Project Z

May 4, 2017 by Alexander T Mulvey Leave a Comment

Synopsis

Project Z is a mod created for the Zombies mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops III. The map is based on a CIA office building that is being overrun by zombies. The player, or players, start with a single weapon upon spawning inside of a locked room. The players must search the map in order to find ammo, new weapons, and key cards. The key cards can then be used to unlock other areas of the map, but the more areas that they unlock, the more places the zombies will have to spawn from and the more difficult it will be to keep the situation under control.

The players must use strategy and skill to gun down the zombies and work their way through all of the rooms, picking up multiple key cards and replenishing their ammo throughout. If the players manage to fight their way through all of the locked rooms, they are then able to unlock the CIA Garage Bay. Upon entering the Garage Bay, a mass hoard of zombies is released on the map. With dwindling supplies, the players must successfully kill off all of the remaining zombies to clear the CIA building and win the game.

Figure 1: The player finds a Keycard on the ground

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Zombie Defense Midterm Update

April 3, 2017 by Casey Bampton Leave a Comment

As predicted by many after our Initial Pitch presentation, the implementation of a quality Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Zombies mod is proving to be a more difficult endeavor than our group originally expected. Our biggest challenge thus far has been acclimating ourselves to the development environment of Radiant Black. Through the use of Youtube tutorial videos, I (Casey) have gained significant knowledge of the environment and the essential objects and containers needed for the game to run properly, the road to which resulted in multiple new maps after making catastrophic mistakes during design.

Another major hurdle in our quest to make a new style of Zombies map is the considerable time constraint. Our plan to create new game rules such as a winnable ending and creation of unique buildables is still in effect, as well as other features such as Air-drops and bosses are also still planned to be implemented at the time of the alpha demo. One sort of “mini project” as we referred to it that will likely be out of scope due to time constraints is the inclusion of an RPG style class system, which would allow the user the ability to use different items, weapons, and abilities to escape the zombie horde. [Read more…]

Initial Pitch – Zombie Defense

February 27, 2017 by Alexander T Mulvey, bll5239, Casey Bampton and Nathan Smith 1 Comment

Zombie Defense (CoD: Black Ops 3 Zombies Custom Level)

Our group will be using the Call of Duty: Black Ops III Mod Tools to create a new multiplayer map for the Zombies game mode, however unlike current zombies maps we will be implementing some new features and elements. First, the level will follow a linear story for to which the main objective will be collect helicopter parts in order build the helicopter and escape the level. This differs from the standard Zombies mode in that the main objective in the standard mode is to simply see how long/how many waves of zombies the player can defeat before being overrun and killed. This wave mechanic will still be in effect with the new mechanics being implemented alongside it. As a result, the senses of fear ,anxiety, urgency, and panic remain with the player while they continue moving through the story. We will also be including Boss encounters who upon being defeated will drop a key needed to unlock the next area of the map. Additionally, we plan to incorporate RPG elements in the form of weapon experience. This creates a more dynamics experience from player to player based on the type of weapon they have chosen. When the player kills an enemy, their weapon will gain experience and it’s power, accuracy, and magazine size can increase. Players will also have the ability to discover weapon mods throughout the map, which add things like laser sights and stocks to the weapon and grant a large amount of weapon XP. [Read more…]