Treyarch Shooting for Black Ops Mod Tools Release in May
It looks like Treyarch will come good on the promise of Black Ops mod tools for the PC post-release.
Back in August, 2010, 3-months before Black Ops hit the shelves, Treyarch developer ‘pcdev’ alerted potential PC Black Ops gamers that “We [Treyarch] plan to open the game up for modding sometime post-launch”. In the statement which you can find here, pcdev also said that:
“There are some purely technical issues related to engine and internal tool enhancements that do not easily fit the mod tools paradigm. We have looked at it close enough to see that it is non-trivial and we will have to pick it up again post-launch.”
Well, Treyarch have “picked it up post-launch” and confirmed via Twitter that “We are shooting for mod tools release in May”. Although no other details were provided at this time it looks like the modding community may be able to get stuck into building new Black Ops maps in the near future.
We will keep you updated.
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1 word: AWESOME
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Can you buy any Mod Controller for this or are they talking about the PCs ’cause I’m planning on buying a Mod Controller. Yea I know I’m gonna get haters but what about the controller Mad Catz made? Is that considered a mod or no?
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what are you talking about???? he is talking about mod tool make map by your self mod not controller
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I am feeling emotional !!!! treyarch!!!!!!!! I am
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aint that a bit ridiculous? you will be able recreate the paid DLC maps and never have to pay for them. (not that im complaining about the paying part
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Wow! Now they should make the same things for consoles-_-
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That’s not possable, Modtools are only on PC, not because they plan to keep it that way, but because that’s all that it can be on. Why is it, do you think that games are first developed on a computer, codeing, and structual bases? I know I can’t access those tools on my Xbox, or PS3, unlees I crack into a jailbroken system and change a few things. But still nowhere near close creating a new game. Which is what modtools allows you to do, esentialy create a new virtual space, AKA, in this case, a zombie map.
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i am confused cause i thought discovery was going to be a zombie and there should be 2 zombie maps instead of 1 and there should be 3 multiplayer maps but a lot of people like zombies and you guys should put wonder waffle in kino der toten,Pentagon ‘Five’,Ascension,and the new ones.
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