I always thought that the reason Russia was barely in the game was because black ops 2 was set after the og modern warfare trilogy and had been set on a more peaceful path with major disarmament efforts after ww3
Just need to wait for an eyepatched man to come Edit: It seems that newer CoDs have distorted my memories of Menendez’s appearance, even though I’ve played through BO2 twice
As a freshman in HS playing this with my friends I always wanted to know how 2025 would be…now we’re here living in it and it puts a lot of things into perspective
God imagine North Korea doing that too. Though I do think if the cycle of the military is happening, we might see a slow transition from national army to private contractors and militias, it might be clearer in the early 22nd century (most of us will be dead before then).
@@mightyx5441Russia is already doing that a bit with PMCs like Wagner who are officially banned in Russia but unofficially an extension of their military.
Ironically, small towns have more guns than people, so it would be completely different from BO2 And that apocalypse stuff is supposed to come from messing with nature in the more population dense areas. Looking forward to it too, apocalypse is better than dystopia because everyone is somewhat equal.
Infinity Ward and Activision already had deals with Remington and the US Army in the past with the development of OG MW3. It's most likely already been done in some form.
Arma 3 predictions are kind of already here. Higher caliber weapon systems to defeat modern body armor. The introduction of thermals in combination with NV. Same with global warming. Modern fighters are made for concealment and longer ranges rather than dogfights etc. All we are missing is the actual war.
I love the Black Ops 2 asthetic. It's futuristic but many details were modern to the 2010s or earlier. For example on one of the attachments there is an old-style power button. (Those large oval shaped ones that are kinda squishy to push down.) Small details but I love them so much.
The billboard thing actually is accurate, just not in the United States outside of places like New York. But in any major Asian city, you'll see some of the largest displays ever.
In some ways it already kin of was when it came out, an I feel it was both intentional, and partially responsible for how much more grounded it ended up than other similar work. That little bit of 80s and 90s sci fi nostalgia kind of, reels back in the wildest 2010s speculations.
The thing is about the drone warfare they show in Black Ops 2 is that they lean far more into the multi-million dollar UAV style drones being proliferated, when in reality, it was the smaller drones like quadcopters that proliferated. If anything, real life has shown that drones aren't going to make warfare human free. There will always be men on the ground with guns shooting at each other as that's the only real way to advance a front and capture territory.
In real life, drones are innovation on the battlefield, but they aren't a complete revolution in the way war is fought like the invention of gunpowder or the Atom bomb was.
@@graye2799 Yes they were. Every single nation has to relearn war now and drones are making it terrifying to be in any kind of vehicle that isn't meant to kill drones.
@@graye2799I disagree, drones fundamentally change the way wars are fought, from intelligence to combat. Squadrons must be prepared for drone attacks or they will pay dearly.
I remember when I got this game in 2012 never thinking about how far 2025 actually was, just enjoying a great call of duty being a kid. Time flies man.
One rule that people forget about weapons is the fact that Obsolete doesn't mean ineffective. A fucking flintlock pistol is still going to kill someone, same goes for a rock or melee weapon. The use case may be way smaller to the point of being near impossible, but when that moment presents itself even the most primitive or improvised weapons will cause harm or even kill.
@TheSultan1470 around the start of the (current) war in Myanmar, they were using flintlocks and single shot rifles against guys with fucking AKs whole thing was nuts
The funny thing is that when BO2 came out, some people complained about the SDC using American UH 60 and F 35, and then in the late 2010s and early 2020s, the Z 20 and J 35 (which are visually very similar to the aircraft mentioned above) were adopted
Biggest difference in the tech off the jump is that quantum computers are entirely useless at this point and are not used for problem solving in a traditional sense like any other computer. Theyre hardly even computers at this point, still extremely experimental. Any money in them is entirely speculative.
I think it's kind of crazy how this game actually has a branching storyline based on the outcomes of previous missions (or they were side missions, I forget). I recall the mission to take out the Chinese government's warhawks so their more cooperative factions could ease tensions and allowed for the deployment of Chinese spec ops to protect the President during the massive drone attacks. You could fail that mission and not received that aid.
Also if your relationships with the chinese are good: some snipers take a roof in the last mission (clearing that roof from the enemy snipers/rockets) and helping on the outside of the level
The drones in BO2 are actually more realistic than you imagine, and the absence of an effective anti-drone technology is pretty real. Many of the drone tech present in BO2 are already doable as of now but the main reason why they haven't been implemented yet in a large scale is largely due to us still figuring out how to actually implement them, and having to integrate newer systems while at the same time maintaining older ones is a hassle. As for anti-drone tech, RF jamming equipment has proven itself to be not as effective as what people believe. They work on specific frequency bands, and drones can just work on different frequency to avoid jamming or even work autonomously without the need for a manual control over radio wave. The most effective way of taking out drones is to actually shoot them out of the sky, which is harder to do than said. The US is working on directed energy weapons to counter drone swarms but these systems as of now are really large and not very mobile (it's basically towed by a truck).
Yep probably the biggest thing that BO2 got wrong in the military sphere was how fast the military would adopt new technology. But honestly I think BO2 itself is partially responsible for said getting thing wrong. I never heard much about people worrying about someone hacking every single integrated system in the world until AFTER BO2 came out. BO2 may have altered military history slightly and led to the late adoption of drone tech. Autonomous drones capable of identifying targets and attacking are already possible, I have like 10 of them in my room. They use an optical separator for the antenna and are EM shielded so bringing them down with microwaves is near impossible. If they lose connection to base they are programmed to fly to the last known position of "enemy forces" and pick one to dive/ fire on. They have onboard micro-AI to identify heat signatures and do object recognition. I use them to fight the crows from getting at the nests of some owls that live near my home. I also have a UGV that rides on wheels and has a small BB machine gun mounted to it to stop the deer from getting at the vegetable patch. So they are used in warfare, just not against humans. I have also made a drone that I slapped a sniper rifle onto at an outdoor range. It holds the range record now... Turns out that removing the furniture and making what is essentially a miniature tank is the way to go.
I know a couple of companies with anti-drone techs, since links are banned on TH-cam I'll provide you guys some titles 1) Counter-UAS | Leonardo DRS 2) Drone Defence Toolbox | Rheinmetall 3) C-UxS Products: Counterdrone Protection | DroneShield Take these companies as how you want, however, I want to mention that both SHORAD and CIWS have great anti-drone ammunition, though this system won't exist in frontline combat
Bro was probably saying "twenty twenty five" so many times while recording this he got lost in the sauce and thought he just had to replace the 5 with 12 😂
16:11 one of the main reasons why the XM7 was adopted, is because it’s so similar to the AR platform soldiers trained on the AR platform will be able to easily pick up/use the XM7.
