Modern Warfare 2 'care package' patch submitted to Microsoft certification

by Ben Gilbert on Feb 7th 2010 4:30PM

Considering the Xbox 360 received the lion's share of Modern Warfare 2 purchases, it comes as a bit of a shock to us that the already released on PS3 and PC "care package patch" is just now being submitted to Microsoft for certification. That said, developer Infinity Ward's community man Robert Bowling tweeted as much to Game Informer's Andrew Reiner approximately 24 hours ago when Reiner asked about a possible release for the much anticipated fixes.

As Bowling has pointed out before (and details in this forum post on the subject), the patch is set to remedy the following (you might need a pillow for all of this pure, unbridled excitement:

Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades sprint speed normalized.
Fix for "infinite care package" exploit.
Sentry Guns: Improved placement detection, preventing cases of Sentry Guns inside geometry.
Model 1887: Bling using Akimbo and FMJ combination now has same range and damage as non-Bling Model 1887s.
Fixes to prevent various XP hacks.

And no, there's no date given for when it's coming out. So stop asking. (Seriously.)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (11/10/09)

[Via Game Informer]

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Tags: call-of-duty, call-of-duty-modern-warfare, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2, Microsoft, modern-warfare, modern-warfare-2, multiplayer, patch, robert-bowling, twitter, Xbox-360

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It's so glitchy, yet I keep coming back to it. Please help me.

I gave up and switched to MAG, tried going back but its so much better when there are tangible objectives to go for and when teamwork is in place.

@thatguy

teamwork.

@thatguy

TEAMWORK

If you want objectives then play the objective based match types. Not that hard.

@that guy

i prefer silence than people speaking on their mics talking about tea-bagging my sister.

What the hell is wrong with you guys, let the man make his dam point without objectifying his spelling. Last i check this was a video game website and not dictionary.com.

Also last time i checked if you have nothing intelligent to say in the conversation than that makes you a troll.

I give up on the commenting, wrong conversation.

Maybe I'll start playing again...

I'm falling behind as a 4th prestige. One of my friends made it to 10th .

Made it to 10th or glitched their way there?

I don't even want to think about how many hours it would take to legitimately get to the tenth prestige. I just got to the first prestige, and I'm much better than average. It took me roughly 40 hours, so anyone on the 10th prestige must have dumped a considerable portion of their life into the game in order to be where they are.

u have to have no life at all to get 10th presitge. And I've seen a few of them

40 hours to get to 1st prestige?! most people i know got to 3rd in that amount of time...

one of my friends got to legit tenth. ~17 days of total play time to get there.

in COD, you actually can win by not doing any objectives and just killing (for most game modes anyways). and how does search take more time than HQ? search is actually how most people get to 10th in the first place. demolition, search, and HQ are the best modes to rank up in. demo is also best for kills once you have a good strategy set.

The amount of fail in this thread is truly surprising.

Search gives the most XP if you get kills. 500XP for a single kill and 1000XP for a headshot? Jesus, someone got a Pave Low from a Care Package and when I shot it down I got 4000XP.

You can get a TON of XP in Search, you just have to be good. Team Deathmatch is also one of the easiest modes to get nukes in, depending on the map and your personal play style.

On topic: Can't wait to see the infinite care package glitch fixed. I've left so many games after seeing people get a 4 kill streak and somehow come back from a 2000 point loss after sending it 18 Harriers and 3 Chopper Gunners.

this is true. SnD can give the MOST xp if you are GOOD at it. keyword, GOOD. If you suck, obviously you will think it gives low xp. I average around 10k xp per SnD game getting around 7-10 kills per game and a bomb plant/defuse or 2.

When will the glitches end?!

Seems like a beta would have been a good idea.....

Feels like a beta. They should reset stats. Sure everyone would be pissed, but you know no one would actually leave.. too addicting.

@Ghen
I disagree with the idea of a stat reset. If this was like Halo where ranks were actually an indicator of skill, I'd be down with the idea. In MW2, however, ranks just show how much you've played. I know a lot of people (myself included) that enjoy trying to get all the challenges and callsigns. Resetting that progress would really suck. I don't want to have to get 40 bullet penetration kills with the F2000 again.

Plus, I like seeing 10th prestige players in the lobby because I know chances are high they won't be any good.

Apparently, this patch has already been circumvented on the European PS3 and CP glitches continue (somehow those bastards figured out a new way to glitch it). I want to know when a solid, final solution is coming.

Joystiq, can you get in touch with Robert Bowling and confirm that the patch you're referring to in this post permanently fixes this problem or if this is the original patch that doesn't close all the holes?

Well, when a dev team that is busy with other things has to compete against a bunch of people intent on breaking the game and have nothing else to do, its a hard race to win.

Yeah, I'm not angry like the forum whiners are, I just want to make sure we all know whether this patch is the last one on this issue or if they need to keep working on it (because I've read elsewhere that the patch IW submitted last week doesn't permanently fix it). I'm pretty understanding of all the demands on IW and that there are only so many hours in a day to address them.

