RPs Shenanigans

MoP - Day Twelve

2012-04-18T22:52:00.001-07:00

After nearly two weeks of waiting, I finally got a good evening (and morning) alone with a semi working beta account. After completing the level 3 bugged out quest, I was able to continue into the rest of the Pandarian starting zone. I fought a karate master and then was sent to protect some chick while meditating - waves of weak NPCs flowed at her while the other two NPCs just killed them while I sat there and waited until the appropriate number were killed.

I was then sent to kill some monkeys who some how set fire to a Panda mans house, before being sent to confront my first element - Fire. I should mention that the entire point of the Pandarian 1-12 story line is that the island of Pandaria is actually on the back of a giant turtle, who is in pain and such, so you have to confront the elements and stuff like that before talking to him.

While traveling to the fire element, I had a second to check out my new abilities - Roll (rolls forward), an ability that does 50% more damage when my enemy is above half health, and another ability that does more damage and puts a DoT on the enemy when they're below half health. After pointlessly being buffed to a few thousand health and a few thousand damage to fight to get to the fire elemental, I had to travel to the main town of Pandaria, the temple of the five elements or something like that.

I won't go over every quest in the zone, but I basically traveled from element to element, gaining knowledge and also fighting those monkey fuckers who for some reason are able to be a threat to giant pandas; as well as rat men who undermined Pandarian fields and worshiped a giant carrot.

The quests themselves were not very memorable, kill and gather quests with a few flavorful ones thrown in, but overall nothing new to WoW. However, the quests themselves did seem extremely childish: dealing with the monkeys you read some of their teachings, including "Mouth only hole for banana" and "Poo is good for throwing, bad for eating" etc. There were also a decent number of pop culture references, but not nearly as many as Cataclysm (at least so far), so that's good.

After gathering the elements, you fly on a hot air balloon and literally speak with the turtle and he tells you 'there is a thorn in my side in the forbidden forest' or something similar. After flying a little further you realize an alliance airship has crashed into the side of the turtle and he's bleeding. You land and enter the forest where you meet, for the first time in Pandarian history, members of the Horde and Alliance.

After some meaningless gather/kill quests, you are sent to actually inspect the wreckage, where you find the naga are being general dicks. After killing naga and rescuing Alliance soldiers and gathering supplies, the main panda dude decides to remove the airship, where the screen simply cuts to black, you hear an explosion, then it fades back in to the airship being gone but a river of blood flowing out of the cut where the ship once was.

At this point, I reached level ten and got to pick a spec - Brewmaster (tank), Windwalker (DPS) or Mistweaver (healer). I've always been partial to tanking and figured it'd be easy to get into dungeons as a tank, so I chose Brewmaster. I was given a tank stance ability and the ability to throw casks of brew at no cooldown in a semi large area to debuff enemies, giving them a 3% chance per stack to hit themselves on melee instead of me.

You then have to protect menders while they heal the wound from waves of Naga until it is fixed. You return to the temple where a giant window flashes on the center of your screen reading 'ALLIANCE OR HORDE?'. I picked Alliance because I'm not an angsty teenager. After clicking it Alliance, the screen faded to black with the text "Video clip of balloon ride to Stormwind". I hop out of the balloon at the city gates and walk into the same Stormwind as cataclysm, all fiery and burnt out with not a single statue fixed.

After walking to the palace, Varian walks around with me, tells me if I want to be an Alliance I have to abide by their laws, and then tells me to fight him. I do, and the Pandarian quest comes to an abrupt halt. No chain or anything from the king, so I head to Westfall, killing Hogger on the way, get a few quests in the zone and realize Two-Shoed Lou is bugged.

I ground and changed zones, then qued for the random dungeon finder. Though it felt good to be tanking in a dungeon again, playing with five other identical monks took a bit away from it.
I got to level 22 or so that night, then realized I could simply copy over a level 85 monk and try out the new content, so that is what I most likely will do.