I think that BO2 was much closer to reality in terms of the importance and proliferation of drones than we can assume. The conflict in Ukraine itself shows that thanks to 3D printing, with the right amount of materials and energy, the number of drones produced per day can reach hundreds. Their reconnaissance and strike importance cannot be overestimated and in this particular conflict, they constitute, next to artillery, the absolute first type of threat. At the same time, BO2 has the comfort of still fitting into the period where we thought that the return of symmetrical conflicts between conventional forces was a thing of the past, and the future would be precisely such asymmetrical combat, very infantry-centric and brutal. In such combat (which we probably have the closest equivalent in Syria, Libya and Gaza), drones are crucial precisely as the possibility of avoiding short-range combat and eliminating opponents from a safe position. The problem is that symmetrical combat is coming back into favor, and in it the rules are a bit different, because jamming systems and artillery are other elements of the modern battlefield that are difficult to convey in the language of the game. If this were not the case and the focus was to move further towards asymmetric warfare, I can absolutely see drones being equipped more quickly with solutions for following soldiers - a function that civilian drones use to take pictures of objects and people in motion. The mass of drones has therefore been captured very accurately, especially since it is on them that the type of troops shown in the game wants to put its potential, its muscles, i.e., first the air force, and then the land forces (in December 2024 we had the first completely independently conducted battle using land drones on enemy positions and for the first time a naval drone shot down a helicopter). Of course, the issue of personal jammers is important, but drones have been used in asymmetric warfare since at least 2014, where ISIS used them extensively in its operations, they have been used quite massively since then, and their explosions are still happening today. And only now, in the third year of the war with their absolutely massive use, personal solutions are starting to appear, much more common are the heavier ones, based on and powered by vehicles or securing positions. Something that in the world of BO2, where symmetric warfare is clearly not coming back into favor, could simply not happen for a long time, or did, only it was considered that the only effective way to provide a counter to drones is other drones - jammers radiate in the radar spectrum and artillery strikes can be directed at them. Today, however, drones are increasingly killing drones, so maybe BO2 was more right here than we could have expected. What has not been addressed is that the twin-engine F-38, which is an extension in terms of propulsion and range, the larger backbone of American air power, commanding a fleet of drones that are used as sensors and weapons providers? This sounds almost perfectly like the machine of the very real NGAD program, or NextGenerationAirDominance, which is to respond to a potential confrontation between the US and China, for which the F-35 has too short a range. The aircraft, the prototype of which almost certainly flew, but whose future is currently being considered, but it may turn out that it will finally be born in 2025. And it is to have all the capabilities of the F-35 (apart from the VTOL version), but providing two powerful engines and, in addition to its own, much larger weapons bay, it was to be the command center for formations of heavy drones. Autonomous flying vehicles intended for basically everything are already announced by the USAF as ready to be ordered in the number of at least 1,000 units. One of the main problems in their matter is, as in BO2, the limited production potential related to the fact that a huge part of the mineral resources needed to build them is at the disposal of China, which is hostile to the US. The issue of energy to operate automated factories capable of creating them in appropriate amounts is equally critical here. However, BO2 solved this problem in a way that the world SHOULD have actually done decades ago - it is clear that the US relies much more on nuclear energy in this world, looking at how "green" this world is, probably based on Thorium fuel technology. Something that was first achieved in 2024. So cheap, easily accessible energy from common and safe Thorium reactors could solve the energy bottleneck and, combined with the proliferation of renewable energy, could effectively lead to the economic collapse of countries that rely on oil sales. Such as Russia, which without it would probably not be able to maintain its military potential and would become (as is happening today) an area of agent penetration by international criminal groups, but also Chinese services and economic entities. BO2 has shifted the focus of its locations to Latin America to a much greater extent, which makes sense both in terms of the plot (Menendez), but also politically - this is where China is closest to the US and this is where the game for key resources needed to develop new technologies takes place. Such as developing computing capabilities and their military use, which, combined with electronic radio warfare, is expected to be a key front in the second Cold War. Whoever is first to be able to break into the enemy's communication and management systems will gain a huge advantage. And we know that such capabilities can be obtained today by both state and non-state entities - the war of the Anonymus group against ISIS or Russia. BO2 is my favorite title in the entire series and certainly the best-made futuristic part. The technology here is done with taste, an idea for itself and is realistic in a way that already in 2012 gave me shivers of excitement.
We're one giga solar flare away from the stone age (Iron age if lucky). And honestly fuck it. The average joe is getting more poor. Why fear the worse when the worse is literally now?
One aspect of modern war that many overestimated is how common new, advanced technology would be on the battlefield. New tech can be extraordinarily effective, but it is also expensive and frequently unested, so a lot of the time simple, cheap and efficient is where it's at. This can especially be seen with kamikaze drones and the common way to combat them - shotguns. That's largely the same reason why simply iterating on old designs is often the way to go if you actually wanna improve something, like with new service rifles. Rapid innovation can easily introduce more problems than it solves, especially if new gear is not tested extensively in combat. Ukraine now is to some extent a testing ground for new ideas and equipment, and shortly after it all started we saw how many advanced tanks and IFVs ended when faced with a cheap drone or a simple artillery strike.
12:25 this is definitely a reference to Total Recall. The first Black Ops was full of references to Vietnam War movies and spy thrillers so it stands to reason the sequel would have some cheeky references to sci-fi classics as well
tbf, one of the most common anti-drone weapons in the Russo-Ukraine War is the Buckshot Shotgun, so most soldiers shooting at drones with their rifles rather than using anti-rf gear isn't far fetched in 2025
Totally. But my point is that in the real world, that’s a stop-gap solution borne of necessity in a world where drones basically JUST appeared on the battlefieled. In BO2s world, they are SO ubiquitous, you’d imagine specifically anti-drone tech such as is being developed IRL right now, would be as plentiful as the mass produced drones are
@@riloegaming drones are SO all over the place that it's kinda funny that you can't also resort to conventional anti-electronic warfare, namely ECMs and EMPs, because such methods would cripple BOTH sides of the conflict and provide a net 0 tactical improvement in the current fight unless you're severely outnumbered by these drones and HUD tech, which doesn't seem to be a thing in BO2
@@mechahayato4988 emps dont work irl, they lose energy per m3 traveled within the earths atmosphere. You will never see emps when you can just use a bomb and achieve the same thing lol.
Bruh, they're using birdshot, not buckshot. It's pretty hard to hit a clay pigeon (let alone a bird or drone) with buckshot, it's why I use "bird" shot for birds and "buck" shot for bucks.
You don't understand how patiently i've been waiting for this. since I was a little kid in 2012, the super advanced, but lowkey scary future of black ops 2 made me excited for that 2010's vision of 2025. Then Ukraine got invaded in 2022, and the use of drones has taken a big role and all the advancements in technology in the past few years, got me thinking about it again. Since then, and all the way up until 2024, I've just been in quiet anticipation for the gun mounted drone dogs, and hunter killer drones, and all the videos that would come out in 2025 about black ops 2 predictions of the future... now it's actually 2025, and 8 year old me can finally rest...
The gun mounted dogs are being made and tested out and the hunter killer drones are kind of a thing already just different. There’s already militarized robots being used in wars in variations such as mini tanks, vehicles and other equipment/gadgets.
