Treyarch’s game director David Vonderhaar has revealed details that give Call of Duty fans clarity on the leveling up process of Black Ops 2.  Since the studio is on its’ last leg of finishing up multiplayer’s unlock and level progression, they wanted to let us in on what they have been up to.

Vonderhaar stated that there will be a total of 55 levels per to unlock.  The total amount of XP is going to be very similar to the amount needed to prestige in Modern Warfare 1 and World at War.  He said that it will be much easier to level up because of all of the new Challenges and Medals that will give you a lot of XP.  You will also be getting bonus XP every time you level up your guns.

Just as it was in the first Black Ops, you will unlock the “Create a Class” system at level 4.  Since there is one token per level, you will be able to use a total of four tokens by the time you get to level four.  Once you get Create a Class unlocked, you will be given a dozen free things that you can now equip.  These items include:

• 1 Sniper Rifle
• 1 Shotgun
• 1 Light Machine Gun
• 1 Submachine Gun
• 1 Assault Rifle
• 1 Lethal Grenade
• 1 Tactical Grenade/Equipment
• 1 Perk from each of the 3 different perk categories.

Players will also have another dozen items (one item from each category) that they can choose between and unlock by using the 4 tokens that they acquired up to this point.  One wild card will be including in this as well.  A perk will be unlocked at level 5, equipment at level 6 and Scorestreaks at level 7.  After getting to level 7, you will notice that three of the streaks will be available for free while three others are optional unlocks.  Moving forward to level 8 will give you another perk while level 9’s reward is a new Scorestreak.

Once level 10 is reached, players will settle into a pattern.  The pattern of gaining these things by leveling up will be repeating all the way to level 55.  Obviously the pattern can’t be repeated perfectly, so there will be some minor variations along the way.

I don’t know about you guys, but I like what I’m seeing!  I’m exciting to get my hands on a copy of Black Ops 2 and test out the leveling up system myself.  What do all of you think?