In just a couple of weeks, Activision Blizzard‘s Call of Duty: Black Ops II will debut in a bid to continue the series’ record as the fastest-selling video game of all time. To do that, the multiplayer version of the game will have to hold the attention of gamers for months as they frag each other with all sorts of weaponry. And the responsibility for getting multiplayer right lies with David Vonderhaar, the game design director at Treyarch, the studio that is making Black Ops II.
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
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Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.
@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol
Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.
If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.
Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.
Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite
I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.
Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts
I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.
Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.
We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.
I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.
I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.
here is my tip;
1. Switch on your laptop or desktop while playing.
2. Open up a few tabs and start playing Youtube videos.
3. Start streaming some music.
Basically you want to bottleneck your connection as much as possible.
Now sit back and watch as you turn into god-mode.
Ok, I have not played Blops2 but if the network code is anything like MW3 or the first Blops, then it should work no problem.
Camp.
lol...
Shoot other players before they shoot you.. and play the objective.. wait, scratch that second part..
Well now the objectives add to getting kill streaks, so not playing the objective won't be as advantageous.
Look for the best firepower/aim weapon. I.E. the one that deals the most damage while it's aim degrades the least.
For MW3 it was the gun that had the 3 bullet burst. Type 25 I think? Of course it depends on your play style. Snipers and lay down machine gunners might want something different, and ultra sprinters usually like a dual weapons (and sometimes dual wielding) sub-machine gun/shotgun setup.
I agree with perks like ghost, scavenger, and depending on what kill streaks you like and how far you get while going on a run the perk that decreases the kill count of a kill streak by 1. I agree with the faster aim down sight. The reload is a bit of a mixed bag, because even if you reload with a perk, you're usually dead UNLESS they run out right at the same time AND no one comes around also.
But all of this is somewhat up in the air since they took away some perks, added others, changed some killstreaks (which may alter what perks are needed), and slightly nerfed some perks that are still there.
Should be some good figuring out. I rarely used my sidearm, so I might use a perk that allows me to switch that out for something else. I'd like another real grenade over flashbang.
Should be alot of fun.
CAMP!! get killstreak... CAMP some more... that's the formula for any CoD game.. everyone already knows this.