They did provide a basic 'Sniperbolt' style map to the alpha testers, as well as the Giant .map I believe. And Wakka (the guy whose videos these are) said that the Giant .map will be given to everyone in the beta. So The Giant remakes are going to be all over the shop. I wish they gave us SOE instead, think we've seen enough of Der Reise now.

I wanted Tranzit/Town
Only good map worth editing.

laziness as is typical for 3arc - would be surprised if it stays there forever because they won't want people to get access to a map that was intended only for preorders and/or see tons of remakes of The Giant.

Wrong. None of the stuff in the Modtools will require DLC ownership and the Giant is very likely to remain. Since the Mod stuff isnt ranked Treyarch have no issues in releasing the content to us for modding.

Wrong. None of the stuff in the Modtools will require DLC ownership and the Giant is very likely to remain. Since the Mod stuff isnt ranked Treyarch have no issues in releasing the content to us for modding.

wrong

We were never given the dlc assets for bo1 and only got em for cod 4 and 5 cos they were "free" on PC - and we were given none of the zombie map files

Plus he was talking about the map "file" - not the assets - which is intended to be "bought for play" or all of us who preordered got royally shafted

They "usually" allow us to mod any map - but not give us it's map file - and those wishing to play it require the dlc ( the regular "or" modded versions )

I cannot wait for the tools to be released. Although I see a dick move of Treyarch trying to sell the tools for a bunch of money since they desperately need money. Oh well. Let's hope for a great time of modding BO3 :3

I cannot wait for the tools to be released. Although I see a dick move of Treyarch trying to sell the tools for a bunch of money since they desperately need money. Oh well. Let's hope for a great time of modding BO3 :3

good thing treyarch are not the ones who sell anything - that would be activision

And they are definitely not "low on money" lol

good thing treyarch are not the ones who sell anything - that would be activision

And they are definitely not "low on money" lol

You get what I mean lol but I wasn't 100% serious about it lol xD

Wrong. None of the stuff in the Modtools will require DLC ownership and the Giant is very likely to remain. Since the Mod stuff isnt ranked Treyarch have no issues in releasing the content to us for modding.

Any clues yet whether we will have access to the raw DLC assets this time? I asked PCDEV but he didn't give a solid answer, just 'more details at a later date'.

They do realise that if they don't provide us with them, it won't stop anything, it will just mean people will use legally dubious 3rd party programs again to 'rip' the assets ourselves and will just end up requiring more work on our behalf right? Why not cut out the middle man?

The 3rd party software developers for those ripping tools will make a fortune off of at least 2 users who will buy the assets

Well there's a rumour there will be a free tool for everyone to use coming out shortly, so hopefully that will put an end to such shenanigans

Although if IW doesn't have mod tools expect it to continue there lol.

Any clues yet whether we will have access to the raw DLC assets this time? I asked PCDEV but he didn't give a solid answer, just 'more details at a later date'.

They do realise that if they don't provide us with them, it won't stop anything, it will just mean people will use legally dubious 3rd party programs again to 'rip' the assets ourselves and will just end up requiring more work on our behalf right? Why not cut out the middle man?

Personally, I'd be more concerned about getting stuff from all the old CODs into BO3 before I worry about dlc models. I mean, if we want to fully utilize the new engine, we'll have to make some extra textures for each gun and I don't think they'll be anything but custom animations, which is ironic considering how much people normally bitch about official anims Sure, the dlc stuff looks nice, but there's only a little bit of it compared to all the old models that will have to be ported in if anyone wants good detailing in maps. I think pretty much anything since BO2 could be ported in would create adequate detailing for BO3.

The BO2 weapons has a good texture quality on them indeed. IMO they are better looking than the vanilla weapons in WaW.

The BO2 weapons has a good texture quality on them indeed. IMO they are better looking than the vanilla weapons in WaW.

I would expect BO2 weapons to look better since BO2 is a 2012 game and WaW is a 2008 game.

Yes, but we could still give them higher resolution and better looking textures

As per other Modtools release I would say we will get one MP level and one Zombie Level - we are working to get more of course, if anything Models and Textures

Here's a level I built yesterday in under 4h with the recent Alpha Tool update we got


and the speed mapping video of it

thanks 

As per other Modtools release I would say we will get one MP level and one Zombie Level - we are working to get more of course, if anything Models and Textures

Here's a level I built yesterday in under 4h with the recent Alpha Tool update we got

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and the speed mapping video of it

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cool  8) thanks