All the Multiplayer info you can poke a stick at

[Juganort]

Hi all,

Well the flood gate's have well and truly opened this week in regards to Multiplayer info, we've been given the new class system, weapons details, attachments, how the killstreaks will work, new game type's and how the in game scoring system works.

There's simply too much to list so I'll put the basics down here and link the sites at the bottom for more info if you feel like reading it all.

There's allot of info here but all in all I think they've simplified it allot from MW3. Killstreaks dont have 3 tiers to choose from, no more weapon proficiency, no more death streaks, you've got 10 points to play with then creating a class, overall I think it looks great but time will tell how the game itself actually plays.

The major things to note:

RCXD's are definitely back, this time they are called RCC's.

Perks no longer effect your gun, only attachments effect the performance of your gun. ie there is no quickdraw or steady aim perk.

Blind-Eye are Ghost have been split again like there were in MW3. The great thing is that they only work when you are moving. So if you like to camp then your shit out of luck sorry guys.

Killstreaks are now scorestreaks and you can earn points by attempting bomb plants, capturing domination points and all that stuff. There's no support of specialist killstreaks in BO2, just the one killstreaks list containing 22 killstreaks.

Weapon proficiency's no longer exist, all weapon modifications are through attachments.

As rumoured create a class is now setup using 10 points, each item uses 1 point such as 1 perk, 1 grenade, 1 primary, 1 secondary until you've used up all your 10 points.

New thing called Wildcards that give you a little bit of flexibility with your 10 points to set up a class (see below for wildcard options)

Guns

Assault rifles

Type 25
M8A1
SA-58
SIG556
SCAR-H
AN-94
SMR

Shotguns

M1216
Saiga-12
R-870 MCS

LMG

LSAT
QBB LSW
Mk 48
Sniper Rifles

DSR 50
SVU-AS
Ballista

SMG

MP7
Chicom CQB
PDW-57
Skorpio EVO III
MSMC

Specials

Assault Shield (Metal riot shield that can be planted into the ground as makeshift cover)

Secondary

Launchers

FHJ-18 AA (Vehicle lock-on, two rockets)
RPG
SMAW

Pistols

KAP-40
Tac-45
Executioner
B23R

Lethal Slot

Grenade
Semtex
Combat axe
Claymore
C4
Bouncing Betty

Attachments

Reflex sight
ACOG sight
Target Finder (Paints red squares around hostiles)
Hybrid Optic
Suppressor
Fast Mag
Fore Grip
Laser Sight
Adjustable Stock
Quickdraw
Millimetre Scanner
Grenade Launcher
Select Fire Mode
FMJ Rounds
Extended Clip

Tactical slot

Black Hat PDA (Get close to enemy equipment and point this data pad at it to hack it and turn it against enemies. Takes ages to hack though!)
Smoke grenade
Sensor grenade
Flashbang
Concussion grenade
Shock charge (a throwable stick that emits an electric shock across a surface, rooting targets to the spot)
Tactical Insertion

Wildcards (Bend the rules of the ‘Pick 10′ system slightly)

Perk 1 Greed (Lets you choose a second perk from tier 1)
Perk 2 Greed
Perk 3 Greed
Primary Gunfighter
Secondary Gunfighter
Overkill
Danger Close
Tactician


Perks (Note: Perks can no longer go pro)

Tier 1

Ghost (Now only hides you from UAVs when you are moving)
Lightweight
Flak Jacket
Blind Eye
Hardline
Lightweight

Tier 2

Cold Blooded
Hard Wired
Scavenger
Toughness
Fast Hands

Tier 3

Dead Silence
Engineer
Tactical Mask
Extreme Conditioning
Awareness
Dexterity

Scorestreaks

RCC — 325 points — A remote-controlled car packed with explosives.
UAV — 375 points — Shows enemies on the mini-map.
Hunter Killer — 400 points — Airborne drone that seeks out and destroys a nearby target.
Care Package — 450 points — Air drop a random Scorestreak.
Counter-UAV — 475 points — Temporarily disables enemy radar.
Guardian — 500 points — Projects microwave field which stuns and impairs enemies.
Hellstorm Missile — 525 points — An air-to-surface missile which can be scattered into a cluster bomb whilefalling.
Lightning Strike — 550 points — Launch a coordinated lightning strike on three locations.
Death Machine — 600 points — Your own personal handheld mini-gun.
Sentry Gun — 650 points — An automatic sentry gun which can be remote-controlled.
War Machine — 700 points — Grenade launcher with rapid, semi-automatic firing.
Dragonfire — 725 points — Remote-controlled quad-rotor with lightweight machine gun.
AGR — 800 points — Air drop an autonomous ground robot that searches for and destroys enemies and can be remote controlled.
Stealth Chopper — 850 points — Call in a stealth helicopter which does not appear on the enemy's mini-map.
Orbital VSAT — 900 points — Shows both enemy position and direction on the mini-map, cannot be shot down.
Escort Drone — 1000 points — Get personal air support from an escort drone.
Warthog — 1025 points — Jet aircraft that provides close air support with several strafe runs.
EMP Systems — 1050 points — Temporarily disables enemy electronics.
Lodestar — 1150 points — Lase missile targets remotely from the Lodestar.
VTOL Warship — 1200 points — Be the gunner of a powerful VTOL Warship.
Canine Unit — 1275 points — Attack dogs that hunt down the enemy.
Swarm — 1400 points — Call in a swarm of lethal Hunter Killer drones that search and destroy enemies.