As I expect a lot of people tl;dr'd this, here's a summary:
-Decent zone with art work, but nothing special quest wise
-Pandarian seem extremely gimmicky, almost like a joke with no real substance to them
-Monks are pretty fun to play

I'll probably make another post in a few days with a more generalized list of impressions instead of a "walk through" like I did here.

MoP - Day Nine

2012-04-15T15:28:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately, the person with the MoP account I have been using has been away for the last few days so I have been unable to get the authenticator code from him, however other friends have confirmed that you can, in fact, get past the third quest in the zone now.

As always, GMod+TF2.

MoP - Day Five

2012-04-11T14:21:00.001-07:00

Yet again, the beta realms are offline, but it's on a Wednesday not the typical Patch Tuesday that Blizzard has.

Maybe this will mean the quests are fixed. Maybe. We shall see.

In the meantime, here's some more G-Mod + TF2 crazyness.

MoP - Day Three

2012-04-09T18:10:00.000-07:00

The quest is still broken. As are all gathering quests.
Hope fading.

On another note, here's this.

MoP - Day One

2012-04-08T00:17:00.003-07:00

All the people waiting for the bugged quest to get fixed

I logged on to Mists of Pandaria today after dealing with a finicky downloader off and on for the last few days. I was able to create a character I was happy with, and logged in. The first thing I was greeted with was literal planes of pink. The hottest pink you can imagine in vertical and horizontal planes to the point where you couldn't see very much at all. After asking in /s, I was told to turn the graphics from High to Good. That fixed it just fine.

I was greeted by a typical dojo-esque area, full of pandas, punching bags and Asian architecture - similar to the starting area of Wakfu, for those of you who have played it. The first quest was to talk to Master Something-China-y. He sent me to pick up some gloves and beat up punching bags. I did and returned and was given a belt. Then I was sent to beat up six trainees. Though slightly harder than inanimate objects, I managed to prevail.

Then I was sent to 'Fetch a scroll of eternal flame from the masters hand' (or something like that). I followed the endless waves of pandas up the stairs in the temple until I reached a little balcony with about four dozen pandas just standing around. After asking, I got the unanimous response of 'the quest is bugged, it won't spawn. They'll patch it.'

My monk training ended what seemed like before it began.
Maybe Monday will bring forth a patch (oh wait - then I have to deal with the patcher) to remedy this.

MoP Downloader

2012-04-07T16:10:00.000-07:00

Well. Thanks to a mix of slow internet (2 Mb/s max) and a super buggy beta launcher, I am yet to actually log in to the Mists of Pandaria beta.
The first night I started downloading and went to bed. When I woke up it was at about 3% - it crashed shortly after I went to bed.
The next five or so times I went to reset it, it would get stuck at Initializing or Synching files or something like that. I had to end a ghost process, delete the battle.net folder in ProgramData, and restart my computer in different combinations before it finally got going again.
Shortly after, it crashed again and I had to go through the same thing as above.
Today, it was at roughly 55%, so I decided to try logging in, seeing as you can play past about 10% and it downloads files in the background. After sitting on the 'retrieving characters' screen for about the ten minutes, the character creation screen finally popped up...and as soon as I clicked 'create new character' I got a critical error.
After doing the stuff above for about 10 more minutes, it finally started again. But this time, it started at 55% while in the setup stage (aka not able to play while background downloading), with optimal (playable) at about 85%.

tl;dr, extremely buggy launcher. 2/10 would not bang.
I should be able to - knock on wood - play and give some initial thoughts by tomorrow.

Mists of Pandaria Beta Access

2012-04-05T23:00:00.002-07:00

Today I gained access to the World of Warcraft - Mists of Pandaria beta. (I wasn't a sucker enough to buy a year of WoW - but luckily I have a friend who was). After the 20 GB download, I will be sharing my thoughts on it as I go through.

A little background on me - I have been playing WoW since November of 2004. I quit during patch 4.1 after doing all of the current content, came back in 4.3 with Scroll of Resurrection, got completely geared in 3 days, killed Deathwing, and haven't gone back.

