Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 review round-up – every score



If you have a review you’d like us to add to the list, just leave it in the comments below.

Eurogamer (thanks, mathare92) – “While these discussions were going on we chose not to attend a Call of Duty review event pending a final decision on how we would approach such things in future. As a result, our review of the game will probably be a couple of days late next week.”
Gamespot – 8/10
CVG – 7.8/10
Shacknews – No score
GiantBomb – 4/5
Joystiq – 4/5
IGN – 9.3/10
GameTrailers – 9.4/10
Kotaku – Yes
Destructoid – 8.5
Videogamer – 8/10
OPM UK – 8/10
G4 – 4.5/5
Polygon – 8/10
GameArena (Australian) – 8.5/10
Games.On.Net (Australian) – No score
LazyGamer – 8.9/10
GameStalker (Dutch) – No score

[Shepard]

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 - How to get a Sword

[Shepard]

Ήρθε η ώρα που το νέο Call of Duty είναι και επίσημα στα καταστήματα και το Enternity έχει μόλις παραλάβει την κόπια του από την επίσημη αντιπροσωπεία της Activision στην Ελλάδα. Μέχρι να σας προσφέρει το πλήρες review του με την ανάλογη βαθμολογία, σας δίνει τη δυνατότητα να δείτε τα πρώτα 15 λεπτά της δράσης, έτσι όπως τα κατέγραψε στο PC δοκιμών του, με όλες τις ρυθμίσεις στο μέγιστο! Το παιχνίδι όπως μπορείτε να είτε και από τον frame counter κάτω αριστερά, παίζει σταθερά στα 60fps ακόμα και όταν έχουμε όλα τα εφέ στο μέγιστο, διατηρώντας όμως ενεργό το vsync, ώστε να είναι κολλημένο στην τιμή αυτή. Από εκεί και πέρα, τα γραφικά είναι αρκετά καλά, αλλά όχι κάτι το συναρπαστικό και σίγουρα το Call of Duty Black Ops II δεν είναι το game που μπορεί να ισχυριστεί κανείς ότι ξεχωρίζει στην έκδοση των PCs. Πάντως, όπως και να το κάνουμε, το να παίζεις με mouse/keyboard, είναι πολύ βολικότερο από το gamepad! Απολαύστε λοιπόν το εξαιρετικό -όπως φαίνεται- fps της Treyarch.

[Shepard]

Το Black Ops 2 απέφερε 500 εκατομμύρια δολάρια
Σύμφωνα με την Activision το Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 απέφερε στην εταιρία 500 εκατομμύρια δολάρια παγκοσμίως, μόνο τις πρώτες 24 ώρες κυκλοφορίας του. Το Black Ops 2 κυκλοφόρησε στις 13 Νοεμβρίου με 16.000 καταστήματα να συμμετέχουν στην μεταμεσονύχτια κυκλοφορία του, με την αλυσίδα καταστημάτων GameStop να πουλάει 1.000.000 αντίτυπα στις ΗΠΑ, ενώ το Βρετανικό Blockbuster σημείωσε 10.000 πωλήσεις μέσα στα πέντε πρώτα λεπτά από την στιγμή διάθεσής του. Ακόμα ο τίτλος έσπασε το ρεκόρ προ-παραγγελιών στην ιστορία του Amazon σύμφωνα με τις μετρήσεις της εταιρίας. «Με τις πωλήσεις του Black Ops 2 μόνο την πρώτη μέρα να ξεπερνάνε το μισό δισεκατομμύριο παγκοσμίως, πιστεύουμε πως το Call of Duty είναι η μεγαλύτερη κυκλοφορία της χρονιάς εδώ και τέσσερα συνεχόμενα χρόνια», είπε ο CEO της Acticision, Bobby Kotick.



