MW2 for PS3 - What the heck just happened??? Just went from L37 -> L70

[Praxis1452]

Well, it definitely needs it now.

3/6 games had hackers who could do absolutely anything they wanted.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It didn't need it until just recently...

There's always cheating. Even in the early onset of the PS3.

 

[DivideBYZero]

There's always cheating. Even in the early onset of the PS3.

This is total bullshit. The only cheating I've seen on PS3 before this is with save game data or the leaderboards, not in-game.

 

[Dumac]

There's always cheating. Even in the early onset of the PS3.

I never encountered it before. Now it is freaking everywhere.

So even if there was cheating before, the presence was so unnoticeable that a designated force to counter it would be unnecessary.

 

[dougp]

Looks like details have hit Joystiq: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/17/ps3-hackers-make-modern-warfare-2-unplayable-infinity-ward-ca/

"It's in total shambles and unplayable." That's how one Joystiq reader describes Modern Warfare 2 on PSN. With PS3 system security in disarray, hackers and cheaters have run rampant on Infinity Ward's Call of Duty games. Players unwittingly placed into a hacked server can meet the unfortunate consequence of losing all their stats and, unfortunately, it doesn't appear a fix is in sight.

"Games rely on the security of the encryption on the platforms they're played on," Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling explained on the game's official forums. "Unless the security exploit itself is resolved on the platform ... updates to the game through patches will not resolve this problem," he admits, adding, "at this time, we do not have the ability to restore or adjust individual stats."

Although Bowling adds that "we are looking at every option available to us to help any user affected," it appears the situation is quite dire, especially when one considers the workarounds Bowling suggests. You can submit a PSN grief report, play exclusively with friends via private matches, or play Black Ops, which does "not rely solely on platform security" -- something Infinity Ward promises to learn from in future games.

Sorry PS3 users, but don't expect anything sometime soon. That really blows for y'all, and I doubt Sony or Activision will step up.

 

[herkulease]

hmm black ops solves the hacking? sounds like an attempt to sell the new game instead.

Hacks for MW2 even on the ps3 have been around well before the ps3 jailbreak.

 

[EightySix Four]

hmm black ops solves the hacking? sounds like an attempt to sell the new game instead.

Hacks for MW2 even on the ps3 have been around well before the ps3 jailbreak.

Sounds like Black Ops has the variables set on the server side instead of being able to change them locally or something.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It looks like there's is nothing they can do to prevent the hacking/cheating on PS3 for Black Ops. It's an inherent problem due to the ability that hackers have to have full access to the PS3.

 

[Bman123]

Well I had a hell of a time last night, get ready for a story because it's coming.

I want to play free for all so I go in and play a round, nothing but noob tubers so I leave. I get into another lobby full of tubers I leave again. The next lobby was fine. I am winning at 12 kills and 2 deaths. Then what happens next. A full auto ac130 and the guy controlling it was sky walking.

I said the hell with this I am leaving. I leave and wait a few minutes because I was pissed off at the hacker. I go into free for all again and bam, it throws me in the same damn lobby as the full auto ac130 guy. He say's what you don't like playing with us? I told him cheating is friggin stupid and this was horseshit.

The guy laughs out loud, I get kicked due to a security error. I go back to MP and he demoted me to level one, I had lost everything I earned the legit way. I was so pissed off. I was set on actually playing so I go back to free for all again.

Another hacked lobby, some guy asks me how am I level 1 only. I tell him what happened and he started to laugh and said some people are stupid. I am playing the game and everything is fine, normal lobby so to say. I am winning then bam I get kicked due to a security error again.

By now I am ready to fling MW2 out the door like a damn frisbee. I go to team deathmatch express since I never see any cheating at all. Guess what the guy I was in the last lobby with boosted my stats to max, I have everything unlocked, all titles, challenges, emblems, callsigns, weapons, attachments camos I mean everything.

I just had to sit back and LOL, I turned the PS3 off and went to bed. No more free for all in MW2, TD has always been fine so I am sticking with that.

 

[DivideBYZero]

It looks like there's is nothing they can do to prevent the hacking/cheating on PS3 for Black Ops. It's an inherent problem due to the ability that hackers have to have full access to the PS3.

Nothing to do with that. It's entirely down to the CVAR system used by the ID technology the COD engine is built upon.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Activision confirmed on Joystiq.com that the problem with MW2 is hardware side and they will not be able to resolve it with a simple patch. Unfortunately, that game might be going the way of Socom 1, which suffered a similar fate. They also mentioned that Black Ops would not suffer from this problem as that game's protection relied on the disk or some such blah blah blah. Go read it on joystiq, interesting stuff.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Interesting. I'll take a look, although it doesn't help that IW aren't around to patch it. I'd like to see a ground swell of customers complain that just over 1 year support for a game is not good enough.

EDIT: Read the article. They'd need a mega-patch to fix it, but nothing is un-patchable.

I'm seeing more and more lobbies broken by these people now. I'm going to leave the disc in the draw until something is done and maybe write a letter to Activision requesting a refund for my unplayable game.

 

[MKdelta]

Activision confirmed on Joystiq.com that the problem with MW2 is hardware side and they will not be able to resolve it with a simple patch. Unfortunately, that game might be going the way of Socom 1, which suffered a similar fate. They also mentioned that Black Ops would not suffer from this problem as that game's protection relied on the disk or some such blah blah blah. Go read it on joystiq, interesting stuff.

Well, it's sold by Activision and they are saying their new highly priced game Black Ops is not affected. So, FAIL by Activision/IW on MW2 it seems, not Sony hardware.

MW2 cheating was occurring before the current hooha but subtle. The game is now literally unplayable online.

It's disturbing that such a recent blockbusting game that is still hugely popular can be ruined so suddenly with no apparent concern from either the publishers (Activision) or Sony towards the millions of disappointed customers.