The official learned that as early as 2021, Activision Blizzard launched a new Ricochet anti-cheat system, but cheaters continue to look for system loopholes and create new ways to sabotage the game, it can be seen that this is a protracted battle.

Ricochet’s anti-cheat system typically uses a unique and efficient method of identifying and counteracting cheaters. Rather than cutting connections and blocking players immediately upon detection, the system responds to cheaters with countermeasures designed to eliminate any unfair behaviour.

Strategies include damage shields, which counteract the damage output of cheating players, blocking non-cheating players from seeing cheating players, and even disarming cheaters.

Recently there has also been a new “Illusion” feature that can distract cheaters with false player targets while collecting data. It is understood that these decoy characters can only be seen by cheaters recognized by the Ricochet system.

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It is worth mentioning that this free trial will come with the “Reloaded” version update tomorrow. That means more new maps and modes when the demo opens, including a new map called Himmelmatt Expo, as well as other core 6v6 maps (Farm 18, La Armas Marketplace, Unloading Yard, and Radar Station).

According to reports, players will also be able to play the first raid mission Atomic Grenade on standard difficulty, where the second chapter of the raid mode will also arrive in tomorrow’s update.

The following maps and modes will be available during the free trial period.

• Core (6v6) maps: Farm 18, La Armas Marketplace, Loading Dock, Dome, and Himemant Fair (new map)
• Core Modes: Team Deathmatch, Stronghold Battle, Capture Battle, Kill Confirmed, King of Arms, Infection Battle, One Shot Only, Lone Ranger
• Battle map: Saint Siena
• Battle Map Modes: Ground War, Invasion
• Special Ops: Atomic City – Special Ops Raids Part 1 (Normal difficulty only)

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II 2022 multiplayer free-to-play event runs from March 17 at 1 a.m. to March 21 at 1 a.m. and requires additional content downloads to play, as detailed in the official description.

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Among them, “Eirden Circle” is a dark fantasy style ARPG game developed by From Software and published by Bandai. This is a new action RPG jointly developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment and FromSoftware following the “Dark Soul” series.

The official introduction shows that “Call of Duty 19” brings advanced gameplay, brand-new gun control, an advanced AI system, brand-new ordnance transformation, and other innovations in gameplay and graphics. War series gaming experience has been raised to the latest heights.

Steam sales ranking last week:

1. Steam Deck
2. “Elden’s Ring”
3. Call of Duty 19
4. “Standby”
5. “Cyberpunk 2077”
6. “High On Life”
7. Red Dead Redemption 2
8. God of War 4
9. FIFA 23
10. “Grounded”

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Call of Duty OL is “dead”, perhaps more meaningful than it is “alive”

Not long ago, “Call of Duty 19: Modern Warfare 2” was officially released. It’s not unusual for console manufacturers to release their annual products every year, but in the context of the industry this year, Call of Duty 19 seems extra special.

First of all, Call of Duty 19 is the first Call of Duty series launched after Microsoft announced its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and now, Sony and Microsoft are bickering over whether Call of Duty will be exclusive in the future in the European antitrust review, and the excellent performance of this work breaking one billion dollars sales in ten days is undoubtedly adding another fire to this fight.

Secondly, for Chinese gamers, the Call of Duty series has finally ended its long career as a “lock-in” on Steam, which is an unmissable user for both Microsoft and Sony.

As I mentioned in the article “Global Talent Rally, Tencent, NetEase, and MihaYu are seeking further cooperation with Xbox and Sony, and the future of the console game market is full of Chinese manufacturers.

It can be said that the “Call of Duty” series is a concentrated projection of the new trends of the global game industry at present, mergers and acquisitions, exclusive vs all-platform, subscription systems…… and of course “Call of Duty: Handheld”, a vivid case of end to hand an introduction to go out again.

And there is a particularly unique presence in the Call of Duty family – Call of Duty Online. While the other brothers stand in the spotlight, it has ushered in the fate of discontinued service last year.

From Buyout to F2P
Just before the release of Call of Duty 19, Enrico D’Angelo, former VP of Activision’s publishing division and current VP of Roblox products, posted an article on Deconstructor of Fun called “Call of Duty: Online is dead. Long live Call of Duty: Online! The article was published on Deconstructor of Fun.

In the article, he reviewed the history of Call of Duty OL from inception to development to operation, described the difficulties encountered by the development team and the solutions, as well as the impact of Call of Duty OL on the Call of Duty series.

