Call of Duty®: Black Ops III - Multiplayer Beta Trailer

The multiplayer beta for Call of Duty®: Black Ops III is scheduled to open on august 19th, so it's only one week away as its trailer was just uploaded 25 minutes before thee writing of this post. This is my opinion on it.

The hype is real for this game! Seriously, they're doing an incredible job at promoting the third game in their Black Ops series. From what I've seen so far, it's going to be even better than BO2 and I haven't even invested that many hours into looking for clues of what it may contain. All I've done so far is read what others have found and I'm as excited as can get for Black Ops 3.

In terms of this particular trailer, it's really powerful and tells you a lot about what the gameplay will actually look like. This is the kind of stuff that you would expect from a great Call of Duty montage, just better.

I'm really hyped about the underwater combat as that should really give you a new and unique experience. It might obviously not be as fast-paced as what we are used to, but it will give long-time players something special, something they've never done before in Call of Duty. And that's a good thing for CoD to do, because the games are very similar to eachother so they need to give their players a good reason to start playing the next title.

Unfortunately it looks like a pretty graphics intensive game, and my PC can't really keep up with those anymore. But I'll be happy watching gameplays from YouTubers like Ali-A while playing other fun games like RuneScape.

Got Screwed by the Local Mall (well, sort of)

I went to the local mall for groceries and I noticed that they hid some tech accessories between the cheeses and the wines, so I decided to take a closer look and ended up buying a $5 7-port USB hub and a $7 tablet cover for my Lenovo A8. I got (semi-)screwed.

You know, some things are just too good to be true and when they seem like they are, they probably are. Let's start ranting about the USB hub. I have only one problem with it: it prevents my PC from booting up when I forget to unplug it. And that's a problem. You see, I planned on using this so that I could charge my various devices (eReader, tablet, smartphone, I'm planning on getting a smartwatch once I have the money) while still not having to give up my mouse, keyboard, headset and microphone. I need a ton of USB ports for that. And that's why my brain told me to buy this USB hub: I've been looking for one for quite a while now and I really don't like paying more than I need to as I can really use the money for other stuff like food, paying my bills and eventually buying new devices like the smartwatch I'm planning on buying. Seriously, I can use some savings. So I bought it and I pretty much wasted five bucks there.

Then, of course, there's the tablet cover. Now that one I can actually live with. It's a little bit low quality for my liking but hey, I can deal with that. It does exactly what I expected it to do and even a little better. So that kind of made up for my five bucks getting pretty much stolen by the mall. If they informed me about the products a little better instead of just putting it in the shelf with a price tag I would've happily paid the full $12 for the tablet cover alone and I would've left the USB hub where it was in the shelf. But then again, that's one other fool like me that gets tricked into buying that junk less. So I saved somebody $5. Or I could just plug it into the electricity outlet in my wall and use it as a 7-port wall charger? I'll try that.

That's it for this rant, I'm really happy with the tablet cover so I guess I can just let the USB hub problem go. For now.

I'm not even going to put pictures in because that would mean I'd be talking bad about a specific brand and I don't want to ruin anyone's business. If you make 7-port USB hubs, however, please try to use it and then reboot the PC it's connected to. You'll be a little bit disappointed if it's you, though.