How Was Black Ops 2 Built in UNDER 2 Years?

[@LateNightHalo]

It’s crazy how fast the cod developers always worked. It’s like you blink and they’re already building maps and campaign missions

[@PounderMcNasty]

It is crazy! But also impressive how short of a dev cycle they had and it was STILL one of the most impactful Call of Duty's of all time. Wait til you see Modern Warfare 2007s Pre-Alpha....

[@G.Freeman92]

💵

[@brandonlee7382]

It is amazing.

[@msg5359]

@@PounderMcNasty I wonder how much toll it had on the developers. That sort of culture was normal back then, but now thats considered an awful way to work, squeezing out as much as possible as quick as possible. Imagine staring at pieces of code for 8-10 hours per day for a year

[@ITMLGRUNT]

Oh hi late night halo !!!!!

[@sovietslime9016]

seeing the chronicle maps in the bo2 is so weird and cool at the same time they look so good

[@IamJay02]

Yep it looks fantastic. Honestly I prefer how black ops 2 feels compared to bo3 and it's a damn shame they cancelled chronicles for bo2.

[@PuReGhOsTT]

Man what a game. There has been nothing close to this game... i will grow older and tell my kids about black ops 2.... it just will never be the same as being a teenager and playing this game from sun up to sundown. Meeting new people, grinding zombies for fun and multiplayer for camos. The main menu music was 🤌 incredible. The emblem creator and theater mode was great. Campaign was pretty insane but not too over the top. The multiplayer maps were masterpieces, nearly every single one of them. It was all truly downhill from here.

[@AmyCherryLMAO]

honestly i wouldnt have minded if bo2's multiplayer was largely just a 2025 version of bo1

[@BJOnTheBeatz]

I liked the fact that they created fresh, new maps but kept some of the old ones like, Studio (Firing Range), Uplink (Summit), Stadium, Nuketown (obviously lol), and a couple others I might not be thinking of. It’s a good mix that sadly got done away with in Bo3

[@mercifuldeath]

​@BJOnTheBeatz Doesn't BO3 have all of those minus Stadium?

[@BJOnTheBeatz]

@ I believe you’re thinking about bo4. Bo3 had a map pack that was only obtainable through a pre order of bo4 which had slums, firing range, and a couple others I can’t think of off the top of my head. It also had a DLC which contained a shitty wild west version of standoff. Bo4 had a couple more but cold war is my favorite because it does those maps justice

[@Sonic-gy7kq]

I would. The sniping mechanics in BO2 are legendary. Sure MW2... but BO2 was the first treyarch (and last pretty much) game with quickscoping. Absolute legend status. BO1 sniping in comparison is abysmal and always felt clunky. Like you were supposed to sit in a corner and hard scope, which doesn't follow the pace of the rest of the game. BO1 MP was great, but BO2 MP is literally legendary.

[@BJOnTheBeatz]

@ And that has always been my least favorite thing about the newer CoDs (I’m looking at you Cold War). I love Cold War but the ADS is sooo slow in that game quick scoping is almost impossible

[@ImKudah]

I recently learned that mw3 survival was made by treyarch, could be why there’s so much mw2/3 assets

[@TheOneTheyCallShandy]

they also made at least 2 missions for mw3 , one being the one where you and price infiltrate the castle.

[@CryptidBuddy]

They should have used the time for bo2 instead. A multiplayer version of the hold out missions would be incredible with the walking tanks to buy / attack you. Buying emps & warthogs to obliterate swarms of robots. They kind of brought it back in 3 but they had to make it inferior to the spec ops experience for some reason.

[@ImKudah]

@ I disagree just bc I love survival lol

[@Mouthwashh]

@@ImKudahPulled so many all-nighters at friends houses playing survival. I loved zombies too, but survival mode holds a special place in my heart.

[@ImKudah]

@@Mouthwashh same dude love mw3 forever

[@Nightmare10311]

heres another reason why old cod is still better than new cod you said they ripped the files from their last game "JUST FOR TESTING" as current cod rips files from their last game as a finalized product. fucking crazy how we went from that to this.

[@Noah-Lach]

Let’s be so real here. Recycled content has ALWAYS been a big thing in Call of Duty games thanks to the expedited dev cycles and shared tech between studios. How many Modern Warfare games shared reload animations, environmental assets, even basic UI sounds like the low-health breaths? Many Treyarch and IW games even repurposed assets in a similar fashion. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, just a reality of game development.

