A guide on how to install mods for Call of Duty: World at War. *** Executable Installation Download the mod and run the EXE. The EXE will be an installer which will guide you in installing the mod. If your using Plutonium, you will need to install the mod in the Plutonium mods directory. During the installation, it may include an option to change the directory on where to install the mod, which in this case you will change the directory to the Plutonium mods directory. In most cases however, the mod will be installed in the mods directory for the base game. It is highly recommended to create a symbolic link for making the installation of mods for Plutonium seamless and have the mods directory become the same as the mods directory for the base game. Read Symbolic Link section below for instructions on how to create a symbolic link. The alternative is after installing each mod in the base game mods folder, you will need to move the mod from the primary directory or secondary directory to the Plutonium directory. Read Manual Installation section below on where these directories are located on your computer. BE CAUTIOUS TO NOT INSTALL MALWARE WHEN RUNNING AN EXE INSTALLER. *** Manual Installation To install mods manually you need to extract the archive files (ZIP, 7Z, RAR, etc) into one of the following directories. For the base game in most cases it will be the primary directory, if the mod does not appear in the base game, you will need to move it to the secondary directory. Due note that the secondary directory is different on Linux (When using Wine or Proton). If your using Plutonium, the mods need to be installed in a separate directory in order to be accessed when using Plutonium. It is highly recommended to create a symbolic link for making the installation of mods for Plutonium seamless and have the mods directory become the same as the mods directory for the base game. Read Symbolic Link section below for instructions on how to create a symbolic link. To open up your AppData folder in Windows, press the Windows key + R key and type appdata and press Enter to open the AppData folder. Inside the mods directory will be the folder that is the name of the mod itself and all of the mod files will go inside this folder. For example… \mods\Super_Cool_Zombie_Map Primary Directory C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\Activision\CoDWaW\mods\(Mod Name) Secondary Directory Windows: C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Activision\CoDWaW\mods\(Mod Name) Linux: (Prefix)/drive_c/users/(Username)/Local Settings/Application Data/Activision/CoDWaW/mods/(Mod Name) Plutonium Directory C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\Plutonium\storage\t4\mods\(Mod Name) *** Symbolic Link If you are using Plutonium, it is recommended you create a symbolic link of the mods folder to replace the Plutonium mods folder. By creating a symbolic link for the mods folder, the mods folder will be shared for the base game and Plutonium. This makes installing mods easier as well. To create a symbolic link, first you will need to delete the mods folder inside the C:\Users(Username)\AppData\Local\Plutonium\storage\t4 folder (Read Manual Installation section on how to get access to your AppData folder). Then you will need to find the directory of the mods folder for the base game (Read Manual Installation section below to get the primary directory and secondary directory and find out which of these two directories is used as the mods folder for the base game). Once you found the mods directory for the base game, you need to launch a terminal application. On Windows you can use either Command Prompt or Powershell. On Linux, the default terminal application will work. In the terminal application, enter the following command for the terminal application you are using and directory (Primary/Secondary) to create the symbolic link. Command Prompt (Primary Directory) mklink /J "C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\Plutonium\storage\t4\mods" "C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\Activision\CoDWaW\mods" Command Prompt (Secondary Directory) mklink /J "C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\Plutonium\storage\t4\mods" "C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Activision\CoDWaW\mods" Powershell (Primary Directory) New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\Plutonium\storage\t4\mods" -Target "C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\Activision\CoDWaW\mods" Powershell (Secondary Directory) New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\Plutonium\storage\t4\mods" -Target "C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Activision\CoDWaW\mods" Linux (Primary Directory) ln -s "(Prefix)/drive_c/users/(Username)/Local/Activision/CoDWaW/mods" "(Prefix)/drive_c/users/(Username)/AppData/Local/Plutonium/storage/t4/mods" Linux (Secondary Directory) ln -s "(Prefix)/drive_c/users/(Username)/Local Settings/Application Data/Activision/CoDWaW/mods" "(Prefix)/drive_c/users/(Username)/AppData/Local/Plutonium/storage/t4/mods"