Black Ops: No Beta No Zombies?
To Beta or not to Beta
Treyarch has shot down increasingly hot rumours that a Call of Duty: Black Ops public beta is set to arrive on Xbox Live and PSN.
Speaking at the Black Ops multiplayer reveal event in LA this morning, Treyarch community man Josh Olin confirmed that Activision’s not planning a public beta at the moment and said that current console trials are “internal only”.
“We’re already doing an internal beta with all sorts of Activision studios – thousands of people are participating in our beta,” he said.
“That’s the only formal beta that we’re planning at the moment. There were a lot of misconceptions, confusion and Google ads. There was some speculation that we’d be launching a public beta tonight – that’s not happening. The beta is internal only right now.”
He added: “Keeping it internal is very helpful for us. It allows us to move a lot faster on our builds, so if we want to change something we can easily push out a new build within the company to anyone who has one of these dev kits.
“Call of Duty is so much this big mainstream thing that everybody at Activision is playing this game.”
What, No Zombies?
Another disappoinment to surface was the lack of zombies this time around. Treyarch community man Josh Olin said the developer only has “little things” left to reveal on the multiplayer side. We can’t talk for it, but we wouldn’t class Zombies as a “little” feature.
“This is pretty much it,” Olin stated. “There are still some other little things that we haven’t talked about yet but will at a later date, but this is pretty much the whole caboodle.”
Asked if that means Treyarch’s shown all major features for Black Ops, Olin replied: “Yes, this is what we’ve been working on for the past two years,”
Last month a retailer listed Black Ops zombie maps as freebies included with the game’s special edition. And we think they’ll make it to the game no matter what everyone else is saying. Just wait and see!
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