[@JB2FROSTY]

20 dollars for a map pack and now they're free

[@ExTremZero]

@@JB2FROSTY they arent really free if you have to skip ads every time you start the game about some new skins they added to the store.

[@Mirrorism]

I watched this before scrolling down to see you're a small channel, great work dude! Was a good watch!

[@PolarityMetal]

Im glad the algorithm showed me this, great work man! I hope you get to be a partner channel

[@DuckyShrunks]

One thing to note is that we’re definitely close to seeing Pre-Alpha Tranzit pretty soon, as builds of multiple Tranzits do exist. I heard from DiabloDevKit that they allegedly have the build with the early development version of Tranzit. They are actively working on getting the map working well enough to load the build by patching it up ASAP, as these builds are in a broken state. So they exist, but are in a broken state, so they’re in the patching process. I vaguely remember people being hyped up on the early Tranzit stuff before that became off the radar because ATVI went after Prototype Preservation (who’s Riley541 btw) because he was leaking a bit too much (with that BO4 Pre-Alpha stuff). As for the BO2 Chronicles, it has an interesting history of why it exists: Treyarch did have that fascination of wanting to release big Zombies maps (even back with the canned WAW DLC 4), which isn’t a new concept as Rezzurection exists for it, but they felt they love the idea of wanting to bring over old maps into newer entries. However, given there were whispers by the hidden doors, judging by the BO2Z Build, apparently what’s crazy is that they managed to recompile all the maps and finish them around Jan/Feb, as BO1 & BO2 are very close (considering that BO2 was built off form BO1). It wasn’t complete fully but they were mostly finished. Plus, let's not forget that the Primis Lore for Origins wasn't figured out until it was structured around July 2013, which in turn for a fun fact, Primis Crew was originally supposed to be the fathers of Ultimis lol. All the DLC 5 maps were in a playable state (including the EEs) and all they had to take care of was the server side of things to polish up the online portion (Theater Mode, Spectator, Join in, etc.) BO2 Chronicles was scrapped because ATVI did not want BO2 Chronicles to mess up Ghosts’ release. So it’s safe to say that Treyarch gave it a wait and would be perfect to release it on BO3, which they planned for years. ATVI actually didn’t mind them releasing Zombies Chronicles in BO3, after when Infinite Warfare was received negatively at the time. And the rest is history...

[@JammingCat21]

This was a good watch. Nice to see you covered everything currently available and it was quick and to the point.

[@brandonlee7382]

Call of duty development is so interesting! People say its the same game every year but they always change so much that makes it feel so different. Black ops 2 feels very different to black ops 1. Black ops 3 felt very different too. It's amazing. Activision should look after these talented people

[@Curtis94]

ScarH with silencer was my fav weapon. I love the sound

[@hunchodinero9057]

When it comes to KZbin and the people I subscribe to Its normally a video that gets my attention to subscribe to them my guy this is that video and I look forward to more of your content straight to the point no long build up no click bait no over the top commentary actually shows us what we came for hope your channel grows

[@Myroonski]

Scrolled down and saw less than 1k subs, I was sure this channel would have had 100k plus. Keep up your videos!

[@razorstargazer]

Why is this channel so underrated, youtube give this man some subs, this is good content

[@lo-fi-luna]

just found your channel and you definetly deserve way more subscribers! amazing video i would love a follow up with the 360 developer kit i hope you can get monetized in the future im rooting for you :) also i feel like black ops 2 should be remastered this year for 2025 its a perfect opportunity since that game was set in this year

[@leonarddrawsisback4718]

Dude I watch your halo reach vid and now im in love with your content .

[@PounderMcNasty]

Super happy to hear this! It seems that folks really enjoy these videos. More to come soon!

[@leonarddrawsisback4718]

@ dude nice and keep it up

[@jordychinchin]

Subbed. Very cool. Love seeing these unfinished versions of classics games that weren't meant for public consumption

[@DanielAtkinson-yw3sg]

Loving the Vids man and the editing keeps getting better every new video

[@guitargatekeeper]

This was an amazing video, you deserve more subs

[@lvaItix]

What’s meant by the flags, like the "Remove" or the "Delete" is there so that the responsible devs know it’s a placeholder they need to remove.

