Black Ops 1 Strat Tester

This is a mod for creating, testing, and learning new strategies in Call of Duty Black Ops.

This mod is meant to be an all-encompassing mod, with loads of features and options to give yourself the loadout and map setup you need to practice your strategies.

Installing

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1. Install the latest version of Game_Mod for BO1 and install by dragging the zip file's contents into your root folder of BO1 (where the executable is). Note: This will place and iw_43.iwd into your main folder, potentially overwriting your custom camos. Rename your iw_43.iwd to iw_99.iwd to not overwrite your camos!
2. Head to the Releases page and download the latest version's zip file
3. Create a mods folder in the root folder of your BO1 game if not already created
4. drag the Strat Tester folder into your mods folder.
5. Launch Black Ops using the BO_Mods.bat file in the root folder of your BO1 (comes with installing Game_Mod)
   • If you see the MODS menu option on the TV, you successfully installed Game_Mod 4 steps ago, otherwise, review the installation process and that you booted the game using the .bat file. Launching through Steam does not give you the MODS option on the TV.
6. Select MODS on the TV, and click on Strat Tester
7. Enjoy! Everytime you want to strat tester you will need to start from Step 5. Installing new versions will have you start at step 2.

Download Common Zombie Patch Version

Note this may not contain features on the latest version.

Download Version 2.3

Current Features:

Note Some settings require a "Restart Level" to take effect.

General

• 500,000 points on spawn
• Remove Perk Limit
• Perks reserved on down
• Spawn in with some, all, or no perks
• Remove out of playable area death barriers

HUD

• Total Timer
• Round Timer
• Zombies remaining
• Seconds Per Horde (measured every second)
• Health Bar
• Current Zone
• Sprint meter
  • Sprint meter colors can be customized using the following commands or through the config (if you use the console commands, they are automatically written to config)
    • /cg_sprintMeterDisabledColor 0.8 0.1 0.1 0.2 - Color of the meter when you deplete your sprint and are recharging your sprint.
    • /cg_sprintMeterEmptyColor 0.7 0.5 -.2 0.8 - Color the bar when you are nearly out of sprint
    • /cg_sprintMeterFullColor 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 - Color of the bar typically
    • /hud_fade_sprint 1.7 - Time it takes for the sprint meter to fade.
  • Because the sprint meter is derived from the engine, and is the only way you can measure how much stamina you have within the confines of the game, some behavior may not work as desired (e.g. The bar will fade out when your sprint has grown more than what you would've had without Stamin-Up).

Round Settings

• Set various starting rounds
  • If you want to start on a round that is not in the options, you can do so with /st_round_number <number> and restarting.
• Set a delay to navigate to where you need to start the round at game start
  • You can set a custom delay by typing /st_round_start_delay <number>
• Toggle the behavior of insta-kill rounds (either leave as is, or force enable / disable them for each round), useful for practicing round 163
• Set the number of zombies per horde (useful for getting accurate SPH's on maps like COTD or Moon where there are only 23 normal zombies per horde due to a persistent boss holding the 24th slot).
• Select the frequency of special rounds between every round, every 4 rounds every 5 rounds, or every 4/5 rounds (vanilla)
• Finish the round - This is not a toogleable option. Click on it to instantly finish the current round (will not work for special rounds like dogs or monkeys and will not kill special zombies like George or Astronaut)

Box Settings

• Allow the box to roam from a particular location
• Force perfect trades
• Set a specific box location to practice hitting from

Perks & Drops

• Choose what perks you spawn in with between all, none, or a typical high-round game perk setup
  • If setup set of perks is not to your liking, simply go with 'none' and go buy your own
• Toggle whether powerups spawn or not
• Toggle whether Carpenters, Fire Sales, or Death Machines spawn at an individual level

Game Settings

• Enable/disbale Mule Kick on a map
• Turn on/off the power at start
• Open doors on start (this tries to keep some common high-round doors closed, so you can leave this on unless you're testing a certain strategy that requires a more unique door setup)
• Destroy all barriers on spawn
• Enable / Disable fixed backwards speed
• Enable / Disable infinite ammo
• Give weapons needed to perform a high-round game (typically the wonder-weapon, tactical grenade, and other weapons typically used in a high round game).
• Show average amount of zombies killed by each Wunderwaffe shot (Der Riese only)