Their drone warfare prediction is scary. Russia has been using a kamikaze drone that is 12 foot long, it is called the Shahed and they launch between 20-50 of those drones at Ukraine almost every night. It reminds me of the last mission in Bo2, an army of drones overwhelming air defenses and smashing into everything.
same old ballistic missiles are much more scarier, hard to intercept, fast to fly to hit target (3-10 minutes from launch to hit), while slow shahed drone will fly for hours, can be tracked, spoofed, shot down from small arms. drone attacks has became so usual, that majority of people don't even give a shit, we have a proverb "їбане то їбане", which means "if i'll get hit, so be it". but much scarier when there is ballistic danger and/or guided bombs launch. it'll hit fast and in any place. hi from Kharkiv😅
nah with that in particular they were in proximity to alotta stuff like FPSRussia was dfoing back in the day with drones and guns, on youtube, he was even in the b02 trailer with gun mounted drones. which does draw the already existing corelation, i just think it was a coincidence more than anything lol, but i mean drone tech was almost that good in about 2012 so im not shocked they guess that, if u were watching that FPSRussia stuff, that was litterally like the objective of alotta his drone stuff. (whats goin on with drones in ukraine)however that Shahed drone thing you're talking about is true, it reminds me of the loadstar killstreak lol.
Watching Perfect Dark go from sci-fi when i played it in 2000, to an Alternate history a couple years ago, it's spooky how many predictions people had then and during 2010 that came true now.
7:15 for the record, if current naming conventions stand, there will never be a USS Barack Obama aircraft carrier. Aircraft carriers are only named after presidents that served in the US military, ex Washington, Roosevelt, Ford, Eisenhower, or possibly at some point in the future, Bush
The funniest thing about anti-drone Warfare is that the simplest way to take down a drone isn't a multi-million dollar aimed jamming system But a simple $500 shotgun (35¢ shells) designed to take out birds You can't put armor on a thing that is designed to be lightweight, especially the rotors.
The simplest way is far from the best, fpv drones often strike before anyone knows they are in the area and soldiers are just as likely to shoot down friendly drones as they are enemy drones. Electronic warfare is the best way to minimize the threat of drones.
@@rachinvocat9587I doubt the cost of that would be worth investing into when a shotgun will still probably destroy or disconnect something important with the force of being shot at alone.
13:25 I’d argue what we have for optics is better than the target finder. While it’s putting a red square on things, the hybrid thermal red dots we have outline heat signatures and is in my opinion, way more effective
I remember when I was younger I was thinking about this time, I had no idea I’d be where I was now. I specifically remembering about this moment now during the mission where we attacked a building soon after the president got attacked on the highway if I remember correctly. I hope my younger self is at least somewhat proud of where I’ve came since then.
I can say BO2 has been a legendary game for me. I have nothing to say about it, just great memories that I can feel when I reminisce it. The community, the game, the lobbies, the zombies, the campaign, the TH-cam videos and trends surrounding the game were just all VIBES that you just had to be a part of to know how good of an era it was in gaming and probably the best COD title or at least amongst the top 3 for many.
I remember reading a headline in the past year that some company was gonna build a floating city like Colossus. I'm gonna guess it went nowhere for obvious reasons.
You forgot to mention that China in 2025 invented the drone swarm and transparent cloacking , which was insane in 2025. Now China litteraly lives in BO2 2025, while the rest of the world still is in 2022 and earlier
Thank you Riloe, i knew someone had to make this exact video and it being you is amazing. keep it up! Here's hoping Black Ops 3 doesn't predict the future. Cant wait to see THAT video in 40 years lol.
TH-cam recommendations really do be working in this man's favor. I had no idea this game took place in 2025 here. Im still watching the video here but im so intrigued into what black ops 2 got right here :)
22:17 The drone in BO2 probably uses semi autonomous system, they receive command of what to do and then do rest with AI which at that stage it render electronic countermeasure useless, its on board AI can also be coded to autonomously target such device if they attempted to do so
ARMA 3 which released a year after Black Ops 2 basically came the closest with its "MX series" of weapons used by NATO forces using the 6.5 cartridge instead of what happened with the XM7/250 which uses 6.8
It's quite different ammo: the mx series ust 6.5x39 ammo and sig spear and xm250 use 6.8x51 ammo. First are closer to standard intermidiate cartridge, like 5.56x45 or 5.45x39 when the second one are closer to rifle cartridge like 7.62x51 nato or 7.62x54R.
4:37 oh my God I just noticed that 20% of Ukraine is controlled by Russia. You can clearly see it in the map so black ops two also got that prediction right 😱
That’s not a prediction genius. Ukraine has been at war with Russia since 2014 over Crimea. I know this game was developed in 2011/2012 but it wasn’t far off.
I don't know how you do it. I find your style so interesting, eerie, yet so comforting and grounded. You sound like you want to tell me what it's all about, but can't find the words to do it right. But you do, you do it right, you do it with passion, you do it with a sense of "hey dude, i WANT to show you this, i want to explain to you how the world connects, i want to paint the final, ultimate picture. Thank you
19:35 OH COME ON MAAAAN The claw is like one of the coolest drones in the entire game Couldnt you say at least one tiny line about it ?? This thing is literally a juggernaut type drone
It literally is a walking nightmare for ground troops (flametrower + granade launcher + turret)... so a small tank that doesn't sleep (tanks are faster of course)
You should tackle all the futuristic CoDs. Advanced Warfare, BLOPS 3&4 and Infinite Warfare all took varying shots at predicting and/or entertaining us with visions of the future.
So glad I made this channel notification status. I got excited when I saw it in my notification feed. Seriously, thank you for creating such phenomenal videos.
Baffled by this video having any dislikes, although very few. Fantastic production, structure and delivery. Well done :) Seen a few of your videos in the past as well and I'll be subbing
@@WTFisTingispingis Oliver North helped Treyarch write the game. Probably explains why it's rather believable in terms of tech and politics for a futuristic game
Our Tech accelerate at a Speed we probably cannot imagine especially with Computers one day generate their own research that saves a loot of TIme. Great Video as Riloe :D
This was the video I wanted to see this year. I have been telling all my friends about how we are in the year of Nuke town 2025, but none of them seem to get it quite like you have. Thank you once again for making this video and I plan to come back and watch this again in the future.
A note on the Quantum Computing thing: It’s honestly pretty overhyped, and likely will never have as huge an impact as people claim (at least with our current approaches and knowledge). It’s simply because the system’s are incredibly limited by noise and by scalability. But while I am a physicist, my background is not in QC so I could be slightly off base.
Several breakthroughs have already made the issue of scalability and noise, especially noise significantly less extreme and much more solvable in the near future. Energy, data and qubit transmission was also vastly improved in efficiency due to a novel use of semiconductor nanocrystals that allows transfer through conventional fiber optic cables that also makes the qubits in transit almost immune to noise. That's all of course if the information is accurate, leaving room for the grain of salt that always comes with emerging technologies.
sorry but a computer which can basically calculate every decision in your life and the consequences all at the same time is gonna be revolutionary when it comes to research and war time strategy
@@MCD10000 Wartime strategy is unpredictable by nature. However, peacetime planning and force optimization are certainly places where quantum computers would have an effect. Quantum computing mainly has benefits for parallel processing, factorization, optimization, AI learning, multidisciplinary effects via chemical and physical simulation, cyber security and cryptography.