GamesCom sheds light on revamped 'Black Ops 2' point and perk system - Long Island Video Game Industry | Examiner.com

The Escapist : Shoutcasting Black Ops 2

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 multiplayer ditches kill streaks, embraces e-sports, first screenshots • News • Eurogamer.net

Black Ops 2 multiplayer hands-on: the future starts here | VG247

Black Ops 2: Official perks & gun list revealed, new Create-a-class explained | VG247

Black Ops 2 replaces killstreaks with “score streaks” | VG247

[NoKharma]

Originally Posted by Juganort

RCXD's are definitely back, this time they are called RCC's.

Didn't need to read any further , Imacomin Ven

[Venidici]

Ill have to read later, i want to absorb all this info. Have to work today and heading off now....BUMMER! :_(

[mojododo]

Fantasic, all very welcomed info and great news! Can't wait

[Pezza]

problem with ghost now... how am i ment to ninja defuse?

Like come on... im not going to run around in circles... :P

[passay]

Does anyone know how many point streaks you can pick?

[Buttersoft]

looking more and more like TF2 every day...

[Venidici]

Originally Posted by NoKharma

Didn't need to read any further , Imacomin Ven

Imaready!

[Juganort]

Originally Posted by passay

Does anyone know how many point streaks you can pick?

Judging by the video it looks like its three again

[Juganort]

Hi all,

Some more interesting bits of info on Black Ops 2 Multiplayer, once again the info they have released all sounds awesome, like they are actually listening for a change. Still no word on what kind of server control we'll have. If you cbf reading it all then the best bits are:

No more deathstreaks, but a "Revenge Voice" instead. No more Last Stand, Final Stand, Second chance in any way shape or form.

This has to be one of the best pieces of news I've heard about BO2

Killstreaks loop around, if you reach the max killstreak then it loops to the beginning and you start again. You can earn the same killstreak again as long as you used it the first time around. In other words, you dont need to die to re-set your killstreak count.

Aggressive players gain more points than defensive players, ie you get more points for capturing a flag in CTF than you would if you were defending one.

Seems as if there is unlimited sprint in BO2.

There is a new system for unlocking gear as you gain levels and prestiges via use of tokens, 1 token unlocks 1 thing. get to 55 levels and you'll have received 55 tokens. When you prestige you get a token than lets you permanently unlock 1 item for every prestige afterwards. Much the same as "unlock gear" in MW3.

Read on for the full story

Lucky for us that Black Ops 2 Game Director David Vonderhaar took a little bit of time out of his busy schedule to answer some of 'em! In a recent podcast with Activision Social Media Manager Dan Amrich, Vonderhaar answers questions regarding Deathstreaks, Final Stand and a lot more.

Vonderhaar on Second Chance/Last Chance/Final Stand:

There’s no Second Chance; there’s no Last Stand, there’s no Final Stand. There’s no combination whatsoever of perk or deathstreak that puts the guy in the “downed” state in multiplayer. It’s still used as the revival state in Zombies when you get downed. But it’s not in multiplayer — there is no perk and there are no deathstreaks, so there is no Final Stand or equivalent of it. Absolutely not. Please stop yelling at me.

Vonderhaar or otherwise known as "Vahn" on looping scorestreak rewards. This could either be good or bad news depending on your point-of-view, but at least they adjusted it to not be exploitable.

It’s something we are pretty happy with at this point. It does wrap around, but you can’t earn more than one of a type. Let’s say you took UAV and Counter UAV. If you earned the UAV then earned the Counter UAV, you’re going to start buildingagain for the UAV — but if you haven’t spent it, if you haven’t called it in or activated it, you’re not going to get a second one. You’re just going to get notified that you’re back at that part of the chain. You would definitely want to activate those scorestreaks so when you loop, you’ll get them again. It’s not like Black Ops 1, which is they just keep going forever and you effectively have to die to loop. You don’t have to die to loop at any point; you’ll just keep looping.

Vahn on rewarding more aggressive players (ie: non-campers) with more score:

There are definitely events, particularly in objective-based game modes, where you are going to get more score for being on the aggressive side. For example, capturing a flag required you to get a flag in the first place. Those things are harder to do than, say, sitting at the back of your base, defending your flag. So those aggressive-style actions usually award more score, in general, because guys who are out trying to do those things die a lot more than the guys at the back of the field.

On hearing your downed enemy's mic for a few seconds after you killed them (dubbed "Revenge Voice by Treyarch)"

It’s an option that you can turn on and off in custom games. We gave it a name — “Revenge Voice.” It’s on in public games; we can turn it off in league play if we want. We love that thing — it’s funny.

Lastly, on leveling up and in earning new gear/equipment:

When you start at level 1, you will start leveling up and you will get to level 4. You will unlock create-a-class and you will have four unlock tokens, one for each level. You will then have a range of things you can spend those unlock tokens on — but not everything. By the time you’re up to level 55, you have — surprise — 55 tokens. So along the way, you’ve been deciding how to spend those tokens on content that’s been level-gated. Level-gated content includes all the weapons, all the perks, all the equipment — tactical and lethal grenades — as well as the wildcards. Those things are all level-gated and they all require tokens to unlock.

Bam, I’m level 55, I have 55 things from anything that was available in create-a-class — but only 55, because you only get 55 tokens and there’s over 100 pieces of content. That’s 1 through 55. You go and you Prestige…the way we’re looking at this right at this moment in time is, because you’re Prestige, you can pick out one of those things and hold on to it as you continue through the Prestige progression. So 1 through 55 is set in stone, we’re happy with it. What we’re working on right now is making sure Prestige feels just as good.

Now, keep in mind that Black Ops 2 is still a game in development and some of the stuff mentioned here could change before the game's released.