Hello everybody,

My name is Die Hard! (on this forum my nickname is DaveR), known in the community as the author of MP_Onslaught for Call of Duty 4 and my work on Remember September for Call of Duty 2. What I’m posting here for is to introduce a new modification for Call of Duty 5, which is going to be released fall 2008.

THE MODIFICATION
This modification, named Call of the Country, takes the player to the Netherlands, in the year 1940, at the beginning of Operation Fall Gelb. Fall Gelb was the German military plan to attack and occupy Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands and then defeat France in Operation Fall Rot.

On the 10th of May Nazi-Germany’s Army Group B, led by Fedor von Bock, invaded the Netherlands with 22 division, 1,378 artillery pieces, 759 tanks and 1,150 aircraft; a total of over 750,000 soldiers. The Dutch defended themselves with 9 divisions, 676 artillery pieces, 124 aircraft and only one tank; a total of 280,000 soldiers. This could be seen as the battle between David and Goliath.

Hitler’s plan was to defeat the Dutch army and occupy the city of Amsterdam in only one day. However, the Dutch were able to stop the paratroopers at The Hague and Rotterdam, inflict the enemy heavy damage at the Grebbeline and Moerdijkbridges, slow the enemy down by destroying hunderds of bridges across the whole country, and crushing the enemy at Kornwerderzand in the North. On the 14th of May the Germans still weren’t even close to their goal. Mad with anger Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to bombard Rotterdam, destroying over 20,000 houses and killing 900 civilians. Then he threatend to bombard Utrecht, Haarlem, The Hague and Amsterdam, forcing the Dutch to surrender. On the 15th of May Holland surrendered.

CONTENT
About the content, the only thing that can be said right now is that this will be a multiplayer modification. It will contain several maps which can be played as a Dutch or German soldier. For the German soldiers the stock ones will be used. The Dutch soldiers will have news skins and weapons.

CONTACT
It is possible to help completing this modification. For the maps, level designers are needed. We also need researchers. For the Dutch skins a skinner is needed. The weapons I will make myself. Also we will need one or more scripters.

What you will need to apply for designer:
- You need to be able to make your map look authentic.
- You need to be able to complete your map in a few months.

What you will need to apply for researcher:
- You need to have acces to a trustable source information which can be used by the development team (you will be asked what information is needed).

What you will need to apply for skinner:
- You need to be able to reskin actors into the Dutch soldiers.

What you will need to apply for scripter:
- You need to be able to replace the Russian army for the Dutch army so that the Dutch can fight the Germans.
- You need to be able to help the designers with the scripts of their map.
- You need to have a good overall knowlegde of scripting.

In all cases you must be able to work in a team.

If you have any further questions, you can also ask them on this website.



edited on Aug. 12, 2008 10:39 am by DaveR

How many people have you got already?

Isn't a tad early to be planning a mod when no-one knows how moddable it is, the engine capabilities, limits, etc?

At the moment I haven't found any people that can help yet, this is why I'm introducing it so early. I know the dangers of doing this, so I'm not saying too much about the content of this mod.

I agree with dobby on this one. Already that many are/have announced modifications for the games already released and they never found " the daylight".

edited on Aug. 12, 2008 02:41 pm by Nemo06c

I like the idea of a fight in my own country,me being dutch.

To bad I am still a noob mapper, I still have a lot of problems with mapping while learning it for cod4.
So I'm not meeting the requirements to make maps for CoD5.

I live near Aachen, where the Siegfriedline runs through and a lot of fighting took place here and near the Belgium border.
Even the Ardennes is not that far from my place.

As far as I read,the engine for CoD5 is the same as CoD4, so it should be possible to make the maps allready.

If there is a need of reference materials I would be happy to help gathering it, as much as I can.

If needed you can contact me at metalmilitianl@yahoo.com

Again : great idea and looking forward to see the results.

NovemberDobby writes...

It should be pretty close from CoD4 game engine wise, AFAIK.

OMG Die Hard your still alive..? :p

Get on MSN and brief me u noob!

jeannotvb@hotmail.com

Hope the mapping tools are better then the ones for COD4.

who said Treyarch will release mod tools for cod5?

Sevenz writes...

I thought the whole point of sending someone from modsonline was to review the mod tools. I remember when it was a banner on modsonline main page that treyarch was looking for someone very good with radiant.