@Angstbringer18B no right now but with a quantum computer and the history of tactics it will be able to predict every possible move and what the likelihood it will be done
I was 9 when bo2 came out. So it was basically the first game i ever REALLY played a lot of. The fact that were in the year that bo2 was set in makes me feel old as shit and im only 21 😂
My unit uses these unmanned 8 wheel load bearing vehicles made by Forterra, very similar in size to the CLAW in game. Although they dont have any weapons and are usually used for carrying ammunition, equipment and mortar rounds I think they could easily be retrofitted with weapons similar to the CLAW. I got to work with one personally a few weeks ago and there pretty cool. They go about 10mph and can be driven remotely by an operator, given a predetermined path or move by itself from point A to point B. They even scan its path to avoid potential holes or obstacles along the way. It was funny watching this little IR flash start rolling down to the target to drop off ammo for our assault force.
I remember this game coming out and being so young thinking about how 2025 was so far away. And during those moments I thought all I had between then and now was time.
2012 feels like a life time ago. Used to watch my older brother play Black Ops 2 religiously. I'm 22 now, and in seeing 2025 as it was Black Ops 2 and today, I certainly relate to the wealth inequality part. I don't have much, but I'm happy with what I have.
How I miss the era where all I needed to do was get home from school and own noobs in Black Ops 2... Oh, and don't get me started on how many hours of unbridled fun I had playing Zombies and doing the strats, EEs, etc. Man, what a good, fun, time.
I remember talking about this with a friend 3 years ago about how similar current events and technology’s are getting to this game, never thought I’d see a video talking about it!
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it is literally in the present as you stated at the start. i am australian and it's 2025
Happy new year and merry christmas dude
This video is amazing
I'd like to add that they are using drones equipped with shotguns in Ukraine!
I always thought that the reason Russia was barely in the game was because black ops 2 was set after the og modern warfare trilogy and had been set on a more peaceful path with major disarmament efforts after ww3
I can’t believe I wasn’t the only one thinking the year 2025 is a black ops 2 reference.
BO2 was so good the world decided to make 2025 real
@@lordhapax7414 yes, Yes, YES
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Just need to wait for an eyepatched man to come
Edit: It seems that newer CoDs have distorted my memories of Menendez’s appearance, even though I’ve played through BO2 twice
As a freshman in HS playing this with my friends I always wanted to know how 2025 would be…now we’re here living in it and it puts a lot of things into perspective
Cant wait for the "Did Adavanced Warfare predict the future" In 29 Years
God imagine North Korea doing that too. Though I do think if the cycle of the military is happening, we might see a slow transition from national army to private contractors and militias, it might be clearer in the early 22nd century (most of us will be dead before then).
@@mightyx5441Russia is already doing that a bit with PMCs like Wagner who are officially banned in Russia but unofficially an extension of their military.
Only reason I’m not killing myself tbh
@@mightyx5441 pinkerton ahh problems again
@@mightyx5441damn time really is circular huh
cant wait to play zombies irl next year
wonder if the ant zombie fungus will mutate fast enough to take over humans
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@@hydrohigh-danger9711 but will we get max ammos?
@pooferfine2156 Nah, it has to be zombies from a radioactive space rock or i'm kabooming the planet off the face of the universe.
Ironically, small towns have more guns than people, so it would be completely different from BO2
And that apocalypse stuff is supposed to come from messing with nature in the more population dense areas.
Looking forward to it too, apocalypse is better than dystopia because everyone is somewhat equal.
I think the main predication BO2 couldn't make, is how much Dubstep music would die off in the next 5-6 years after its release lol.
The falloff of dubstep unironically needs to be studied
We stopped playing bedwars as 10 year olds
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We heading to nuketown 2025 with this one
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@ScorpoYT I love your videos
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Sorry it's just nuke town now
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"Black Ops 2 was definitely a product of the 2010s." Oof. You just have to remind me how long ago it really feels.
5 years ago was 2020 and not 2015
@@tvhead7074 he never said 5 years ago.
@@harrisonnightingale6600he just saying that we are 15 years from 2010 and were closer to 2030 already
I was 17 years old when I got black ops 2 release day in 2012 ,I'm glad I was born on the 90s time flies.
Damn.
Cannot wait for Treyarch to make a deal with Lockheed Martin
Infinity Ward and Activision already had deals with Remington and the US Army in the past with the development of OG MW3. It's most likely already been done in some form.
@@munanchoinc They should've made a deal to keep the names real bruh.
@@ng-lr4nlThey did back then. Now activision acts like they can’t afford it or something 😂🤦🏾♂️
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@@ng-lr4nloptional. Only the design requires licensing.
Can't wait for "How ArmA 3 predicts the future" in 10 years
Arma 3 predictions are kind of already here. Higher caliber weapon systems to defeat modern body armor. The introduction of thermals in combination with NV. Same with global warming. Modern fighters are made for concealment and longer ranges rather than dogfights etc. All we are missing is the actual war.
Arma 3 is set in 2035 so we will have to wait another 10 years for that.
@@A3Timoaccording to the media the future is now old man! Well kinda considering they keep using Arma clips as war correspondence 😂😂
@@A3Timo you're right
@@A3Timothey already nailed the Americans switching to 6.8mm from 5.56
Such a well edited and researched video, it’s cool to see that BO2 was somewhat grounded in reality but wacky enough to not take itself too seriously!
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So are you gonna apologize to your fans this year or are we just supposed to forget you ditching your friends and family for Kayrina?
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I love the Black Ops 2 asthetic. It's futuristic but many details were modern to the 2010s or earlier. For example on one of the attachments there is an old-style power button. (Those large oval shaped ones that are kinda squishy to push down.) Small details but I love them so much.
@@michaeljones2162 yeah love the attachment design! Especially the very rectangular MM Scanner
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The billboard thing actually is accurate, just not in the United States outside of places like New York. But in any major Asian city, you'll see some of the largest displays ever.
Outside japan and korea?
@@AugustRx China, Philippines, really, any country in the eastern half of Asia.
@@alicorn3924 Yeah, Chungqing seriously looks like it belongs in 2077, not 2025.
@@AugustRx Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Shenyang, Singapore. Yep... it's really not that exclusive.
I was visiting China for vacation and oh my goodness they be having one of the most gaint billboard I have ever seen in my life.
Interestingly enough the LSAT in BO2 actually has M250 marked on the gun so it did sorta predict the SIG M250 in an unintentional way.
Wild
“M250” is just the military designation, no matter what new LMG the army picked it would be called the M250
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Technically this will be retro futuristic in the real slightly distant future
Correction, it already is.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸, stop Israeli genocide
Nah @@Finn-343
In some ways it already kin of was when it came out, an I feel it was both intentional, and partially responsible for how much more grounded it ended up than other similar work. That little bit of 80s and 90s sci fi nostalgia kind of, reels back in the wildest 2010s speculations.
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The thing is about the drone warfare they show in Black Ops 2 is that they lean far more into the multi-million dollar UAV style drones being proliferated, when in reality, it was the smaller drones like quadcopters that proliferated. If anything, real life has shown that drones aren't going to make warfare human free. There will always be men on the ground with guns shooting at each other as that's the only real way to advance a front and capture territory.
In real life, drones are innovation on the battlefield, but they aren't a complete revolution in the way war is fought like the invention of gunpowder or the Atom bomb was.
