Bowling told us a console patch is "currently in test for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions." Unfortunately, he didn't have any word as to when the patch would go live for Xbox 360 and PS3 users. Hang in there soldiers!
Modern Warfare 2 gets PC update; Xbox 360 & PS3 patch 'in test'
by David Hinkle 
on Jan 19th 2010 5:58PM
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Bowling told us a console patch is "currently in test for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions." Unfortunately, he didn't have any word as to when the patch would go live for Xbox 360 and PS3 users. Hang in there soldiers!
Reader Comments (59)
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:03PM (Unverified) said
It's because consoles have a certification process that patches have to go through.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 9:51PM Problem Medic said
@shadowj0
Correction: only dumb gamers never use the word suffice often.
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Correction: only dumb gamers never use the word suffice often.
Posted: Jan 20th 2010 12:35AM sissyperrys said
Hopefully this patch will be enough, I mean with a game as popular as MW2... for sure another hacker will try to exploit it again and before you knew it, we're back to square one again.
Although, you can't deny that some hacks are just pretty cool to use: http://tiny.cc/mw2bughack
.. but some are just made to give you a headache.
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Although, you can't deny that some hacks are just pretty cool to use: http://tiny.cc/mw2bughack
.. but some are just made to give you a headache.
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:04PM PantsParty said
Also, Did Bowling tell you guys the speed hack was fixed? Because the Care Package speed thing is more of a rebalancing after unintended results.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:22PM (Unverified) said
Also commando+lightweight+marathon. Seriously, is it really a shooter if your knife is your best weapon?
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:27PM Deschain said
Infinite Chuck Norris powered noobtubes and claymores (or Frags/Semtex). not to mention the power added to kill-streaks (yes danger close adds power and radius to air strikes and chopper-gunner). Someone can get a nuke in 2 minutes if they want with that setup. Most of the time they just keep playing to up their K/D ratio.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:27PM leobebes said
@Traceur
I know I am going to sound stupid defending the knife class. I like to do it so go ahead and flame me. But I takes a bit of skill to recognize the map and flank the enemy with just a knife in hand, it also takes a bit of skill to angle yourself in stabbing four guys in a row when they are bunched together. I have had friends try the setup and royally suck with it. Sure it might seem unbalanced at times, but thats because the player is good.
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I know I am going to sound stupid defending the knife class. I like to do it so go ahead and flame me. But I takes a bit of skill to recognize the map and flank the enemy with just a knife in hand, it also takes a bit of skill to angle yourself in stabbing four guys in a row when they are bunched together. I have had friends try the setup and royally suck with it. Sure it might seem unbalanced at times, but thats because the player is good.
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:35PM Wonderflex said
Is this even an issue on PS3? I play every night for about an hour to two hours and I haven't seen anything yet.
As for balancing weapons, here are a few things things:
- RPG needs to be slightly more accurate.
- I second "noobtube + one man army + danger close setup needs to be nerfed BAD" but I'm not sure how.
- Silencers should remove the killcam. What good is it to be a silenced sniper if you can still see where I killed you from?
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As for balancing weapons, here are a few things things:
- RPG needs to be slightly more accurate.
- I second "noobtube + one man army + danger close setup needs to be nerfed BAD" but I'm not sure how.
- Silencers should remove the killcam. What good is it to be a silenced sniper if you can still see where I killed you from?
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:36PM Sly C said
i agree completely with leobebes. it takes genuine skill to be able to use a pure knifing class. if you don't know what you're doing with that class, you will get your ass handed to you 100% of the time. you need extremely good knowledge of the map and enemy routes to be able to stand a chance using that class. that noob tube class the people above mentioned? that's a class that takes no real skill to use. just camp and pop off a noob tube when you see a guy run by.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:41PM arrness PSN chsowls Steam dcdani said
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:57PM copa said
Lightweight seems very overrated to me. After the last patch, do you know what it does? It increases your running speed by 7%.
For me, that's not even worth using a perk slot on. Complaining that it is overpowered or unbalanced when using it in a build seems pretty silly.
I have encountered both knifers and noob-tubers in matches, but I've never seen them consistently dominate good players. It adds some variety, but it feels pretty balanced to me.
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For me, that's not even worth using a perk slot on. Complaining that it is overpowered or unbalanced when using it in a build seems pretty silly.
I have encountered both knifers and noob-tubers in matches, but I've never seen them consistently dominate good players. It adds some variety, but it feels pretty balanced to me.
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 7:16PM Wonderflex said
@copa
Lightweight comes in handy when using a LMG or more-so when playing a riot shield class. I find Marathon, Lightweight, Comando, Blast Shield, Smoke Grenade, Riot Shield to be an amazingly effective class in game modes that aren't deathmatch/kill based, the best example being when playing capture the flag.
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Lightweight comes in handy when using a LMG or more-so when playing a riot shield class. I find Marathon, Lightweight, Comando, Blast Shield, Smoke Grenade, Riot Shield to be an amazingly effective class in game modes that aren't deathmatch/kill based, the best example being when playing capture the flag.
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 7:17PM wallywallas said
Well, I'm a MW noob since i skipped on COD4 and just started playing MW2, and I have to say that I started using commando+lightweight+marathon because it was really easy for me to use and get cheap kills.
