Black Ops Prestige Ranks

Prestige Ranks for Call of Duty Black Ops

The Jungle Zombie Trailer

New trailer for the Annihilation Zombie Map: The Jungle

Title Update 7: 2/28/11

• 2/28/11 (Title Update 7)
  
  Issues Addressed:
• • Matchmaking improvements to return higher quality results faster. This change includes settings that are tunable in the live environment, so tweaking may continue beyond initial release of this update.
• • The in-game store now hides DLC map packs that do not match the language of the player’s disc to decrease the possibility of users downloading the incorrect language version.
• • Calling in a Chopper Gunner immediately after getting shot down in a Gunship will no longer end the Chopper Gunner run prematurely. Required timing-specific button presses.
• • Split screen players are now able to change camera perspectives and cycle through players as a spectator.
• • Addressed an issue where the most recent match played in Zombies could overwrite the best match played on the leaderboard.
• • Improved Zombies lobbies to prevent players from erroneously receiving the error “Unable to join game session” under certain circumstances.
• • Addressed a number of community-discovered Zombies gameplay exploits.
• • Additional security feature updates.

iJustine does Grenade [Official Music Video] Call of Duty SPOOF Parody

New Black Ops Competitive Playlist

Competitive Playlist Details (Accessible via the “Bare Bones” category)

Disabled content within this playlist:

Killstreaks
• All

Perks
• Flak Jacket
• Second Chance
• Warlord

Launchers
• All

Attachments
• Rapid Fire
• Grenade Launcher
• Flame Thrower

Equiptment
• All

Tactical Grenades
• Nova Gas
• Decoy

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Frequently Asked Questions
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• No killstreaks.
• No equipment whatsoever.
• The playlist has a subset of the most competitive maps as agreed upon with members of the competitive community. It does include Escalation and First Strike maps. You can still vote.
• Minimum and maximum player counts are set up just like Team Tac. We recommend you go in with a party of 4.
• One might argue that banning Ghost is pointless, since the playlist has no Killstreaks taking Ghost gives no advantage.
• The playlist uses variant game mode rules. For example: Search and Destroy has a lowered game round timer, switches sides, and modifies the game mode timer.
• The playlist will be available with the next game update. As we are not 100% in control of when Microsoft or Sony will release the update providing an exact time is difficult.
• The video contains the list of banned weapons. All secondary launchers are banned; everything else fair game.
• Subject to some caps on the number of restrictions, the list of allowed/disallowed weapons, attachments, and perks is easily modified.
• We believe that both First Strike and Escalation have some competitive maps and want to see online leagues add them to the line up.
• Domination spawn delay should be set at 7.5 seconds.
• The playlist still impacts your stats.
• The playlist does not have it’s own leaderboard. That is out of scope since it’s made up of multiple game modes.
• Search and Destroy, Domination, and Capture the Flag are the principal game modes in the Competion playlist.
• Party chat is currently enabled.
• Search already uses a 1.5 round time limit.
• If the MLG unbans Rapid Fire and bans Steady Aim, we will consider making that change as well. However, it’s important to note that MLG is not the only competitive league. The Competitive playlist will be modified, as necessary, when the ground is common or be somewhere between the extremes.

Hidden Masters Black Ops Hiding Tactic

The Hidden Masters take camping to a whole other level. Watch more funny black ops hiding tactics on their channel. Keep in mind these videos are just for laughs. so please don't take it too seriously. Thank you and enjoy!

FAMAS Nerfed

After much criticism about the gun, David V has confirmed some adjustments will be made to the games number one used weapon:

From David Vonderhaar's twitter: 
http://twitter.com/#!/DavidVonderhaar 
DavidVonderhaar David Vonderhaar 

DavidVonderhaar David Vonderhaar Nerfed the Famas in next update. Srsly. #umadbro 18 Jun 

Changes: Tweaks on ADS raise time; Hip fire accuracy reduction; more gun kick (so less accurate) and slightly slower re-center speed. 

18 Jun   

 

New Annihilation Map Pack Behind The Scenes Preview

Treyarch has released a behind the scenes preview to the new map pack Annihilation.  Including 4 multiplayer maps and one new zombie map.

