CoD Black Ops’ Multiplayer Features

Inside Xbox, the free magazine-style program for Gold Subscribers has gone behind the scenes at Treyarch for an in depth look at some of the features, enhancements and balancing measures that Treyarch have brought to the table for Call Of Duty Black Ops.

As you can see in the video below, Treyarch have been really keen to implement community feedback from earlier releases, stand-out tweaks include removing the ability to drop-shot, where players used to hit the prone button to instantly lie down to avoid being shot whilst firing off a salvo themselves. As happened to quite a few gameplay mechanics in Modern warfare 2 there was a significant number of people who felt it was being abused by other players.

This time instead of players going prone, there is now a diving animation and it takes a second for the player to gather and aim their weapon, thus causing a slight penalty if players try to use it as an offensive measure.

This is just one example of a how a seemingly minor tweak can have big ramifications on the multiplayer action, we have mentioned some other tweaks before like the fact that Kill Streak kills no longer count towards the next Kill Streak, Online director Dan Bunting said there were complaints about “how the rich get richer and it becomes a griefing mechanic and it encourages people to camp”.

Kill streaks will also be ‘interactive’ and not fire & forget, so if you call in an attack chopper you have to actively position it on the map, thus leaving your character open to attack whilst using the kill streak.

These are just a couple of examples of the balancing which Treyarch have carried out in order to make Black Ops’ multiplayer the fairest it can be, you can see more tweaks in the video below.

Source: Inside Xbox, Via: Eurogamer.