Just looking for clarification.

Shit like this is why they should of had a beta release.

Yeah, a beta had the potential to relieve us of these big glitches before the mass of users had to deal with them.

At least they are fixing them though. Better than when companies ignore certain glitches, which IW was perfectly intent doing to CoD2.

But I think fixing every single glitch is downright impossible, and in some cases stupid. Certain glitches, like those in Quake, actually enhance the game and depth. They are rare though. But yeah, it's like trying to prevent piracy; ain't gonna happen.

Yeah because 40 people playing a beta version for a week would find what it took millions of people 4 months to find, right?

Yeah, in the big scheme of things, it's not a completely game-crippling glitch (hell, most times it's easy to beat the other team that's glitching because they're too busy collecting their packages and you can just noobtube them). It's very annoying and ruins the flow of a match, but anyone who says a beta would have found this is really just saying "I wish I had been able to play a beta a couple months before it came out because I was jonesing so hard to play" and blames any glitch on the lack of that beta.

Name some multiplayer shooters that have been completely glitch free. I can't think of any.

Gears of w... oh wait.

Won't this whole "patch certification process" just slow things down?

Yep, thats Microsoft for ya.

Or it could catch a potentially worse bug. Duh.

Rick, this "approval process" of Microsoft's is just another ball-gripper they have to ensure they have total control over content.

*slips tinfoil hat on*
I.E, making sure maps aren't thrown into the game, or any freebie weapons and new perks/killstreaks/deathstreaks/titles/emblems, or whatever else they could milk dry for cash.
*takes off tinfoil hat*

No, that sounds like typical Microsoft, Bigfat.

You just don't like that it jives with previous statements by Epic, Valve, and Bungie.

they just don't want their 360 exploit to xbr

Well, at least we know they're actively trying to fix these bugs. I wonder how long the game could go without being fixed though, it's just that popular. Of course, so was GoW2. Haven't played MW2 since the month I got it, but I still wish there was a faster way to do this.

damn i need to buy a network N adapter and xbox live asap

Too little too late, they've screwed this release right up.

Bring on BC2.

Too right.

BC2 just makes everything seem so... realistic...

I've given up on the game which is a shame because I genuinely liked it when it was first released.

Constant balance issues and glitches has ruined it, i've had much more fun playing BC2 as there's a much greater sense of teamwork and camping is pretty much non existant thanks to the "killcam", FrostBite engine with it's amazing geometry destruction and WELL BALANCED gameplay.

I've been an avid gamer of both CoD and BF and played every single iteration that has been released so i'm not being biased or a "fanboy", i'm just dissapointed how InfinityWard haven't sorted the issues out yet.

Are you being serious or what? I don't know, I kinda like BC2 but at times it just feels too....floaty. The bullets don't carry nearly the amount of weight behind them in order to make it feel like a real battlefield.

Modern Warfare 2 is one of the best-selling games of all time and is played by millions, so of course some jackasses who have nothing better to do will find some exploits. Any other game with the same monumental fanbase would be going through the same thing. Infinity Ward is actively trying to patch things up in an otherwise well-balanced and fun game. Quite frankly I think the people overexaggerate how glitchy MW2 actually is.

@Persian spice

funny, bungie seemed to make a glitch free best selling game with a massive fanbase. IW just got lazy.

Glitch free Bungie games? You obviously haven't played Halo 2.

Well mr ironic I was referring to halo 3 which was relatively glitch free. I wasn't aware of any major glitches in it. If IW makes mw3 glitch free then I'll shut my mouth.

are you going to compare things like Plasma sword lunges that spanned the whole map that could barely be done in an actual game, to the ability to spawn limitless items that can end the entire game?

what would sony trolls have to do with it?

since when does having a Ps3 make you any less likey to like modern warfare 2?

and get over it, BFBC2 is a damn good game.

Most MW2 glitches come from people hacking into the game. Most of the Halo 2 glitches were from poor coding. There were a ton of Halo 2 glitches. So yes, I'm comparing them.

I know you are just a bitter PC gamer, Brian. But if you had played Halo 2 (on the xbox) for more a reasonable amount of time, you would notice it was pretty much what is happening to MW2 right now.

@ironic
really? You're going to compare a 5+ year old game coded on an console that's not in production anymore to mw2? I'm not saying the game is bad, I'm just saying it's glitchie. The javeline and infinite package glitches where done in game, not on modded consoles.

@That Guy

A few balance issues? Jesus christ have you been under a rock.
Who said it was just weapons? There's a lot that needs to be looked at in that game whether it be the frankly overpowered chopper gunner or the superhuman distance some of the shotguns have, not to mention the geometry glitches.

Fanboism? Grow up. I've got both the PS3 and 360 and fanboism has nothing to do with it, MW2 NEEDED a beta, end of. It's the same issue (more or less) regardless of the platform it's being played on.

But people will continue to pour hours into playing it because "OMG IT'S MW2".

Keep your pre-pubescent comments to yourself and look at the facts, the issues affect a lot more people than you think.

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