My initial thoughts on it (after watching videos of the new instances etc):

1. Rehashing Old Content

Scholomance is being completely redone in a more streamlined manner, with some new bosses and some old ones.
Scarlet Monastery is being completely redone, turning the initial four into two (Graveyard and Cathedral have been combined, as well as Armory and Library)
Ragefire Chasm is being completely redone, with a little more depth and story to it, as well as new models such as the fire hounds used in the Firelands

To me this is a good and a bad thing, but mostly bad.
Scarlet Monasterys two lesser wings were quit lackluster, and needed to be redone or integrated.
Scholo was (and this may be nostalgia) pretty great on its own.
Ragefire Chasm was empty and boring, and I'm glad they're doing something to it as well.

HOWEVER - The fact they completely removed (I think) 10 bosses from Scholo is ridiculous. Granted, most of them were the minor ones before the final boss, but it was still a different style from the "Five major boss" style that almost every dungeon uses today.
I also don't like the fact it is completely linear now. A lot of the fun in it was being able to skip things you didn't want to do, and missing things if you went through it too quickly. I also don't like the fact that they introduced new bosses with similar names in the same locations.

This was done a lot in SM too. Mograine, Herod and Doan no longer exist, but they have same model counterparts with different names. To confuse you even more, Whitemane still has the same name.

Players are also unable to run the old dungeons ever again, which, in my opinion, is stupid. Developers should never release a dungeon, make it an integrated part of the game and story, and then trash it because it's old.

And, finally, it's fun to see old content again, but for christs sake Blizzard has done WAY to much of it recently - ZA, ZG, Deadmines, Ragnaros, SM, Scholo, RFC, Onyxia (twice), Nefarian... We get it Blizzard, you did something right at one point in time. It would be nice to see some new bosses from new content, like the Emerald Dream. Now stop glorifying it and do something else right!

2. Pandas
Where to start. Possibly at the fact that Pandas started pretty much as an April Fools joke by Blizzard, and were slowly bastardized into WoW game play. I'm not going to delve too much into that though.
Their racials (better rested experience, better well feed, +15 to cooking, reduction of fall damage) are all just terrible. Every other race has something that makes slightly different at end game - pandas just get a stat buff from the extra food. The fall damage will be unnoticeable and the bonus XP will be non existent. Overall, Blizzard just ended up Panda-ring.

3. Pet Battle System
I haven't seen much about the pet battling system, but I do know you can basically pokemon battle your minipets and are able to capture more by fighting them in the wild.
I really don't think I need to say more, though it may turn out better than expected. Is this still WoW I'm playing?

4. New Talent 'Trees'
Now, I know Blizzard has had a lot of issues with talent trees and the past, and this is understandable. Keeping everything balanced for a total of thirty specs seems like a near impossible task. But in my opinion, Blizzard dumbed it down a little too much. Instead of getting a talent every level past ten and being able to stick it where you want, you now get a (that's right, one) talent point every fifteen levels. You must spend it in one of three talents in that tree. You may not double up points in any tier of the six tiers of talents. This means at level ninety you have a total of six points, one per tier of the tree.
Some of them are a bit ridiculous, some are practically mandatory, especially for the spec you are going. The biggest thing, though, is that not many new things are being added. Almost all of the abilities were already in talent trees during Cataclysm.

That's all for now. Probably a tl;dr for a lot of you, but for those it wasn't, I would like to hear your thoughts as well!

Pokemon Dubstep

2012-04-04T04:23:00.000-07:00

Normally I close any YouTube video that has the words dub or stepin them, because they are usually "CoD 360 noskope montage" uploaded by xXBongHitZ420Xx, or because my ears can't handle them. This one was different.

Can I Be Honest with You?

