'We're working very hard to marry those two things, so people can run dedicated servers and also participate in the communal experience the console players get to have, given they're all on first-party servers.'
'We do work very hard to reconcile the desire to manipulate and modify those dedicated servers with offering them the persistent experience and benefits that the console system provides,' he told CVG.
Studio head Mark Lamia talked up dedicated servers earlier in the year. 'And, dev console: confirmed,' the post continues. Right now? They're focusing on finishing the game. There are some purely technical issues related to engine and internal tool enhancements that do not easily fit the modtools paradigm,' a developer said on the game's official forum.
We do not know yet to what extent you will be able to mod the game. 'We plan to open the game up for modding sometime post-launch. It looks like Treyarch is swinging for the fences with the latest entry in the series, which will include all three, although not at launch. Modern Warfare 2 was not especially loved in PC gaming circles because of the lack of dedicated servers, the inability to tweak the game's settings, and the absence of support for user-created content.
