We either go down in video game history as the heroes/villains who shipped a Call of Duty game and saved and/or ruined everything during a world-wide pandemic filled with quarantine and curfew. All good with me. Hold my beer.
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@DavidVonderhaar
I make video games and other things. I live in a van.
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I'm going to go play Blackout. Remember, that if you kill me, all of your stats get reset. That's just how it is.
We declassify (most of the) things.
Before we do, I need to tell you something very important.
This is simply not possible without the hardworking men and woman of Treyarch and our studio partners.
Thank you all so very much. I hope we do you proud today.
I've been sitting here for 30 minutes trying to figure out what to say. Here it goes:
Thank you for playing our video game.
Please remember what I've been telling you all for years. We are not done. This is halftime. BRB.
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It’s official. Looking forward to showing you what we’ve been cooking up with @RavenSoftware!
I think I've been saying this for 10 years. It's a beta. After 1 day, we already know what to get after thanks to you and your passion for our games. We are on it. It's what we do. 🖤
Yep. This.
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Hi everyone. I'm good. Sorry if my tweets caused some confusion. We have talked about bad I am at Twitter!
I am going to take some time to unplug as I often do.
❤️🧡💛💚💙
10,000 likes and I'll .... politely grovel to the character team.
I do love the idea of bringing back certain Faction characters from previous MP games; certain enemy AI and friendly "red-shirts" from previous campaigns. Etc., all. You get the idea. Would be fun. No plans, yet. twitter.com/raisinbranboyy
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I’ve worked on 8 Call of Duty games. It’s basically my purpose in life.
I am still terrible at them and that’s super depressing, but thanks for humouring me. You are awesome people and I’m lucky to know you.
Can’t wait for you all to see what we’ve been cooking up...
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Experience the next generation of Black Ops Multiplayer.
September 9
10:00am PT
#BlackOpsColdWar
twitter.com/i/events/13014
September 9
10:00am PT
#BlackOpsColdWar
twitter.com/i/events/13014How we tune the game.
What you think.
What we think and what we think about what you think.
The data.
It's a blend. My design team is wired, trained, and has more experience than anyone in the business. They will do the right thing. I'm not remotely worried.
I have to go to work. I don’t want to go to work.
I’m still depressed. I botched the Duo victory for 2nd when I got flashbanged and choose the wrong direction out of only two choices when I was otherwise perfectly set up.
Who made this game? I need to speak them immediately.
Every single day I am inspired by the remix you all do with the things we made. You are all awesome and I don't deserve you.🙇♂️ twitter.com/_Fros1y/status
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DID YOU KNOW that 2 people have won games because the last player walked through the Razor Wire.
LOL. Don't do that.
Apparently, I've been (back) at Activision for 15 years. That's kinda cool.
I've worked with many Treyarch and Activision people for over a decade! Thanks for all the fun and even the unfun times. You are family to me.
15 more years. Let's go!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone except those people who don’t think Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
I used to see everything in absolute terms. Black or White. Zero or One. What happens next will show you what I have learned, that you do not yet know.
Lights out.
Official Rules of Warzone
-You win, you play again
-You don't escape the drop, you play again
-You die to a 'scrub' or 'kid', you play again
-You lose a Gulag battle, you play again
-You haven't won tonight, you play again
Uno mas.
I got a participation trophy! Technically closer to 20 years, but who is counting. Originally started as the "webmaster" in 1996. Still need to get a few things done before I expire.
Whatever your traditions, religious beliefs [or lack thereof] ... we have at least one key thing in common. We are gamers. Please be kind to one another. Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays.
Smash that ❤️ button if you are about to party with me all night and #nolife the game. Show me your battle stations and war rooms. I will RT my favorites. Bonus points for multiple platforms. Let’s go.
I live with this stuff daily. You are not funny or clever. You are a coward.
I don’t like the negativity. It seriously pisses me off. We are online gamers. You are not better than the guy whose ass you kicked. That’s your brother. Try and help him.
The beta may be over, but the work goes on.
☑️ Blackout Beta
🔲 Short Nap 😴
🔲 Use final beta data to plan day 1 tuning pass
🔲 Review social/community team reports (make necessary design updates)
🔲 Fix as many 🐜 🐛 🕷 as possible
🔲 Ship game
Repeat.
That's hurtful. I'm the only person left in the building that loves you psychopath quickscopers.
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Did you tried the M82 ? It's not fair how slow it is and it's not even powerfull.. I know you don't really like snipers and quickscoping but you have to be fair, it's not balanced at all.
I’ve been to the future. I’ll tell you what happens. You are all very pleased with the nerfs we did to the armor in #Blackout.
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Can we travel to the future say 10 days?
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I feel incredibly blessed that I’ve had the opportunity to be (very actively) involved in every MP reveal (script, videos, presentation, presenter) since World at War. +
Been here for every Call of Duty this little indie studio made and hope I get to be here making them for many years to come.
I am going to remove your ability to play this game you son of a .....
Please kindly press the❤️button if you stayed up too late playing, developing, thinking about, or creating content about video games.
You are my people.
Big picture. We will do things. We will get it right. We will mess up. We will keep doing things. We will over-nerf and under-nerf. Sometimes it will be perfect. What we won't do is sit around and do nothing.
Do you ever feel like the harder you try to do the right thing the worse you do? That feels awful.
You have a magic wand. You can change one thing about Blackout. What is it and why. The why is super important even if it seems obvious to you.
Let me re-write that for you. You can thank me later.
