New Modern Warfare 2 server hack turns players into The Flash

by Griffin McElroy on Jan 10th 2010 1:00PM

Fun fact: We like to describe the pacing of a game's action on a scale composed of Brass-centric Americana music standards. For example, the speed of Modern Warfare 2 is moderate, yet fairly steady. In other words, it's normally set to "Spanish Flea," by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Unfortunately, wily hackers have gotten their hands on the game once again, cranking that speed up a few dozen notches to Boots Randolph's "Yakety Sax." Check out the video after the jump to see the hyperspeed gunfighting in action.

We managed to get into one of these hacked games during a Headquarters match last night on Xbox Live, and while it may look like fun, it feels a lot like you're speed skating the entire time. As you might imagine, that makes shooting near-impossible -- but it makes the ever-whimsical "Sax" all the more appropriate.

[Via Xbox 360 Digest]

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Tags: activision, call-of-duty, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2, fps, glitch, hack, infinity-ward, Microsoft, modern-warfare-2, Xbox-360

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Here I thought that I was the only one who plays MW2 on mushrooms.

I got several nukes off with this using my good ol' Magnum + Tactical Knife.

I had this happen to me for the first time last night. Very annoying :(

Yeah... annoying as hell.

It's fun for like 5 minutes but then you just want to play. I heard the people doing saying it was great way to level up the Marthon and Light footed perks.

God .. I hate the boosting going on in this game.

Is this the fault of the game developer, or is it the fault of those who hacked the Xbox? If it is the former, then there should have been a beta test, if it is the latter, than it really isn't the fault of developer if other people hacked the game.

This will most likely happen to other, popular multiplayer shooters as well.

That is what I have been trying to figure it out.

You see people arguing in the comment section of the YouTube if it is a glitch or a hack.

I would tend to think it is a hack....if it was a glitch, I would have been ran into it at some point when I first got the game on release day. I haven't seen it yet, but I haven't been playing much in the past four weeks.

And if it is a hack, why is IW so bad for what hackers are doing. It is impossible to develop a code that someone can't find some sort of exploit for. But the internet is full of people who think they are better at something than the professionals who make a living doing it. Cuz...you know, most twelve year old C minus students are much smarter than those developers.

Is it just me or does it seem like Infinity Ward is slacking on getting all of these glitches and hacks taken care of? I had this happen yesterday. The guy who hacked it was using a riot shield and was knifing all of us.

lol this game is so not worth $60 since it came out.

why? because a minuscule portion of the community can go super fast?
All other problems have pretty much been fixed.
quit whining.

You show me a piece of software that doesn't have problems or is exploitable and I'll show you my time machine.

Every time I look on these gaming sites, there's always news of another MW2 glitch.

It's highly embarrassing for Activision/IW to treat the fans like that, restricting control of the game and for all this to then happen.

If they've got any sense, they should close IWNet when they ship their next game and go back to the way it was done before. After this debacle I'd be surprised if the next game gets the same hype.

Glitches like this are rare, people just like to complain.

Unlike the Javelin and unlimited ammo glitch, this one is actually fair, everyone moves faster but they can't take advantage of just spamming grenades or suicide runs.

I'm so glad I got rid of this game. It's the buggiest, laggiest, most hacked/camped/cheated game ever. Don't get me wrong, when it works, it's the best multiplayer game out there but it doesn't work 100% very often.

Welcome to a month ago. I'd been saying it since I played the game online. The campaign is retarded and the competitive multiplayer is the most frustrating experience I've ever had in gaming.

[banned]

Lolz. In case anyone is wondering, there's actually a new crack that allows MP to be played on torrents (again). IW really fucked up.

ya these fuckers kept knifing me

This happened to me last night, weirdest thing. but new games get beta tested for a reason IW, I seem to recall being in the cod4 beta in august of 2007, and the game was alot better for it, alot of games would be awful if it weren't for betas.

COME ON EVERYONE DOGPILE THE COMMENTS ON THE FIRST YOUTUBE RESULT FOR YACKETY SAX

Is this only on the PC? I think I saw something similar to this on the 360 last night.

For PC. you can go to gamecopyworld and download a trainer for Co-op and Single Player. I not sure about mp...

I think its only for the xbox

HAAAX!

I was in a match yesterday, about 40-45 seconds into the match someone called a nuke...

I got tired of all the shit. This game's only been out for 2 months and there's been plenty of annoying glitches found throughout, and I for one wasn't looking forward to the new and exciting shit-fests in the coming months as I was surely going to experience them.

My copy, as of yesterday sits on GameStop store shelves, and now I have $30 on a Mass Effect 2 preorder, and honestly, I'm much more happy with this reality.

