Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 to Have Ranked, Dedicated Servers

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Ranked dedicated servers have been confirmed for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 by Treyarch's director of technology, Cesar Stastny, via Twitter. Previously, Treyarch had been unable to confirm dedicated servers, but had showed enthusiasm. No dedicated servers for Modern Warfare 2 became a point of contention for players, and Modern Warfare 3 got halfway there having dedicated servers that were unranked.

Source: GameInformer

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[SaNE]

Not surprising, BO has ranked dedicated servers so it would make sense that the second installment would.

What people want to know is whether they are again going to be _only_ available through Gameservers which was utterly garbage for competition, the servers are and were lagtastic shitfest and their support was and still is less than useless.

[Spooler]

I know it's the most popular gaming franchise in town, but how many of the dammed things do you need !

Bring on hello kitty Island adventure 2 I say sick of brown shooters >.>

[Theyleon]

Not surprising, BO has ranked dedicated servers so it would make sense that the second installment would.

What people want to know is whether they are again going to be _only_ available through Gameservers which was utterly garbage for competition, the servers are and were lagtastic shitfest and their support was and still is less than useless.

You do know that all the Australian BO servers were hosted by Internode right...

Anyway, good news I suppose.

[Toasty Fresh]

My predictions: I'll have a lot of fun with it, all the fanboys will hate it because it's doing something original and too complex for their little brains to handle, and the series will die a much-deserved painful death. Everyone wins.

[korbain]

obviously it should be in every game (especially pc games), good to see these guys have some common sense. I have a lot more respect for these guys than IW. atleast they do things differently and as stated, use a thing lacking these days, common sense!

[SaNE]

You do know that all the Australian BO servers were hosted by Internode right...

Yes... It also doesn't change anything.

[Jez]

I really hope they lift some of the restrictions for ranked play... playing Search and Destroy with a winlimit of 4 for either side was really a drag a lot of the time. I don't think anyone really cares if some people run dodgy servers and get themselves to a high prestige quickly.

Here's hoping the balancing is better this time around too, would be good if the choice between weapons was one of tradeoffs and playstyle rather than there being one clear winner in most categories. I still remember how a silenced assault rifle could kill at any range in HC mode, really limited that mode for me.