@@graye2799 Yes they were. Every single nation has to relearn war now and drones are making it terrifying to be in any kind of vehicle that isn't meant to kill drones.
@@graye2799I disagree, drones fundamentally change the way wars are fought, from intelligence to combat. Squadrons must be prepared for drone attacks or they will pay dearly.
You should see drone warfare in Ukraine it’s crazy
I remember when I got this game in 2012 never thinking about how far 2025 actually was, just enjoying a great call of duty being a kid. Time flies man.
I literally just got done suffering with Raul Menendez last week, how funny to see that one of my fav creators drops a video on it
You suffer with me
The suffering never ends.
cant wait to hear "fetch me their souls" next month
It has to be after the missiles drop
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Gotta get them rayguns and wunderwaffes ready.
la is on fire and looks like town from zombies
I think tranzit is in la since everything is on fire
One rule that people forget about weapons is the fact that Obsolete doesn't mean ineffective. A fucking flintlock pistol is still going to kill someone, same goes for a rock or melee weapon. The use case may be way smaller to the point of being near impossible, but when that moment presents itself even the most primitive or improvised weapons will cause harm or even kill.
MW2 ending was good. Got Shepherd with the the same knife he used
They're still using sticks in Ukraine to down drones
I own a musket for home defense
Buuuut you won't ever find yourself out and about with a flintlock.
@TheSultan1470 around the start of the (current) war in Myanmar, they were using flintlocks and single shot rifles against guys with fucking AKs whole thing was nuts
The funny thing is that when BO2 came out, some people complained about the SDC using American UH 60 and F 35, and then in the late 2010s and early 2020s, the Z 20 and J 35 (which are visually very similar to the aircraft mentioned above) were adopted
Biggest difference in the tech off the jump is that quantum computers are entirely useless at this point and are not used for problem solving in a traditional sense like any other computer. Theyre hardly even computers at this point, still extremely experimental. Any money in them is entirely speculative.
They have solved a few proplems that normal super computers cant
Quantum computers can barely run Doom on wireframe settings. They may have unique uses but are not even close to replacing normal computers
I think it's kind of crazy how this game actually has a branching storyline based on the outcomes of previous missions (or they were side missions, I forget). I recall the mission to take out the Chinese government's warhawks so their more cooperative factions could ease tensions and allowed for the deployment of Chinese spec ops to protect the President during the massive drone attacks. You could fail that mission and not received that aid.
Also if your relationships with the chinese are good: some snipers take a roof in the last mission (clearing that roof from the enemy snipers/rockets) and helping on the outside of the level
The drones in BO2 are actually more realistic than you imagine, and the absence of an effective anti-drone technology is pretty real. Many of the drone tech present in BO2 are already doable as of now but the main reason why they haven't been implemented yet in a large scale is largely due to us still figuring out how to actually implement them, and having to integrate newer systems while at the same time maintaining older ones is a hassle. As for anti-drone tech, RF jamming equipment has proven itself to be not as effective as what people believe. They work on specific frequency bands, and drones can just work on different frequency to avoid jamming or even work autonomously without the need for a manual control over radio wave. The most effective way of taking out drones is to actually shoot them out of the sky, which is harder to do than said. The US is working on directed energy weapons to counter drone swarms but these systems as of now are really large and not very mobile (it's basically towed by a truck).
Yep probably the biggest thing that BO2 got wrong in the military sphere was how fast the military would adopt new technology. But honestly I think BO2 itself is partially responsible for said getting thing wrong. I never heard much about people worrying about someone hacking every single integrated system in the world until AFTER BO2 came out. BO2 may have altered military history slightly and led to the late adoption of drone tech. Autonomous drones capable of identifying targets and attacking are already possible, I have like 10 of them in my room. They use an optical separator for the antenna and are EM shielded so bringing them down with microwaves is near impossible. If they lose connection to base they are programmed to fly to the last known position of "enemy forces" and pick one to dive/ fire on. They have onboard micro-AI to identify heat signatures and do object recognition.
I use them to fight the crows from getting at the nests of some owls that live near my home. I also have a UGV that rides on wheels and has a small BB machine gun mounted to it to stop the deer from getting at the vegetable patch. So they are used in warfare, just not against humans. I have also made a drone that I slapped a sniper rifle onto at an outdoor range. It holds the range record now... Turns out that removing the furniture and making what is essentially a miniature tank is the way to go.
@@inventor121 my man really using drone warfare against crows lol. i respect the commitment
@@inventor121 I'm just picturing Mason from love death robots, but with crows instead of rats. This future was bound to happen I'm sure
I know a couple of companies with anti-drone techs, since links are banned on TH-cam I'll provide you guys some titles
1) Counter-UAS | Leonardo DRS
2) Drone Defence Toolbox | Rheinmetall
3) C-UxS Products: Counterdrone Protection | DroneShield
Take these companies as how you want, however, I want to mention that both SHORAD and CIWS have great anti-drone ammunition, though this system won't exist in frontline combat
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I’m having flashbacks to campers using the LSAT+Target Finder combo… We used to call that attachment “bitch goggles”.
Hated that shit with a passion. 😅
don't forget the planted riot shield
I remember packing Cold Blooded and EMP grenades to counter all the bitch goggles :)
Or "pussy scope". 😂
reminds me of the heartbeat sensors and calling them baby monitors in mw2
2:09 "twenty twenty twelve"
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202012
Noice 👍@@riloegaming
Bro was probably saying "twenty twenty five" so many times while recording this he got lost in the sauce and thought he just had to replace the 5 with 12 😂
The funny thing is that the closed captions thought he said 2022@@cnner1997
16:11 one of the main reasons why the XM7 was adopted, is because it’s so similar to the AR platform soldiers trained on the AR platform will be able to easily pick up/use the XM7.
I think that BO2 was much closer to reality in terms of the importance and proliferation of drones than we can assume. The conflict in Ukraine itself shows that thanks to 3D printing, with the right amount of materials and energy, the number of drones produced per day can reach hundreds. Their reconnaissance and strike importance cannot be overestimated and in this particular conflict, they constitute, next to artillery, the absolute first type of threat. At the same time, BO2 has the comfort of still fitting into the period where we thought that the return of symmetrical conflicts between conventional forces was a thing of the past, and the future would be precisely such asymmetrical combat, very infantry-centric and brutal. In such combat (which we probably have the closest equivalent in Syria, Libya and Gaza), drones are crucial precisely as the possibility of avoiding short-range combat and eliminating opponents from a safe position. The problem is that symmetrical combat is coming back into favor, and in it the rules are a bit different, because jamming systems and artillery are other elements of the modern battlefield that are difficult to convey in the language of the game. If this were not the case and the focus was to move further towards asymmetric warfare, I can absolutely see drones being equipped more quickly with solutions for following soldiers - a function that civilian drones use to take pictures of objects and people in motion. The mass of drones has therefore been captured very accurately, especially since it is on them that the type of troops shown in the game wants to put its potential, its muscles, i.e., first the air force, and then the land forces (in December 2024 we had the first completely independently conducted battle using land drones on enemy positions and for the first time a naval drone shot down a helicopter). Of course, the issue of personal jammers is important, but drones have been used in asymmetric warfare since at least 2014, where ISIS used them extensively in its operations, they have been used quite massively since then, and their explosions are still happening today. And only now, in the third year of the war with their absolutely massive use, personal solutions are starting to appear, much more common are the heavier ones, based on and powered by vehicles or securing positions. Something that in the world of BO2, where symmetric warfare is clearly not coming back into favor, could simply not happen for a long time, or did, only it was considered that the only effective way to provide a counter to drones is other drones - jammers radiate in the radar spectrum and artillery strikes can be directed at them. Today, however, drones are increasingly killing drones, so maybe BO2 was more right here than we could have expected.
