{"id":51746,"date":"2013-03-13T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T07:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=51746"},"modified":"2013-03-13T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T08:01:51","slug":"black-ops-2-finally-gets-a-bacon-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/51746-black-ops-2-finally-gets-a-bacon-gun","title":{"rendered":"Black Ops 2 finally gets a bacon gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activision has announced that it will introduce a number of micro-transaction options to Black Ops 2 today (Wednesday, 13 March 2013).<\/p>\n<p>These new additions are just for the Xbox 360, with the other platforms presumably getting the update at a later stage.<\/p>\n<p>Players are promised \u201coptional in-game purchases called Micro Items\u201d, according to Activision social media manager Dan Amrich.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis content contains either personal customizations or nice little luxuries that I\u2019ve seen players request; none of them affect gameplay, but they are small, specific ways to enhance your online experience,\u201d added Amrich.<\/p>\n<p>Amrich does emphasise that all these items are \u201ccompletely optional\u201d, but everyone will be treated to the Nuketown 2025 map for free, regardless of whether you purchase any micro-transaction items or not.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of the new additions below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Personalization Packs<\/strong><br \/>\nDress-up for your favourite weapons. Each themed pack contains a unique weapon camo, three targeting reticles (one each for the Reflex, EO Tech, and ACOG sights), and a custom player Calling Card. All that stuff comes as a set for 160 MS Points.<\/p>\n<p>One notable example: the Bacon Personalization Pack (!) wraps your favourite weapon in the most delicious cured meat known to man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Untitled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-51748 aligncenter\" title=\"Black Ops 2 bacon\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Black Ops 2 bacon\" width=\"560\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Extra Slots Pack<\/strong><br \/>\nThis one\u2019s for the players who requested even more loadouts and\/or are fans of Theater Mode. You can now get 10 Create-a-Class sets and significantly expand your media storage, allowing you to archive 20 more emblems, 32 more films and 40 more screenshots for 160 MS Points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flags of the World Calling Card Packs<br \/>\n<\/strong>These packs include national flag-themed Calling Cards from countries around the world. Packs are divided by geographical region and costs 80 MS Points per region pack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/oneofswords.com\/2013\/03\/nuketown-2025-now-free-for-everybody\/\" target=\"_blank\">OneofSwords<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Activision news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50365-call-of-duty-2013-will-raise-the-bar-even-higher.html\">Call of Duty 2013 will \u201craise the bar even higher\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48768-activisions-walking-dead-gameplay-footage-leaked-online.html\">Activision\u2019s Walking Dead gameplay footage reportedly leaked online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/50269-north-korea-uses-modern-warfare-3-in-propaganda-video.html\">North Korea uses Modern Warfare 3 in propaganda video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50109-black-ops-2-worldwide-1-million-tournament-announced.html\">Call of Duty worldwide $1-million championship announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49915-free-to-play-call-of-duty-in-the-works.html\">Free-to-play Call of Duty in the works<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Ops 2 micro-transactions add cosmetic items and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":50110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[587,1904,3954,23,3010,9254,21,9070,6431,2362],"class_list":["post-51746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-activision","tag-black-ops-2","tag-black-ops-ii","tag-call-of-duty","tag-call-of-duty-black-ops-2","tag-dan-amrich","tag-headline","tag-micro-transactions","tag-microtransactions","tag-treyarch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51749,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51746\/revisions\/51749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}