Call of Duty: Black Ops Will Support PC Modding

Rakewell

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http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/08/call-of-duty-black-ops-mods/

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/08/call-of-duty-black-ops-mods/#ixzz0xcrHxuvW
The PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops will support user-generated content and gameplay tweaks. Eventually.

“We plan to open up the game for modding sometime post-launch,” a Treyarch developer nicknamed pcdev told readers of the Call of Duty forums last Thursday.

Treyarch is the Activision studio behind Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: World at War. Infinity Ward and Activision took heat from PC gamers last year when they revealed that the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 wouldn’t include PC gaming mandatories like dedicated servers.

In his appeal to the PC faithful, pcdev called support for such features “non-trivial.” The developer said Treyarch’s primary concern is shipping the game by its Nov. 9 release date. Afterward, the company will start making sure that PC gamers get the options they desire.
 
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VulgarDisplay

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Treyarch has long been a better developer in terms of fan service than Infinitely Whored. Call of Duty 5 turned into an amazing game after all the patches it received. It's too bad the lack of record, and mod support at the beginning of the game killed it before it could take off.
 

TehMac

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I was expecting black ops to have its own 50's-70's style in the same vein as the Zombie maps in WaW gave off a '40's vibe.

Instead, this looks almost exactly like Modern Warfare 2, just with a cross bow, more throwing knives, and different helicopter models. Nothing seems all that new, even the maps seem (and most likely are) the same.
 

Nintendesert

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Sure they will. Promise all sorts of stuff for post release and watch the gullible gobble it up.
 

GullyFoyle

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No yakking in the PC Gaming forum about this after yesterdays big reveal event?

Check out the great info posted by Kabob in the Console Gaming forums: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2071608
Start with post #159.

Now, here is some PC related info I heard today:

COD : BO with be Steam exclusive, again. This means VAC anti-cheat, again. But with server admins...

Gameservers.com will be the exclusive server provider (for North America, at least).

Most of this comes from here: http://www.twitter.com/joshpeckler

I'm still looking for pre-order deals, for the PC version...
 
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VulgarDisplay

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I think I'll actually buy this simply because I'm tired of all the games I have now. Hopefully the servers are moddable so we can get a promod going and get some competition started.
 

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yep. dedicated servers are in... but no file access (bc2 and moh style). on top of it, its steam and vac (tf2 style browser, vac is just vac, sucks) as opposed to built in server browser and PB. and theyre aiming it towards pure dlc like mw2 was aimed at. theyre not going to give a huge amount of modding capability in the end, or theyll make you pay for the content to be downloaded.

i wont buy it because they had a chance to take the reigns and beat IW senseless for MW2s fail on the PC. but in the end, they decided to lie to us. JD2020 stated, bluntly, that this wouldnt be a steam game. they proved otherwise yesterday. that it'd be cheat free, which with vac especially, it wont happen. and that we'd have dedicated servers. well, i consider dedicated servers to be the ability to use any box, anywhere, to host the game (be it vps or a true dedicated box), and to use any provider i wish. here they limit us to one provider with no file access at all meaning we cant even use our existing dedi or vps and we have to pay $0.83-0.99 for a max of 24 players. 24?!? Are you serious. Even CoD4 and 5 pull off more then that with ease and MoH has 32 max if i remember right.

Disappointing to say the least. I'll stick with CoD4 even though it's almost 4 years old now. And yet it's still more enjoyable then Mw2 (thanks to a community of modders who made a crap ton of options and maps available). I've played over 100 maps on Cod4 and not one cost me anything more then the time to download it... Not $15 for 4, not an unknown dollar value for an unknown number of maps as of yet from treyarch.

Wonder how long it'll take until EA gets it together and beats activision into the ground with a title that PC gamers want, in the design PC gamers want it in (full dedis, files, mods, and so on).
 

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yep. dedicated servers are in... but no file access (bc2 and moh style). on top of it, its steam and vac (tf2 style browser, vac is just vac, sucks) as opposed to built in server browser and PB. and theyre aiming it towards pure dlc like mw2 was aimed at. theyre not going to give a huge amount of modding capability in the end, or theyll make you pay for the content to be downloaded.

i wont buy it because they had a chance to take the reigns and beat IW senseless for MW2s fail on the PC. but in the end, they decided to lie to us. JD2020 stated, bluntly, that this wouldnt be a steam game. they proved otherwise yesterday. that it'd be cheat free, which with vac especially, it wont happen. and that we'd have dedicated servers. well, i consider dedicated servers to be the ability to use any box, anywhere, to host the game (be it vps or a true dedicated box), and to use any provider i wish. here they limit us to one provider with no file access at all meaning we cant even use our existing dedi or vps and we have to pay $0.83-0.99 for a max of 24 players. 24?!? Are you serious. Even CoD4 and 5 pull off more then that with ease and MoH has 32 max if i remember right.

Disappointing to say the least. I'll stick with CoD4 even though it's almost 4 years old now. And yet it's still more enjoyable then Mw2 (thanks to a community of modders who made a crap ton of options and maps available). I've played over 100 maps on Cod4 and not one cost me anything more then the time to download it... Not $15 for 4, not an unknown dollar value for an unknown number of maps as of yet from treyarch.

Wonder how long it'll take until EA gets it together and beats activision into the ground with a title that PC gamers want, in the design PC gamers want it in (full dedis, files, mods, and so on).

Tripwire understands. Check out Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2099623
 

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i wont buy it because they had a chance to take the reigns and beat IW senseless for MW2s fail on the PC. but in the end, they decided to lie to us. JD2020 stated, bluntly, that this wouldnt be a steam game. they proved otherwise yesterday. that it'd be cheat free, which with vac especially, it wont happen. and that we'd have dedicated servers. well, i consider dedicated servers to be the ability to use any box, anywhere, to host the game (be it vps or a true dedicated box), and to use any provider i wish. here they limit us to one provider with no file access at all meaning we cant even use our existing dedi or vps and we have to pay $0.83-0.99 for a max of 24 players. 24?!? Are you serious. Even CoD4 and 5 pull off more then that with ease and MoH has 32 max if i remember right.

No online FPS will ever be cheat free, but with VAC it should at least be better than that hackerfest that is MW2.