my assumption for T6 (and note that it hasn't been proven yet seeing as Steam's HTTP CDN also encrypts filenames) is that there are no more IWD files, and rather PC will use the new per-zone StreamPAK (my name for them, might be they're based on strings in earlier titles) files.

 

when the T6 X360 beta files leaked, I started thinking such - previous console titles (since CoD2) have been using global 'images0.pak' (or similar) files, but T6 started using .ipak files per zone, and audio stream files based on the soundaliases CSV filename.

 

now, the properly-separated content for T6 on PC (5 GB for only MP; this would imply no SP data at all, which would be impossible with IWDs) is telling me that IWDs are, well, gone.

 

StreamPAKs are the future. and, well, not a bad future either - more optimized memory usage is one of the main benefits of these, as textures are loaded from disk on demand, rather than all loaded at once during level loading (yes, also loading times. time to load faster than consoles do again!).

R.I.P .IWD extension...

RIP IWD. It was nice knowing you.

I was love you IWD. I hope i can open that new thing with WinRar.

k00p":12tzcj81]I hope i can open that new thing with WinRar.

sure you can

 

 

 

not.

IWD.....you were amazing. The drag and drop fun I had with you *cough cough* not talking about *cough cough* textures or anything..just simple drag and drops I had with it :3

What a intersting science fact.

Does this mean better optimization?

R.I.P IWD

IWD was a bitch.

.IWDs are still here. MW3, MW2 are examples.

That really sucks for modders. Unless some people figure out how to open the files and edit the contents.

.IWDs are still here. IW5, IW4 are examples.

He meant that in Black Ops 2 and above won't have IWDs.

Noo .iwd's in black ops 2 ??? Oh no :/

I love how we know this sort of stuff 2 days before the release date.

I love how we know this sort of stuff 2 days before the release date.

 

It is an assumption :roll:

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.IWDs are still here. IW5, IW4 are examples.

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z_blabla.iwd R.I.P :/

Oh no....

Maybe we can change camos through the other files.

JoeyB":ims3tg31]

.IWDs are still here. IW5, IW4 are examples.

He meant that in Tx 2 and above won't have IWDs.

Yeah i know that but i don't why people are saying 'R.I.P IWDs' They're still here, but they will be outdated soon.

goodbye iwds, you were great

goodbye iwds, you were great

RIP modding.(well for sometime)

You do realize that all the modding was done through code changes and that loading the files from the filesystem (iwds/raw folder) was just a perk? If you so the same code changes as in iw4/5 then just load the files using fread or some form of loading from a zip file, you can achiieve the same effect as having iwds.