Not a glitch....hackers hacked it.

i played in 1 game with that by just random. It was crazy..everytime u try to sprint u move like the flash..

(sad face) /cry

wow what a joke...i go off for two days and now new shits come out??? what a shame...

"Another #MW2 playlist update to prevent the spread of the "ice skating" / speed hack. Will prevent matchmaking into modded games."
39 minutes ago from Tweetie
http://twitter.com/fourzerotwo

this happened 2 me last night, it was not fun, just hard to kill people.

I had this happen over and over and over last night. We did not hack anything and played 4 private matches with only 4 people of which all of us were trying to figure out how to get it to stop.

''i encourered no bugs and the matches are mostly lag free just the odd few matchs have lag.''

LOOOOOL ! ARE YOU KIDDING ? 99% when they switch host, they put the player with the worst connection as the host, how I know that ? Me and my friends are playing most of the time together (We're 4 to 9) and every single time one of us is the host, it's the one with the worst connection.... So most of the time, the game still crash, when it's not laggy or splitting the group in two or three part, yeah that 's right, you try to play with your friends and they put you in different servers...

That's on Xbox live, I won't talk about my experience on PSN, 'cause most of you would call me 'vulgar'.,

Anyway... They sold 10 millions MW2 in the first month, and they still can't afford dedicated servers on PS3 and X360 ? That's just fucking bullshit, IW and Activision don't give a shit about players.

It's a shame this game had to come to this.

http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dlgc7GKB8pM8&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZnHmskwqCCQ&start2=

Mute the first video

at those speeds u could still play the game with a mouse xD

reminds me of crysis speed mode

It's been fixed, Fourzerotwo reported about it being fixed on twitter:

http://twitter.com/fourzerotwo/status/7604573380

Yeah I was wondering if there would be a post about this. I have been in 4 or 5 of these games over the last few days. At first I thought it was kinda amusing, but after running into it several times I just want to play a normal game.

I ended up in one of these games on Search and Destroy a few days ago. It was interesting, but mostly just pure chaos. End-of-round knife fights turned into figure skating championships because nobody could line up a hit. If I want to play a low-grav shooter with weird physics again, I'll just play Halo.

Not that I complained or am complaining but... this wouldn't happen with dedicated servers (unless you wanted to get banned).

I've been on a MW2 binge before i start my next semester and I haven't come across this glitch yet, So whats the big deal? If you don't like it then just leave the match.

Why do u idiots who hack this stuff, continue to do so? Just to prove that u can, i just dont get it. . You are all idiots who do this

I was in a server that did that. I ended up leaving because I snipe...and well, look at that shit.

Fantastic,its allright in movies and mostly if produced in reality

IW are reportedly considering a CoD MMO. To do that they're going to have to appeal to the PC gamers again and they've got some huge backpedals to do before then.

I picked the game up on PC. However, where CoD 4 got over a year of online play from my friends and I, CoD 6 has faded already after only 6 weeks of play. Constant matchmaking issues, hacks, glitches, and the lack of support in fixing these issues has been the problem. The goodwill they created by making such an excellent game has been thrown away by making a technically inept sequel but Robert Bowling hasn't helped because his PR has been terrible. Seriously, which other community managers boycott their own communities and post on Twitter instead?

Now, I appreicate some of you enjjoy the game. I know X-Box and PS3 versions are more stable but I don't pick FPS games up on consoles because I prefer them on PC usually.

I am glad I paid $60 for a beta.

We did this with Halo 3, using a modification on Ninjaball we called RocketNinjaBall. Basically, the winner was the one who held the ball for 100 seconds. When you had the ball, you lost overshields, but were twice as fast and could jump twice as high.

And everyone else had rocket launchers and was trying to kill you to get the ball.

I've played hundreds and hundreds of games, haven't seen this one yet. The boosting/never-ending Rust Ground War glitch was probably more annoying. Javelin glitch sucked too and ruined HQ and a couple other modes.

I actually went 25 in 0 on one of the god forsaken abominations. It was on Sub Base. Just find a good camping spot and something that fires QUICK.

Oh Infinity Ward !!!

You!!!

*shakes fist*

:P

The only reason I still play MW2 is because I know people who still play MW2 and I'd rather enjoy an online shooter with people I know, and no one I know is buying MAG. The online setup has annoyed the living crap outta me since I bought the thing and no patch will fix it as a whole. Fortunately I have yet to run into anything worse than a modded controller or two, so I'm not complaining too loudly about glitches, just the netcode design itself.

I truly wish that Killzone 2's system of clans, clan tourneys, and specialty designed/hosted ranked matches (like say, no using a certain perk or no akimbo shotguns) were somehow made available - I loved that system, I just moved on after like 4 months.

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