Hey guys, Rambo here, with a DOA2 video.
On Dead Ops Arcade 2, the default color of
your character on Solo is Green.
But, there’s actually a method which allows
you to play as any color on Solo, such as
Blue, Yellow, or even Red, and I’ll be showing
how to do just that in this video.
Now, suppose you want to play as the Red character
on Solo, which a lot of people have asked
me about throughout the years.
So in order to get Red on Solo, you’ll need
the help of two of your friends, or if you
have one friend who has two controllers, that’ll
work as well.
Once you have people willing to help you out, you’ll need one of them to create a Public Lobby in DOA2,
and then have that person invite another friend to the lobby, or they could sign in their second controller.
After this is done, you should then join in
on their lobby.
The idea here is to have you be the third
player who joins the lobby, which typically
means you’ll be the Red player, since the
color order on DOA goes “Green, Blue, Red, Yellow."
At this point, you need to make sure that
there are no randoms in the lobby, and then
once you’ve done that, it’s time for everyone
to “Ready Up” and start the match.
So, to quickly reiterate this point and make
it absolutely clear, my friend BUCK hosted
the Public Lobby, and since he’s Player
1, he’s given the Green player.
Then he signed in his second controller under
his other account called MacMinty, with that
player being Player 2 and being given Blue.
Then I joined in as Player 3, which gave me
Red.
As soon as the round begins, your friends
will have to leave the game, at which point,
the game should migrate the host of the lobby
to you, since you’re the only remaining player.
It’s worth noting that in Private Matches,
the Migrate Host function doesn’t work,
so this Color trick unfortunately has to be
done in Public Lobbies.
In any case, once the host is migrated, you
should pull up the pause menu and press the
“Start Over” option, which will just quickly
refresh your game, and make it to where your
match is rightfully counted as a Solo game
on the Leaderboards.
Once you’ve done this, you’re not exactly
at the finish line.
If you want to play a full Solo game as Red,
you’ll either need some luck or patience.
Essentially, since you’re still in a Public
Lobby, randoms might be thrown into your match
at any point during the first 8 rounds.
If such a thing happens, you have a couple
of options.
Your first option is to repeatedly press the
“Start Over” button, until the randoms
end up getting frustrated and leave the game
for good, but even if they leave, you need
to hope that nobody else ends up joining your match
again during the first 8 rounds, so this option
will typically require a lot of restarts on
your part.
The second option is to continue playing the
match even if randoms are thrown into your lobby,
and just hope that they leave at some
point during the game.
Usually they get upset from dying constantly and end up rage quitting relatively early into the match.
You could even go out of your way to grief
them and maybe make them quit earlier.
For example, in a game I played, I was fortunate
enough to hit this Armory and then block the door,
which trapped the Blue player and made
him leave the game.
I could be mistaken, but I think if randoms
end up joining your game in the early rounds,
let’s say they join in on Round 3, but then
they eventually back out, it should still
count as a Solo match for you, so long as the randoms weren’t there at the very beginning of Round 1.
The bottom line with this trick is that there’ll
be some restarts or other inconveniences involved
if you’re serious about playing with non-traditional colors on Solo, so it’s up to you to decide if it's worth it.
If you want to play as either the Blue or
Yellow characters on Solo, the same concept
applies as the one I described with the Red
player.
For example, if you want to play as the Yellow
character, instead of having two friends helping
you out, you’ll need three players to occupy
lobby space before you join in as the fourth player.
Remember, the fourth player who joins in is
given Yellow typically.
And for Blue, it’s a lot easier, as you’ll
only need one other person helping you out.
This color trick also applies to Co-op, so you could hypothetically play with any color combination,
if you have the Host migrate
to you with the help of your friends.
Finally, it’s worth noting that the colors
on DOA2 Solo are purely cosmetic.
None of the characters have any unique abilities
that make one more desirable than another.
It’s really just a matter of personal preference.
Anyways, that about wraps up the video, if
you have any questions, I’ll be happy to
answer them in the comment section.
Thanks for watching.
