Black Ops 2 Intel Locations

I'm finally able to push out my version of all the intel that can be found within the single player campaign. So without further adieu, the video below will start you on your path.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 CODcasting & Shenanigans

In the very near future Treyarch will unleash its newest cash cow juggernaut Black Ops 2. With it comes a new feature, the ability to stream your game play live over the internet. Immediately words began streaming through my head. Cool, fun, great, and awesome. So I had to look into this whole live streaming further. So I ventured out across the internet and found the most popular streaming site for games out there. None other then Twitch.tv, made an account, began perusing the site, and interacted with streamers as well as watchers. It is good times indeed.

Though the more I watched live streams on Twitch.tv, the more I became a witness to chicanery. As many great and beautiful like minded people you meet in life. There are those who dwell in the dark under belly of shame. They are ashamed of not being able to make friends, constantly feeling sorry for themselves, trying to drag you down to their level. These are the type of people that are disrupting the streams and ruining the fun social aspect of it all. They come in the forms DDoSing and "stream trolling".

DDoSing outright kills the stream by sending large amounts of information to your IP address, then the stream must be restarted. Stream trolling is where a individual(s) watches your stream, then joins your game. If they are on the opposite team they immediately know where you are at all times. Making far easier to kill you in a match. If they are on your team they will purposely kill themselves to prevent a win, among other lame things.

Now I predict all of this bullshit is going to increase seven fold with the advent of CODcasting. Call of Duty has always been the top console title sought by hackers, glitchers, and boosters. This latest iteration of COD won't be any different. Treyarch's security will be tested more so then their last games. Here is to hoping the social fun times won't go offline went it matters most, meeting great and beautiful like minded people.

Black Ops 2 - Ghost

So the latest news is that the Ghost perk will receive a change. In that if you have the perk equipped and you stop moving, you will then be detected by a UAV if it is in the sky. It has been greeted with cheers by most, as for me I'm still skeptical about it. Why? Well the problem with Ghost in Black Ops wasn't that a few guys were camping with it equipped, sure that was annoying. Yet the biggest problem was the perk had too many abilities and whole teams were running around with it on.

So imagine this, Black Ops 2 comes out. Ghost still retains all the abilities it had in Black Ops, plus the ability to give your position away if you stop moving. For a crap player who camps, its a bad day for you. Though for a average or better player, this changes NOTHING at all for the game. When you have whole teams running around undetectable then Ghost is STILL a problem.

Then guess what? Now you have to make another playlist again minus Ghost because it still is over powered. I can only hope that all Ghost does is block a UAV and give your position away. If that is the case then I'll be pleasantly surprised and even more eagerly awaiting Black Ops 2.

Black Ops 2 Multiplayer: My Thinking

Prior to this game ever being shown I was and still am expecting certain things from this game.

• Bland colors
• Clan tag glitch/exploit
• A kill streak glitch/hack
• Asshole boosters
• People under maps or in objects(clipping)
• Out of balance matchmaking in terms of skill
• Treyarch staying on top of it all and releasing patches and hot fixes out the wazoo.

Bland Colors
 After I saw the single player campaign for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 demoed at E3. I thought great another bland looking Call of Duty title. Then I saw the BO2 multiplayer trailer a few days ago and was pleasantly surprised by the pop in colors for multiplayer. It isn't over the top colorful but just enough to add a fresh vibe to the franchise. As much as I enjoy playing the single player campaign, I spend most of my time in the multiplayer. So having a splash of color in MP will bring some new air to the game.

Clan Tag Glitch/Exploit
 In every single Call of Duty game I have ever played there was a clan tag glitch/exploit whatever you want to call it. This involved adding the A, B, X, Y, and D-Pad symbols to your clang tag. Not allow is it annoying to see, but it also takes up a large portion of your screen when the kill feed scrolls. To Treyarch's credit they did a good job of stamping out the bullshit when it needed to be fixed. So this clang tag exploit lasted a couple of months before it was patched in Black Ops.

Kill Streak Glitch
 This always kills the multiplayer experience for me. So much so that when I see it happen, I don't even bother playing multiplayer until it is patched. With Infinity Wards' MW2 there was a care package glitch where you could essentially keep calling them in. Next thing you knew there is a AC-130 in the sky the whole game smashing your team to complete shit. Again Treyarch kept on top of this when they made Black Ops. Saw this happen and in less then a week it was fixed with very few knowing about it's existence.

Asshole Boosters
 Now there are people out there who boost their kills in order to attain the last and final prestige in the game. Not only is it lame as all hell but it also defeats the purpose a of a leader board. I was seeing guys who were like 1,010 kills(or more) and 3 deaths on the leader board. Just fucking stupid retarded numbers. The only way to actually catch these people was if you saw those numbers and reported their gamer tag. Or where in their lobby watching them boost and reported them. I'm hoping there will be some kind of auto detection ban hammer with Black Ops 2 for this sort of thing. If not then don't waste your time looking at the leader board.

People Under Maps and Clipping
 Thankfully there was not too much of this going on in Black Ops. On the map Launch there was a way to get under the map. On Havana I was actually stuck inside of the hotel lobby desk and couldn't get out, not fun. That is just to name a few, again also patched.

Out of Balance Match Making
 Now this is my biggest gripe with the Call of Duty franchise for me. When I have a game where I go 25 and 0 or see people going 35 and 0, sometimes more then that. There is something inherently wrong there and a complete lack of challenge for the player is missing. Look I understand that Call of Duty was designed to be a casual FPS, but it's time to graduate from that mentality.

 The reason I say this is because if you look at the rise and success of Game Battles. People want a challenge so they go there. Instead of the challenge already existing within the games code based on ELO. Plus there is no real integration for a game battle type of scenario via Call of Duty: Elite One of the most shocking things that I came across was from Treyarch's game design director for Black Ops(2), David Vonderhaar. Mentioning something on the lines that he never really payed much attention to what was going on with MLG circuit. Until he went there and found it very eye opening experience.

Wasn't much long after that he enlisted the help of some competitive players for a MLG type playlist for Black Ops. The things they have learned from this I'm positive will bring some great changes to match making. Plus a recent from Dave read this.

 The person below this Tweet is unranked in #BlackOps2MP & needs 4 more placement matches

So this to me is very, very, promising stuff on the horizon. Look I'm not skilled on the level of a MLG type player. Though I do love to compete and test myself against people of my same skill level. The only games I could get that from before were Bungie's Halo games.

Patches & Hot Fixes
 So the majority of things mentioned about were fixed via a patch or hot fix. There isn't a single popular multiplayer game out there doesn't receive these. That is just the nature of the game industry and Black Ops 2 won't be any different when it comes to this. Though from the past experience of Black Ops, I'm pretty sure Treyarch is going to do us a solid by keeping things in check. Where some game studios who sit on their hands when shit goes awry, the advent of Twitter & YouTube can only help the process of fixing things in BO2 for Treyarch.

In Closing
The things I expect to see (some of which are already being fixed) might not even be in the game. I hope I'm right. Because nothing sucks more then plunking down nearly 70 bucks for a game that has a horrible multiplayer experience. Treyarch I'm really looking forward to what you are going to do with Black Ops 2. I'm hoping it will just as addictive as BO was with many bloodshot eye induced filled nights of game play.