The reason why we are reviewing Call of Duty OL at this point is that it is a typical case of moving from the buyout system to F2P, from one-time output to long-term operation, and successful brands entering the Chinese market from overseas markets.

Now, with overseas console manufacturers moving towards mobile and domestic manufacturers starting to counterattack the console side, the former is trying to do exactly what Call of Duty OL has done. For the latter, it is a completely opposite logic, but we can also deduce some experience and doorway from it.

Whether it’s end-to-end or hand-to-end, importing or going out, Chinese manufacturers will play a key role in it. Therefore, the case of “Call of Duty OL” is very meaningful to the current game industry.

If we look at it from today’s perspective, what the Call of Duty series had to do to enter the Chinese market was just some localization operation and distribution work, and it seemed a bit superfluous to go through the trouble of making a game for the Chinese market alone.

At that time, PC gamers were the absolute main force in the Chinese game market, and even many gamers did not have enough performance devices and mostly chose to play games in Internet cafes, and the console market was small and there were no formal channels to sell them. At the same time, due to consumption habits and piracy problems, there was almost no way out for buyout games at that time.

Therefore, if Activision wanted to successfully promote the COD series in China, it had to launch a F2P version of Call of Duty. At the same time, the design of the new economic system also made the production team need to change the previous development and operation model in the Call of Duty OL project.

Interestingly, at the beginning of Call of Duty OL’s development, you will hardly find a successful 3D free-to-play FPS game in the European and American markets. Therefore, the biggest “rival” of Call of Duty OL happened to be Cross Fire and Tencent’s Counter-Strike, which are also distributed by Tencent.

As for why Tencent launched three similar shooting games in a row, Xu Guang, the general manager of Tencent’s shooting game product department at the time, said, “The positioning and user groups of these products are very different, CF is a more mainstream game, and Counter-Strike is more of an entertaining game. And the positioning of Call of Duty OL is to be the most professional and do the most novel gameplay.”

Overall, the two main challenges “Call of Duty OL” encountered in the initial stage are the change of fee model and how to make differentiation from other products of the same type.

Similarly, in the future, the first thing that domestic manufacturers should consider when pushing their successful handheld games to overseas PC or even console markets is the change of charging model.

In the aforementioned article, I gave an example of NetEase’s plan to transplant “Operation Wilderness”, “Fifth Personality” and other products that are more successful in the Japanese market to the PS5 platform in the future. Of course, tactical games like “Operation Wilderness” already have a more mature business model.

Although overseas players have gradually accepted some pay-to-win games in the field of handheld games, their consumption habits are still dominated by buyout systems and internal purchases without attribute bonuses on PC and consoles.

However, the current game market is more globalized and diversified than ten years ago, and cross-platform is not uncommon. Therefore, at the early stage of entering the console platform, I believe that handheld game makers are more inclined to make a brand name and acquire users, and their strategic purpose is more than the profit purpose.

Especially in the current situation of tightening the policy of version number, the manufacturers cut costs, and some teams have difficulty in establishing projects, some game teams have no new projects to do, so they will look for more ways out in channels and platforms, and help overseas manufacturers to do end transfer or port their projects to other platforms.

Like some typical domestic pay-to-win games such as MMORPG type, after several years of long-term operation has very sufficient content and gameplay reserves, in the overseas host platform port can be considered to adopt the buyout system + appearance fee system, so as to form a win-win situation in terms of brand and revenue.

New platform, new market, new ideas
Developing a new game for a new regional market is another task, which requires a fundamental change in development and design thinking.

Call of Duty OL has been in development since 2010, but up until the end of 2013, Call of Duty OL was designed to be pretty much just a pay-to-play game with some paid content added to the previous COD framework.

And during the beta testing at the time, the production team found that players didn’t like Call of Duty OL’s PVE mode. Perhaps due to the influence of CS and CF, Chinese gamers still prefer PVP with rich modes of play.

While it is true that COD is a PVP experience, it is essential to have a single player campaign as a buy-to-play game. When it comes to F2P, the game needs to attract players faster because the barrier of entry is low enough that the long and complicated PVE mode is difficult to be accepted by the masses.

So, Call of Duty OL eventually chose to present PVE content as newbie missions and allow players to use all characters, weapons, accessories and passive skills in any mode (the previous COD series had separate PVE and PVP modes), and this had a huge impact on the design of the COD series later on.

The other side of the coin is that running a F2P game puts demands on the production team’s capacity, which needs to periodically launch campaign content and marketing like any other game in order to keep the game hot and retain users.

