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Sometimes in multiplayer in Black Ops, I see a lightbulb appear over another player's head. What does that indicate?

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    ...in comics, that means they had an idea. Given the context, I'd guess the idea is absorbing as many bullets as they possibly can. – badp Feb 13 '11 at 22:22

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It's when the player has paused their game. Obviously, you can't actually pause a multiplayer game, but it's when they are on menus and can't move/shoot.

As far as I can tell this is limited to the use of the start menu (change class, leave game) and associated system menus - for example, the Xbox Dashboard.

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    In other words ... "free kill". – Anon. Feb 13 '11 at 22:51
  • @Anon I'm not sure, I think it's limited to your own teammates, but I didn't include it in the answer because I'm not entirely sure –  Feb 13 '11 at 22:54
  • I've never seen this anywhere but on teammates. And does this include changing settings in the start menu? (I semi-commonly will change sensitivity depending on how I'm feeling) – Earlz Feb 14 '11 at 06:19
  • @Earlz Yes, anything in the start menu. –  Feb 14 '11 at 17:12
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It means that they are typing or talking.

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  • I thought that, too, but I don't always hear any voice from them when the light bulb is up. – mipadi Feb 16 '11 at 20:55
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    it comes up when they're typing, because they cannot play the game while they're typing, but they can whiel talking. – Ayush Mar 04 '11 at 19:44