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Black Ops Bots Add More Botty-ness to CoD

Written by Jesse Lifshitz

Published on 03 November 2010

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{sidebar id=1}Remember back in the day, before Xbox Live took off? It seems like decades ago, but something has gone missing since then, multiplayer bots. Those little AI enemies that I used to spend hours fighting against in 007 Nightfire have performed a vanishing act from mainstream games. Rather, I’m delighted to say they had disappeared. While thumbing through an OXM preview, it stated that Call of Duty Black Ops will include bots.

Call of Duty will have a Combat Training mode in which players can play against up to eleven bots in a wide range of multiplayer modes. Since it is meant to teach players multiplayer game modes and maps, everything will be available in Combat Training making it virtually offline multiplayer. It can accommodate any variety of live players and bots, allowing for you and your friend to play full six vs. six matches. There is one catch though; Treyarch is requiring an internet connection to utilize the mode, although it is unknown if it requires an Xbox Live Gold subscription.

This finally marks the inclusion of an accessible multiplayer Mode. It would make sense for gamers to be able to switch bot attributes like speed, health, and overall skill. What if Combat Training had the same options as Halo Reach’s Firefight? It would be the perfect remedy for those who can’t play the twitch happy multiplayer.

The mode will also serve the punching bag role; it will be there for people when they just want to steamroll someone. Personally, I’m not always looking for a competitive multiplayer game; there are times when I just want to dominate a match and get out my frustration. Combat Training will let me do just that.

The mode also has its own progression system as not to be a quick level up fix for the all new Call of Duty Points system. The new leveling up system turns your armory into a store front. You no longer unlock weapons as you gain ranks, but rather receive in game cash that you can use to purchase new perks, weapons, camouflage, and everything in between.

With all these new features, and the return of zombies, Black Ops is shaping up to be the best Call of Duty yet.

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0 #2 COMMENT_TITLE_R E Black Ops Bots Add More Botty-ness to CoD — puckett101 2011-03-28 03:29

Wait ... there are cheaters in CoD?!?!?!? Paying for apps that allow them to cheat undetected and with no reaction?!?!?!? SOMEONE TELL BOBBY KOTICK THAT SOMEONE'S MAKING MONEY AND IT ISN'T HIM!!!!!

0 #1 COMMENT_TITLE_R E Black Ops Bots Add More Botty-ness to CoD — HAWK33 2011-03-28 02:31

Well after playing the black ops online...well trying to anyway.. 3 of the 4 servers I went to had hackers in it.. meaning aim bots and wores, I saw a death cam of me being tracked right through a house in Nuketown and shot through the floor from the upper level first room of one of the houses, then another I can up behind someone and they turned in a split second and the sights of the gun stopped perfectly on my head, no slight floating like a human was in control, I was bumbed, then I found the site where you can buy the online cheats that Valve anticheat and punkbuster can't seem to do anything about, I even sent them the page and nothing was ever done,, guess they are just to busy counting the money they took from us for one of the worst new games I have had the misfortune to wates my money on, So I took back my copy and told the store that it was defective disk and got a new copy and key and sold it to get some of my money back and now I use my old disk as a coaster and will never waste money on a game like this again,, even the perspectives in the bots game is lame, I was peaking barely around a corner and was shot by an AI and in the kill cam it shows more than half my body sticking out and I could barely see him.. not the laws of physics I know of,, I think the moron who set that up in the game must have fell asleep during his geometry class in school.. bottom line.. Black Ops SUCKS!! can't wait for BF3

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