In the process of moving to F2P, Call of Duty OL still adhered to the principle of no pay-to-win design, and rejected design ideas such as rental props and high-priced weapons. However, in the Chinese game market at that time, it was difficult to stimulate some players’ desire to pay for the paid content without substantial attributes, which might be one of the reasons why Call of Duty OL fell behind in terms of revenue.

At the same time, in the process of localization, the production team also found that more exaggerated and gorgeous decorative effects could more effectively attract Chinese players to pay, although this is against the principle of hardcore competition of COD series, but this is indeed an effective means to increase the length of play and payment of players.

Enrico says that, in retrospect, Call of Duty was not well suited to the Chinese market at the time. Whether it was the visuals, the plot, or the gameplay, Call of Duty didn’t quite fit the aesthetics of Chinese players and the rhythm of the game they were familiar with.

“Generally speaking, the closer a product’s culture is to the market, the better its chances of success, but on the other hand, if a product needs to be heavily altered to be successful in a given market, that means it’s perhaps not a good fit for that market at all,” Enrico said.

While Call of Duty OL was not an unprecedented success in China, it made Activision realize that Chinese gamers want to be part of the global community for the COD series and want to experience what other gamers are playing overseas. It also inspired the importance of targeting the global market to build products in the present.

I interviewed the product team of a major manufacturer at the beginning of this year, and the production team told me at the time that their product was still mainly domestic and supported both ends, but the mobile users were still the most mainstream. And after waiting for more than half a year for the version number and still no news, now they have started to test for overseas markets, which is bound to make some changes to the original product.

For the head of the manufacturers, only for a single market, a single platform of the project idea has begun to be difficult to adapt to the changing forms of the market. To come up with a strong enough product, the project needs to be more global and all-platform consideration.

For example, what are the main markets I’m targeting? What kind of payment design can make most of the target users accept it? How to balance the gameplay design of PC and mobile? Is the content output one-time or continuous? Will sticking to the style design of the game greatly affect its acceptance in the mainstream market? Is it possible to adopt different payment designs on different platforms ……

In the face of new platforms and new markets, we must be bold to propose new ideas and break the established framework in order to stand out in the strong global game market.

Different products looking for different positioning
The title of this article is called “Call of Duty OL is dead, Call of Duty OL lives forever! The reason for this title is that although Call of Duty OL did not become a phenomenon, many of its ideas, designs, and frameworks have deeply influenced the development of subsequent Call of Duty titles.

The game’s platforming, tactical competition mode, dynamic lobby and winner’s circle, bridge the gap between modes, season design, and so on. It is also important to note that the Call of Duty Online development experience has heavily influenced Call of Duty Mobile.

It is important to know that Call of Duty Online was not officially tested until 2015, while in the same year, Crossfire: Kings of Guns had already started a large-scale test for players and was officially launched in early 2016.

Because of its experience in making handheld games, Activision thought Tencent would be an excellent choice to make Call of Duty Handheld, and both Tamiami and Photon were interested in Call of Duty Handheld and developed two highly finished prototypes in less than a month.

It is worth mentioning that Tamiami chose to make a multiplayer mode demo, while Photon chose a single-player campaign. Combined with the experience of Call of Duty OL, Activision finally chose Tamiami to produce Call of Duty Handheld.

Also because of Call of Duty OL, Activision and Tamiami decided to make Call of Duty Handheld in the same framework as Call of Duty OL, without the single-player campaign, focusing entirely on PVP mode, and without tying Call of Duty Handheld to any sub-series of COD.

This choice allows the production team to be free from the constraints of creating customized content for players in different countries and regions, and can even be used to promote the launch of the COD franchise. TMI even went so far as to directly port the tactical competitive mode of Crossfire: Gunfight Kings to Call of Duty Handheld.

The result is obvious, according to the “call of duty OL” operation idea design “call of duty hand game” although failed to win in the domestic market “crossfire: gun battle king” performance, in the field overseas has achieved great success. And Call of Duty Mobile also assumes a similar role as a platform in the whole series, more players will be exposed to the whole series through Call of Duty Mobile and become its fans.

This likewise gives us the idea to build a series of products, sometimes when designing cross-platform games, it is not always necessary to ensure that the content of the game is exactly equivalent. For example, handheld games offer a lighter, more casual experience, while relatively deep content gameplay can be designed for a console or PC.