Weapon Options

• Toggle if weapons are given on spawn
• Toggle if melee weapon (Bowie / Sickle) is given on spawn
• Toggle if mines (Claymore / Betty / Spikemore) is given on spawn
• Toggle if tacticals are given on spawn (Monkeys, Gershes etc.)
• Toggle if weapon overrides from the config are used
• Set weapon preset (check section weapon presets)

Map Options

• Set specific windows on Five
• Force activate a specific excavator
  • You can also type /digger tunnel6|tunnel11|biodome to activate a specific excavator.
• Disable Astro
• Disable George Romero
• Disable nova crawlers on Kino, Moon & Five
• Disable special zombies on Shang
• Show kills per shot

Weapon presets

Players (host only on coop games) can now select weapon preset. Weapon preset will set players current weapons. Changing preset mid-game will result in instant weapon change for all the players. Complete list of presets and what they do for each of the maps will be available soon!

Additionally to presets, host can set weapon overrides in his config to give players specific weapons upon spawn (this cannot be changed mid game!). For that to happen, entry in the config similar to this is required

seta st_0_wpn1 "commando_upgraded_zm"

Where st_ is always there, that's strattester prefix.

Number 0 is a player ID. If you want to give this weapon to white player, set that to 0, for blue player to 1, for yellow player to 2, for green player to 3.

Fragment wpn1 specifies which weapon it is, available options are wpn1, wpn2 and wpn3, where wpn3 will only be applied if perk settings award players mule kick.

Value of this entry must be a valid weapon code (full list of weapon codes will be available soon!), and weapon must be available on the map player wants to use weapon override on. If the code is not a valid weapon for a map, a weapon from the current preset will be used instead.

To specify tactical grenade (for maps like Ascension or Moon where there are more than one tactical grenades) use entry

st_0_tact "1"

Where value specifies the number of a grenade. 1 for Monkeys, 2 for Gersh, 3 for Dools and 4 for QED.

Missing a crucial feature for you to get better at the game? We are open to requests!

Cheats

List of Useful Cheats

• /god godmode
• /demigod godmode but you still get hit
• /noclip flying
• /give ammo refills ammo
• /timescale 10 changes the speed of the game (10 is max)
• /ai_disableSpawn 1 stops zombies from spawning
• /fast_restart restart map
• /where print "x y z" coordinates
• /setviewpos x y z teleport to "x y z" coordinates

List of Useful Binds

Add to the strat tester config (Call of Duty Black Ops\players\mods\Strat Tester\config.cfg)

• bind F1 "god" binds godmode to F1
• bind F2 "noclip" binds noclip to F2
• bind F3 "give ammo" binds max ammo to F3
• bind F4 "toggle timescale 5 1" binds 5x timescale toggle to F4
• bind F8 "give m16_gl_upgraded_zm" binds give upgraded m16 to F8

List of Weapon Commands (host only)

Remove the "upgraded" for none papped version

• /give explosive_bolt_upgraded_zm Upgraded crossbow
• /give ray_gun_upgraded_zm Upgraded raygun
• /give m1911_upgraded_zm Upgraded m1911
• /give m16_gl_upgraded_zm Upgraded m16
• /give ithaca_upgraded_zm Upgraded steakout
• /give m14_upgraded_zm Upgraded m14

Contributing

To contribute to the project, you need to first clone the repo. (If you are on Windows you need somme form of git client, such as GitHub Desktop)

First, you'll want to fork and then clone the project.

git clone https://github.com/<your-github-user>/BO1-Strat_Tester.git

Then, you need to make sure you have game_mod installed on your BO1 client. Put the BO1-Strat_Tester folder into a folder called mods in the root of your BO1 directory.

You can edit the code to implement whatever featuers you desire using your favorite editor, then testing the changes by executing /map_restart. Every time that command is executed, all scripts get re-compiled. For UI changes to take effect, you will need to build the FastFile for the mod. To do so, download the BO1 Mod Tools in the Tools section of your Steam Library. In the mod builder tab. Make sure the drop down menu has Strat Tester selected. Then, in Build Mod, check Link FastFile, then click Build Mod. You will need to reload the mod using the MODS option on the TV for changes to appear in the menu (Note: if you are having issues building the mod, make sure BO1-Strat_Tester is the name of the folder for the mod.)

When you've made your changes, submit a pull request to the repo to be reviewed/tested.

Credits

Direct Contributors

• TTS4life

• 5and5

• lveez

• Zi0

Others

Porterico - Initial mod for Five Windows being set

JBleezy - Reimagined/Code references