«Οι μέχρι τώρα συνολικές πωλήσεις του Call of Duty franchise έχουν ξεπεράσει αυτές μεγάλων κινηματογραφικών κυκλοφοριών από ταινίες όπως Harry Potter και Star Wars, τα δυο πιο πετυχημένα franchises ταινιών όλων των εποχών», είπε κλείνοντας ο Kotick. Οι πωλήσεις τις πρώτης εβδομάδας εκτιμώνται από αναλυτές να φτάσουν τις 6,5 με 7,2 εκατομμύρια κόπιες, φτάνοντας αυτές του Modern Warfare 3 της Infinity Ward, το οποίο είχε αποφέρει 775 εκατομμύρια δολάρια τις πρώτες πέντε ημέρες κυκλοφορίας του, φτάνοντας το ένα δισεκατομμύριο τις πρώτες 16 ημέρες.

[Shepard]

Black Ops 2: Top 10 Amazing Kills: Episode 1 by Anoj

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Black Ops 2 Wii U graphics analyzed vs rivals

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Η Activision αποσύρει ξαφνικά τον χάρτη "Nuketown 2025" από το Black Ops 2!

Πριν κυκλοφορήσει το Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 η Activision είχε υποσχεθεί πως όσοι θα έκαναν προπαραγγελάι του παιχνιδιού θα λάμβαναν double xp για λίγες ημέρες καθώς και τον χάρτη "Nuketown 2025" που αποτελεί μια μοντέρνα έκδοση του κλασικού χάρτη από το πρώτο παιχνίδι. Αυτό όντως και έγινε, μέχρι χτες που ο χάρτης "εξαφανίστηκε" από το παιχνίδι!

Τα νέα επιβεβαιώθηκαν από τον επικεφαλή σχεδίασης του παιχνιδιού David Vonderhaar στο tweeter:

Double XP weekend is official over. That means Nuketown 2025 / 24-7 is as well. I know. RIGHT? Don't kill the messenger. +

Τελικά αποδείχθηκε πως ο χάρτης θα είναι διαθέσιμος μόνο σε ειδικές περιπτώσεις. Οι φωνές διαμαρτυρίας των παιχτών όμως, ειδικά αυτών που προπαράγγειλαν το παιχνίδι, είναι πάρα πολλές. Για να δούμε...

[kessel]

Κρίμα δεν πρόλαβα να παίξω τον χάρτη,και το έχω πάρει πρόσφατα.

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Incoming Black Ops 2 DoubleXP weekend and patch that will address gameplay balancing issues

Good news for Black Ops 2 fans, as Treyarch is working on a PC patch and will offer a DoubleXP weekend, though there is no ETA for them yet. Treyarch’s pcdev has spilled the beans earlier this week about the upcoming patch of Black Ops 2, when he tweeted that Treyarch was working on patch and on various AMD and Nvidia hw specific issues.
A lot of PC fans wondered whether they’d get the patch or not. After all, we’ve seen a number of companies releasing exclusively their patches and DLCs on consoles, and let’s not forget that the PS3 version of Black Ops 2 has already been updated. Thankfully, pcdev revealed today that Treyarch will be releasing a PC patch in the coming weeks, and that it will include gameplay balancing as well as other improvements.
Unsurprisingly, Treyarch has been constantly banning users for cheating. As stated earlier this week, Treyarch has a zero tolerance policy on cheating and cheater bans will not be lifted. PC gamers will have to be really carefully, as extreme modding – or hacking game data – is forbidden and will get them banned.
Treyarch’s pcdev brought this issue again today and when a fan asked about a possible DoubleXP weekend for those who don’t cheat, pcdev responded and confirmed that there will be a DoubleXP weekend, though he did not reveal any possible date for it. We can safely assume though that this DoubleXP weekend will be for all platforms of Black Ops 2.
We’ll be sure to inform you about both of them the moment we receive new information, so stay tuned for more!

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Black Ops 2 title update for Xbox 360 now available for download
A Black Ops 2 title update for Xbox 360 is now available for download, according to a community post from Treyarch.

The list of changes noted are rather long, and posted below.