[@deathaero9149]

Cordis Die and Judgement Day were made from the cut CoD Future Warfare mission "Hit hard at home" which was a fused concept of both Bo2 missions

[@Fraustega]

I would definitely love to see more proto builds. I've never actually seen prototypes of BO2 till now after how many years.

[@hurrweasel932]

03:06 that's a good excuse.. still laughed alot when you died to that bot 😂 the whole zombies section is so insane!!! imagine we would have gotten that in black ops 2. It seems like they had some good classics pretty well done.

[@Ferraridude13]

The two year development cycle is very impressive even when you take into account that a lot of existing assets were used, because this game has a really unique feel to its counterparts while also retaining the core feeling of cod. You can say the same about BO1 and BO3. To me cod stopped feeling the same after BO3, especially starting with MW2019. The change in the feel is a big reason of why I stopped playing CoD, along with the SBMM and the crazy manipulated mechanics based on real time performance.

[@ExTremZero]

SBMM wasnt an issue in MW2019, the problem is that there are to many ppl promoting reverse boosting and other stargeries to counter said mechanics that lead in ppl being in the wrong pool and manipulating the pool of others this starts an infinite butterfly effect that leaded now to our weird matchmaking. Also all the other "manipulating" things you binged up arent even proven, you should learn just to accept things that are proven with open source evidence that you can look up yourself.

[@Ferraridude13]

@ if they’re filing patents for it, they’re using it. The patent is specific in the language about changing of bullet damage, hit reg, player health etc depending on performance in the game

[@jezze715]

12:35 That's not shi no numa, Thats Shangri La

[@PounderMcNasty]

Whoops! Thanks for that callout 😅

[@Majima669]

​@PounderMcNasty not a true cod player if you mistaken a zombie map with one of the most iconic one

[@C4DC]

@@Majima669 Neither Shi No Numa or Shangri La are the most iconic zombie maps.

[@Majima669]

@@C4DC keep telling yourself that new gen

[@C4DC]

@@Majima669 I can’t believe a twelve year old with a four year old KZbin account is calling me “new gen.” This is irony on a level I’m not used to seeing.

[@lucasbenko1]

Hey just wanted to let you know you don’t need a x360 Dev kit to run the build. You only need a modded rgh3 360. I am running it on that and it is flawless.

[@xboxed720]

These kinds of videos feel uncanny to me. They give off the "Super Mario 64 personalized copies" vibes.

[@Stezell]

The Nazi Party flag getting censored is done to allow more flexibility with the marketing team from what I read in an interview a while back. BUT also because it made it easier to sale games in Germany if they censored it. Unlike BO1, they didn't make a separate build for the German players. I do believe Germany has loosen it's laws surrounding the flag being depicted in media since

[@knechtforlive3903]

You are Right. Back than it was illegal in Germany to Show Swastikas in Videogames, because of our history. But since 2019 (i think) Videogames are classified as an Artform and in Germany the is a Law, called „Kunstfreiheit“ who allows to Show swastikas in the context of art

[@IwasMikeOTR]

This was great, I always love seeing beta content for games. One thing though, you called Shangri-la "Shi No Numa" those are two different maps.

[@user54445]

wow, awesome stuff! thanks for the video.

[@gIokk]

still will be my favorite game of all time ever.. i would say WaW, bo1, mw2 were my all time favorites but really looking back I remember all the memories i get

[@zrxiq]

This man deserves to be partnered keep it up man!

[@skarano]

idk why they felt the need to get rid of seeing your guy in 3d and rotating him and stuff in create a class

[@Gherkins]

can’t customize your character, no reason to keep it

[@skarano]

@Gherkins Its still cool to have a guy spin around in 3d seeing him hold his customized gun with according class playermodel And maybe in the original iteration they would have brought back war paint had they kept this

[@CustomcrowdMitroc]

The black ops 2 UI is perfection

[@Milkoberrevoets]

Nice vid man! Keep it up!

[@dyllman98]

"just over 2 years to develop bo2" this is why classic cods were good. new cods have just about 1 year to develop and its mostly for selling skins now and not for game design.

[@EonWalt]

Loving your content, my only gripe, you appear to be recording in 1080i, which is causing the interlacing (the lines across the screen) - you'd be better off recording in 720p and rendering in 1080p. Keep it up!

[@GaryKetchum808]

These maps look like when you have a dream of a place you’ve been to, but it’s slightly different in the most indescribable ways. Our dreams are just poorly rendered memories.

