In a surprise announcement a couple months ago, Activision unveiled and subsequently released the 7th-gen classics Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 onto modern PlayStation hardware. While relatively basic ports, both titles have received a welcome number of improvements. In an update which no one was expecting however, Black Ops 2 is now officially running on dedicated servers.

Taking to Twitter to make the announcement, the official Call of Duty Updates page unveiled the latest patch for Black Ops 2 on PS4/5. Alongside a couple quality-of-life improvements such as UI and custom emblem fixes, the team revealed that BO2 now runs entirely on dedicated servers “for improved match stability and security.”

For the uninitiated, up until around 2013’s COD Ghosts, Call of Duty’s multiplayer operated on peer-to-peer connections, meaning one player would host the match. Not only did this lead to less-than-stable experiences (owing to the fact that it relied on players’ internet), but was also the cause of the infamous “migrating host server” message which plagued older entries.

Another major issue which should hopefully be solved by these dedicated servers is the abundance of cheating which has occurred across both BO1 and 2 since their PS4/5 arrivals.

As of now, Black Ops 1 has yet to receive such an enhancement. That said, given the cadence of updates released so far, we can expect the switch over to happen sooner rather than later.

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While the Call of Duty Black Ops series may be on its 7th entry at this point, many agree that two of Treyarch’s greatest works came with the first 2 Black Ops games. Released back in 2010 and 2012 respectively, these PS3-era CODs have been left behind on PlayStation owing to the lack of PS3 backwards compatibility. Fortunately, a proper current-gen port seems to be on the way, with PlayStation’s back-end servers now listing the duology as coming to PS4 / PS5.

As reported by ‘PlayStation Game Size’ (who datamines new game entries through PlayStation’s servers), both Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2 have been listed internally with PS4 / PS5 as the target platforms.

When asked for more details, the ‘leaker’ claimed that these releases should include more than just the campaign, meaning Zombies and hopefully multiplayer as well.

This isn’t the first time that we’ve heard of the OG Black Opses coming to current-gen hardware, with the Korean Games Rating board listing both titles for PlayStation at the tail-end of May.

While seemingly not a remaster, hopefully at the very least these ports include high framerates; a 4K (or close enough) resolution; all DLC and most importantly an FOV slider. We shouldn’t have to wait too long to find out.

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