With Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Treyarch opted for 100 percent dedicated servers on PC while consoles used this hybrid system. The hybrid system has its problems though. The hybrid system has its Yes they use a dedicated server to connect peers, you are not playing on a dedicated server. Take your statement, reverse it, and then you get the truth. You use peer to peer connections to form a lobby, and then the lobby gets placed into a dedicated server. For Call of Duty: Black Ops II on the PC, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "Are public games peer-to-peer or dedicated?". r/blackops2 is a community dedicated to Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 where people can come together to discuss about the game, share content, and connect with other players. Members Online BO2 Sequel in 2025! r/blackops2 is a community dedicated to Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 where people can come together to discuss about the game, share content, and connect with other players. Members Online Found my bo2 copy from 2012 We rely on very expensive server which can cost $500k alone exclude other things. Just a single server mind you. P2P Hybrid Dedicated Servers are the future of low cost server hosting. Very little Server CPU intensive resources are needed and can host multiple clients without crashing. Treyarch never said BO3 would have rented community servers with a server browser. They always said it would be an identical system to BO2 - dedicated servers with matchmaking. That's how it was in the beta. So, no one lied. You must have been living under a rock not to know what the system would be. #5. Dedicated Black Ops Servers Locations BEST LOCATION CHOICES, ORDERED BY DISTANCE FROM YOU: 1. New York / New Jersey 2. Atlanta, Georgia 3. Chicago, Illinois 4. St. Louis, Missouri 5. Miami, Florida 6. Dallas, Texas 7. Los Angeles, California 8. San Jose, California 9. London, UK 10. Paris, France 11. Amsterdam, NL 12. Frankfurt, DE 13. Milan, Italy UNRANKED DEDICATED SERVERS. Was just playing W-A-W and i still see 9999999 xp a kill severs.. yes only in unranked server -and you will not keep this xp in ranked server .only host unranked. Worked on Modern Warfare 3 servers as well! Tho im like 6th prestige, would work good on weapon XP too! There are usually like 150 players that play the game, but today there are only a few. The servers were down yesterday until a few hours ago, so just wait till people realize servers work and people will play again. However only TDM gamemodes are used by the playerbase:/. c1OdFZr.