Quick Scoping Eliminated for COD: Black Ops

It seems some game play complaints have found their way to the top! Josh Olin, Community Manager at Treyarch, has confirmed that quick scoping will be no more. For those not familiar, quick scoping, as it came to be known, is a combination of Auto Aim and Sleight-of-Hand to give the sniper the advantage of very little draw time. Shouldering and aiming the rifle happens in an instant, and the competitive advantage this provided soon became apparent. Love it or hate it, it's gone.

Olin responded to a comment on twitter with the following:

"No. Quickscoping is a cheap way to play. We're specifically going to gimp Quickscoping, sorry. Play straight-up!"

Black Ops: Search and Destroy Gameplay

Here's some new footage of the new Call of Duty: Black Ops, Search and Destroy.

Black Ops: New Capabilities

Josh Olin, Community Manager at Treyarch has written to confirm some little-known facts about the capabilities of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Original article here.

To summarize, here are some new capabilities added for Call of Duty: Black Ops

• Online split-screen multiplayer
• Connect a second controller and bring a guest online
• Achieve Guest rank-ups, unlocks etc. that will be removed when the guest signs out
• Fully customizable games called the "Custom Games Editor" with the ability to share these custom games online
• In-Game Friends List to navigate friends lists, files shares, recent games, combat records, send game invites and join friend's games
• Regional Matchmaking and Party Privacy to allow gameplay restricted by geographic region, invite-only game play and friends-only game play
• Emblems DO NOT rest with Prestige

Suprize Attack Trailer

GameStop is running a sweepstakes for all those who pre-order through their store. Here is the GameStop released trailer for the promotion. We also get a glimpse of the new map "Array."

More info at GameStop

Call of Duty: Black Ops to have 50 Ranks, 15 Prestige Levels

 As November 9th nears, more info about Black Ops is coming to light. David Vonderhaar at Treyarch wrote a post on CoD HQ stating each of the 15 Prestige levels will contain 50 ranks.

“Ironically this wasn’t supposed to be any sort of big secret.

 However once a lot of people started trying to piece it together from the various videos it started to become fun. The more people that spammed me on Twitter and here, the longer I was going to wait.

However, I decided to spill the beans on Wednesday after reading a post by COD HQ user thePGTipsy where he suggested it was 15, but proceeded to give compelling (and largely accurate) evidence as to why he believed it.

Only 50 levels in the game, folks. If you work the math out (and some of you have) people who like to go to max Prestige will get more rewards along the way because of the extra 5 levels … but this doesn’t necessarily mean it will take you any longer or become any more of a grind than it has been.”

 David ‘Vahn’ Vonderhaar”