2012-04-02T20:58:00.000-07:00

Saw part of this on Tosh.0, but didn't realize the whole clip was so long.
Pretty funny

Stick Figure LoL

2012-04-01T18:32:00.001-07:00

Continuing my trend of LoL, my friend linked me this and I thought it was worth a share

Dunking in League of Legends

2012-03-31T19:21:00.002-07:00

This is probably the greatest song to play while dunking in League of Legends.

For those who don't know, dunking is when you get boots 5 and stack Zeals which you eventually build into Phantom Dancers, with the summoner spells Ghost and Revive. The better dunkers are Yi, Jax, Trundle, Warwick, etc.
GOTTA GO SANIC!

Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2 - Mario Brothers vs Wright Brothers

2012-03-28T23:29:00.000-07:00

I had to take a break from blogging for some personal reasons, but I'm back
How's this for a first post?

I personally can't wait for their next video, nicepeter took a break for some tour.
Who won? Who's next?

WoW Cataclysm Teaser

2010-10-18T19:28:00.000-07:00

Cataclysm is coming out December 7, with the 4.0 patch out last week.
I don't know how many of my readers actually play WoW, but I'm interested to see what they think about all the new changes, as well as their impressions on Cataclysm.

Who Would Win?

2010-10-04T10:34:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, sorry I haven't been active recently, but I'm back! So heres the first new post in a while:

Given the following characters from different video games, movies, TV shows, etc.
Who would win?

Penis Bandwidth

2010-09-27T17:37:00.000-07:00

A human cell contains 75MB of genetic information. A human sperm cell 37.5MB. In a milliliter there are 100 million sperm cells. On average men, release during a single ejaculation, 2.25ml in 5 seconds. Given these facts, the average bandwidth of the penis is:

(37.5MB * 100 million cells * 2.25 ml)/5 seconds =
(37,500,000 * 100,000,000 * 2.25)/5 =
1,687,500,000,000,000 =
1,687.5 TB/s

Way more than my broadband Internet connection!

I laughed...hard.

Best of Whitest Kids U Know

2010-09-25T14:24:00.000-07:00

Warning - Strong Language
These are just the top three in my opinion, WKUK is great!

Hamlet

Cubicle Boss

Classroom Skit

4 Chord Song

2010-09-24T18:36:00.001-07:00

So simple but so many songs...Some were a little off but the point is made.

Lets get some nerdcore up in this hoe!

2010-09-23T15:45:00.000-07:00

Here's a little potpourri of some nerdcore. Hope you guys like it! I'll post download links if you guys want some of em.

boysdontcry - mc chris

Secrets From The Future - MC Frontalot (I love this one...you really gotta listen to it)

We Have Arrived - MC Lars & ytcracker ft. K.Flay and the Former Frat Boys
Shit pumps me up

crazyTOWN - K.Flay
Applies to a lot of you I bet ;P

Carry On - K.Flay (Live) Her voice is beautiful...Brings a tear to my eyes.

I gotta go for a bit, but I'll post some more if you guys like this. Let me know what you think!

EDIT: I saw this and shat myself...It's fucking epic.

More music vids

2010-09-22T17:57:00.000-07:00

Love The Way You Lie - Eminem ft. Rihanna

Magic - B.O.B.

Disturbed - Asylum

Airplanes - B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams

Music Poll

2010-09-21T19:05:00.000-07:00

Vote for the best song and band/artist in this past year!
inb4 beiber

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2010-09-21T17:16:00.000-07:00

Apparently some people use this website to make money off the ads...Can you believe it? Look at this table and it shows how much you can make by including simple keywords!

