Treyarch’s latest batch of fixes to the PlayStation 3 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops has created a raft of new problems including hard freezes, report players on the game's official forums.
One player writes, “I gave up on [multiplayer] after I lost the first five games I played of the day due to connection failure (post patch). Oh and the frame rate issues.”
Another says that the “patch makes the game unplayable,” reporting that in three hours he or she was only able to connect to five games, “all of which either ended due to connection interuppted [sic], or it froze my ps3 - 4 freezes in total.