Call of Duty 17: Black Ops Cold War

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Came Out 13 November 2020.

https://eu.shop.battle.net/en-gb/product/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war

Teaser:

Reveal:

Launch:

PC Features:

 

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I think the cheapest way to get this is still gonna be via VPN. I used a Ukranian server to create a battlenet account and bought Modern Warfare for about £25 on launch and haven't had to ever use the VPN for launching or playing the game. Further purchases need a VPN to pay in RUB.

Cold War is 2800 rub which is £28 atm. You can now gift from the Russian store so you might be able to gift the game from a new Russian account to your current UK account.

Do you have a blizzard account already? You'll need to setup a new one to be able to order it.

Really easy, follow these steps:

1. Download and install a VPN called Speedify, you get 2GB free.
https://speedify.com/download/?sour...977&clickid=d663ded1N1dfe11eba52242010a24661d

2. Connect to either Russia or Ukraine.

3. Open your browser and go to the blizzard website and choose Call of Duty Cold War from the drop down menu under the Games tab. You should see the price in RUB, it should show RUB2799 which is £26.

4. Follow the steps to create a new account, you can use a UK paypal account to pay.

5. Install the Battlenet app and login using the details you signed up with.

If you need any help setting it up then i don't mind helping.

Depends if you want a UK or Ukrainian account. UK account is more hassle now, maybe less later. You also will have to wait 3 days before you can gift with the UK account.

UK account: Create your main 'playing' battlenet account without a VPN. Create your 'buying' battlenet account with a Ukrainian VPN. Add them as friends, wait 3 days, buy BOCW as a gift on the Ukrainian account using the VPN, paying in Russian roubles, sending it to your UK account. Disconnect VPN, switch to UK account, download and play.

Ukrainian account: Create your battlenet account with a Ukrainian VPN, buy BOCW, paying in Russian roubles, disconnect VPN, download and play.

With the 2nd method you only have to connect to a VPN again if you want to buy something in Roubles as it defaults to Euro and costs twice as much.

 

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Did you have to make up an address or did you just use your UK details?

I live in a museum in Kiev

 

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It feels like it's running at a much lower FPS than is says in my FPS counter. It says above 100fps nearly all the time but feels like it's running at half that. Target tracking is dreadful...

 

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Feels like a free to play cod clone. Just awful.

Best part was how easy it was to get a refund.

 

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I think those that are enjoying it are somehow playing a different game, anyone playing the game I'm playing at would give up with the CoD franchise and never look back.

 

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Not every one has the same taste you know.

This is beyond taste. My CW beta is cats the film the game.

 

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This. But managed 10 mins max.
Seems like a free COD MW clone using an updated CSGO engine

Don't care about the massive COD MW updates, luckily I have enough storage and fast internet

Now we can pick and choose which parts of MW to keep, it's become much less of a bane to keep it installed.

 

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Really, didnt know that

I can't remember exactly where the options are but you can deselect everything but Warzone (which includes all the base assets for the game for some reason), most of my friends have MP+WZ only which totals ~161GB on a fresh install.

 

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No worries!

You can gift from a new Ukraine account to your normal UK account.

We don't know if they have will have content cut though such as with MW2R removing "No Russian"

 

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going by the posts i guess it not worth getting then

I don't think it is which is a shame as I am a big fan of black ops 1&2 (didn't play 3 or 4) and cold war history.

If you are on the fence, I doubt it'll be long before they do a free weekend.

 

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Black Ops was always the best COD

Cheapest way to get this now VPN to..... the 1980s?

My poor connection will probably take 24h to get this so i better start.

I dont have any battlenet accounts...

Depends if you want a UK or Ukrainian account. UK account is more hassle now, maybe less later. You also will have to wait 3 days before you can gift with the UK account.

UK account: Create your main 'playing' battlenet account without a VPN. Create your 'buying' battlenet account with a Ukrainian VPN. Add them as friends, wait 3 days, buy BOCW as a gift on the Ukrainian account using the VPN, paying in Russian roubles, sending it to your UK account. Disconnect VPN, switch to UK account, download and play.

Ukrainian account: Create your battlenet account with a Ukrainian VPN, buy BOCW, paying in Russian roubles, disconnect VPN, download and play.

With the 2nd method you only have to connect to a VPN again if you want to buy something in Roubles as it defaults to Euro and costs twice as much.

 

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Anything essential I should add to the OP?

 

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Updated OP to remove gifting options

 

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Good Afternoon everyone.

Can someone please tell what is the cheapest way to acquire this game as I would like to just play the single player.

I have no interested in the multiplayer, I just want to play the campaign.

Ask a friend who owns the game to lend your their battlenet details. It's what I did.

Otherwise it's about £17.50 from the RU Battlenet store, create and buy it using a VPN. However I don't think it is worth that for the campaign, even as a campaign lover.

 

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aim assist doesnt work on mulitplayers, its just incredible skill ...... or hax

Not sure where you're getting your info from but it's simply not true. Aim assist is definitely a thing on console.