Number of Prestige Levels Confirmed

**Legend Of Hacking** · 10-22-2010

You may have read here on Wednesday that DavidVonderhaar, Treyarch’s Multiplayer lead designer, tweeted that he was going to reveal the number of prestige levels on Friday. Here is the tweet, to remind you, or in case you did not see it. After the initial excitement about the reveal, we then thought about Vahn’s personality – he is a known joker, and he has said things in the past that have turned out to be misleading! It was perfectly conceivable then that he would twitter on Friday something like “You weren’t good boys and girls, you’ll have to wait until November 9th to find out!”

However, it turned out that Mr Vonderhaar stayed true to his word, tweeting this, confirming the number of Prestige Levels to be 15. Vahn also wrote this:

Ironically this wasn’t supposed to be any sort of big secret.

However once a lot of people started trying to piece it together from the various videos it started to become fun. The more people that spammed me on Twitter and here, the longer I was going to wait.

However, I decided to spill the beans on Wednesday after reading a post by COD HQ user thePGTipsy where he suggested it was 15, but proceeded to give compelling (and largely accurate) evidence as to why he believed it.

Only 50 levels in the game, folks. If you work the math out (and some of you have) people who like to go to max Prestige will get more rewards along the way because of the extra 5 levels … but this doesn’t necessarily mean it will take you any longer or become any more of a grind than it has been.

David ‘Vahn’ Vonderhaar

So, it is now confirmed, there will be 15 Prestige Levels in Call of Duty: Black Ops’ multiplayer. This is more levels than we’ve ever had before, increasing by 50% on the last three Call of Duty games, previously at 10. To counter this though, there are fewer levels per Prestige cycle than ever, 50 levels, down from Modern Warfare 2′s 70 levels, so it should take around the same amount of time as previous games to reach the maximum Prestige Level.