[@Fishinbasser]

I love your videos, do you plan on covering Halo 3 ODST?

[@PounderMcNasty]

If I can get my hands on builds of it I would love to!

[@hunchodinero9057]

Less than 1k is crazy this guy has better content than KZbinrs who has 1m subs it’s sad you deserve a bigger audience

[@PounderMcNasty]

Thanks man! The plan is to keep making good content for folks to enjoy and hopefully the subscribers go up

[@ApophisNow_]

I still want to see pre alpha gameplay of tranzit.

[@CustomcrowdMitroc]

They need to remaster this game, it's elite

[@shakblak7900]

I knew bo2 was on the same engine but it’s crazy to see the literal exact screens.

[@current3109]

bo2 zombies menu music is GOATED

[@strategical_defensive_maneuver]

And...with BO2 Remaster (or the 2nd Wave or sth) will coming out this year, I really think that they are ready.

[@laffjon]

Yessss I love this content bo2 was the complete package

[@TheBackrooms-Redacted]

Peak CoD era.

[@Sonic-gy7kq]

It is interesting they design, graphically, and polish wise how finished Yemen and aftermath are. My educated guess is it was for the other game studios part of the xbox360 devkit program. If you had an xbox360 devkit back in the day you could play any studio, developer, or publishers game builds. COD's devs could play assassins creed and assassins creed could play the COD early builds. They did this to get feedback and bug feedback. It ended in infamy when random people got ahold of devkits and started leaking new games, DLC, etc...

[@tonotonito9956]

2:44 Cool that they were going to use the real an94

[@roberto9795]

incredible deep dive

[@shadowman2852]

I need tranzit alpha gameplay!

[@Brandon-cc6kz]

There’s usually mannequin’s too in some of the maps, that weren’t there in the early development of the game

[@peruvianpuffpepper904]

Not to disrespect Treyarch, but it's astonishing how even very early on, they were dead set on the split past and future settings of the game, at least for the campaign. To this day, there are plot points from BO1 that should have been resolved in BO2's 1980s missions. I feel like the 1980s missions should have been the setting for the entire game, and BO3 could have been the 2025 missions. Just imagine if BO2 focused on the 1980s missions, and the final ending of the game ends with "Suffer with Me"?

[@nicholasdelaney1407]

Well, I didn't know it was made in two days 😂, but I do know we are in the same year as Black Ops 2 🧡

[@xDaWorsT13]

More like this please

[@PounderMcNasty]

You're in luck! I just posted a new video on modern warfare.

[@lucapintu205]

plz tell me you have a tranzit alpha build

[@DisobeyZOG]

Why was there 6 advertisements on this video?

[@areyoumadfamhellafaya9009]

Is the sound track different??

[@FlameRiflex]

would you be able to cover the last (last) gen port of BO3?

[@xrmighty]

I like the vibe of the unfinished maps. Brings me back to being a kid and playing ps1 and ps2 games. Has that same vibe that’s quite nostalgic.

[@deadosei2557]

nice video will u try to find a prototyp from cod Mobile ?

[@Cogglesz]

I would loveeee to know how you even managed to come across these, Resolution looks too good for a 360 kit, Are you emulating? surely not lol. Is this a mod for the PC version where they somehow got the old builds working? Honestly this video blew my mind over just these little details. That's so cool man. I'd love to mess around in this myself which is why i ask haha. I'd love to see the detail native on my own screen. This is such a cool cool video to pop up on the recommendations once again! It blows my mind how people can get a hold of these through so many wacky techniques. What surprises me most actually is the fact it still runs the same way it probably did back in the day. I've got prototypes of games from a studio I work for where even old 2016 builds of old projects just can't load up anymore with all the changes the engine has went over, it just wasn't stable enough even back then to get properly preserved for future titles that have throwbacks to this original 2016 concept we had. It just wasn't viable for the tech and knowledge we had at the time. Unless you work at Treyarch then don't mind me but this was so cool, once i've checked out the video i'll be checking to see what else you might've cooked up :) All the best to you McNasty! You deserve a lil sub for getting my brain thinking first thing!

