the game
Of course this begs the question, if it's all in the router, why aren't Xbox LIVE gamers with strict to moderate NATs noticing problems? Or are they?
*I took French in high school and failed two Spanish classes in college, so I'm going to assume that I understand technical lingo; allow me to explain 'NAT.' It appears that your modem is a lot like the UN, and it has a crap-ton of little translators in it, trying to get information to all of the diplomats. Well, some of us have strict translators, who know only two or three languages. Others have moderate translators, who know a handful of languages, and then there are open translators, who can talk to everybody.
Those of you with strict to moderate translators simply can't get your messages (bullets) to your dignitaries (opponent's face area) fast enough, while those with open translators can negotiate peace talks with everybody. In this case, 'negotiate peace talks' means shooting billions of bullets into you while you literally shoot at the place they were just standing two seconds ago. You may empty a clip into someone and yet they can casually knife you. Check out your kill cam. See how none of your bullets hit him? Congratulations! Your Internet connection is not as fast as you thought it was! That, or the host's connection is as they say: 'teh suck'.
However you want to think of it, all this miscommunication leads to a veritable World War III in your Sony box, but instead of thermonuclear annihilation, your PS3 freezes up or your session is ended. Same difference. This might not be exactly how it works (it probably isn't), because I made it up based entirely off of the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on NAT, but you'd have to be able to speak 'tech' to figure that out. Check out your router manual if you want to change your NAT.


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Ive got both PS3 & xbox 360. B.Ops on xbox is fine but on ps3 my nat is on strict. Doesn't make any sense does it

i just re-bought BadCompany2 and waiting for vietnam expantion

i officialy quit black ops for good, unless some patches do the job
(play some mw2 too)

It aint the ps3 servers, its the patch as the man said. they have to get the patch right, last patch i couldn't even get 3 bars because of my router. They need to make it open to all types or router users. new or old..... that is all

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My problem isn't that i have Nat type 3 (strict) I have Nat type 2 (open) but the game thinks i have Nat type 3 (strict). Which leads to multiple problems.

My PS3 is connected directly to my modem 90% of the time. After this patch went live I decided to try it out. Well directly connected to the modem it tells me I have a moderate NAT. The PS3 shows it as NAT1, MW2 shows it as open. lol

Connect it to my router and black ops shows it as Open, Now that is what I call "quality patch making" . Garbage, utter Garbage. Even with open NAT I still get lagged out of games and hopping all over the damn place.

Transmission errors, game lobby closed, and random disconnects. I find it funny considering I couldn't up my net without changing it to Business class. It's the top that comcrap has to offer and I don't have problems with any other game. So for the time being I've boycotted Gayarchs Black ops.

I have an open nat type and I've still had some problems,

Load times take longer or gets stuck.
When I click on someones player card, it takes me to the in game friends list. Which I don't want. (makes it take longer)
PS3 freezes.
Matchmaking is just stupid sometimes.

Things that I liked from the patch,
Load Multi-player by default
No more endless lobbies, "Need more players to balance teams..." at least not yet..
Knife lunge nerf.

That queer from Failarch is blaming PS3 owners because of there shitty ass game

My NAT is open and guess what same BS. Even worse, if it was the NAT then the only issue would be it wouldn't find any games, but why is there freezes?And the game causes crashes sure as hell it's not because of the NAT. If my Ps3 breaks i sure will find a way and take legal action. Everytime my PS3 crashes and it's because of Black ops i record it that way i have evidence. No game should make your console crash.