The names are below:

• Hangar 18
• Drive In
• Silo
• Hazard

Double XP June 10-20 for PS3 Escalation Release

PS3 is finally getting the escalation map pack.  To celebrate Treyarch is hosting another double XP weekend.  The double experience is valid for both Xbox & PSN networks.

Celebrities Play Black Ops:

Dropped on a mysterious, ice-covered Siberian island, Call of the Dead has players control a dream-team of zombie killers as they fight to survive an army of the Soviet undead led by the set-light wielding reanimated corpse of George Romero.
Call of the Dead, part of the Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation pack, stars playable versions of Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street), Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead), and Danny Trejo (Machete).


The Call of the Dead storyline is inspired by writer and director George A. Romero, who also stars in the level as himself, according to Activision. The game kicks off with players stranded on a shipload of the undead in Siberia. The gameplay here seems to show plenty of decapitations, eviscerations and movie-themed quips being dished out.


It's hard to tell what's gameplay and what's cut-scene in the trailer, but if it's all gameplay I'm catching glimpses of what appears to be a lot of new moves, weapons and attacks.


"This is Treyarch's tribute to the legendary George Romero, who truly defined the zombie genre and whose incredible work has been such an inspiration to our team." says Dave Anthony, Call of Duty: Black Ops' Director. "It was an absolute honor to work with such an amazing and talented cast whose passion and energy brought their characters instantly to life. Fans are going to love this."





Call of the Dead is part of the Call of Duty: Black Ops' Escalation map pack due out on the Xbox 360 on May 3 for 1200 Microsoft points ($15). The pack also comes with four new multiplayer maps: Zoo, Hotel, Convoy and Stockpile.

Title Update 8 - 4/28/11 - New Xbox 360 Black Ops

Hey 360 gamers,

We are listening to you and we’ve been busy working on updates based on feedback from the community. We have already deployed a number of updates, and there will be many more to come. Stay tuned right here for all the latest info.

LIVE FIXES

4/28/11 Title Update

• • Support for Escalation Map Pack (Releasing 5/3/11)
• • Security Updates.
• • Addition of banner-style Message of the Day on the MP Main Menu.
• • Addition of Hardcore FFA and TDM for Combat Training.
• • Additional sniper rifle tuning changes.
• • Addition of “Competition” Barebones playlist.
• • Replaced RPG with Grim Reaper in Gun Game Wager Match.
• • Prevent automatic weapons from jamming if the player is feathering the fire button on “Default Alt”, “Tactical Flipped” or “Nom4d Flipped”.
• • Fine-tuned napalm and bombing-run damage indoors.
• • Prevented rare invulnerability issue.
• • Additional game mode timer options for Custom Games.
• • Fixed a minor out of map exploit in Grid.
• • General Killcam and death-cam improvements.
• • Improved Auto-Assign reliability in Private Match.
• • Addressed an infinite “joining session in progress” screen under very specific timing conditions.
• • Demolition bombs can no longer explode and be defused at the same time.
• • Spy play now activates in One in the Chamber in all cases.
• • The “Sprint Kills” challenge for Steady Aim perk now rewards the player with the correct number of kills.
• • Contracts purchased but not yet expired no longer count as expired when viewing a friend’s player card.
• • Addressed a rare issue where a hacked camera spike would not function properly if the hacker also had a camera spike that was destroyed.
• • Recording a clip with the speed mode for 2 cameras set to .1 will no longer increase in speed when switching perspectives back and forth.
• • Improvements to Zipline functionality when viewed in Theater mode.
• • Settings from custom games are all cleared and no longer carry over from one custom match to another.
• • Improvements to map voting reliability in lobbies.
• • Nova gas will now affect players that are standing over their tactical insertion.
• • Hardcore players who kill another teammate in last stand now lose the proper amount of points.
• • Players can no longer transfer emblems/backgrounds from Combat Training to Player Match.
• • Player is no longer able to use a primary weapon in Second Chance (rare, specific instance).
• • Improvements to “Community” filters.

New Black Ops Map Pack - Escalation

New details regarding the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack have been revealed, via GAME Australia’s website. It’s difficult to garner too much info, but the pack in question is called ‘Escalation’ and looks to feature a new Zombies map, in addition to the new multiplayer arenas.