[@gotopiz]

Based on the stuttering during gameplay, he is emulating using Xenia

[@sbrader97]

​@gotopiz Yeah u can see at the end the crash screen is from xenia and some of the bugs it had was because of xenia the zombies build works better on real hardware currently

[@kamikazeneo4838]

@@gotopiz He also says in the video it's running on an emulator

[@Shingodzilla138Xbox]

i kinda wish they would have just reused sounds from older games than be stuck with the ones we wound up getting in bo2 (the reused audio for all guns)

[@NocoNeco]

YOU'rE TELLING ME FIVE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN ZOMBIE CHRONICLES??? WHY DIDN'T THEY KEEP IT. (great video btw)

[@bud856]

How do you even get these versions?

[@N68dodgeboy]

Is this downloadable somewhere to be playable on RGH'd 360s?

[@jomimosa]

Imma be honest I’ve never played meltdown. I didnt even know that map existed

[@fireflyraven2760]

God, i loved this game. Hopefully, i'll finally get ahold of plutonium and be able to jump onto the server

[@OneReyOneDesert]

How do you get it to work on Xenia?

[@dr.shrimppuertorico9883]

Is there any build with beta transit?

[@DuckyShrunks]

It exists but from what I have heard, they allegedly have the early Tranzit build in their hands, but it's in a broken state. They're patching it up as far as I'm aware, so were' probably close to see pre-alpha Tranzit

[@bongtingstill]

Im glad they waited till BO3 to release chronicles.

[@current3109]

The new campaigns will never live up to the OG days 😂

[@Pandahdoof]

Homie called Shangri La Shi No Numa. My nerd brain is crying

[@mazduh]

great vid

[@MyChannelWillReopenInapril2027]

10:59 WAW Map & Call Of duty Black Ops

[@StationaryGamingReal]

There is something clean about that BO1 styled menu, that new front during the Alpha sells it for me. Looking at COD now, so much clutter.

[@d3d53c3]

Glad we're finally seeing this stuff come to light now that IT IS 2025.

[@terribletimes902]

THE SMR IS GOOD. What’s wrong with like triple the two hit kill range of the FAL? I don’t understand…

[@kadenanderson4437]

do old fortnite save the world builds, its interesting

[@DisobeyZOG]

12:35 - Shangri La not shi no numa

[@i_1mpuls3]

Best Call of Duty to this day!

[@kutsumiru]

def do a vid with a devkit!

[@cryv3n]

can I play these rn?

[@itsplayer5]

i would adore if you put in the time for black ops, or mw3.

[@simonandreyevdestiny2]

the an94 in this build was preems

[@kevinbrekke8823]

I’m kinda glad we didn’t get zombie chronicles in bo2 because what’s the point of having all of that on the same gen they came out on? If you wanna play moon then load up bo1? Idk it just feels unnecessary. I think bo3 chronicles made more sense because at least a majority of the player base didn’t have access to the old titles on PlayStation. So zombie chronicles made more sense on that gen from a technical and business stand point in my opinion

[@GaryKetchum808]

Crazy how aftermath was the first BO2 developed map, and it was the worst one.

[@ulotrilogy8258]

this will be black ops 7 on xbox one trust

[@MiguelHernandez-oo2cx]

that is NOT shinonuma

[@LegoFerrari]

If only newer games had bo2 optimization

[@overfoxed]

Wish someone would dump the textures from these already

[@Menace0]

how incredibly unfinished the 2012 july build is, wow. a game with that much work ahead with such a little amount of time, today they would have just released it unfinished. devs have really figured out that people will buy unfinished games.

[@bruhmoment6532]

Can you cover MW3 next pls🙏🙏🙏

[@PounderMcNasty]

It's on my list!

[@BJOnTheBeatz]

Imagine how fucking toxic multiplayer would have been if the death machine was added as a create-a-class weapon instead of a killstreak like it is in the campaign 😂😂 I remember chunking my controller after hearing “hostile death machine deployed” many many times

[@Jodupasquier16]

Man I remember playing meltdown and I got in a lobby with whiteboy7thst and that guy cooked me so badly in that game that he made a KZbin video out of it and all my friends in highschool saw it 😂

[@ferarribrown5752]

Was to busy playing gow ⚙️ and halo 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@rhii9624]

Love your content, great work! For all the viewers I’m a graphic designer and am making a collage of the most iconic items, moments, photos, loading screens, maps, players, guns all that good stuff from BO2. Can you guys share anything you loved about this game to help me out! Thank you :)

[@Mulyse]

More proof that they literally copy paste to make a new COD

[@ZooterTheWooter]

1:02 the NS2000 was just remade into the KSG shotgun.