Infinity Ward using COD4 custom maps in MW2?

[Krakn3Dfx]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1023649

http://www.codboards.com/showthread.php?t=31565

"Just look at the screen shots below. No wonder IW were able to make such good maps for WM2. IW ran a competition for maps in CoD4 and if I remember rightly, NO ONE won anything from it. So, mappers are duped into making maps and having to provide the source files for the maps. Then, "they claim" to have remade Brecourt. Yeah, right they did. This is Zeroy's Pripyat map from CoD4, with 1 or 2 VERY minor changes."

Oh noes. If true, this is really...bad.

 

[HerculesSAS]

Unsurprising though. COD6 won't have the modding community to make the maps next time around, and as a result the game that beats it will be the one that does.

People give in and buy the game, but when the reviews come out and say "it's a rehash of the old stuff" it will only last so long.

 

[HerculesSAS]

I put it on Digg: http://digg.com/pc_games/Infinity_Ward_stealing_COD4_custom_maps_and_using_them_in_MW

Digg it up.

 

[Kev]

I look at the screenshots and don't really see some similarity but nothing that proves that they copied it. I've never played the maps in question though.

 

[crownjules]

I'm more and more happy that I didn't contribute to that ridiculous $315 million dollar opening day sales number. Unfortunately, that number no doubt secures a MW3 with similar treatment.

 

[pontifex]

meh...
the horse is already dead, why don't you guys just give up?

 

[VashHT]

meh...
the horse is already dead, why don't you guys just give up?

It's a forum where we're supposed to discuss things, we're not here to serve you, if you don't give a shit about it stay out of MW2 threads.

 

[pontifex]

It's a forum where we're supposed to discuss things, we're not here to serve you, if you don't give a shit about it stay out of MW2 threads.

so i'm not allowed to discuss how these threads bashing the game are retarded?

 

[VashHT]

so i'm not allowed to discuss how these threads bashing the game are retarded?

You're not discussing when you come in and insult everyone with a one liner.

EDIT: Just to add something that actually pertains to the thread, this would be really sad if true, especially considering all the people claiming that custom maps sucked and they won't miss them.

 

[gorcorps]

You're not discussing when you come in and insult everyone with a one liner.

EDIT: Just to add something that actually pertains to the thread, this would be really sad if true, especially considering all the people claiming that custom maps sucked and they won't miss them.

"meh...
the horse is already dead, why don't you guys just give up?"

No insult in there pal... you stupid fuck <---- see? THAT'S an insult

 

[The Boston Dangler]

another day, another thread bashing MW2 for the piece of shit it really is, another post by pontifex sounding like he works for IW.

 

[fatpat268]

A couple of screenshots of some trees, a graveyard, and a pond. Stop the presses!

I'm not saying that IW didn't copy the map, but show a few more screenshots of unique elements to the maps than just some random scenery.

 

[eggrolls]

Yeah... those screenshots don't prove anything. They should show us some map overviews or something.

 

[Zargon]

an overview of the map would help ALOT

 

[TecHNooB]

Those changes look pretty significant imo.

 

[fatpat268]

Someone on the steam forums said it best:

This is very misleading, just because a custom multiplayer map has the same THEME, a theme which was first used in the COD4 single player as a mp map in MW2 does not mean they stole it. There has been no description about the LAYOUT of the map or comparison of the similarities. I would bet the layout is completely different. Also if the layout was similar it would still not matter since the layout is taken from a COD1 mp map which Infinity Ward made.

ALSO, all of the prefabricated objects in the modders map were made by infinity ward, the tree models the grass the gravestones the power plant, they were all made for the single player map so the map maker can't even claim authorship of those elements. All he has going for him as his original work would therefore be the map layout, which if his map also was based on brecourt he would neither be able to claim ownership of that.

Also, the original poster is apparently not a modder, seeind as the screenshots differ VASTLY, there is no similarity in them other than the pripyat theme which Infinity Ward already used in the single player. Therefore they are clearly NOT the same map in the sense that they would have reused his source files.

 

[Boobs McGee]

The map in question Wasteland is the exact same layout as the map from COD2 with new models thrown in. The bunker and trenches are the spitting image. It has a new "feel" but its the same map. I think the guys who created those posts don't have it quite right.

 

[duragezic]

What? Those maps don't look that similar.

The original sniper mission from COD4 is back in Spec Ops mode, and it has many similarities with the custom Pripyat map (which I was going to post about separately; man that is a freaking blast). A graveyard? OMG COPY!

Another day, more MW2 bashing by people who never played the game. The forum is for discussing the game, not making up shit to bash it. Though I guess most of them are busy on Amazon and other sites spamming 1 star reviews.

 

[coxmaster]

The map in question reminded me a lot of a map from CoD2..

 

[lupi]

who cares, didn't buy it for many other reasons than this.

 

[AdamK47]

I see more than "1 or 2 VERY minor changes".

 

[gorcorps]

People are just trying to have more reasons to 'stick it' to IW in whatever way they choose. It's getting pretty tiresome IMO and is turning the PC gaming community into a bunch of whiny bitches.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I'd like to see an overhead layout of both maps. Unless they're nearly identical in layout (with just a few minor modifications to various areas) I'm not seeing a blatant copy here.

 

[Eddie313]

Well really there is a lot of code that IW ripped from modders...
A lot of people don't understand because they didn't spend 4 weeks making something just to get it ripped off and no thank you. Then on top of that, To block them from making any new content.

 

[BassBomb]

i swear this game is basically an expansion pack and nothing more,

we've got the same engine, no graphical improvements, same gameplay with some more features in mp

$60 expansion nice