Almost all AdSense publishers are looking for the most expensive keywords. Let’s have a look at the top 100 most expensive keywords. But first let’s add 2 extra columns to the list: clicks/day and cost/day by Google AdWords estimation:

Keyword	Cost Per Click	Clicks/Day	Cost/Day
selling structured settlements	$64.81	0.1	$0.00
cash for structured settlements	$63.87	0.1	$0.00
auto insurance quotes florida	$62.57	0.1	$0.00
california auto insurance quotes	$57.34	0.1	$0.00
auto insurance quotes california	$57.01	0.1	$0.00
student loan consolidation interest rate	$56.86	0.1	$0.00
lendingtree .com	$56.35	3.5	$197.22
consolidate loan refinance student	$55.86	0.1	$0.00
audio conference calling	$55.32	0.1	$0.00
arizona divorce attorneys	$53.56	0.1	$0.00
dui attorney los angeles	$52.75	0.5	$26.37
business conference calls	$52.41	0.1	$0.00
personal injury attorneys chicago	$51.59	0.1	$0.00
mesothelioma treatment options	$51.31	0.1	$0.00
copper repiping	$50.94	0.1	$0.00
conference calling services	$49.65	1.0	$49.65
houston criminal lawyer	$49.59	0.5	$24.79
criminal houston lawyer	$49.59	0.5	$24.79
corporate conference calls	$49.35	0.1	$0.00
sell annuity settlement	$49.11	0.1	$0.00
student loan consolidation rates	$48.80	0.1	$0.00
irs tax attorney	$48.78	1.0	$48.78
california criminal defense lawyers	$48.38	0.1	$0.00
universal life insurance quote	$48.34	2.0	$96.68
san diego criminal lawyer	$48.30	0.1	$0.00
irs help	$48.27	4.5	$217.21
web based conferencing services	$47.80	0.1	$0.00
american tax relief	$47.37	0.5	$23.68
criminal defense attorney los angeles	$47.34	0.1	$0.00
pacific coast pillows	$47.24	1.0	$47.24
chicago personal injury lawyers	$46.81	0.1	$0.00
sell annuity payments	$46.73	0.1	$0.00
san diego criminal attorney	$46.61	0.1	$0.00
los angeles criminal defense attorney	$46.59	0.1	$0.00
data recovery seattle	$46.59	0.1	$0.00
student loan consolidation rate	$46.29	2.0	$92.58
college loan consolidation	$46.29	2.5	$115.72
dui attorney san diego	$46.04	0.1	$0.00
consolidate school loans	$45.94	0.1	$0.00
federal criminal defense attorneys	$45.86	0.1	$0.00
irs problem	$45.68	1.5	$68.52
mesothelioma lawyers	$45.48	2.0	$90.96
chicago injury lawyers	$45.22	0.1	$0.00
federal criminal lawyer	$45.18	0.5	$22.59
white water rafting maine	$45.18	0.5	$22.59
maine white water rafting	$45.18	0.5	$22.59
best home equity loans	$45.14	1.5	$67.71
universal life quote	$45.11	2.5	$112.77
consolidate college loans	$45.09	0.5	$22.54

Have you noticed that keyword price result in ZERO profit if there are no clicks? It’s cost/day (keyword price X clicks/day) that makes you rich, not keyword price itself.

Here is the list of the most PROFITABLE, not the most expensive AdSense keywords:

Keyword	Cost Per Click	Clicks/Day	Cost/Day
insurance	$17.41	49,893.5	$868,645.81
hotels	$3.52	200,636.0	$706,238.75
film	$2.88	183,044.0	$527,166.75
home	$3.89	102,282.5	$397,878.91
car	$5.09	52,069.5	$265,033.75
schools	$4.13	60,913.0	$251,570.69
acting	$2.28	106,337.0	$242,448.36
credit	$8.67	25,705.0	$222,862.34
cheap	$2.71	82,139.5	$222,598.05
digital	$1.70	130,607.0	$222,031.91
hotel	$2.38	84,776.5	$201,768.06
film schools	$5.64	35,501.5	$200,228.45
software	$3.23	61,259.5	$197,868.19
new	$2.17	90,415.0	$196,200.55
auto insurance	$29.48	6,453.0	$190,234.44
rental	$5.97	31,635.5	$188,863.94
free	$1.06	172,680.5	$183,041.33
travel	$5.02	35,084.5	$176,124.19
auto	$7.28	23,610.5	$171,884.44
video	$2.01	83,295.0	$167,422.95
mortgage	$13.03	12,172.0	$158,601.16
flights	$1.91	75,692.0	$144,571.72
editing	$2.37	57,747.0	$136,860.39
refinance	$20.01	6,827.0	$136,608.27
loans	$9.38	13,966.5	$131,005.77
uk	$1.43	86,623.5	$123,871.60
computer	$3.67	33,043.5	$121,269.64
buy	$2.06	58,840.5	$121,211.43
extended stay	$20.13	5,758.0	$115,908.54
home insurance	$18.75	6,152.0	$115,350.00
training	$3.60	31,112.0	$112,003.20
travel insurance	$11.29	9,861.0	$111,330.69
cars	$3.90	26,198.5	$102,174.15
debt	$9.17	11,104.5	$101,828.26
furniture	$1.76	57,463.5	$101,135.76

