When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works

Home / News / Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’s multiplayer mode exposed

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’s multiplayer mode exposed

Scorestreaks to replace killstreaks and livestreaming to come to the fore in Treyarch’s upcoming shooter

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 developer Treyarch has just lifted the lid on the upcoming first-person shooter’s multiplayer mode – and there’s some unexpected stuff there.

Having briefly shown us the multiplayer in motion with last week’s trailer, Treyarch has now revealed that killstreaks (which rewarded players with powerful bonus attacks and the like for slaying a certain amount of enemies without dying) are being replaced by “scorestreaks”. The idea is to reward you for every positive action you pull off, not just kills – so flag captures, assists and even protecting your teammates using a riot shield will all contribute to a streak.

Streak rewards include flying drones, heavily-armed robot tanks and a turret that emits microwaves to slow down any enemy that comes close.

Then there’s the livestreaming feature, allowing you to broadcast your Black Ops 2 games live over the Internet. It’ll be available for both console and PC gamers, and shouldn’t require any extra features (although you can use a USB camera if you want to be in shot yourself along with the footage).

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 goes on sale in November.

[via Kotaku]

You might also like

LG Optimus Vu finally going on sale

New video! BMW goes for green with its C evolution E-scooter

Scent capturing printer could make for some interesting postcards

Profile image of Dan Grabham Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

About

Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

Areas of expertise

Computing, mobile, audio, smart home

Enable referrer and click cookie to search for eefc48a8bf715c1b ad9bf81e74a9d264 [] 2.7.22