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Combat Training In Black Ops II Will Coax Players Out Of Campaign And Into Multiplayer

Posted on Friday, September 28 @ 08:16:15 Eastern by Keri_Honea

Dan Amrich, community manager at Activision, blogged a bit about Treyarch's upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which included a little interview with David Vonderhaar, the Game Design Director, and a look into Black Ops II's Combat Training mode.

Combat Training mode isn't new to Call of Duty, but this time, Treyarch really wants to be more aggressive in promoting this mode. More specifically, they want to urge everyone to use this mode as a transition into the multiplayer portion of the game, which is obviously the most popular and well-known aspect of any Call of Duty game. Multiplayer also happens to be the most profitable feature, as they can get the millions of players to shell out $15 per map pack DLC they release.

Despite the overwhelming popularity of the multiplayer mode, several players never touch the multiplayer portion and focus only on the campaign. Let's face it; not everyone wants to play with other people, and if you're a multiplayer newbie, CoD may not be the best one to jump into. We all know how, um, pleasant other CoD players can be. Treyarch is well aware that these people exist, and they don't like it one bit.

"As popular as CoD is, there are a lot of people who don’t play multiplayer,” Vonderhaar said. “And quite frankly, this bugs the shit out of us. They should all play MP. And Combat Training helps us get there.”

Since this bugs them so, they are integrating Combat Training mode into players' progression in multiplayer. In the past, Combat Training had its own progression ranking system, so however high you were in Combat Training, you started at the beginning when you were released into the wild of multiplayer. Now your progression feeds into your multiplayer rankings, so once you're ready to remove the training wheels, so to speak, you won't go into a MP match with nothing to your name.

In addition, Combat Training includes matches that mixes teams of humans and bots, so players can be eased into the MP experience.

That's great that Treyarch wants to help new players ease into multiplayer, and the new Combat Training integration is a great idea for it. However, since it "bugs the shit out of" them so much that some people would dare to only play a portion of a game that they paid for, maybe they should just eliminate the campaign entirely. Keep the Combat Training mode as a tutorial and transition, but get rid of the campaign, which apparently only existed as the multiplayer's tutorial anyway.
Related Games:   Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Tags:   Call of Duty


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  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 9:03 am
    Know what bugs the **** out of me? Multplayer games that players can never get into because they didn't play the game from day 1 to know everything and now said players get kicked from games or have the sexuality insulted because they can't pull of 10 headshots in a row.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 9:31 am
    You win Sir. Great comment. 2 thumbs up (if I could).
  • shandog137
    shandog137

    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 9:38 am
    Tell them why you mad son...tell them why you mad yo!
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander

    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 10:05 am
    Unless I'm playinf with someone I know I just mute everyone and concentrate on playing. Problem solved.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Sep 29th, 2012 at 1:46 am
    It's called every online FPS. Get used to it.
  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Sep 29th, 2012 at 7:01 am
    Ah the cop out excuse, aka "boys will be boys."

    Maybe people shouldn't have to get used to everyone treating them like garbage.
  • moretokes
    moretokes

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 10:21 am
    Mute all ,, it's fun to **** with kids with the ps3 voice changer
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 11:34 am
    Most of BF3s single player campaign was a taste test of multiplayer.

    If black ops 2 actually follows through on the dx11 and tesselation promise I will think of buying this one. I could use something to play in between BF3 premium packs.
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 11:40 am
    Training should be mandatory for all online multiplayer games. And based on your performance, you should initially be put into matches with other players of similar skill level when you start playing for real.
  • shandog137
    shandog137

    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
    Sounds too practical...I do not like the way you think. Please stop making sense Ting it frightens me!
  • BRostigraben
    BRostigraben

    Joined: Jul 2012
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
    This makes too much sense! TOO MUCH SENSE......but I agree with you.
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
    Sounds like it could be easily exploitable for elite level gamers to play shitty in the training mode just to get a headstart on everybody else.
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Sep 28th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
    I thought about that as I was typing, but I figured one way to try to stop it is to put those guys in games with extremely talented players right after they pull that crap. Also, they could make it so the first 10 or so experience levels don't count on your combat record and the leaderboards, so even if you exploited the system and played a 30-0 game against noobs right out of training, it wouldn't show.

    I'm available for hire.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Sep 29th, 2012 at 1:49 am
    Unreal tournament could automatically adjust the skill level of the bots based on your last game. Damn that game was awesome.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Sep 30th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
    I find only a small minority of people are rude online, and that's what mute or not wearing a headset is for. I agree no one should be like that, but I don't let other people ruin my games for me.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Sep 30th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
    Oops this was a reply to wild mario

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