Once again, it’s tough to gather any real concrete info from this reveal, but a map… in a zoo? That’s bound to be… interesting. From the wording it also looks as though each map has been designed around specific objective based game types.

The date on the advertisement is May 3, but we’re unsure whether that’s just the date the expansion will go on sale at retail, or whether that’s the date it’ll go onsale digitally as well.

More news as we get it.

Machinima employee, Fwiz recently posted the following: "I recently went to the Treyarch Studio and sat down with David Vonderhaar to discuss a competitive playlist. Not everything could be implemented due to the game being shipped. However, we were able to come to a middle ground to arrange a competitive playlist that will replicate a competitive enviornment. Rule sets are a healthy blend of multiple leagues. We did the best we could to please all crowds. Please support this cause, as it is a stepping stone in the right direction for what we need."

Best Gametypes & Weapons for leveling quickly in Call of Duty Black Ops

Game types

Let me preface this section by saying that gaming is meant to be fun. If you don’t enjoy a game type, don’t play it. That being said, there are many game types within Black Ops for you to choose from and some of them offer a distinct leveling advantage over others that I will cover with you now.

HQ

The fastest game type to level within when playing with a winning team is Headquarters. Headquarters is an objective game type where 2 teams fight over a certain area. Once the area is controlled by one team they become the defenders of that area, and the opposite team becomes the attackers of that area. The attackers are trying to break the HQ by killing the enemy team and regaining control of the area. Once your team captures the HQ, you only have 1 life and if you die you will not respawn until the enemy team breaks that HQ.

Headquarters earns your entire team 50 experience for every 5 seconds that you have the HQ controlled. The game ends after 20 minutes or after a team controls the HQ for 250 seconds total. 50 XP for every 5 seconds that you control the HQ turns out to be 2500 XP per player on the winning team not including task specific bonuses like kills, captures, challenges and contracts.

It is not uncommon for players to earn 10,000 XP for one game of Headquarters, in fact I was able to earn 44,451 experience for one game of Headquarters alone! (That is like leveling through all of level 41 in one game!)

S&D

The second fastest game type to level with is probably Search and Destroy. S&D is a one life bomb based game type which is played in rounds (Best out of 7). The main advantage of S&D is that you earn a ton of experience for kills and objectives when playing. A kill in S&D is worth 500 XP, an assist is worth 250 XP, and a plant or defuse is worth 500 XP. As you can see if you had a really good round and killed all 6 players plus planted/defused the bomb you would earn at least 3500 XP in that round alone. The downside to playing S&D is that it can be a double edged sword. If you are bad at S&D and don’t get very many kills/plants/defuses you will hardly earn any experience and end up just watching other players for the majority of the game.

I personally don’t like Search and Destroy because I tend to rush a lot and die early to a strategically placed claymore or frag grenade but some of my friends almost exclusively play S&D and level really well when they play it. One more thing to mention about S&D. Search and destroy gives round bonuses not match bonuses and the round bonus multipliers are bigger than in any other game type. (x2 for a win, x1.5 for a tie, and x1 for a loss)

All other gametypes

Now all the other game types have their pros and cons. In fact I enjoy playing a variety of game types when leveling up as it keeps things fresh and allows for different play styles depending on the game. But I would reserve all the other game types for situational circumstances only.

For example, if there is a demolition contract to win 1 game without allowing the other team to detonate a point, go ahead and spend 10 minutes completing that. It is worth it in the long run. Also, there are game type specific challenges that can be completed when you unlock them. For example, did you know that you will earn 3000 XP for completing 2 challenges just by winning 2 games of sabotage in under 2 minutes? (Sabotage is one of the fastest game types out there when you have a good team)

There are also certain challenges that are much easier to complete on certain game types. For example, all of the final killcam challenges are much easier to get when playing free for all. Because FFA ends at 30 kills simply race to 29 kills with your best weapon and then call in all of your killstreaks at the end to try to get the final killcam with your killstreak. Each final killcam challenge is worth 2500XP, that is a very quick way to get some massive XP at later levels.

