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But the top people behind the Elite project, including the heads of Beachhead Studios, an outfit dedicated exclusively to building and supporting Elite , promise that their service will prove to be the best of its kind, transcending expectations of websites for multiplayer video games. The Elite service is, at its most basic, a very fancy website. It will primarily be accessed through users' web browsers, though Activision is planning to offer some sort of Elite app for iOS and Android devices.
Elite will include stat-tracking, lots of social-networking options and a bevy of competitions, some of which will be organized like the season of a professional sport. The service's Career stat-tracking and social grouping features will be free for everyone, according to top people who briefed Kotaku on the service at a recent demonstration in New York City.
It's not clear which other Elite elements will be exclusive to the paid version, let alone what a premium membership will cost. The paid version is at least confirmed to include more than just access to Elite. During an unveiling of the service, Jamie Berger, vice president of digital business at Activision, told reporters that a premium Elite membership will give subscribers a constant flow of Call of Duty content, including map packs, which have previously been available a la carte.
Berger stressed that anyone who strictly buys a CoD game and doesn't pay for Elite can expect campaign, co-op and multiplayer "for no extra charge. Two of us at Kotaku were recently given an advance demonstration of Elite , using a version of the beta build that will launch this summer and tie into Call of Duty: Black Ops.
The screenshots that follow, all supplied by Activision, show off the features of Elite that were presented in our demo. Click each to enlarge. The Elite officials wouldn't tell us which of the features we saw would be offered only to paying customers—just that "many" of those we saw would be free—so as you check out the following screenshots and our accompanying descriptions, you're welcome to guess what you'll have to pay for and what will be available for all.
Elite is divided into four sections, the first of which is Career. It operates as one might imagine, sucking in a Call of Duty player's multiplayer stats from a PC or console and displaying them on multiple pages of the Elite site. This screenshot shows an Elite user's performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops which will be supported in the beta.
It appears that Activision and Beachhead are only guaranteeing support for Modern Warfare 3 and beyond once the service launches in the fall. The Career page and all of Elite will be platform-specific, so a player who has Call of Duty games on, say PC and PlayStation 3 will only have their stats from one platform in their Elite interface unless, presumably, they decide to get two Elite accounts.
All social-networking and competitive options will also involve only CoD players on that same platform. One surprise feature on the Career page is the level calculator. It will allow players to input the number of hours of CoD they play each day in order to have the calculator tell them how many days it will take them to Prestige, aka reach the multiplayer mode's top rank before cycling to the lowest rank and starting the climb again.
The Career mode will give players access to an intense amount of statistics for the matches they've played. The map shows green and red dots where the player killed another player or was killed. The timeline below it shows when those kills occurred and can be scrubbed through in a manner that crudely but effectively recreates the flow of life-and-death action in that session.
These kinds of stats can be expected to be available on Elite just a minute or two after a match concludes in the games themselves. The Career tab includes a Leaderboard Tracker, which will allow an Elite user to compare their standing in a variety of Call of Duty modes to those of other players they've befriended or are tracking through the service.
The connect section allows the user to create and join community groups. Groups are several people who share one similar interest Such as Chuck Norris, for example that play Call of Duty. This lets people meet new friends that share each other's interests. To join a group, the user simply has to add that group's group tag i. The user is allowed to be a part of 20 groups at once. Popular groups will be showcased in Featured Groups.
The user can also create and join clans. Unlike groups, the user must be invited by the clan leader to join the clan. The compete section allows the user to join new events or Lone Wolf Operations.
These events allow users to play with developers, or by themselves, for prizes daily. While events are played with others, Lone Wolf Operations require the user to do certain challenges alone.
The improve section allows the user to get better at multiplayer. It gives an in-depth description of all weapons, equipment, perks, game modes, grenades, killstreaks, attachments, and maps, including their stats. It tells how to use, or play on, them well to improve the players' online experience.
There is a search option so users can find their friends' videos and search videos based on their titles. Users can comment on videos, share them and "like" them. For premium users, there is an additional section for videos made by staff which contain both live action and gameplay content.
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