Modern Warfare 2 PC is still a Hackers Aimbot Fest
Monday, December 07 2009 @ 06:50 PM GMT
Although Infinity Ward claimes to have banned 2500 Modern Warfare 2 PC Players for using game-hacks like Aimbot...
Steam’s VAC anti-cheat system should be in place for abusers of the PC version but watch a today's YouTube Video which proofs that even with this arrangement Infinity Ward still can’t get rid of the cheating problem.
Notice how all player positions -- both friendly and enemy -- are highlighted, the lack of recoil on the guns being fired, and the extremely accurate aiming (though this one might simply be the result of a really good player) going on in the above video.
VAC is a delayed banning machine.
Story behind this is that VAC will wait 2-3 weeks before actually banning someone, that way, all of those using the same hack will be banned. If the bans were instantaneous the guy with the hack would tell the creator "hey I got banned, stop selling the hack" and the creator would change code.
This game was/is advertised being cheat free by using this new system. Not using dedicated servers would stop all the hackers and cheats. This is clearly not true.
The use of IWNet doesn't help in preventing players from cheating -- and there is no option for kicking, banning and voting off any cheaters that might be present in a game. Missing this direct ban option (like there was in previous CoD titles; the dedicated server admin ban) is one of the things that makes this game failing to be fun to play.
And it is not only in the PC version....
A Playstation 3 leaderboard hack ruins Modern Warfare 2.
Another story about what great people we gamers can be. Some nefarious new hackery has been wrecking the PS3 version of Modern Warfare 2, allowing cheaters to scale the top of the leaderboards with ludicrously high scores. Not ones for subtlety, the cheaters have awarded themselves impossible statistics, such as gameplay time running into tens of thousands of days.
The problem appears to be incredibly widespread, with hacking information readily available online for people with so little self-esteem that they need to cheat in an online videogame to make themselves look like they've accomplished something in life. So far, neither Activision or Infinity Ward have responded to the this new issue, although a fix shall surely come soon.
So, why is it that the PS3 version is suffering all these hacks? Perhaps because they know Sony won't be doing anything about it? Looks to me like the PlayStation Network could well become a haven for the scumballs of online gaming.
