Call of Duty 4 has evolved into a variety of custom mods as Infinity Wards has given the approval for the public to modify it. The original mod for COD4 by Infinity Ward is known as ModWarfare, where it is normally used in public games. The freedom of weapons and perks is decided by the player. Should they want to play stealth, they can go for silenced weapons with perks such as UAV Jammer and Dead Silence, or towards Suppressing combat, where they can go for Assault / Light Machine Guns a.k.a LMG with perks like Bandolier, Stopping Power and Deep Impact.
In lieu of this, many custom mods were created , e.g Promod Final Release 3, PAM4, DAMN:MW, Promod LiVE, Zombie Mods, Paintball Mods. The more frequent Mod that we see competitively nowadays would be Promod Release 3 Final, where it is being used in major competitions such as CyberFusion which was held recently.
The current COD community is using Promod Final Release 3 in the clan servers. Yet there are some public hosted servers such as Narakka server which still uses the original mod - ModWarfare.
Now I'll discuss why Promod Final Release 3 is being used nowadays.
A lot of people would think, 'why Promod? Ain't Promod is like playing CS? Or that mod is actually trying to lure CS players into moving on to CoD4?'
Allow me to help you view from this perspective. British Ryan "raf1" Palmer, whom is the creator of Promod, made it because he was inspired by Call of Duty 1 and Call of Duty 2 which boast more competitive gameplay previously because it doesn't have any perks. And FYI, before CoD4, Call of Duty 1 & 2 are being played competitively in Europe and N.America.
After people in Europe and NA realized that their CoD4 series are being spoiled by perks, raf1 made the mod called Promod.
That's why he retires because the newly launched CoD5 is not competitive and even in terms of game play, it's boring. Reason is because it has more of perks, vehicle usage, and other things that lack the originality of the COD series .
And raf1 whom is not CS mod maker, nor a CS player, did not include any of the CS engine into COD.
So, Promod can be said is derived from the CoD2 game play system. Because CoD2 system is much more competitive without using the perks and anything that involves random factors such as CoD4.
IMO, Perks MAKE the game RANDOM.
Again, Promod is not created from CS, IT'S dervives from the success from CALL OF DUTY 2.
Anyways, now we're going discuss about Promod LiVE.
Promod LiVE is a mod that has been created with combination of 2 mods which are : Promod 4.40 and DAMN:MW mod.
Promod 4.40 is a mod that majority of EU countries are playing as their competitive mod.
While DAMN:MW mod, is a mod that N.America countries are playing as their competitive mod.
Thus this situation actually confuses the COD community of the other parts of the world on which mod to follow. Hence, Promod LiVE was created, where elements of Promod 4.40 and DAMN:MW mod are being combined.
Promod LiVE mod is actually being used widely in the COD4 gaming community as we speak.
We at COD4 SEA community, is going to move ourselves to Promod LiVE as soon as ACC season 1 over. Like it or not, get used to it! That's what competitive players do.
For those people that still think Promod is for CS players:
P.S Lol joking :P