Don't do it anymore because it made the game really dumb and have since changed my strategy, but I know there are some really K/DR obsessed players so I know many use it.
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Don't do it anymore because it made the game really dumb and have since changed my strategy, but I know there are some really K/DR obsessed players so I know many use it.
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:03PM (Unverified) said
You know, with all the shit that Activision's been giving to PC gamers, I'm surprised they even bothered to patch it.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 7:17PM einhanderkiller said
Unfortunately, Modern Warfare 2 is one of the top played PC games right now. It peaks at around 150,000 concurrents which is about half of the PS3's peak, but it's still a very large amount.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:03PM (Unverified) said
This is a bunch of crap, they should have done a BETA TEST.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 9:13PM (Unverified) said
So you're saying they went from Alpha straight to Gold Master?
Wow. The current economy must have hit them really hard to eliminate all their *BETA* testers.
/unclear on the concept
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Wow. The current economy must have hit them really hard to eliminate all their *BETA* testers.
/unclear on the concept
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:04PM Admiral White said
I kind of feel like this patch is going to add some other glitch to the game. Not saying this is done on purpose though.
I don't really play the CoD series all that much, but if a game whose value lies in its multiplayer needs so many patches when it is barely 4 months old, something is wrong.
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I don't really play the CoD series all that much, but if a game whose value lies in its multiplayer needs so many patches when it is barely 4 months old, something is wrong.
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:06PM (Unverified) said
Well, PSN will be next, followed by Live, if past trends are to follow.
Makes sense, right? The platform with the issues is the LAST to be patched.
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Makes sense, right? The platform with the issues is the LAST to be patched.
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:13PM BrianH said
I'm no fan of IW, but to say that this game is having problems only on the ps3 is douchey, while i get what you are saying, it is of course easier to release a patch for xbox and PC (basically the same thing), that it would be to release it for the PS3.
just because it takes longer to do it for the ps3 doesn't mean everyone needs to suffer till it's ready.
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just because it takes longer to do it for the ps3 doesn't mean everyone needs to suffer till it's ready.
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:15PM (Unverified) said
Huh? I was saying the 360 would be patched last, because Microsoft's certification always takes longer. And the 360 is where the XP glitch is.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:18PM (Unverified) said
Patch is for more than one issue obviously, it even says that in the summary.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:20PM Xcrucio said
@Brian (PC gamer extraordinaire)
Huh? He's saying the 360 version is being patched last ("PSN will be next, followed by Live) and it's also the version that has appeared to have the most issues (evidenced by the earlier post today about the experience glitch that seemed to be only on 360).
And the reason that it takes the longest to for the patch to reach 360 has to do with Microsoft's certification process, has nothing to do with IW.
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Huh? He's saying the 360 version is being patched last ("PSN will be next, followed by Live) and it's also the version that has appeared to have the most issues (evidenced by the earlier post today about the experience glitch that seemed to be only on 360).
And the reason that it takes the longest to for the patch to reach 360 has to do with Microsoft's certification process, has nothing to do with IW.
Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:21PM (Unverified) said
And since the 360 has the most issues, it should be the one that is patched the fastest. Especially since it most likely has the largest install base for MW2.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:07PM (Unverified) said
Still? Taking three months off is a little extreme, don't you think?
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:19PM (Unverified) said
They don't deserve to be on holiday for releasing a game without properly testing it...
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:30PM (Unverified) said
The thing that pisses me off is that before MW2 I kept telling my friend about how polished Infinity Ward's games were because he never played one before...
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:39PM Sly C said
in their defense, most of these problems are genuine hacks that douche users do. only a couple like the javelin were glitches that were IW's fault, and they fixed all of those (models and care package running to add a few examples). yeah, the multiplayer had some problems, and probably will have some later on, but at least they're getting the fixes out relatively fast.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:41PM (Unverified) said
I'm actually afraid to play online until that xp glitch is fixed even thought I'm only like rank 55 :(
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:46PM (Unverified) said
Did anyone read the full notes?! They fixed a lot more than just these two issues.. Thank god they fix the care package marker and models glitch.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 6:46PM (Unverified) said
I'm happy to hear they are patching glitches but when are they going to fix the disaster that is matchmaking! I mean seriously just go back to the exact system you had in MW1,we lose Host Migration but so what, at least players wouldn't constantly getting booted!
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 7:46PM Cheesus Crust said
According to the notes they patched the package speed hack. Finally! Atleast this was one advantage of buying through steam(well that, and it was on sale for $30), instant updates, less hackers. Although I wish they made the Ak-47 more accurate.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2010 8:17PM gonintendo said
imo its TOO accurate. the idea behind the ak is that you have a ton of huge bullets flying out of the barrel with the hopes that at least one will hit and most likely kill.
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Posted: Jan 20th 2010 5:33PM (Unverified) said
the AK is not supposed to be accurate if based on a real life senario since it shoots the 7.62 round it has much higher recoil and makes the gun heavier. that's why most terrorist organizations you hear about use it all you have to do is hold onto it and pull the trigger and they're probably going to kill something in real life.
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