Treyarch’s Black Ops 2 will convince you to play online again

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An interesting interview from Kotaku was posted earlier today which featured Treyarch’s Director of Communications John Rafacz.

He starts by explaining Boot Camp: “There are three components to it,” he explains. “There’s a thing we call boot camp.

“Boot Camp is a mix of human and AI players versus a mix of human and AI players for full XP credit for the first ten levels. You are actually ranking up. Beyond level 10, once you pass that threshold, you start earning half XP. Then there’s bot stomp which is just you and your buddies wailing on the AI.”

Rafacz goes onto to discuss why Black Ops 2′s matchmaking will deliver on what they have said:
“That’s what gave rise to the thing we’re calling league play. This is a more robust matchmaking system. On day one you start playing and after a short while it starts to rank you. This is where we start matching you with people of like skill. Hopefully someone new to the game won’t be matched up against a true master.”

Rafacz continues on how they try to ‘control players’ from being offensive:
“The ability to report players for offensive language, offensive emblems, all of that will be in place. There’s a certain extent to which we hope people will be able to police themselves, and there’s no way we can personally account for bad apples, so we try and give people the tools to help people help themselves.”

“We’re trying to make sure people are focusing toward a more co-operative style of game.”

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Source: http://www.charlieintel.com/2012/10/18/treyarchs-black-ops-2-will-convince-you-to-play-online-again/

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configPosted:

If it does, I will be VERY surprised.

OrigamoPosted:

I hope the multi-player is good, but I will be playing Zombies mostly.

OasisPosted:

Just a thought on the 'bad language'/'offensive emblems' part. If your too young to buy the game yourself and can't handle some banter or a emblem of a naked woman then either grow a pair or simply don't play it online.

Vancouver_CanucksPosted:

I think i will be the judge of that, thank you very much.

DizZLe_qTPosted:

Not trying to diss Treyarch or any CoD Series, but don't we hear this every year about matchmaking. Every year they say the matchmaking will be great and it still fails when the game comes out.

I have nothing against them as I am anticipating this game more than any of the Call of Duty Series, i just dont care to hear about how they think the servers are gunna be great and then they fail. But hopefully they dont and this works. Treyarch is a very powerful company and they could pull this achievement off so I'm not 100% doubting them.

Boot Camp- I love the idea. but now theyre wont be any christmas "kids"/"noobs" that we can beat on all day over the christmas holiday :( lol

Overall, I am looking forward to this game as it seems like is forever away and its actually 3 weeks.

Wiz-Posted:

So I'll be able to get to lvl.10 by boot camp and still level up even more but half XP?

Pummpy1Posted:

Lee089 Same thing every year.. Servers will be awful, game play will be slow. Yaay


Stop being a troll. You havent even played the game yet

MichikoPosted:

just realized... BO2 comes out in like 3 weeks. wtf it feels like 3 months awayl

L33t-Ninja-MuchPosted:

cant wait hope it will be awesome

MortarPosted:

Well I think that just that it is Call of Duty, it will convince people to play online. Call of Duty is purchased primarily for the online gameplay.

As for the Combat Training aspect, I feel that it is a great idea that they are bringing back the idea of Boot Camp from WAW. It means that players have the chance to gain the first few levels whilst getting into the "jist" of the game style (Maps, weapons ect) without getting dominated.