Class setups & weapons

Class setups are extremely important to leveling up quickly. One of the biggest mistakes players make when trying to level up quickly is that they pick a weapon and perk setup that they enjoy and stick with it through an entire prestige. Not only does this seem boring to me, it also leads to a whole slew of potential experience that you are missing out on. I am going to outline the main ways in which you earn experience through your class setups below:

Weapon Challenges

Each primary weapon in the game has 2 basic weapon challenges, the marksman challenge (kills) & the expert challenge (headshots). These challenges are progressive in that you start off on tier 1 with only 10 kills required to earn 250XP and then each tier the amount of kills required to complete and the XP rewarded increases. Looking at the chart below you can see that the XP per kill is the best at 1000 kills per weapon. Weapon types and weapon attachments also have a similar tier challenge. Weapon types reach it’s peak XP per kill at 2000 Kills and weapon attachments reach their peak at 1000 kills.

Kills	XP	XP/Kill
10	250	25
25	500	33.33
75	750	15
150	1000	13.33
300	2000	13.33
500	5000	25
750	7500	30
1000	10000	40
1500	10000	20

So what’s this all mean to you? Basically, try using a primary weapon with the same attachments until you get the 1000 Kill challenge for your weapon and the attachment. Then move onto a new primary weapon using A DIFFERENT attachment until you again get the 1000 Kill challenge for your weapon and attachment.

The Call of Duty Black Ops Leveling System

The Call of Duty Black Ops Leveling System

First of all, to understand how to level quickly you need to understand how the Black Ops leveling system works. There are 50 levels in a prestige, each level requiring exponentially more experience than the one before. I have included a table below to show you exactly how much experience is needed to reach each level as well as the percentage of the prestige that is completed when you reach that level.

As you can see the total amount of experience necessary to prestige is approximately 1.25 million XP. When you reach level 25 you are actually only 18% of the way through the prestige experience wise, so the first 25 levels are going to go by much faster than the last 25 levels.

Level	Rank Title	Min XP	XP to Next	% Complete
1	Private	0	300	0.00%
2	Private	300	900	0.02%
3	Private	1200	1500	0.10%
4	Private First Class	2700	2100	0.21%
5	Private First Class	4800	2700	0.38%
6	Private First Class	7500	3400	0.59%
7	Specialist	10900	4100	0.86%
8	Specialist	15000	4800	1.19%
9	Specialist	19800	5500	1.57%
10	Corporal	25300	6200	2.00%
11	Corporal	31500	7100	2.50%
12	Corporal	38600	8000	3.06%
13	Sergeant	46600	8900	3.69%
14	Sergeant	55500	9800	4.40%
15	Sergeant	65300	10700	5.17%
16	Staff Sergeant	76000	11800	6.02%
17	Staff Sergeant	87800	12900	6.95%
18	Staff Sergeant	100700	14000	7.98%
19	Sergeant First Class	114700	15100	9.09%
20	Sergeant First Class	129800	16200	10.28%
21	Sergeant First Class	146000	17400	11.56%
22	Sergeant Major	163400	18600	12.94%
23	Sergeant Major	182000	19800	14.42%
24	Sergeant Major	201800	21000	15.98%
25	Lieutenant	222800	22200	17.65%
26	Lieutenant	245000	23500	19.41%
27	Lieutenant	268500	24800	21.27%
28	Captain	293300	26100	23.23%
29	Captain	319400	27400	25.30%
30	Captain	346800	28700	27.47%
31	Major	375500	30100	29.74%
32	Major	405600	31500	32.13%
33	Major	437100	32900	34.62%
34	Lieutenant Colonel	470000	34300	37.23%
35	Lieutenant Colonel	504300	35700	39.94%
36	Lieutenant Colonel	540000	37200	42.77%
37	Colonel	577200	38700	45.72%
38	Colonel	615900	40200	48.78%
39	Colonel	656100	41700	51.97%
40	Brigadier General	697800	43200	55.27%
41	Brigadier General	741000	44800	58.69%
42	Brigadier General	785800	46400	62.24%
43	Major General	832200	48000	65.92%
44	Major General	880200	49600	69.72%
45	Major General	929800	51200	73.65%
46	Lieutenant General	981000	52900	77.70%
47	Lieutenant General	1033900	54600	81.89%
48	Lieutenant General	1088500	56300	86.22%
49	General	1144800	58000	90.68%
50	Commander	1202800	59700	95.27%
Prestige	Commander (Maxed)	1262500	-	100.00%