Straight from PCDev himself:

https://twitter.com/pcdev/status/741326228100120576

What do we all think will be the first BO3 Custom Zombies map?

And also, does this come with the possibility of more people being added to the Alpha team?
They said "first round" of Alpha tools in their initial tweet, and that went to mainly CoD4 and MP mappers, likely because the Alpha only had MP assets then, with Zombies about to be supported, is there possibility of some of us Zombie mappers being invited into the Alpha?

I wanna be selected becuase i wanna make the first cube map 

I don't think there was any reasoning behind choosing the current alpha testers other than the fact they are all staff members on Mappers United lol. So I doubt anyone here is going to get chosen any time soon.

Not to mention the COD4 mappers are generally mature adults who map to a high standard, while the zombies community is generally young kids who make box maps.

I just want the beta to drop already. Been waiting too damn long just so I feel like I have purpose in what I'm doing. Just pissing about waiting for the beta is driving me nuts. Plus, I wanna play in the water.

I don't think there was any reasoning behind choosing the current alpha testers other than the fact they are all staff members on Mappers United lol. So I doubt anyone here is going to get chosen any time soon.

Not to mention the COD4 mappers are generally mature adults who map to a high standard, while the zombies community is generally young kids who make box maps.

prob accurate - the idea behind testing are people who will fuck around to see what is and isn't possible, majority of zombie people use snipers map, down load a gun pack and just release it buggy as hell quoting "did mi testz map but me just wanna sharz"

We will gain nothing from those people testing - they have no drive to "find out" how to do anything and just assume errors are "just there"

However, I would say they should hand the alpha to the more experienced people who actually "try" ( eg yourself, jbird ( leviathan one ), didukwnipwn, stuffy, redspace, RDV, trem, etc )

prob accurate - the idea behind testing are people who will fuck around to see what is and isn't possible, majority of zombie people use snipers map, down load a gun pack and just release it buggy as hell quoting "did mi testz map but me just wanna sharz"

We will gain nothing from those people testing - they have no drive to "find out" how to do anything and just assume errors are "just there"

However, I would say they should hand the alpha to the more experienced people who actually "try" ( eg yourself, jbird ( leviathan one ), didukwnipwn, stuffy, redspace, RDV, trem, etc )

Seeing as they are mostly working on Radiant (or so it seems) Izartax, Radimax and maybe sethnorris/chn should have been the guys to get it out of the zombie community IMHO (although Izartax has mainly been a COD4 mapper and was possibly overlooked simply because he is not 'staff' on Mappers United - which seems to be the only prerequisite). If they were to test out the scripting capabilities then yeh, the guys you mentioned (sans me of course lol) should have been asked for sure.

But they just ignored us all anyway regardless of our skills so it's all rather moot.

Basically, get 'staff' status on Mappers United and you're in, everyone else is not even considered.

To be fair though the guys on Mappers United are all better than most of us

No-one said they shouldn't have been given it though, I agree I would have rather chosen COD4 mappers too (not because of their skills but just because they are generally not as dumb/young as the zombie community), but you're telling me Radi and Izartax are not up to standard? Lol. They obviously didn't choose people purely based on skill.

Seeing as they are mostly working on Radiant (or so it seems) Izartax, Radimax and maybe sethnorris/chn should have been the guys to get it out of the zombie community IMHO (although Izartax has mainly been a COD4 mapper and was possibly overlooked simply because he is not 'staff' on Mappers United - which seems to be the only prerequisite). If they were to test out the scripting capabilities then yeh, the guys you mentioned (sans me of course lol) should have been asked for sure.

But they just ignored us all anyway regardless of our skills so it's all rather moot.

Basically, get 'staff' status on Mappers United and you're in, everyone else is not even considered.

well I mean your a good mapper - as is red

And zeroy has it and he's mostly a scripter and has shown some bits to do with that side

I imagine they are not "limited to mapping" although that may be the main focus for the testing at these early stages

Edit - also I wanna edit my selection now lol

You
Seth
Nate
Chn
Radi
Stuffy
Trem
Hitman
Izartax
Tudark
Red
Smasher
Pieman
Pwn

There's still more lol

Those are what I would refer to as talented and "not immature" ( or at least less lol )

People who release map with (meaningful) developer and developer_script errors shouldn't be given any access for scripting. If your map is full of script runtime errors(from scripts you've made) you probably aren't very good at scripting.


Treyarch's scripters use developer and developer_script as well, so it wouldn't be unfair or wrong in the least to use that as a baseline. They need quality scripters, people who know how to make quality scripts and spot issues with existing scripts, not someone who can script a panzer or an Origin tank or w/e(more is better, of course).


That's about 4(ish) people that I know of on UGX(myself included). No idea about MP mappers or CoD4.

well I mean your a good mapper - as is red

And zeroy has it and he's mostly a scripter and has shown some bits to do with that side

I imagine they are not "limited to mapping" although that may be the main focus for the testing at these early stages

Edit - also I wanna edit my selection now lol

You
Seth
Nate
Chn
Radi
Stuffy
Trem
Hitman
Izartax
Tudark
Red
Smasher
Pieman
Pwn

There's still more lol

Those are what I would refer to as talented and "not immature" ( or at least less lol )

Just want to add a few more
Jr Rizzo
Dr Lilrobot
Jbird632 (kinda worried he might cancel though )
Harry
Rambo
& HexZ

well I mean your a good mapper - as is red

And zeroy has it and he's mostly a scripter and has shown some bits to do with that side

I imagine they are not "limited to mapping" although that may be the main focus for the testing at these early stages

Edit - also I wanna edit my selection now lol

You
Seth
Nate
Chn
Radi
Stuffy
Trem
Hitman
Izartax
Tudark
Red
Smasher
Pieman
Pwn

There's still more lol

Those are what I would refer to as talented and "not immature" ( or at least less lol )

I vote out smasher and vote in Jammy.

I vote MAK911

I vote out smasher and vote in Jammy.

i vote in jammy too
and vote out Ma... oh i dont need to

i vote in jammy too
and vote out Ma... oh i dont need to

I spent the last 5 minutes just trying to reply to that post with a link to a movie where they go,"You do not want to do that. You REALLY do not want to do that," but I couldn't find one. I'll find it later.

I just cut the thread in half where it started to derail into oblivion. Let's see how long we can stay on topic this time.