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UPDATE: How many medals will be coming when they launch? Currently there are 10 medals ready to launch, this does seem like a low amount at first, but more will be added over time as we receive more and more community feedback, we plan to launch 10 more medals in the form of prestige medals later on and 5 more unannounced medals. How many medals can I display on my profile? With the new layout that is on its way, you can display a total of 6 medals. Can I choose the medals I show on my profile? Currently, the answer is no, this is sad news to us all because it is what we wanted to provide, but because of restrictions with the forum type and mod it's not possible at this time. As we move on updates may take place that allow users to select the medals they display. And that's all I can share with you right now, we are getting extremely close to launch and I understand the community is still very split on the idea of medals, but we hope to impress and engage users when the medal system launches. The community needs a huge thanks for the work they've put into the medal system, when the system launches you will notice the ideas of many community members have been implemented and those that we have noticed and used will receive a special medal at launch. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've seen a lot of confusion and negativity on the upcoming medals system recently and I wanted to make a thread on what they are and how they will work. I've been working with Covy and the rest of the staff to come up with ideas and designs of how the medal system will work and I think it's finally time to announce our full plans, this post could be pretty long, so if you want to read it all feel free, if not, wait for the upcoming video version, anyway, here goes. So, one of the biggest complaints about the medals system is the removal of a lot of the usergroups, we've taken in the concerns you have on losing your colours but at the time we feel it's right to try out medals and see how they work, a lot of the staff, like tacticalinsertion, who I'm sure you are familiar with were very hesitant on the medals system at first, but after explaining and development of the system a lot of the staff are excited for its addition. So, what are medals? Medals are awards for challenges you have completed on the forums. What do medals look like? Medals have several different designs, each different medals design symbolises the challenge that was completed to earn it. Medals are displayed on your profile page and also under your profile picture in forum posts, like this: How many medals can I display in a forum post? Currently during testing 8 is the maximum amount of medals that can be shown on a forum post, but all of your medals can be seen if a user clicks on your profile, like this: How do I know what a medal is for? If you are interested in knowing what a medal is for, hovering your cursor over a medal will give you a description of how it was earned, for example, the Richtofen medal: How do I earn medals? Medals are earned via completing many different achievements, medals can be earned from completing forum challenges, in game challenges or even for random things that other users have nominated you for, for example, the Grammar Enthusiast medal has the ability to allow you to nominate a user you think is a Grammar Enthusiast (I'm looking at you MrRoflWaffles Which usergroups are being removed? Right now the usergroups being removed are: Community Manager Takeo Dempsey Nikolai Richtofen Survivors Veterans Zombshes PS3 Ambassadors WWK Please note this is subject to change. Will these be turned into medals? A lot will stay the same but in medal form, like the four guardians and some will merge or take up completely new roles, at the moment we're discussing the merging of survivor and veteran. Can we suggest medals? Sure you can, we asked the community for medal ideas and designs, go here to post your suggestions: viewtopic.php?f=93&t=20028 I like my colours, medals are a stupid idea. Again, the colours situation has been heavily debated on by staff, some want them, some don't, but I think we've all agreed to try something new with the site before we jump to the conclusion that it's a bad idea. What if I am in a usergroup that is becoming a medal already? If a user has achieved any of the medals before they launch, they will be given the medals they have achieved the day medals launch. What is the Prestige System? So, the prestige system will be tied to brains, what we were thinking was expanding the brains ranking to become the prestige system. The brains ranking system is the system that awards users titles under their profile picture, like "Almost Zombie, Zombie and Undead Master" as seen here: We found that these titles were not noticeable and didn't mean much, yet brains are the recognition of extremely good posts, so we felt that creating a more rewarding and eye catching way of displaying these would work. In comes the prestige system, we haven't figured out the full requirements yet, but we are going something like this, Prestige 1 = 100 brains, Prestige 2 = 200 brains Prestige 3 =400 brains, those aren't final, just an example. Brains are usually given out to good quality posts, so this prestige system gives people things to aim for via improving the quality of their posts, which is an issue staff have wanted to address for a long time and it also makes the higher prestiges extremely hard to get, for example Carbonfibah is the only "Epic Zombie" on the forum which I believe is the highest brains rank, meaning currently he would be the only 10th prestige on the site, this makes the higher up badges extremely valuable. So that's that, I hope this has answered any questions you had, if you do have any more feel free to ask. And before I see a "This is stupid why are you removing usergroups" post, please take this into consideration, you have not seen how well the medal system will work on the site, neither have we, we all feel trying something new is the correct way to approach this, medals are fun ways to achieve on CoDz with some easy to get medals and some extremely hard to get. There is no exact date on the medal system yet, but the rough timeframe I've been given by Covert Gunman is within the next few weeks. We hope you enjoy the time and effort we've put into making these medals as fun as possible, thanks for reading.

What about me, Waffles and Strwrsbob? I'd say our channels are pretty popular Yeah, but you guys would be busy with YOUR channel, haha! Haha true, we've all decided to pitch in on the channel, how much we will do content wise is something to question but we'll be doing a lot of behind the scenes work. :)

What about me, Waffles and Strwrsbob? I'd say our channels are pretty popular :D

No intro is needed at the moment, but the channel is not ready for users to upload to just yet, we need to work out how things will get submitted and such, I'd wait until it all gets fixed up and then post it to the CoDz channel.

