Black Ops 2 dev will quash balance complaints with “knowledge bombs”

Black Ops 2 has been out less than a week, and already people are starting to grumble about certain weapons being more powerful than others. The whiny chants of “overpowered” are going to be crushed by Treyarch Design Director David Vonderhaar’s mighty intellect however, as he claims he has maths to prove everyone wrong.

According to the clearly-easily-trolled developer, everyone is going to have plenty of “knowledge bombs” dropped on them, in the form of real statistics and recorded match data.

“There’s a lot of instrumentation in this game and there’s a lot of data logging, so I know exactly what the power band of a weapon is at all times,” he said. “So, I can combine how something feels with how it’s actually behaving. I just know this is going to happen: A million people are going to Tweet me and tell me [for example], ‘The PDW 57 is overpowered, Vonderhaar. What are you doing?’

“What I’ll do is look at the math and say, ‘Actually, you know what, dude? You’re just good with it. Have fun, because the math says that it’s not overpowered.’ I have the averages. You’re being successful.”

Vonderhaar wasn’t yet done with the metaphors however. “I’m just going to kill people with facts [with] this game whenever they say ‘This thing is OP.’ I’m going to go ‘Actually, it’s not OP, you’re wrong.’ I’m not going to yell at them or anything, I’m just going to tell them the truth. I don’t have to hide this stuff from people, just drop knowledge bombs on guys. It’s gotta be done! What people are doing is reacting emotionally, and I’m like a really emotional guy so I get it.”

A really emotional guy, eh? No, surely not.