How are score streaks meant to be obtained

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So I was watching some video footage of good players and I'm totaly confused now.

For me score streaks seem to work completely differently. If I die, I need to regain all the score streaks again (even when I already have them), but on the footage it seemed that when the player kept the first two score streaks and died, he started gaining the third one.

Am I missing something completely obvious here? Is there some switch as to which score streak I want to gain points for?

Best Answer

Unlike MW3, where you could use support killstreaks, in Black Ops 2 all the scorestreak has to be obtained in one life. If you get the scorestreak but are killed before you have time to use it then you will still have it when you spawn but will start your streak again at 0; this much is the same as with Assault killstreaks in MW3.

If you could link the footage, I'd be intrigued to see it.