New COD4 maps to be user-created?
- Posted February 4th, 2008 at 08:10 EDT by
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It is no secret that it has been the player’s expansive mind that has forwarded the gaming industry in a number of ways. One of the greatest user mods, Counter Strike, which was based from the Half-Life engine, allowed developers to finally consider gamers as a major source for new and creative material.
It is the greater amount of player creations aka, Mod Community, which keeps things fresh. Developers of Call of Duty 4, Infinity Ward have embraced this concept and are looking to implement it in their very own grand scheme of things.
With Call of Duty 4 being well received by the media and public alike, even winning PSU’s Game of the Year, the experience needs to remain fresh in order to keep players coming back for more. That is why Infinity Ward is looking to the mod community as a major source for their new flood of maps to be released.
“On March 31st, we’re going to be choosing our favorite community made maps and award the map makers of our favorites picks with special prizing and opportunities which we can’t announce just yet but will be in the very near future (probably within a week).
”However the clock is ticking to get your map designed, as I said, we’ll be choosing our favorite community made custom multiplayer maps on March 31st.”
While they do not state directly that they plan to utilize some of the user created maps for their game, they at least hint at the possibility by commenting, “with special prizing and opportunities which we can’t announce just yet”.
Either way, if you believe you have the talent, hit up the code and create something unique as you may likely have a map featured in COD4 to be played by millions.
Source: Ripten
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MrGunhappy
- 8:17am GMT - February 4th, 2008
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Seems cool I hope the maps are very interesting, and fun!
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Xdeth |
Xdeth- 8:58am GMT - February 4th, 2008
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I never had the time or energy to get into modding, but I respect what they do and thank them. I'll be happy to get some new maps to play on for COD4. A huge battlefied at night time where its almost pitch black would be cool. The only map I know of where using your NVG is somewhat helpfull is Wetworks. Most people (including myself), really cant stand that map.
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chelseapaul |
ChelseaPaul- 9:26am GMT - February 4th, 2008
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Will i be able to play these maps in split screen mode on my PS3?
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richkaos |
richkaos- 10:09am GMT - February 4th, 2008
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@chelseapaul Good question, and i hope that they will be available for splitscreen as believe it or not some of us do have friends that come over.
It would also be nice for these maps to be a little larger as the ones on the game are pretty small.
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UnasFortuna |
Unas_Fortuna- 10:49am GMT - February 4th, 2008
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Great idea, but IW will be the one, IMO, that approves what gets out to the fans. Also, I would imagine that they will only be downloadable for a price unlike UT3. Who knows.... maybe MS would allow their release on LIVE for free... NOT.
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ZeRoAc1dKo0L |
ZeRoAciDKooL- 11:05am GMT - February 4th, 2008
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Nice... wish i knew how to create/mod a map... Now that be cool if the maps are free for ps3 and not for xsuk60... but i dont see that happening
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G-Code260
- 12:55pm GMT - February 4th, 2008
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@ Xdeth
Couldn't agree with you more about wetworks that map is a waste of time. I have been asking myself that same question as to why there is Night Vision but no night time maps for it to be used on. I also never really got into modding but i hope someone who can makes a "Night Time" map, I think that would be sweet, to watch a kill cam in Night Vision mode for a Change.
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 2:34pm GMT - February 4th, 2008
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It's probably just for the PC,since it will be HUGE if they actually allowed modding the console version.
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seedaripper1973 |
seedaripper1973- 4:10pm GMT - February 4th, 2008
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i would assume this would only be for the PC only...with UT3 on the ps3 the ability to add mods was built into the initial code,so im slightly dubious if infinity ward could pull it off???(maybe a patch)??
i hope im wrong though ;)
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TwiSta |
TwiSta- 6:11pm GMT - February 4th, 2008
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OK for all those who are a bit confused as to how it works. You go here: http://www.infinityward.com/tools.html and download the tools then follow the steps.
Then on March 31st Infinity Ward will then pick their favourite and hopefully they will release it for download across all platforms (after some tinkering from them of course). -
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