What has not been addressed is that the twin-engine F-38, which is an extension in terms of propulsion and range, the larger backbone of American air power, commanding a fleet of drones that are used as sensors and weapons providers? This sounds almost perfectly like the machine of the very real NGAD program, or NextGenerationAirDominance, which is to respond to a potential confrontation between the US and China, for which the F-35 has too short a range. The aircraft, the prototype of which almost certainly flew, but whose future is currently being considered, but it may turn out that it will finally be born in 2025. And it is to have all the capabilities of the F-35 (apart from the VTOL version), but providing two powerful engines and, in addition to its own, much larger weapons bay, it was to be the command center for formations of heavy drones. Autonomous flying vehicles intended for basically everything are already announced by the USAF as ready to be ordered in the number of at least 1,000 units. One of the main problems in their matter is, as in BO2, the limited production potential related to the fact that a huge part of the mineral resources needed to build them is at the disposal of China, which is hostile to the US. The issue of energy to operate automated factories capable of creating them in appropriate amounts is equally critical here.
However, BO2 solved this problem in a way that the world SHOULD have actually done decades ago - it is clear that the US relies much more on nuclear energy in this world, looking at how "green" this world is, probably based on Thorium fuel technology. Something that was first achieved in 2024. So cheap, easily accessible energy from common and safe Thorium reactors could solve the energy bottleneck and, combined with the proliferation of renewable energy, could effectively lead to the economic collapse of countries that rely on oil sales. Such as Russia, which without it would probably not be able to maintain its military potential and would become (as is happening today) an area of agent penetration by international criminal groups, but also Chinese services and economic entities. BO2 has shifted the focus of its locations to Latin America to a much greater extent, which makes sense both in terms of the plot (Menendez), but also politically - this is where China is closest to the US and this is where the game for key resources needed to develop new technologies takes place.
Such as developing computing capabilities and their military use, which, combined with electronic radio warfare, is expected to be a key front in the second Cold War. Whoever is first to be able to break into the enemy's communication and management systems will gain a huge advantage. And we know that such capabilities can be obtained today by both state and non-state entities - the war of the Anonymus group against ISIS or Russia.
BO2 is my favorite title in the entire series and certainly the best-made futuristic part. The technology here is done with taste, an idea for itself and is realistic in a way that already in 2012 gave me shivers of excitement.
We're one giga solar flare away from the stone age (Iron age if lucky). And honestly fuck it. The average joe is getting more poor. Why fear the worse when the worse is literally now?
I really hope you didn't have to write that on mobile
@@KTW12 shit i really hope he didnt have to write this at all. this one of them heartfelt comments that takes 45 minutes to write out
@lilhoodie15Hey good comment tho, I read the whole thing.
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One aspect of modern war that many overestimated is how common new, advanced technology would be on the battlefield. New tech can be extraordinarily effective, but it is also expensive and frequently unested, so a lot of the time simple, cheap and efficient is where it's at. This can especially be seen with kamikaze drones and the common way to combat them - shotguns.
That's largely the same reason why simply iterating on old designs is often the way to go if you actually wanna improve something, like with new service rifles. Rapid innovation can easily introduce more problems than it solves, especially if new gear is not tested extensively in combat. Ukraine now is to some extent a testing ground for new ideas and equipment, and shortly after it all started we saw how many advanced tanks and IFVs ended when faced with a cheap drone or a simple artillery strike.
It didn't overestimate imo, tech is way beyond what the public is show, a great example would be HARP
If the US was to go total war you’d see this technology proliferated, planes were invented before WW1
12:25 this is definitely a reference to Total Recall. The first Black Ops was full of references to Vietnam War movies and spy thrillers so it stands to reason the sequel would have some cheeky references to sci-fi classics as well
Love Total Recall!!! One of the all time best sci fi flicks
I'll be back in 17 years to see if world armies started unlocking specialist abilities
feels surreal how fast those 15 years went by.. I remember getting this game on the xbox 360 and being in high school
tbf, one of the most common anti-drone weapons in the Russo-Ukraine War is the Buckshot Shotgun, so most soldiers shooting at drones with their rifles rather than using anti-rf gear isn't far fetched in 2025
Totally. But my point is that in the real world, that’s a stop-gap solution borne of necessity in a world where drones basically JUST appeared on the battlefieled. In BO2s world, they are SO ubiquitous, you’d imagine specifically anti-drone tech such as is being developed IRL right now, would be as plentiful as the mass produced drones are
@@riloegaming drones are SO all over the place that it's kinda funny that you can't also resort to conventional anti-electronic warfare, namely ECMs and EMPs, because such methods would cripple BOTH sides of the conflict and provide a net 0 tactical improvement in the current fight unless you're severely outnumbered by these drones and HUD tech, which doesn't seem to be a thing in BO2
Iirc Ukraine just launched an entire robot only army earlier December
@@mechahayato4988 emps dont work irl, they lose energy per m3 traveled within the earths atmosphere. You will never see emps when you can just use a bomb and achieve the same thing lol.
Bruh, they're using birdshot, not buckshot.
It's pretty hard to hit a clay pigeon (let alone a bird or drone) with buckshot, it's why I use "bird" shot for birds and "buck" shot for bucks.
Can't wait for "Did Kirby and the Forgotten Land predict the future?" when blue Chinchilla Sephiroth comes from space and tries to destroy us
Then some random pink creature makes a bloodbath out of the local wildlife and then busts a move
"Did Super Mario Odyssey predicted the future?"
Year just started and I’m gonna be paying CLOSE attention to make sure things line up to BO2
wait till nuketown
To make sure things line up... ayo?
@@kylej9150 what’s even sus about that 🫣
Wait I forgot horrible things happen
Cant wait for the "Did World at War predict the future" in -80 years
Can't wait for a video about if Call Of Duty 1 predicted the future as well
Zombies was accurate too with LA becoming Tranzit a week into 2025 😂
can't wait for "did black ops 3 predict 2065 correctly?"
dont forget "did advanced warfare predict 2054 correctly?"
@@WorldOfTanksFakeChannelBoth are panning out to be true with those special suits because prototypes are being made. You can look them up.
Riloe drop on new years eve is so peak thank u bro
the events of bo2 still happen before gta6
You don't understand how patiently i've been waiting for this. since I was a little kid in 2012, the super advanced, but lowkey scary future of black ops 2 made me excited for that 2010's vision of 2025. Then Ukraine got invaded in 2022, and the use of drones has taken a big role and all the advancements in technology in the past few years, got me thinking about it again. Since then, and all the way up until 2024, I've just been in quiet anticipation for the gun mounted drone dogs, and hunter killer drones, and all the videos that would come out in 2025 about black ops 2 predictions of the future... now it's actually 2025, and 8 year old me can finally rest...
