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Black Ops 2 PC Version Promised Better Visuals And DirectX 11

Posted on Wednesday, May 2 @ 15:59:29 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

Call of Duty: Black Ops was far from an eye-popping game, but that doesn't mean that its newly-announced sequel faces the same destiny.

Treyarch's Online Director, Dan Bunting, confirmed to Eurogamer that the PC version of Black Ops II will receive a "visual overhaul" over the previous Black Ops installment. To follow that up, Bunting also announced that DirectX 11 will be supported, which is a technological boost over the DirectX 9 that Black Ops was bound by.

That said, don't get too excited because DirectX 11 is somewhat of an industry standard at this point, and supporting DirectX 11 doesn't mean that its features, such as tesselation and new shader techniques, will be implemented. When you consider that along with just how par Black Ops looked, Bunting's quote almost immediately becomes far less exciting.

The announcement trailer for Black Ops II can be seen below which includes a few seconds of gameplay — don't be too liberal there Activision. You can tell that the visual approach is very similar to the last title and foregoes handfuls of bloom effects for a more gritty atmosphere. See for yourself:



Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be releasing for Windows, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on November 13th.
Related Games:   Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Tags:   activision, Call of Duty


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  • WILLS_COOL_MODE
    WILLS_COOL_MODE
    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: May 2nd, 2012 at 4:46 pm
    Whoa, a sequel that is a visual overhaul of the previous game? Unheard of!
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  • Masterwabbit
    Masterwabbit
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: May 2nd, 2012 at 5:14 pm
    I don't know, I've heard of some game supporting DX11, and they didn't run as well in that mode. Think one of them I kept hearing about was Batman: Arkham City. Who knows, maybe it'll be better looking than BF3 on Super-Ultra-Sacrifice-A-Virgin settings.
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  • WILLS_COOL_MODE
    WILLS_COOL_MODE
    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: May 2nd, 2012 at 5:44 pm
    Direct X 11 is meant to look better, not run better. It does technically run better than 9 or 10, but there's so much other **** going on that you generally don't get a performance increase.
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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: May 2nd, 2012 at 8:07 pm
    Go PC gaming!
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  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: May 2nd, 2012 at 8:53 pm
    Really, this has been the same game since MW2. Treyarch is fine at pushing out polished incremental content, but not really the people who are going to create the next big innovation (and that's through no fault of their own--I'm sure Activision keeps them on a tight, milestoned leash).
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