Feel free to still comment your findings on it and such, but I guess the aim of this was to prevent the hatred and such the OP's and believers of such fake virals get, it's happened before and it isn't pretty. :lol:

This wasn't aimed towards PTG, they aren't doing a viral campaign, just the story of zombies put into little viral esque videos This was aimed at the fake virals that have popped up, like one that appeared in the GKNOVA6 section of the forums yesterday.

So fake viral campaigns for Black Ops 2 have started springing up recently and more will spring up as we get closer and closer to the official viral. All I ask of you is to not get tricked into believing these viral campaigns, it happens often and big discussions break out only for people to become annoyed when a mod locks their thread. Most of the time these fake campaigns are self advertising, the people who create the campaigns are usually the people who post their "mysterious new findings" on the forum, usually wanting attention and most of the time they get it, because a community with the interests of ours will jump at the chance for a viral campaign for Zombies. But all I will say is wait, if a viral campaign is to happen for Black Ops 2, which I think it will considering the attention GKNOVA6 brought to Black Ops, you will know about it and will instantly be able to hop into the discussion, the whole forum will be discussing it. If you do see any threads which contain what you think may be fake viral campaigns, go ahead and report it, moderators will look at the thread and if it is fake, it will be dealt with. (Moderators will check just in case something real does actually pop up and it's not mistaken for a fake viral) And that's about it, thanks for reading.

Read through the entire thread for our reasoning behind this, as said, teams are not being removed, they are still there and will return but in a better format.

Teams are not going anywhere, we plan to find a way to keep teams, but in a less elitist fashion that scares off users, there has been multiple cases recently of users being driven off the site due to being intimidated by such high requirements to play with others. We want teams to exist, but in a way everyone can join in, or in a way where there are a multitude of options for players to play with people of the same skill level, other people who tried to create teams were shot down by other team "leaders" as they claimed their team was too popular for any other teams to exist and that is something that needs to be fixed. So as said, Teams are not going anywhere, they are just being fixed.

Did you not see the bit about keeping your teams going? We have many ideas on how to keep these teams going without intimidating users, we will be discussing them on Saturday and coming to a final decision , no matter what the final idea is it will always result in teams still existing and in a more organised manner, so please wait until then before making judgements.

So, who is attending tonights playdate?

You answered your own question in a way by saying "excavator pi" those symbols are there to recognise which excavator is which, when the voice says excavator PI is breaching, you run to the tower with the symbol for pi on it and de activate it.

Another suggestion, they should try find a way to hide the code of the easter eggs, Moon was ruined because of people looking through the code.

On the note of the big Moon easter egg, if it wasn't for hackers getting into the code and posting all the steps on Youtube, no one will have gotten that for days, the only obvious step was the first, for the rest of the steps there wasn't any visual hints and no sound hints really, when I was doing it on day one my group only found out the second step by accidentally pressing one of the panels, we then spent time figuring out what to do with them, the rest of the steps were leaked though. I did like Shangri-La's easter egg though, it had the right balance of help and no help, the slight riddles within the characters talking and also the radios made it interesting to solve the steps, I remember trying the pressure plate step for an hour with Strwrsbob only for one of our team mates to accidentally flick the switch in the water slide. I would love to see a map that uses a lot of riddles, sort of like The Riddler from Batman and how the riddles work in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, that would be awesome, challenging and interesting.

That tweet means that the SUPER BOWL was over, not that they had finished the new game. Most people are speculating it's the announcement of the new Medal of Honor game or "Black 2" because the bullets remind people of the front cover of "black" I do remember this magazine having the first tease of MW3 though, so it could be blops 2, but it is certainly not confirmed yet EDIT It's confirmed to be medal of honor: http://www.vg247.com/2012/02/07/medal-o ... n-march-6/

Any time is a good time for an excuse to play blops

Treyarch just announced a double XP event for blops, starting February 10th 2012 and ending on February 12th 2012 They are also offering a 24/7 playlist, but this time it isn't Nuketown, you can vote for which map you would like to see be in a 24/7 playlist, the maps you can choose from are: Firing Range Summit Stadium Vote here: http://www.facebook.com/codblackops NOTE: Must have a facebook account that is 18 years old or older

I loved Avenged Sevenfold's songs, but I like Not ready to die much more than Nightmare in the maps, simply because not ready to die was originally written for zombies, if A7X produced more songs like that rather than adding their previous songs into maps, that would be cool.

Sources: https://twitter.com/#!/Treyarch/status/ ... 1091191808 https://twitter.com/#!/DavidVonderhaar/ ... 0663854080

Thanks for making an awesome site! Good luck with the job and while your away, think of some more British stereotypes :P

Treyarch were only involved with porting the game to the Nintendo Wii, they did no design changes to the game and only a very small portion of the Treyarch team work on the Wii games, so I doubt that.

It wouldn't work, the free cam option wouldn't be available simply because people would use it to look for Easter Eggs, it's a shame because it would of been a great tool. :(

Welcome back :)

Hey, nice to see you back Sounds like you're having a lot of fun with life at the moment, which is awesome. :D

So, you guys may or may not know, but Josh Olin stepped down as Treyarch's community manager today. All I would like to say is, thanks Josh, you've been an awesome community manager. And even those guys that can't stand the thought of him because of what he said about their precious quick scoping would probably agree that he was a great community manager and it's sad to see him go. Good luck in the future Josh!