Not until halloween this year when zombies start chasing you irl
The gun mounted dogs are being made and tested out and the hunter killer drones are kind of a thing already just different. There’s already militarized robots being used in wars in variations such as mini tanks, vehicles and other equipment/gadgets.
The PDW-57 was and still is my favorite gun in the game. 100% the reason why my dream gun is a P90 hahaha
I’m always told it’s impractical but with a 50rd mag I don’t have to be practical I just have to unload into the intruder😂
@ and you’ll look like a futuristic badass doin it 🤣🤣
Oh man i cannot wait for the *Judgement day* to happen by some Spanish guy on June 19th 2025
"Spanish"
“Nicaraguan”
Thats my birthday, can't wait. 😃
Can't wait for protests against inflation in the United States on that date.
"Central American"
Their drone warfare prediction is scary. Russia has been using a kamikaze drone that is 12 foot long, it is called the Shahed and they launch between 20-50 of those drones at Ukraine almost every night. It reminds me of the last mission in Bo2, an army of drones overwhelming air defenses and smashing into everything.
same old ballistic missiles are much more scarier, hard to intercept, fast to fly to hit target (3-10 minutes from launch to hit), while slow shahed drone will fly for hours, can be tracked, spoofed, shot down from small arms. drone attacks has became so usual, that majority of people don't even give a shit, we have a proverb "їбане то їбане", which means "if i'll get hit, so be it". but much scarier when there is ballistic danger and/or guided bombs launch. it'll hit fast and in any place. hi from Kharkiv😅
nah with that in particular they were in proximity to alotta stuff like FPSRussia was dfoing back in the day with drones and guns, on youtube, he was even in the b02 trailer with gun mounted drones. which does draw the already existing corelation, i just think it was a coincidence more than anything lol, but i mean drone tech was almost that good in about 2012 so im not shocked they guess that, if u were watching that FPSRussia stuff, that was litterally like the objective of alotta his drone stuff. (whats goin on with drones in ukraine)however that Shahed drone thing you're talking about is true, it reminds me of the loadstar killstreak lol.
Now we know that those drones are from China that were on our coast, same as the weird Ballon that came over our land
They used to, then they started running short on shaheds and these attacks are done maybe twice a month, with the vast majority getting shot down.
The Shahed comes from iran an yes that's a pretty scary prediction
Watching Perfect Dark go from sci-fi when i played it in 2000, to an Alternate history a couple years ago, it's spooky how many predictions people had then and during 2010 that came true now.
22:30 "Why are soldiers shooting down drones with rifles rather than being clad in anti RF emitting gear"
That one checks out with real life
7:15 for the record, if current naming conventions stand, there will never be a USS Barack Obama aircraft carrier. Aircraft carriers are only named after presidents that served in the US military, ex Washington, Roosevelt, Ford, Eisenhower, or possibly at some point in the future, Bush
I never knew/realised that, and I swear there’s a George bush carrier?
He served aswell@@lachlanchester8142
@@lachlanchester8142 There is a carrier named after George H. W. Bush but not yet one named after George W. Bush.
@@lachlanchester8142 Bush Sr served in WW2 in the Navy
5:56 both female president candidates got beat by trump… and quite frankly predicting trump is impossible.
Simpsons did it, stupidly.
Simpsons did it
Bullshit @@RAAM855
The first one has millions more votes.
predicting the current wave of right wing populism that would threaten the neoliberal world order in 2012 was damn near impossible
The funniest thing about anti-drone Warfare is that the simplest way to take down a drone isn't a multi-million dollar aimed jamming system
But a simple $500 shotgun (35¢ shells) designed to take out birds
You can't put armor on a thing that is designed to be lightweight, especially the rotors.
😂yea you can if you balance the weight and keep the armor lightweight also russia has drones like 10-20ft
Carbon fiber is a good defense against pellets i think someone would a find a way to give a drone a carbon fiber lightweight sheikd
Have you seen the shotgun shells with that old light pull string chain in them designed to mess up the rotors?
The simplest way is far from the best, fpv drones often strike before anyone knows they are in the area and soldiers are just as likely to shoot down friendly drones as they are enemy drones. Electronic warfare is the best way to minimize the threat of drones.
@@rachinvocat9587I doubt the cost of that would be worth investing into when a shotgun will still probably destroy or disconnect something important with the force of being shot at alone.
13:25 I’d argue what we have for optics is better than the target finder. While it’s putting a red square on things, the hybrid thermal red dots we have outline heat signatures and is in my opinion, way more effective
Like the Holosun DRS-TH.
I remember when I was younger I was thinking about this time, I had no idea I’d be where I was now. I specifically remembering about this moment now during the mission where we attacked a building soon after the president got attacked on the highway if I remember correctly. I hope my younger self is at least somewhat proud of where I’ve came since then.
I can say BO2 has been a legendary game for me. I have nothing to say about it, just great memories that I can feel when I reminisce it. The community, the game, the lobbies, the zombies, the campaign, the TH-cam videos and trends surrounding the game were just all VIBES that you just had to be a part of to know how good of an era it was in gaming and probably the best COD title or at least amongst the top 3 for many.
i played bo2 for the first time a few months ago, i didnt expect the part where they introduce tech that scans your face and generates an image
Yea and touch screen on arm to use the UAV
Me and the boys playing BO2 IRL remake in 2025
Watched the first half in 2024 and the latter in 2025. Cant believe it took a year to watch!
Har har!
I remember reading a headline in the past year that some company was gonna build a floating city like Colossus. I'm gonna guess it went nowhere for obvious reasons.
You forgot to mention that China in 2025 invented the drone swarm and transparent cloacking , which was insane in 2025. Now China litteraly lives in BO2 2025, while the rest of the world still is in 2022 and earlier
Think US probably has similar tech and probably both of them have had it for at least a few years
Thank you Riloe, i knew someone had to make this exact video and it being you is amazing. keep it up! Here's hoping Black Ops 3 doesn't predict the future. Cant wait to see THAT video in 40 years lol.
By far my favorite CoD game
What a way to kick off the new year, with a high quality riloe video
Bo2 predicted the 2025 Los Angeles fires
TH-cam recommendations really do be working in this man's favor. I had no idea this game took place in 2025 here. Im still watching the video here but im so intrigued into what black ops 2 got right here :)
22:17 The drone in BO2 probably uses semi autonomous system, they receive command of what to do and then do rest with AI which at that stage it render electronic countermeasure useless, its on board AI can also be coded to autonomously target such device if they attempted to do so
ARMA 3 which released a year after Black Ops 2 basically came the closest with its "MX series" of weapons used by NATO forces using the 6.5 cartridge instead of what happened with the XM7/250 which uses 6.8
It's quite different ammo: the mx series ust 6.5x39 ammo and sig spear and xm250 use 6.8x51 ammo. First are closer to standard intermidiate cartridge, like 5.56x45 or 5.45x39 when the second one are closer to rifle cartridge like 7.62x51 nato or 7.62x54R.
