Black Ops Tips Thread

Unlocked Hardline Pro last night, its so handy but a bit over powered cause im running Sam turret (3) Care package (4) and sentry gun (5) which you can change

How to unlock dead ops arcade...


http://www.planetxbox360.com/article_12206/How_to_Unlock_Dead_Ops_Arcade_in_Call_of_Duty_Black_Ops

When at the menu on the ps l2,r2,l2,r2, he gets out of chair, if you go over to the radio you will get an acheivement called ask me nicely.
Go over to the computer and you can play "Zork" by typing in zork, then you can play DOA by typing in DOA

If any of ye were familar with DOs growing up, if you type DIR it will bring up a list of files on the pc. some of these are letters to his dad and pictures. Type CAT and the file name and it will display the contents of the file. i. CAT letter to dad.txt and it will display it.

You can also read his emails by typing mail and then typing either 0-9 to read them

Type “3ARC INTEL” to unlock and view all Intel (WARNING: Will disable Closer Analysis Achievement!)

Type “3ARC UNLOCK” to unlock all the Zombies levels


Aftersome digging:

There is also an rlogin command which is intended to login to remote systems but I have yet to find the name of a remote system to attempt a login to.

amason’s password is still “password” so you can always use that to login to the system as well.

More updates to come…

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UPDATE 2

To login as the following users (which also adds different content to their directory listings) type “LOGIN” as described above and enter the following username / password combos to login as those users and access their files and emails as well.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Terminal Logins (Complete list of CIA and Dreamland logins, still working on 3 home directory users as well as DoD and Derriese system logins)

Username: amason
Password: password

Username: asmith
Password: roxy

Username: bharris
Password: goskins (Thanks Phil Wright!)

Username: dking
Password: mfk

Username: fwoods (Thanks benbenjiben!)
Password: philly

Username: gweaver (thanks drcancerman!)
Password: gedeon

Username: jbowman
Password: uwd

Username: jfkennedy
Password: lancer

Username: jhudson
Password: bryant1950

Username: jmccone
Password: berkley22

Username: jturner
Password: condor75

Username: lbjohnson
Password: ladybird

Username: rhelms
Password: lerosey

Username: rjackson
Password: saintbridget

Username: rkain
Password: sunwu

Username: rnixon
Password: checkers

Username: tbrooks
Password: lauren

Username: twalker
Password: radi0 (Note: That’s a zero on the end)

Username: vbush
Password: manhattan

Username: wraborn
Password: bromlow

Usernames with home directories but don’t show up in the “who” listing

hkissinger
sagnew
jwalker

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UPDATE 3

The rlogin command is almost certainly supposed to be used to login to the “Dreamland” server which requires “MJ-12″ clearance. MJ-12 is a reference to a group created in the 40’s to investigate possible alien interactions with earth after Roswell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_12) but I’m not sure what the deal is here since the password for vbush is manhattan to begin with. (Dr. Vannevar Bush was a member and there is a vbush login, not working for rlogin’ing into dreamland though, yet..)

Type “RLOGIN DREAMLAND” to attempt a login with a username and password.

Found a file in vbush’s home directory called “dlpw.txt”, it’s encoded. You can decode the file by typing this:

decode the string inside dlpw.txt

The password appears to be “MANHATTAN” after decoding the contents.

Dreamland System:

Username: vbush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush)
Password: majestic1

Username: roppen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer)
Password: trinity (thanks again drcancerman!)

Username: twalker
Password: thanksdad (thanks mafiafilms!)
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UPDATE 4

Ok, I’m decoding the emails right now, lbjohnson has 2 emails which are encoded (4 and 5) and I am manually decoding them right now, so far the first line in the first encrypted email says…

#4
TO: Johnson, L
FROM: Jason Hudson
SUBJECT: KOWLOON

PACKAGE LOST

NOVA6 TREAT CONFIRMED

DREAMLAND UPDATED

PROCEEDING TO YAMANTAU
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#5

TO: Johnson, L
FROM: Jason Hudson
SUBJECT: Mason

MASON DELUSIONAL

HES BEEN MUMBLING ABOUT NUMBERS

BUT AT THIS STAGE THATS ALL WE HAVE

RECOMMEND IMMEDIATE INITIATION

OF FALLBACK OPERATION
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The hacking continues….more updates to come

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UPDATE 5

Dreamland system accessed using all 3 known usernames and passwords (vbush, roppen, and twalker),

roppen has a bunch of text files containing transcripts of recordings of experiments that are obviously related to zombies and an encrypted file called hai1.txt and it’s contents decrypted say:

GUN IN MY RIGHT HAND
AND A COLA IN MY LEFT
BRING ME THE MEATSACKS

File called Radiance.txt in roppen’s home directory is encrypted, here it is decoded:

IF THE RADIANCE OF A THOUSAND SUNS
WERE TO BURST AT ONCE IN THE SKY
THAT WOULD BE LIKE THE SPLENDOR
OF THE MIGHTY ONE

File called hai2.txt decoded:

UNDEAD ALL ABOUT
SURROUNDED NEED MAX AMMO
COULD USE A REVIVE

hai5.txt decoded

WENT DOWN TO THE LAKE
STUMBLED UPON A SECRET
WILL NOT SLEEP AGAIN

(I’m starting to get real tired of manually decoding these messages, it’s a serious pain in the ass. Note to Treyarch, this is all very cool stuff, but couldn’t you have figured out an easier way for console users to decode these messages? I’m even using the keyboard that attaches to a controller and it’s still annoying, can’t copy and paste to decode or anything like I’m sure PC users can)

Logged into the Dreamland system with twalker

Encrypted lines in Update.txt file in his directory are

CWZGUTCT (“PETER”)
HVZJZQUZQTTYMPJMRTTQYN (TANK DEMSEY)

(“SIGNED CORNELIUS PERNELL”)
No emails in twalker’s login, a few back and forth emails between vbush and roppen inside their logins, nothing to mention that’s significant yet.

You can also try these remote system logins

rlogin dod (no logins yet)

rlogin derriese (no logins yet)

rlogin cia (all starting logins work here)

to go back to the starting CIA system.

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UPDATE 6

Ok, so I’ve been going through all the txt files and decoding them and it looks like a lot of the files that actually have data in them are related to zombies, Dr. Maxis, and the story of how it all came to be. I’m not disappointed really, but the text files are just the transcripts of what you hear on the radios in World at War’s zombie mode when you find the radios. To see the transcripts, click here.

I’m now working on getting into the DoD and Derriese systems, I’ve tried the following username and password combos which have so far been unsuccessful (These logins are not confirmed to even exist, I’m just trying them based on probability after seeing the logins for the other systems and also after reading almost every text file I’ve come across.)

rlogin derriese

Possible Username: lmaxis
Unsuccessful Password Attempts: samantha, sophia, 935, group935, fluffy, hellhound, hellhounds, reichstag, wunderwaffle, zombies, thegiant, giant, doctormax, element115, 115, peter, (still trying)

Possible Username: erichtofen
Unsuccessful Password Attempts: schnapps, fluffy, thebutcher, butcher

Possible Username: tdemsey
Unsuccessful Password Attempts: peter, tank, zombies, meatsack, meatsacks

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UPDATE 7

I’m taking a break from the hacking to actually play the game. Thanks to all you guys who are helping out, keep leavin those comments!

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UPDATE 8

Rumor has it that rmcnamara (Robert McNamara) is a login on the DoD system. Would make sense but no further details as of yet.

krudler wrote: »

Press Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A,B,C and Start at the menu to pick any stage you like! even the final boss battle with Dr Robotnik.

You're welcome. :pac:

Thought that was UP, Down, Left, Right A and Start together??:rolleyes:

What?? I thought only a teammate with hardline pro could change it?????

The_B_Man wrote: »

Tried typing in Zork on the Wii. All that happens is some text based game comes up.
Tried typing DOA from within zork and nothing happens.
Tried DOA outside zork and it says "error reading drive A".

Guess the Wii doesnt have these little mini games!

All the other "CAT" crap was there tho...

Zork is a text based game.

mcgovern wrote: »

Zork is a text based game.

Ye i know that. I have no interest in it. I was hopin to get into that top down zombie game.

Do you have to complete the single player campaign to get it?

i started playing dom last night with the following load out, and had great success.

Commando with reflex
auto pistol as second
Lightweight Pro
Slight of Hand Pro
ninja

in 4 games of 6v6 dom i got over 120 kills :-) and it was my first go with the rifle

to sum up: commando rocks

how do you play zork? all that comes up is some strange message wtf?

upps - sorry that should have been ninja instead

any tips on getting a good killstreak going? im at 13 at the moment struggling to break it.

im currently using the ak74u with grip and silencer

python with speed reloader

hardline
warlord
last stand

any tips?

El LoCo Ade wrote: »

I or someone else will throw some pointers later on.

But to be short, get rid of last stand/2nd chance. It's a negative mindset to be going in with such a cheap perk. You might get one, maybe two kills at best but effectively it's not helping you build a higher killstreak as such.

Ninja is the no.1 perk to use in the last class slot IMO, that or hacker(I forget if it's in the slot or not). Marathon is handy in objective game modes/big maps in general like Jungle. These perks will help you far more in the long term to building those killstreaks.

I don't like Marathon, I guess thats negative and cheap too. :pac:

Second Chance Pro (which is very, very easy to get), can help you keep and add to killstreaks. If you are playing with a group of mates who will revive you, it can help you hang onto that precious killstreak.

I used to use Ninja, but really, I don't see a great benefit to it. For the most part, players move reasonably silently anyways (compared to MW1 for example).

Magill wrote: »

Second chance is bent and should never have been put in the game. I usually teabag my teammates when they go into it

I wouldnt teabag comrades, id revive. So maybe teabaggin is bent???