Darryl Linington from ITF Gaming writes: For the past few weeks a group of Gamers, located in South Africa, have mentioned how they have been battling to find online matches in Call of Duty Black Ops 2. This has forced these players to switch to local play in order to play against bots instead.
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Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
Many players on social media are now reporting unannounced matchmaking fixes have been put in place by Activision ranging from Call of Duty 3 to Modern Warfare 2 to Black Ops 2, on Xbox 360. Players are reporting that player counts are updating, lobbies forming, and matchmaking times have been reduced. Neither Activision nor Microsoft have commented on the matter when reached out to at this time. This is currently impacting both 360 and BC versions of the games. PS3 is not affected at this time.
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Multiple users coming forward saying the games are finally working again after years of server issues. Note that not all issues such as player counts are totally fixed at this time however matchmaking is fully working again. With legacy Call of Duty games releasing on Game Pass within the next 2 years, it does make sense for these servers to eventually be corrected. Good to see the preservation of these legendary games. Hopefully PS3 receives the same treatment for these legacy titles!
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Imagine that.
Conspiracy theory: MS have been planning on purchasing ABK for a long time. They let Sony outbid them for having console-exclusive CoD stuff/being first for certain dlc so the PlayStation player base would increase.
Years later, MS buy ABK, with plans to make CoD either exclusive/platform exclusive features etc with the release of a new console (Xbox Series X2?) So the established CoD player base migrates over to their platform, taking a huge percentage off Sony?
Wild theory
Game Rant Writes "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has been available for 10 years, and in that time, no other entry has topped its weapon balance and variety."
Although Black Ops 2 is one of the more loved entries in the series, there seemed to be an overall lack of recoil when I played back in the day, which made the guns feel toy-like. The overall art style didnt really sit well with me at the time either. A bit too cartoony. I think zombies could have been cool, but on the PS3, playing splitscreen made the frame rate drop to unplayable levels.
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Well they can't be worse than some of the bulk of real players
I do this quite often when no friends or clan mates are on. While it isn't as hard as real players, it is nice not having to worry about some green guy shooting me in the back to steal my care packages. And if you set the bot difficulty to max, you will get better practice. They dont miss when your sighted. Plus you get access to all weapons, attachments, scorestreaks, etc.For fun set the difficulty to easy and play with the scorestreaks
I'll play bots in Custom Games and set them to Hardened or Veteran and let me tell ya, there are times I curse them because of the sniper shots they get. Since I reached Master Prestige, I find playing against bots more entertaining since whenever I play objective games with real random players, most of them run into corners and pad their precious k/d ratio. I play the objective and don't care if I go negative for as long as I cap the domination flag and defend it etc etc.