4:37 oh my God I just noticed that 20% of Ukraine is controlled by Russia. You can clearly see it in the map so black ops two also got that prediction right 😱
Bruh😭
That’s not a prediction genius. Ukraine has been at war with Russia since 2014 over Crimea. I know this game was developed in 2011/2012 but it wasn’t far off.
looks more 30%
You never know in a fictional universe though. Maybe Ukraine controls 120% of Russia?
This video is fantastic man, well done. No time wasted, you did your research. no annoying jokes every 5 seconds and good editing. nice job!
I don't know how you do it. I find your style so interesting, eerie, yet so comforting and grounded. You sound like you want to tell me what it's all about, but can't find the words to do it right. But you do, you do it right, you do it with passion, you do it with a sense of "hey dude, i WANT to show you this, i want to explain to you how the world connects, i want to paint the final, ultimate picture. Thank you
I thought "Haha you were 6 hours early!" then remembered time zones
19:35 OH COME ON MAAAAN
The claw is like one of the coolest drones in the entire game
Couldnt you say at least one tiny line about it ??
This thing is literally a juggernaut type drone
It literally is a walking nightmare for ground troops (flametrower + granade launcher + turret)... so a small tank that doesn't sleep (tanks are faster of course)
There are UGVS
AGRs are adorbs
Yeah, they definitely predicted the future. L.A. is now Aftermath
You should tackle all the futuristic CoDs. Advanced Warfare, BLOPS 3&4 and Infinite Warfare all took varying shots at predicting and/or entertaining us with visions of the future.
the drones prediction turned out to be terrifyingly accurate, except for the ground drones
So glad I made this channel notification status. I got excited when I saw it in my notification feed. Seriously, thank you for creating such phenomenal videos.
just 2 hours before 2025. cool
Baffled by this video having any dislikes, although very few. Fantastic production, structure and delivery. Well done :) Seen a few of your videos in the past as well and I'll be subbing
I was thinking this at work today, didn’t even say it out loud. I get home and it’s here waiting for me. The universe has been bountiful to me. Ty sir
Great vid man! The editing was amazing! Me and my friends have been waiting for years to see what 2025 will look like compared to bo2.
Let's be honest, whoever wrote and came up with the theme for Black Ops 2 was either stupidly lucky or some kind of observant genius.
@@WTFisTingispingis Oliver North helped Treyarch write the game. Probably explains why it's rather believable in terms of tech and politics for a futuristic game
TO THOSE YOU SERVE YOUR LIFE MEANS NOTHING!!!
Our Tech accelerate at a Speed we probably cannot imagine especially with Computers one day generate their own research that saves a loot of TIme.
Great Video as Riloe :D
This was the video I wanted to see this year. I have been telling all my friends about how we are in the year of Nuke town 2025, but none of them seem to get it quite like you have. Thank you once again for making this video and I plan to come back and watch this again in the future.
Two years later: Did Ghosts predict 2027 correctly?
@@toby1439 i’m ready for it
A note on the Quantum Computing thing: It’s honestly pretty overhyped, and likely will never have as huge an impact as people claim (at least with our current approaches and knowledge). It’s simply because the system’s are incredibly limited by noise and by scalability. But while I am a physicist, my background is not in QC so I could be slightly off base.
Several breakthroughs have already made the issue of scalability and noise, especially noise significantly less extreme and much more solvable in the near future. Energy, data and qubit transmission was also vastly improved in efficiency due to a novel use of semiconductor nanocrystals that allows transfer through conventional fiber optic cables that also makes the qubits in transit almost immune to noise. That's all of course if the information is accurate, leaving room for the grain of salt that always comes with emerging technologies.
sorry but a computer which can basically calculate every decision in your life and the consequences all at the same time is gonna be revolutionary when it comes to research and war time strategy
@@MCD10000 Wartime strategy is unpredictable by nature. However, peacetime planning and force optimization are certainly places where quantum computers would have an effect. Quantum computing mainly has benefits for parallel processing, factorization, optimization, AI learning, multidisciplinary effects via chemical and physical simulation, cyber security and cryptography.
You’re a physicist? What school did you go to. No physicist would underestimate quantum computing like this.
@Angstbringer18B no right now but with a quantum computer and the history of tactics it will be able to predict every possible move and what the likelihood it will be done
Arma 3 got the ngsw program the most correct with a 6.5 caseless rifle
I was 9 when bo2 came out. So it was basically the first game i ever REALLY played a lot of.
The fact that were in the year that bo2 was set in makes me feel old as shit and im only 21 😂
My unit uses these unmanned 8 wheel load bearing vehicles made by Forterra, very similar in size to the CLAW in game. Although they dont have any weapons and are usually used for carrying ammunition, equipment and mortar rounds I think they could easily be retrofitted with weapons similar to the CLAW. I got to work with one personally a few weeks ago and there pretty cool. They go about 10mph and can be driven remotely by an operator, given a predetermined path or move by itself from point A to point B. They even scan its path to avoid potential holes or obstacles along the way. It was funny watching this little IR flash start rolling down to the target to drop off ammo for our assault force.
only 10 days later and we are seeing the fires of LA similar to black ops 2 scenes.
I’ve been typing nuketown takes place in 2025 for a few months
Can't wait for the June 19th of this year
BO2 on release and the following 2 years were absolutely peak CoD.
Absolutely peak. That whole era, 2007-2014 was the golden era for so much, not just games.
@@Angstbringer18BFilms, music, electronics, the whole entertainment industry was at its peak
Ghosts was a hot mess at launch. It got goofy with the DLC but maaaaan what a disappointment it was following up this gem of a game.
I remember this game coming out and being so young thinking about how 2025 was so far away. And during those moments I thought all I had between then and now was time.
2012 feels like a life time ago. Used to watch my older brother play Black Ops 2 religiously. I'm 22 now, and in seeing 2025 as it was Black Ops 2 and today, I certainly relate to the wealth inequality part. I don't have much, but I'm happy with what I have.
Please do these for the Ace Attorney games too!
Ace Attorney 4 takes place in 2026. The fifth game in 2027, and the sixth in 2028! Please! 🙏🏻
*"The problem is for future me, and now I'm the future me."* 💀
2:37 Tony hinchcliffe
Accurate
Spectacular
How I miss the era where all I needed to do was get home from school and own noobs in Black Ops 2...
Oh, and don't get me started on how many hours of unbridled fun I had playing Zombies and doing the strats, EEs, etc. Man, what a good, fun, time.
I remember talking about this with a friend 3 years ago about how similar current events and technology’s are getting to this game, never thought I’d see a video talking about it!
Bro my video on this EXACT topic coming out tomorrow, scheduled it! Great Minds think alike. Great take brother 🤙🎮
praying this turns from sci-fi to alternate history please lock in earth😭🙏
It doesn't matter bro, we knew we were in the bad timeline when harambe got killed
Some of the sci fi elements in the game already exist, but it's not going be that chaotic, i hope 😂
It is currently January 1st 2025 and Raul Menendez and Cordis Dei may be making moves
on new years day, me and my boys had a long conversation about how bo2 was actually pretty close to the actual 2025. Glad i found this video!