Activision and Treyarch´s Call of Duty: Black Ops III is about three months away now, and the beta is just around the corner. So we (The Gaming Ground) have collected everything that we know about COD: Black OPS III, and shared our thoughts and opinions about the game. So, please enjoy.
Activision has published a new patent that wants to create NPCs capable of reacting with AI-generated audio and animations in games.
Have people forgotten that the 'A' in 'AI' stands for ARTIFICIAL? As in not real, as in the opposite of realism? AI-Generated content is the opposite of realism.
Microsoft and Activision have announced a AA-focused splinter team, making Tango Gameworks' closure baffling.
Yea let’s shut down a AA studio that just put out a great game and open another AA studio out of nowhere. I swear Microsoft never make any sense.
Microsoft constantly talks about creating new studios but most of their titles end up coming from studios they just threw money at 🤷♂️
Remember when they hyped The Initiative as their Naughty Dog? It's been 6 years and we've seen a trailer....
Bottom line is the Xbox part of Microsoft is in a helluva mess. The pivots are snapping ankles.
Obviously the team that remained after so many left didn't meet the needs of MSFT. A new team is not unusual for new projects. Some of the old team moved on internally and we do not know where they all went. The resources elsewhere that were freed up could likely have even been a part what spun up this new studio. Resources move. Just not in Tango Austin anymore.
Employees from King and other parts of Activision have formed a new team within the Blizzard umbrella.
HELL YEAH!!!
According to rumors, Playground just formed its third studio and Obsidian is already working on it´s third unannounced upcoming game!
Just bring the games!
Im actually really enjoying it! Yeah level design philosophy is cack again but man its fun.
I'm sliding, shotgun merking people so much. The elite controller would be so useful for assigning the slide button to the paddle.
Good fun so far and netcode has held up for the most part
So I'm liking the BETA a lot more than I expected and Treyarch has maintained the throne as my favorite COD Dev. Before I thought this would be the first COD I'd skip MP, but I think I'll play it after all, just delay till early next year probably.
I know it's a BETA but there seems to be a lot of FPS, POP-in and Server Issues...THIS IS WHY WE HAVE BETAS so I hope they iron them out...not trash talk, just observation. Personally I think I will got with the X1 version because I like the controller better (and because I cancelled PS+)....so I hope if these issues exist on the X1 version in the final buid as well that they don't even try going for 1080p, just keep it Native 900p and make sure the FPS is flawless and there are no pop-ins (and hopefully the X1 version can use the Azure servers, but that's very unlikely honestly...it'll probably be the Activision ones like PS4 is using).
That being said, there are plenty of things I like that they did with the game, and I don't see any way that it's gotten "worse" but there are a few things I would have liked to see them do better that they didn't (like get rid of dropshots and make the maps more vertical).