Treyarch and Activision are trying to sell fans that Black Ops 2 is the biggest change since Call of Duty 4, and it may be, but that is not saying much, so don't be fooled by the play on the words. As a fan, I'd rather hear.."This is the best game since Call of Duty 4" but I doubt we'll hear that.
Change is only good when you're changing for the better. After doing some dissecting with Black ops 2, it looks to me the biggest change, "the scorestreak system" is going to be a bad idea.
Treyarch's intentions on this new system is that it rewards players for doing all score-related things instead of just slaying.
Why this is bad in my eyes is because it mixes these scorestreaks with every score-related thing in the game. So now the game becomes more focused on scorestreaks than ever before. People won't play the objective based games for the sake of winning, they'll be thinking about their scorestreaks because it is intertwined with all objectives. So in actuality the whole idea of rewarding the objective playing players is hypocritical because all it does is pave an easier path for slaying to get scorestreaks because no matter what, killing is always the main objective in a shooter. These players are not all the sudden going to hop on objectives, in fact they'll play it more safe now because objectives are more valuable than ever to cap. It backfires.
Another thing is AI killstreaks rewarding players with score points. If I call in a UAV I get score points for every kill my teammate gets. Great, I'll just sit back and rack up the points for my next reward. If my teammate cock blocks my UAV with his UAV, I'll rage like a 14 yr old on the mic. Like we need more of that.
Now what you will get in return is a slow and stagnant game because everyone is going to play with caution around the thought of these stupid scorestreaks, especially in objective-based modes. These developers need to take away, not keep giving.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
They'll play it safe. You're right, which makes the people on your team need to work together to get to the objective quicker. We'll just have to see how it works out, you never know how it'll actually pan out.
This seems like a good argument, but I wonder if Treyarch has thought of this and is working to balance it out. It could be possible if you call out a UAV and everyone is wearing Ghost/Assassin, you might possibly get no points whatsoever since your UAV hasn't benefited anyone at all. Of course my argument is speculation, and I guess we'll both see in a few months.