Treyarch designers “weren’t always good” at multiplayer maps

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The Annihilation map pack represents Treyarch’s growing skills as level designers, David Vonderhaar has said.“We’re very concerned about pathing through the map. You want to make sure players can navigate the map in a consistent fashion. You want your main paths, to say, be wider than your flanking paths – tell a vocabulary in a visual story there,” the Black Ops design director told Gamefront.

“And what we’ve learned over time is that we weren’t always good at that.

“[But] we’ve gotten better at that and it’s become just part of our D.N.A. … So you’re seeing in the map packs this evolution of our thinking, and Annihilation represents exactly what we’re talking about here. … I think anything Treyarch does long-term will be more cognizant of it.”

Annihilation is the third map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, and is available now on Xbox Live, with other platforms to follow.

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TreaPosted:

And what weve learned over time is that we werent always good at that. [But] weve gotten better at that and its become just part of our D.N.A.


^hahaha thats is hilarious the game still sucks ass

TheDonofCODPosted:

Change "weren't always good" to "still are horrible" 1202020202020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

CombPosted:

I a lot of World at War's maps, but Black Ops maps do not live up to the enjoyment I got out of the World at War maps. Modern Warfare 2's maps seemed to be based more on spawn trapping versus WaW and BO's seem to be more run and gun and have the ability for you to move through the map.

ImJelloPosted:

IMO there maps are great, its the actual games that need improving, compare treyarch maps to infinity wards maps, unless your ignorant im pretty sure its easy to say treyarch makes the best maps of the two. Obviously infinity ward makes a better game though, i cant stand black ops, and waw wasn't a favorite...

-EAZY-Posted:

There maps still suck!!!!

QuoPosted:

Theres nothing bad about any map pack they've made if you ask me. I'm glad they're improving so that they can give us a better game.

Billy431Posted:

there still not good in my opinion, the only thing they seem to be able to do right are zombies maps.

F22Posted:

treyarch is making the map packs way to fast to take them and make someone new and different to each one especially on the zombie new, the next map pack should be the best and most time consuming to make

ZBrushPosted:

If I remember correctly I seen a dev video a while back explaining how they came up with maps and it sounded a little like this.

"When we start making a map we just start with boxes placed everywhere and work from there, simply taking boxes away untill we are left with the basic map. Then we build ontop of that adding the detail."

Also, Treyarch Maps have always had more Disadvantages than advantages.
Even the new ones have them.

ChazayPosted:

I feel that this map pack is terrible. Just my opinion. The zombies is great though. They are getting better at that.


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