Left 4 Dead has become one of my favorite games. It’s funny because when the demo first came out, it scared the crap out of me. I remember falling down into the apartment in No Mercy and standing in a dark room with only a flashlight on the gun and ugly zombies staring me in the face having no idea what I was supposed to do. Let’s just say that I didn’t last 5 minutes before I turned the game off and left. A couple of months later a close friend was interested in playing so I gave it another try and I was hooked. Talking to friends while doing the campaign makes all the difference, at least to me. It raised my brave meter very high. After a month of playing all the campaigns many times, boredom set in as it was getting hard to choose a map, as we had played them all over and over.
Enter the world of L4D mods. At the urging of yet another friend, we downloaded and tried a couple of game map mods and I wanted to share them with you. The first is called Death Aboard. One of the favorite mods going around, this campaign is really good and really long.
My very brief experience with PC mods in SF IV have not been positive. Everything I have seen so far is an attempt to look up Chun Li’s skirt at her va jay jay or for some God forsaken reason have the Ryu vs Sagat rematch all nude. A clever and non-sexual deviant made this video. There may be some hope for the human race just yet. I bring to you: The Battle of the Rocky III Bosses.
From the man who bought you the Hemp-Mote, comes the Mini-Mote. A fully functioning Wiimote, just a whole lot smaller. Many gamers out there like to take things apart and rebuild them. That is precisely what DHRECK does, he just makes them better. Hit his page and see all his Wii Mods. Make sure to check back frequently for he has many Mote Mods on the horizon. Now if he could only make games for the Wii so I would use it again.
This announcement came across the desk of Loot Ninja today. Remember that dream you keep having where your Wiimote is not made of plastic but hemp and you play a long round of SSBB and then smoke your controller? No, me neither. But someone did. This is something that has to be seen to believed. A gamer, somehow, modded his Wiimote and nunchuk by removing all the plastic and replacing it with hemp rope. Wanna call bullshit on me? Click here see all the glory that is The Hemp-mote. Coming soon, the Wii-Munchies. A WiiFit board made entirely of Rice Krispies treats.
What do you get when you mix Through the Fire and Flames on Expert and a dude with entirely too much time on his hands? Of course, the answer is a MIDI drum mod that works with Guitar Hero so you can play the hardest song ever without an actual guitar. Did you think of something else? Watch this guy bang it out and thank the gaming gods that you don’t have this much free time. Seriously.
There’s still issues with getting mods for the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 3. In an interview with Joystiq at GDC, Mark Rein said absolutely no progress has been made on the Xbox 360 front. In fact, the game still has no release date on the platform.
Mark Rein also acknowledged the fact that getting mods onto the PS3 isn’t the best process and that we’d see improvements soon. Hopefully that includes being able to download them directly from the PS3 easily.
Now that the mod tools have been released for the Unreal Editor 3, we’ve got our first user cooked PS3 mod. And it’s a damn good one at that. The mod is called Action Cam v1.0. This mutator allows you to play UT3 with an over the shoulder view, similar to Gears of War. How cool is that?
Enter the battle with an over the shoulder camera and see the Action from an all new perspective! Action Cam is designed to offer better visibility, depth, and feedback to the player than the normal first person view, and offers pixel-perfect accuracy.
There’s a few issues right now, which will be addressed in an update to the mutator from Fall, the author. Check the Epic Forums for the download link and get the update when it’s available. Great job, Fall! Keep it up!
We just received word from Epic that the much anticipated update for the Unreal Editor 3 to allow PS3 mod cooking has been OFFICIALLY released.
A link was going around the internet earlier for the closed beta, but we’re pleased to announce the full official release from Epic. If you have the PC version on Unreal Tournament 3, grab the update and start cooking mods for the PS3
[Update] For some reason the mod tools download link was taken down from that page. You can grab it here.
Epic has released a beta version of the imminent update for the Unreal Editor 3. What’s in the this update? Oh, nothing big. Only the ability cook PS3 mods! Currently, this is a closed beta, so unless you got the email from Epic, you’re going to have to wait a bit. The final release is expected in about a week, so don’t get too hung up on waiting.
We’re checking in with Epic to see how long this will remain a closed beta. We’ll see what they say, but if this goes public, we’ll have the download link for you. Keep checking here or the Unreal Developer Network for updates.
Yeah, I didn’t want to say ass in the title. Sue me. I’m sure you’ve seen Tycho over at Penny Arcade rant on the modding in the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3. Basically, he thinks it’s crap that you need a USB flash drive (or other memory card type) to copy the mods from your PC to the PS3. Personally, I could care less about this. Who doesn’t own a PC and some sort of memory card these days? It’s not that big a step. It’s not completely necessary either. If you try to play online with someone using a mod, it will be automatically downloaded to your machine.
What bugs me is that you need to copy one mod at a time via your USB drive. So in my case right now, I had to make 5 trips from my computer to my PS3, loading one mod each time, then starting over. There is only one file that is used on the USB key to transfer the mods and that file can only contain one mod at a time. I think Epic REALLY needs to come up with a better way of doing this. Yes, we all love mods. Yes, we love user created content. Yes, we know it’s a totally new concept to console gaming. But we need a much more streamlined way of getting them. Direct downloads from the PS3’s Internet Browser would be ideal, but allowing multiple mods to be copied over at once on a USB drive would work perfectly as well. And with the Unreal Editor update coming very soon, the amount of mods available on the PS3 is going to increase exponentially. Imagine wanting 25 mods, but needing to make 25 trips with your USB key. I think I’ll pass.
This has nothing to do with the PS3 being good or bad, so it shouldn’t turn into a flame fest. This is Epic’s implementation of mods for the game on PS3. It’s the first time it’s been done, so there are growing pains involved. Just pointing out some optimizations that need to happen sooner rather than later for mods to become more mainstream on consoles.
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