Treyarch Dev Confirms Black Ops II Ranked Dedicated Servers on PC and Steam Pre-Order

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Ranked dedicated servers have been confirmed for the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

Treyarch’s director of technology Cesar Stastny made the announcement via Twitter earlier today:

Confirmed: Ranked Dedicated Servers for‪ #BlackOps2‬

Last year’s Modern Warfare 3 on the PC boasted dedicated servers as well, but only for unranked matches. The original Black Ops, however, featured dedicated servers for both ranked and unranked matches, though players were stuck paying out of their own pocket in order to rent and host one. It is not known if Treyarch will, once again, rent out servers through GameServers.com, as they did with the original Black Ops. Expect further details through an official announcement.

Earlier, Steam pre-order bonuses were also confirmed Stastny, though no further details were given.

I can confirm that there will be a bonus for all Steam preorders but it is not announced yet.

PREORDER BONUSES

NORTH AMERICA


Amazon Exclusive Pre-order Bonus:




“Pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops II and get access to the Amazon exclusive Call of Duty: Black Ops II Wallpaper. We will send you the URL to access the wallpaper within two days of placing your order. Offer valid when shipped and sold by Amazon.com. This offer will be extended to all existing pre-orders. Limit one per customer. Amazon reserves the right to change or terminate this promotion at any time.”









EB Games Exclusive 2-sided Poster:

(Same as above)

“Pre-order Call of Duty Black Ops 2 at EB Games before June 30 and receive an Exclusive 2-sided Poster. Stay tuned for more presell offers!”



Free Exclusive Dog Tags:




UNITED KINGDOM


Pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops II at Amazon and get the Amazon-exclusive Black Ops II Los Angeles Wallpaper:

(Same as NA Amazon wallpaper above)

“Get your desktop ready for battle with the Call of Duty: Black Ops II Wallpaper, featuring the Los Angeles skyline, masses of destruction and the new quadrotor gun.”






Tesco

If you head over to your local Tesco to pre-oder Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, you’ll receive this t-shirt for free if you are within the first 1,000 to pre-order.



(Thanks, Charlie INTEL)

Make sure to visit the official Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 website to see the full list of pre-order bonuses in all countries.

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[.AppleTree.]

Yay endlich kann ich wieder auf den abartig fragwürdig konfigurierten Servern von unfähigen Admins zocken welche mich kicken weil ich nen "guten" score habe da ja sowieso jeder über ner 1.5 er KD ein Hacker sein muss.

Nun ja ich hoffe das es nichr wieder solche spezialisten unter ihnen gibt die zb. Blendnades vdrerbieten, solche profi server gabs ja in BO 1 auch schon.

Ich hoffe sie lassen den Admins nicht zu viel Freiraum oder stellen eigene Server zur verfügung (nein ich bin nicht so naiv und glaube ernsthaft daran).

Finde das Lobby system eigentlich besser, denn da gibts keine 24/7 nur eine map. Und wenn das Spiel gut umgesetzt ist sollte es nicht nötig sein Waffen zu verbieten.

Natürlich kann man sagen das bei Lobbys die Host oft scheisse ist, aber jede hat seine Meinung und meine ist nunmal so das ich bei CoD die Server noch nie mochte.

MFG AppleTree