So, I've made maps in the past, only two, and they have both turned out perfectly, the zombies take down barriers, and chase the player around, but recently I decided to make another map. I made it all in one sitting. It was just a small map with only one barrier, but when I built the mod and compiled and ran it, the game started in Chinese or Japanese for whatever reason, and I couldn't move (I'm guessing its because it was trying to read a foreign keyboard).

I thought it might have been an error with the files, so I uninstalled CoD completely, then reinstalled it, and downloaded and extracted all of the mod tools back into the fresh folder. I then created a map just to test it, it was simply a small platform with a light and a player spawner, but the same problem occurred, it was in another language. Starting up CoD normally presents me with an English game, and my previous maps and other maps I've installed all run in English, but as soon as I launch my more recent maps, they are in a foreign language.

I've done every bit of troubleshooting I can imagine to fix this error, but if somebody has an idea, I will be willing to test it, because I am very passionate about map-making and hope to have this error fixed ASAP.

 

Are you sure it's not just the infamous 'alien' font?

All I can think of:

Steam: If for whatever reason you are using a VPN or proxy when you re-downloaded WaW, turn it off, incase it thinks you're chinese, or maybe your country/locale was set to china or something

Disc: look through some files in WaW root folder looking for localization/language related things. For example "localization.txt", or the Language setting in "version.inf", or something else idk

No idea if these would work but worth a shot i guess

There is a chance I had hamachi running in the background. I will make sure that I turn it completely off next time I get the chance to work with it.

What kind of troll is this...?

Haha. Not a troll. I see how you could think I am one tho, because this is a very, VERY odd error.

Stevie mentioned that it might just be a common problem we call 'alien text', can you show us a screenshot of what's happening?

After looking up the alien font, I realized saying it was chinese might have been offensive They look kind of similar tho.
But yeah, it is the alien font, I will look up how to fix it myself so you don't have to respond to this post anymore. Thanks to the people that helped

http://imgur.com/a/K2NB0 This is what I see BTW.

After looking up the alien font, I realized saying it was chinese might have been offensive They look kind of similar tho.
But yeah, it is the alien font, I will look up how to fix it myself so you don't have to respond to this post anymore. Thanks to the people that helped

http://imgur.com/a/K2NB0 This is what I see BTW.

Yeah next time look up what the Chinese language looks like, this is a common issue.

If not using UGX mod, try something like this https://ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php/topic,11704.msg129801.html#msg129801 or this https://ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php/topic,3271.msg33713.html#msg33713

If using UGX mod look at this https://confluence.ugx-mods.com/display/UGXMODS/UGX+Mod+Standalone+v1.0.3+Manual+Installation and ctrl+f "alien"

Okay, I was trying to look it up myself but couldn't find any answers. I'm going to try what you suggested and hope it works! I'm sorry if saying it was Chinese sounded racist