Vandaag zijn er weer wat extra feitjes naar buiten gekomen over de multiplayer van Call of Duty: Black Ops. Zo meldt Vahn, developer bij Treyarch, het volgende over de game.

Multiplayer challenges zullen gewoon blijven bestaan. Niet op de manier zoals de challenges zijn geformuleerd in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, maar op een iets andere manier. 'Finishing moves' die we kennen van Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 zullen ook gewoon terugkeren. Ook zullen er 'lifetime challenges', die niet gereset worden na prestige, voorkomen in de multiplayer van Call of Duty: Black Ops.

"I think people are going to be pretty happy what we did with the stats system in this game. If you played World at War and ever visited the web site, you'll know we had a pretty insane stats web site. Now a lot of those stats are also inside the game in what we call the Combat Record. It's 5 tabs of goodness."

Het maximale prestige aantal is niet 10. Het precieze aantal is nog niet bekend.

"A really good player can get to level 50 playing TDM nearly exclusively in about 20-12 hours. This data is based on a really good player who did it and it should be fairly representational. Our goal was a good ++ player doing it 24 hours, so we feel good about the tuning.
As for the Prestige levels? Well. We'll see. We have a really good idea what the final number is but nothing is ever final final until it's final so if I tell you and it changes, you'll just say I deceived you. I stand by what I said. It's not 10."

Ook heeft Vahn het over het feit dat je deuren kunt openen en sluiten in de multiplayer. Vahn legt uit:

"The doors that open and close are in the ground, they are not doors you walk into, they are doors that open up in the ground so you can drop down to another part of the map, and the doors are in the middle of the map in the open." 

Ook vertelt hij dat de deuren interactief zijn en liet hij een screen (klik) zien van wat hij bedoelt met de deuren. Hij vertelt verder:

"We have one map which has a giant set of horizontal doors that can be opened and closed. This subtle change has impact largely in objective based game modes. Depending on this game mode and what objectives you are taking or defending will determine if you want them open or closed. The door has two switches on opposite side of the maps with a site line between them. Finally, the switch is on a timer. You can't instantly open if it just got closed. The gameplay impact is very finessed (as it should be).

Not every door can be opened and closed. Like previous games, they are forced open, don't exist, or are closed. They are used for map flow control and pacing."