Kill the Campers

Call of Duty Black Ops is a great game, but the most common complaint is that it takes "No Skill", this is because of the advantages offered to players who "camp" and because of the ability to kill enemy players extremely quickly. Detailed below are five very simplistic fixes, that I think would make for a more balanced and skillful competitive experience.

1- All automatic weapons should require Two more bullets to kill their targets. This would give ambushed opponents a better opportunity to escape or at least return fire. It would also force players to better compensate for recoil due to having to fire a longer spray of bullets and force players to demonstrate adequate control rather than just "luckily" achieving a kill in a single burst of fire.

2- Light Machine Guns automatically benefit from the "Deeper Penetration" (giggles) perk. In their current rendition, LMG are vastly inferior to other weapons. They make your character slower, aim down sights slower, have increased recoil, and slower reload times. With built in "deeper penetration" they would be more useful in their role of providing suppressive fire even against targets in cover. Also with the addition of increased kill times, a LMG's greater ammo capacity would prove more useful.

3- Remove reload canceling. Currently players can choose to reload and then during mid reload, they can cancel their decision by double tapping Y, and continue shooting. This is tacky and allows players to reload at times when they shouldn't without suffering any consequences. Once you have removed the magazine from your weapon you should be forced to continue to reload before firing again.

4- Add delayed radar. Too often in Black Ops outcomes are decided by players respawning behind each other or ambushing each other for instant kills. By adding the radar system utilized in the "Sticks and Stones" gametype, players will be alerted to the location a player WAS at and not their current location. This would do two things; it would prevent players from being easily ambushed by respawning opponents, and it would make "camping" less effective by revealing the campers location while only betraying a moving players previous location.

5- Make the "Camouflage" perk only available to snipers. The sniper rifle is less effective in Black Ops due to the removal of the ability to effectively "quick scope". Regardless of the merits of "quickscoping", this would allow snipers to perform their prescribed "camping" role with greater effectiveness.

These simple changes could make a game like Black Ops retain it's fast paced and tactical qualities that have made the COD franchise so successful, while allowing for an increase in competitive value.