New Features & Feature Improvements

Added support for the Kinect camera to Live Streaming.
Improved audio/rumble responsiveness when hitting enemies with gunfire.
Improved overall communication of Double XP when enabled.
AAR better communicates how much XP was earned in each match.
Added the ability to “View League Teams” from any player’s Playercard.
Added the ability to “View Playercard” from League solo leaderboards.
Added a number of security system enhancements.
Added Hardcore Kill Confirmed playlist to the Hardcore category
Issues Addressed

Game now resets the Care Package for a non-owner if the owner re-rolls the package using the Engineer perk.
Players with Black Hat PDA can no longer hack a Care Package faster than the owner can capture it.
Addressed an exploit where modified console hackers could maliciously spread infected films to other users.
Added a fail-safe to prevent spawn trapping in CTF.
Increased sight checks on turrets to improve spawning algorithms.
Fixed a number of new UI error messages reported by users.
Addressed a number of issues that would cause friendly/enemy color indicators on equipment and scorestreaks to display as the wrong team.
Improved overall Theater and Live Streaming stability.
Improved film rendering stability and made progression bar more accurate while rendering a film.
Addressed issues which prevented some master challenges from being completed.
Precision challenge “Wet Work” will now unlock with 10 kills.
The wins challenge will now account for all FFA modes when ending a match with a tie (if you are in the top 3).
Players that help with the “Synchronized Attack” challenge now get credit for it.
Players will not be able to manually take control of their AGR if they die at the exact moment that their AGR deploys.
Emblem Editor no longer closes the current emblem when discarding changes.
Players using Ghost will no longer be invisible at all times in Custom Games with the mini-map option set to “constant”.
Players using Ghost and a Suppressor attachment will no longer appear on the enemy’s minimap while shooting and moving while a UAV is up.
The median for the K/D graph in the AAR is set to 1.0 instead of 0.0.
Players can no longer get on top of the shrubs in Nuketown 2025.
Thermal vision overlay no longer appears using the VTOL glitch.
Kills from the explosion on the explosive crossbow bolt now count towards challenges.
Counter UAV no longer remains for the rest of the game after a host migration.
Clan tag is no longer locked immediately after prestige.
Offline profiles can no longer be exploited to join online games when an online profile is also signed in.
Multi-team games no longer count as a tie if an entire team quits.
Fixed an area in Express where K9 Unit dogs could get stuck.
EMP grenades no longer affect the CODcaster HUD.
Party Privacy count no longer affects how many bots will spawn in Combat Training.
Shadows seen through sniper scopes now render more correctly.
Players can no longer stand on invisible collision in Carrier.
“Drop Shot” medal is no longer awarded after standing back up.
Players can now copy a custom class to the extra prestige slot.
Gameplay Balancing

The following is a list of numerous gameplay balancing tweaks that were made after thorough review of statistical data from player usage of weapons, equipment, perks and scorestreaks since launch.

Scorestreaks:

UAV: cost increased from 350 to 425.
Lightning Strike: added 750ms delay
Equipment/Grenades:

Bouncing Betty: increased the grace period between trigger and activation by 200ms.
Sensor Grenade: increased the range (now 1000 units), frequency (now 800ms between pings), and amount of time (now 6s) that players appear after explosion.
Concussion Grenade: decreased movement penalty and turn speed penalty when hit.
SMGs:

All: increased hip fire recoil.
All: increased max hip fire spread from 4.75 to 5.
All: reduced bullet penetration.
MSMC: increased recoil slightly.
PDW-57: increased recoil slightly.
Assault Rifles:

All: reduced idle sway for more reliable long-range aiming.
XM8: reduced lethal range of 3-hit kills from 250 to 50 inches.
XM8 + Select Fire: increased recoil.
FAL OSW + Select Fire: increased recoil.
SWAT-556 + Select Fire: increased recoil.
MTAR: Made auto aim values consistent with all other assault rifles.
Sniper Rifles:

All: increased hip fire spread.
All + Laser Sight: increased hip fire spread.
XPR-50: increased recoil slightly.
Shotguns: R870: reduced one-hit kill range by 45 inches.

Pistols:

B23R: reduced headshot multiplier from 1.4 to 1.
KAP-40: reduced headshot multiplier from 1.4 to 1.