Dedicated Servers in Call of Duty: Black Ops? You Betcha
Dedicated Servers in Call of Duty: Black Ops? You Betcha
Posted 05/15/2010 at 12:32am
| by Nathan Grayson
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Last year, Modern Warfare 2 attempted to permanently pull the plug on dedicated servers. “Bad Infinity Ward! Bad!” PC gamers shouted in response. “Don’t make us roll up this Internet petition and hit you on the nose with it!” Fortunately, Treyarch is not Infinity Ward. Treyarch has apparently played a multiplayer PC game before.
"I think dedicated servers are excellent. I don't see any reason not to [include] them unless... well, I just don't see any reason not to,” said Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia.
"We do work very hard to reconcile the desire to manipulate and modify those dedicated servers with offering them the persistent experience and benefits that the console system provides,” he added.
So best of both worlds, basically. Which is a good thing, because we really don’t know how to Internet petition harder than we did last time – short of tying it to a brick, throwing it through a window, and kidnapping/hoping it hits Activision president Bobby Kotick. Which would be fun, admittedly, but if Bobby Kotick fires men who make him billions of dollars, just think about what he’d do to kidnappers. Yeah.
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Joji
May 15, 2010 at 12:07pm
Ok so Call of Duty 1 was created by Infinity Ward. The engine that they used was terrific and all that and followed that up with Call of Duty 2. Then TreyArch made Call of Duy 2: The Big Red one with the adaption of the first Call of Duty 2 am I correct? So technically they based it off from Infinity Ward's hard work.
Then TreyArch did f3king horrible on Call of Duty 3... since they toke off many important things, but added some other new stuff. After that Modern Warfare was created by Infinity Ward. Call of Duty 5 World at War was made from once again Modern Warfare engine and hard work from Infinity Ward with better stuff put into it. Then Modern Warfare 2 once again made by Inifinity Ward is based on the tweaks and "oh goodie!" stuff from Call of Duty 5.
So the thing is, their designs are based on each other. If TreyArch was to take away stuff from MW 2 and apply it on Black Ops but add new stuff like Call of Duty 3, then it would suck. BUT!!! If they were to add new stuff and keep the stuff from MW2 then it would rock. I hope they do that (2nd option)!
I can't wait for "Call of Duty: Combat Evolved"! :P Just a made up video game, but since Bungie and Activision is gonna team up, can't wait for something like THAT to happen! :D
MASTER CHEIF MIGHT APPEAR ON THEIR NEW GAME! I dunno, this ought to be good. >:D
~Joji~
snapple00
May 16, 2010 at 7:53am
And if the stars are lined up then it will rock! But if 10,000 computers don't turn on at the exact same time on May 25th, it will suck.
IFLATLINEI
May 15, 2010 at 9:53am
Its going to take more than dedicated servers. Right now Battlefield owns the FPS genre. With large maps, destructable environments, and vehicles COD just cant compete. Not with hardcore FPS players atleast. Ill wait and see what they deliver however if it doesnt have destructable environments on par with Battlefield it wont even be a used purchase.
Danthrax66
May 15, 2010 at 9:40am
Too bad treyarch can't make a good pc game. Remember on waw how every map had a way to glitch out of it?
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