Katy Perry Videos

2010-09-21T17:09:00.000-07:00

California Gurls (ft. Snoop Dogg)

Teenage Dream

I'll upload more Katy Perry things soon, as well as other artists including the new Eminem ft. Rihanna, B.O.B. and more, including a bio and some more music videos! Just hold tight!

Black Ops Weapons

2010-09-19T10:51:00.000-07:00

I'll be adding a list of the (multiplayer) weapons tomorrow, stay tuned!

CoD: Black Ops Preview

2010-09-19T10:27:00.000-07:00

Call of Duty: Black Ops (also known as simply Black Ops) is the seventh main installment of the Call of Duty series and is currently being developed by Treyarch.^[2] The confirmation of the game's development was leaked by David Kim, a senior animator at Treyarch, in May 2009. Black Ops is said to be set in various locations, including Vietnam and Cuba, ^[3] and judging from weaponry and dates given in the trailer, it is set between 1960 and 2010. It is planned to be released on November 9, 2010.^[4] Treyarch has stated that Black Ops will be much grittier than Modern Warfare 2 and that the differences between World at War and Black Ops will be as significant as the differences between Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.^[5] The trailer released on May 18, 2010 indicated that the game will be significantly more story-oriented and will focus on military cover-ups during the Cold War. Treyarch has also said that Black Ops will feature considerably more stealth than any previous entries in the Call of Duty series.
Settings
Vietnam, Cuba, the Arctic, Laos and Russia have been confirmed as locations in the game.^[6]

Factions

Friendly
Studies and Observation Group

1st Cavalry Division

USMC

Enemy
North Vietnamese Army

Viet Cong

Russian Forces

Characters
Frank Woods - Member of the Studies and Observation Group

Hudson - Playable character and a member of SOG.

Mason - Playable character and a member of SOG.

Reznov - Returning from Call of Duty: World at War and a member of SOG.

Thomas - Playable character and the pilot of the SR-71 Blackbird in "WMD".

Weaver - Character in "WMD".

Swift - Character in "Victor Charlie".

Brooks - Character in "WMD".

Harris - Character in "WMD".

Kravtchenko - Antagonist conducting a black operation in Laos.

Bowman - Member of SOG.

Campaign

Missions
"WMD" - "WMD" is set in 1968 in the Ural mountain range. "WMD" features the SR-71 Blackbird and a new weapon, the Crossbow.^[7]

"Payback" - In "Payback," the player is able to pilot a helicopter.^[8]

"Victor Charlie" - "Victor Charlie" begins in a crashed helicopter, where the player must swim up the Huong River with only a knife.^[8]

"Slaughter House" - The action-packed mission "Slaughter House" takes place in Huế, Vietnam, in 1968.^[8]

Co-Op Missions
Black Ops will feature a dedicated co-op campaign, supporting up to four players, which uses different levels than the single player campaign.

The 4 existing zombie maps from Call of Duty: World at War will return as part of the Prestige and Hardened retail editions. ^[9]

Multiplayer

General
Highest level of rank is level 50 and prestige mode is still in online ranks.

Vehicles will return, but they will be very different than those in Call of Duty: World at War; some are now killstreaks as opposed to map items, such as the Chopper Gunner.

