Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Matchmaking Improved With Virtual Community Hang-Out

Multiplayer matchmaking is a one of gaming'south disquisitional tasks, something that can make or interruption the success of a franchise that's traditionally so multiplayer focused. Treyarch wants to improve upon the sometimes frustrating matchmaking and political party interaction of its predecessors.

Telephone call of Duty: Black Ops 3 introduces a virtual community infinite, the Condom Firm, a place to customize gear, spend XP and participate in multiple game modes far easier than earlier.

When speaking to Edge magazine the head of Treyarch, Mark Lamia, pointed out that when they nerveless information from Blackness Ops ii, they saw that the matchmaking scheme already implemented was severely lacking. Playing with friends was hard and it wasn't easy sticking with the same grouping of people if you wanted to switch game modes quickly. And so they've developed the Safe House, a customs hub that should exist able to facilitate a meliorate style to play online.

"Yous're going to know where friends are and what they're playing. When we looked at data from Black Ops ii, we discovered that people were playing multiple game modes in a single session, and we realised nosotros had to make that easier, especially now we have a co-op feel."

- Mark Lamia

Substantially, information technology sounds like it'll be an in-game representation of a server browser combined with other functionality. Instead of using your mouse cursor to refresh the list of servers and run into whose online, you can literally see where all of your friends characters are and join them from within the game. Quite honestly Black Ops 3 is virtually taking on an MMORPG-like arroyo to the social atmosphere existence in-game and in-graphic symbol.

Information technology certainly is a step in the right direction to fix one of the most glaring issues that has faced the Telephone call of Duty franchise lately. It's had a similar interface and more often than not identical inner-workings since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Treyarch wants to do a lot of new things with Black Ops three, breaking the previous traditions that take only proven detrimental to the series. They're taking the legacy seriously while also using Black Ops 3 equally an opportunity to innovate in ways that it hasn't in a long fourth dimension.