Treyarch Confirms Dedicated Servers for Black Ops

[Andy Chalk]

Treyarch Confirms Dedicated Servers for Black Ops

Treyarch boss Mark Lamia has confirmed that Call of Duty: Black Ops [http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=77793] will have dedicated servers, saying he thinks they're really quite "excellent."

Dedicated servers are always fun to talk about. I'm not completely clear on what they actually are, but they seem to pit PC and console gamers against each other and that's good enough for me. A rumor [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/99511-Rumor-Call-of-Duty-7-Is-Black-Ops-Has-Dedicated-Servers] that the new Call of Duty game would support dedicated servers first went around at the end of March and now it's finally been confirmed as the truth.

"I think dedicated servers are excellent. I don't see any reason not to see them unless... well, I just don't see any reason not to," Lamia told CVG [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=246438].

"We do work very hard to reconcile the desire to manipulate and modify those dedicated servers with offering them the persistent experience and benefits that the console system provides," he continued. "We're working very hard to marry those two things, so people can run dedicated servers and also participate in the communal experience the console players get to have, given they're all on first-party servers."

Dedicated servers have been a point of contention since Infinity Ward maybe [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/95584-No-Dedicated-Servers-for-Modern-Warfare-2-PC-Fans-Freak-Out]."

Call of Duty: Black Ops hits the shelves in November 2010 for the PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii


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[xHipaboo420x]

Not playing until it's balanced for lean

Well it's a step in the right direction, although I've noticed that, from a purely casual PoV, MW2 didn't suffer massively for want of dedicated servers.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Treyarch are doing it right.

I hope.

 

[SturmDolch]

I'm actually glad there weren't dedicated servers in MW2. I didn't buy it because of that, but I recently got to try it on a free weekend on Steam. It's a terrible console port anyways, and I would have been sad if I wasted my money on it.

So this doesn't really make much of a difference. I see this as a quick publicity-beg to the PC crowd. At least Bad Company 2 had a dedicated PC developer team. Dedicated servers won't stop your game from being a shitty console port. They'll make it a less laggy console port, but still a console port.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Hopefully Treyarch listened to the criticism that Modern Warfare 2 got and made a better game. Possibly with an interesting story and memorable characters this time around.

 

[Kirkby]

Well its nice of Treyarch to try SOMETHING different from Infinity Ward

 

[uppitycracker]

Now if only they can actually make the game worth a shit....

 

[Emlyn]

Well that just solved the largest issue with Mw2. Goodbye hackers, hello (better chance of) enjoyable game.

 

[Flour]

Not playing until it's balanced for lean

Well it's a step in the right direction, although I've noticed that, from a purely casual PoV, MW2 didn't suffer massively for want of dedicated servers.

It's annoying to get in a really slow game though(random slowdowns, great for headshots but laggy). And from what I've seen in last weekend's steam MW2 multiplayer trial/demo, quitting means adding a loss. I don't know why anyone should care for that but there are even casual people that do care.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Good news,

bye bye hackers
bye bye 400 ping being the 'best' connection
bye bye 16 players
bye bye host advantage

Hello mods
And welcome back admins, we missed you so much!

I still want to know if it was Infinity Ward or Activision's decision to force peer to peer online play on Modern Warfare 2's PC port. Welcome back dedicated servers, the system with no disadvantages at all comapred to p2p.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

It's a start at least. Now how about this thing called balance. Good luck getting that right.

Oh and fix the fucking double shot glitch already!

 

[Asehujiko]

Is that guy in the picture carrying multiple assault rifles? That makes even less sense then dual smg/pistols in mw2.

 

[sneakypenguin]

O yay so instead of 30ms lag we get 30 ms lag...lol As long as theres matchmaking though it shouldn't be any different for me.

 

[Jared]

Well. I suppose not a bad way to go. Be able to control things more with the dedicated server problem

 

[DazZ.]

This is the first time any Call of Duty news has interested me for a long time, I will actually take a look at Black Ops now.

Hope it's actually a good game.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Yay? I doubt the console versions'll have them and those are the ones I'll probably end up buying.
Sorry, guys, you might list me off as a diehard MW fanboy who supports every decision of the series but I honestly had better luck with matchmaking than with the DS.

 

[Sikachu]

I'm not completely clear on what they actually are, but they seem to pit PC and console gamers against each other and that's good enough for me.

Now I understand that it criticising the staff can be one's suicide note around here but it can't be just me that was struck by the laziness of this. Could you have not asked someone else in the office to explain it to you, or looked it up on the internet, or got someone who did know something about the subject matter to write the news post?

 

[MR T3D]

still waiting on declared mod support before an official FUCK YEA, TREYARCH!

 

[DividedUnity]

Wow everyone complaining actually did something. Now we just gotta wait for Ubis evil drm to go then we can all live in happiness