The work is divided between different platforms, with mobile expanding the breadth of users and console and PC showing the depth of gameplay. Within the same IP, it is not necessary to adopt different gameplay categories for each product but making differences in content is sometimes a very cost-effective solution.

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Nvidia says that upgrading the drivers to Hotfix driver 526.61 will resolve issues with Call of Duty 19: Modern Warfare 2. The patch addresses the following issues:

【Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II】When playing the game, you will randomly see a flickering broken screen. (issue 3829010)

VTube Studio may crash to a black screen. (issue 3838158)

After exiting some games, GPU gets stuck in P0 state. (issue 3846389)

The patch can be downloaded through the NVIDIA support page and will not be pushed through GeForce Experience. Nvidia explained that because these patches are “program-specific fixes” and are completely separate installations rather than upgrades.

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Steam Deck was #2 last week, and the strategy game Victoria 3 was #4.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Ⅱ 2022 was officially released on October 28, landing on PC, PS4, PS5, XboxOne and XSX / S platforms, the original price of the body of the country was RMB 446, the vault version priced at RMB 568, support Simplified Chinese. As for the game, Call of Duty 19: Modern Warfare 2 brings advanced gameplay, new gun control, an advanced AI system, new armament transformation and other innovations in gameplay and graphics, elevating the Modern Warfare series game experience to the latest height.

According to SteamDB, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II 2022 reached a record high of 263,174 online players on Steam on October 30.

Details of the list.

• Call of Duty Modern Warfare II 2022
• Steam Deck
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare II 2022
• Victoria 3
• Cyberpunk 2077
• The Goddess of War 5 Royal Edition
• Victoria 3
• Victoria 3 Deluxe Edition
• RimWorld” DLC “Biotech
• Football Manager 2023

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However, the game was panned by Xbox console players because they could not disable the cross-platform play feature. Cross-platform gaming was introduced to the Call of Duty franchise a few years ago, allowing PC, PlayStation and Xbox players to play online across platforms. Some people like the cross-platform gaming feature because it allows them to play with their friends regardless of what gaming platform they are using, but there are others who don’t like the feature and would rather have it disabled.

There are many arguments against cross-platform gaming, such as the fact that PC players can use the mouse and keyboard in games, while console players can only use the joystick. In addition, plug-in behavior is much more prevalent on PC platforms than on consoles, so cross-platform gaming has the potential to make console players encounter more plug-ins, and some people disable the feature as a result. PS4 and PS5 players can currently turn off the cross-platform play feature of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 at any time, but PC and Xbox consoles do not currently support disabling the feature, so some Xbox players are very upset about it.

It is unclear why Xbox players are not currently allowed to disable cross-platform play for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and whether this feature will be added in the future.

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SteamDB data shows that “Call of Duty 19: Modern Warfare 2” Steam maximum online player count reached a record 238,522.

This is not the first record set by Call of Duty 19: Modern Warfare 2. Previously, Activision said after the Beta test ended in late September that it became the largest Beta test in the history of the Call of Duty series.

Gameplay-wise, Call of Duty 19: Modern Warfare 2 brings advanced gameplay, new gun controls, advanced AI systems, new ordnance modifications and other gameplay and graphical innovations that bring the Modern Warfare franchise to the latest level.

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In addition, the new version of the driver fixes the persistent black screen phenomenon in Windows 11 version 22H2 when updating drivers or resetting graphics settings.

IT House learned that “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” has been officially launched today, landing on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and XSX|S platforms. Simplified Chinese.

This is the 19th major work in the “Call of Duty” series, the sequel to the “Modern Warfare” series restarting “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare”. Call of Duty 19: Modern Warfare 2 brings advanced gameplay, new gun controls, advanced AI systems, new ordnance overhauls, and other gameplay and graphical innovations that elevate the Modern Warfare franchise to the next level. latest height.

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Some players may be thinking that it might be possible to get into the game early by changing the region, after all, this is a basic operation for some games before, such as changing to New Zealand and Australia, which are earlier in the world.

But in tomorrow’s upcoming official launch of “Call of Duty 19”, wanting to play early on may be difficult.

The development studio IW official tweet said that if players try to change the region settings of the console to play the game early, they will encounter connection problems. The game cannot be accessed until the region is officially unlocked. The first day of the patch is now available for pre-order players, about 55GB.

The Call of Duty 19: Modern Warfare 2 brings advanced gameplay, new gun controls, advanced AI systems, brand new ordnance transformations, and other innovations in gameplay and graphics that elevate the Modern Warfare series game experience to the latest heights.

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