"I'm really looking thankful for all the hard-working men and women trying to give us a ranked playlist."
Remember that time you made Nuketown. Oh. Right. Remember that 2nd and 3rd and ...
Before I call it a night, I want to end the day with a huge thank you to all the hardworking men and women who make magic happen. It continues to be a great privilege to represent you. Hope I am not blowing it. You are all, and will always be, the real MVP.
It’s all happening... The team has done an unbelievable job making this event feel as safe as it does MASSIVE. Can’t wait for you all to see tomorrow.
Smash that heart button if you rage quit when you end up in a game with monsters like this. These people must be stopped.
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I changed my mind. You are psychopaths. 💙
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I probably shouldn’t, but I am just going to leave this here. Ask me one day what it was like trying to explain to people why social features can be just as important as any gameplay one.
I love making games. I had no idea that I would end up stumbling into making a popular game that people really care about. I am so lucky.
I am so grateful. I will never live up to your expectations but I will die trying.
You made a major mistake not picking me up as the 4th for LA Thieves.
I am literally the best ASSAULT slayer on the planet and I can prove by copying other people’s stats into my profile.
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It is a super flattering MEME. Thank you. Honestly. Sincerely.
It also drives me insane. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I don't add much value, my team does.
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In Vahn we trust.
Don't forget to set your Options in the Menu for Blackout Mini-Map to Square and the Blackout Item Pick up to Press.
Or don't... you should do what you makes you happy. Your lifestyle choices don't negatively impact me or society. We just can't be friends.
We turned Killcam on. We know it needs a little TLC and has some rough edges to buff out, but given the scale of the game and the way Killcam works in Blackout it's important to look at it at a large scale.
Ok pals - going to wok. Talk with you all later.
Beta likes and dislikes. We call it one UP and one DOWN. Must have both in your reply. Hit me.
2004. Working on the design of the game stats for Battlefield 2. My first work in a AAA shooter.
I love Battlefield. I play it. I study it. It jump-started my career. Vehicle trick plays coming full circle is awesome.
No shade. More love than you understand.
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Dear your girl,
Happy Valentine’s Day.
Sincerely, Mr. Steal Yo Girl #YouMightHaveAValentineBut #ValentinesDay #ValentinesDay2020
So motivated right now. I'm already back in Sanctuary (top secret design headquarters) tearing apart the things we need to do a much better job on and putting them back together. THANK YOU. Let's go to work.
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Thanks for playing the #Blackout Beta with us. Here’s how we’re tracking some of the biggest topics we heard from you this week, and how we’re already improving the game for launch as a result: reddit.com/r/Blackops4/co
Making video games is legit hard. What is that? Dozens of people dedicated to you.
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@Treyarch @Tony_Flame @DavidVonderhaar i just spawned to my death maaaan. What is this?
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My 12 year old child just called someone “kids” online.
I am failing as a parent.
Cold 🥶 War is coming.
showed up again —but not without all your help.
Many thanks to the thousands of people and more.
Nobody can come close to what we’re about to do. Let’s get this done and close hard.
Well I wasn’t sure before... but now? You got it! 👍🏻
I 👀 all of you.
Calling it a night.
Time to 🏊♂️ a few laps and get to 🛏 on time for once.
I’ve been such a degenerate playing Blackout all night for the last week.
Uno mas. UNO MAS.
Duos is the Featured Playlist. Max players increased from 80 to 88. Let's party.
Don't tell anyone I tweeted about this. "They" get mad.
... new Stash UX is in dev builds, being playtested, actually tested by QA,, and we are bug fixing. Current design debate: 2 rows of 5 or 3 rows of 5. 3 rows means less tabbing in a death stash, but less uses more screen.
We are working on it. No, wait. Let me try that again. WE ARE WORKING ON IT RIGHT NOW.
I would like to share with you the most important lesson of my 20-year career in this business.
It's incredibly difficult to deal with the idea that your entire job is to eliminate your job.
This team is made of some special sauce. I will fight for them until the end.
I’ve never been this terrified / thrilled / excited / nervous on a Monday morning.
Lots of work ahead for sure. Plenty of 🐜 to chase down. However, I feel confident we have a strong, fun, foundation to work from.
Let’s go.
I prefer to Auto Mantel. You may not. That choice exists because of the dialog we have between devs & players.
We’ve done 7 major & near daily updates to support 3 massive online modes with diverse populations.
Still here; still working. That will be true for a long time.
3 of those things. But who is counting.
I will work as hard as I possibly can to make the game the best it can be.
Or die trying.
You pump some and friends into my earholes after midnight and I just ascend to another level of motivated with a burst of creativity shoving me forward.
Back in my day, we had to walk uphill in the snow both ways to even play an FPS online. I was an unstoppable 128k ISDN LPB beast with the Q2 Railgun. Now I am just a free kill for young (wo)men 1/2 my age or less. You kids today don't know how good you have it. Get off my lawn.
We are thinking a max stack of 1 for most grenades or max total grenades or max total lethals and max/total taticals.
We also want to design some new Storage types. E.g., sacrifice Backpack in Storage slot to break the above rules. For example: Grenade Bandolier.
Discuss.
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We are testing tuning changes (nerfs) to Concussion, Cluster, and even Armor. Stop yelling at me. :P
Got on Reddit. So many good questions. requests, ideas, concerns, and thoughts about Blackout. SOON. Nobody wants to talk to you about Blackout more than I do.
Every bug is an op... ok this one is just funny.
