I have not played Call of Duty: Black Ops on PC in a Playing With Swords event since earlier this summer. So, let’s.
A map of mystery
I’ll be hosting a Playing with Swords event to kick off the weekend, Friday, August 12th, from 6pm PST to 8pm PST on one of the official Domination servers, Treyarch DOM #161. It’s located in Chicago and we regularly use it for my PC events with great success. It’s a Domination server because that’s my favorite gametype — it’s great for those of us who are lousy shots! And yes, we will be playing the new Annihilation maps in addition to the on-disc maps, so if you want to join in, you should get Silo, Hazard, Hangar 18, and Drive-In before jumping on. Friendly fire is off and voice chat is on, so hook up a headset, add me to your Steam friends, join Friends of Swords on Steam, and play Friday. You can find reminders on Steam and on Facebook.
To join the correct server, you have two options:
- Use the in-game Server Browser and scan until you find Treyarch DOM #161. The word “Treyarch” will be orange. Make it a favorite server to find it easily again later.
- From the in-game console, type /connect and enter the IP and port number directly, exactly as you see it here:
/connect 173.199.92.243:3074
I have upgraded my video card — bit the bullet and bought a GTX 570 for the long haul — so at least the game looks better now when I die. Time will tell if a better frame rate and higher detail actually does anything to help my generally pretty poor aim.