Some campaign levels will be based off multiplayer maps instead of the typical vice-versa. This change is because some multiplayer maps had been made before the campaign was finalized.

The PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops will feature dedicated servers. ^[10]

Players can now record, manage, edit and upload in-game video clips to their file share via "theatre mode."

Matchmaking is being changed so that it is easier for friends to play together.

In-game currency will be used to purchase weapons and upgrades.

In the Black Ops rank system, the player must level up to unlock weapons for purchase.

Split screen online for the Xbox 360 has been implemented.

Unlike in World at War, submachine guns will have full movement speed while aiming down the sights, as they did in most other Call of Duty games.

Maps
Summit

Launch

Radiation

Cracked

Gametypes
Team Deathmatch will return; however, points for headshots and other bonuses will be added to the team's score.

Capture the Flag

Search and Destroy

Demolition

Hardcore Team Deathmatch

Headquarters

Sabotage

Domination

Combat Training: Fight against enemy AI in a training mode.

CoD Points
CoD Points are a new major feature of Black Ops. CoD Points will become the new in-game currency and will allow players to buy weapons, attachments, and Contracts. In addition to this, players are also allowed to wager these points in certain game modes.
Contracts
Contracts are a new system in addition to the classic challenge system in Black Ops. A player is able to buy a contract with CoD Points, which will then direct them to complete an object. Completion of a contract will yield a higher CoD point payout than what was originally paid for the contract itself.

Wager Matches
A new mode with a separate ranking structure than the standard online modes, will allow players to gamble with their money. However, only the top three will receive the prize. They will be placed into one of four random modes:
One in the Chamber - each player is given a pistol with one bullet and a knife. For each kill achieved the player will receive one more bullet. However, each player will only have three lives.

Sharpshooter - each player is given the same random weapon. The weapon will be used for 45 seconds before being switched out for another one. Kills will award the player with perks and score multipliers.

Sticks and Stones - each player receives only a crossbow, ballistic knife, and a Tomahawk. The catch in this gamemode is that if the player was able to hit an enemy with a Tomahawk, the enemy player will go "bankrupted".

Gun Game - players start out with a pistol. For each kill they move up a level, granting them a better gun. First person to achieve kills with all 20 weapons wins. However, someone who is knifed will move down a level.

Create a Class
Create-A-Class 2.0 will allow players to customize their appearance in addition to their loadout. Players may see what their character looks like while choosing a class, as the player's basic appearance will be determined by their Tier 1 Perk. Players will also be able to choose a Facepaint pattern.

Some sights such as the Red Dot Sight can use custom reticules which includes choice of shape and color.

Gun camouflages will be featured in Black Ops and will be far more numerous than in previous Call of Duty games.

Players' clan tags are engraved onto their guns.

Killstreaks
3 kill streaks: Spy Plane, RC-XD

4 kill streaks: Counter-Spy Plane, SAM Turret

5 kill streaks: Care Package, Napalm Strike

6 kill streaks: Sentry Gun, Mortar Team

7 kill streaks: Attack Helicopter, Valkyrie Rockets

8 kill streaks: Blackbird, Rolling Thunder

9 kill streaks: Chopper Gunner

11 kill streaks: Attack Dogs, Gunship

PC-only information
The PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops will feature dedicated servers.^[11]

Modding tools and the leaning feature will return, though it is likely that the modding tools will come out a bit after the game has been released.

The PC version will be using Steam as DRM and will be using VAC as an anti-cheating tool.

Players can choose a server via a server browser screen or use matchmaking to send a lobby to a server chosen by the game.

Dedicated servers must be rented.

Unranked servers are completely customizable while ranked ones let the renter choose levels and gametypes.

Console-only information
Treyarch has confirmed that it will be close to impossible to use any kind of mods in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Matchmaking is being changed so that it is easier for friends to play together.

Beta
Activision has denied that a public beta for Black Ops will be released.