Has MW2 been hacked?

Victor_M

Just went into a TDM, screen started to flash, loads of text on the right hand side and I jumped from rank 35ish up to 70 over the course of about 20 seconds, all of the "you've been promoted" announcements appearing one after the other! And a big flashing purple DRUGS FTW blinking in the middle of the screen.

Has this anything to do with the encryption key that was discovered for the PS3 recently.

What a PITA.

knuth

Challenge lobby?

rossism

seems theres now alot of public challenge lobbies. gone up 3 prestiges by randomly joining them so far.

Victor_M

Not sure what you are asking, but it was in a game itself, estate to be exact, every single challenge, weapon & perk has been unlocked. What a pisser, the challenge is what keeps me addicted!

Hope this is not the beginning of a troubling time for the PS3!

super_furry

You went into a lobby where the person hosting it, had hacked it. This has been going on for well over a year, and isn't because the PS3 has been hacked but because MW2 was.

celtic723

Quite surprised so many people continue to play this piece of ****.

Victor_M

Well I play it regularly, and have done since release day and have never seen anything like it, logged off and went back in again and the same thing happened.
Is there any way to avoid these dodgy lobbies?

Can someone in the know explain what's happening please?

celtic723

Victor_M wrote: »

Well I play it regularly, and have done since release day and have never seen anything like it, logged off and went back in again and the same thing happened.
Is there any way to avoid these dodgy lobbies?

Can someone in the know explain what's happening please?

The game's glitched to **** is what's happening. The security used to prevent hacking is so **** 10 year olds with slight know how can hack into it and create a 10th prestige lobby (all challenges and **** is unlocked), as well as being able to fly, have infinite noobtubes, etc...

I'd agree that this game was pretty fun but the novelty wore off for me when every lobby i came across had at least 4 hacked 10th prestigers.

You'll have to start from scratch if you want to do it properly. You've been ****ed over, nothing you can do now only report people in the lobby you were in.

Victor_M

celtic723 wrote: »

The game's glitched to **** is what's happening. The security used to prevent hacking is so **** 10 year olds with slight know how can hack into it and create a 10th prestige lobby (all challenges and **** is unlocked), as well as being able to fly, have infinite noobtubes, etc...

I'd agree that this game was pretty fun but the novelty wore off for me when every lobby i came across had at least 4 hacked 10th prestigers.

You'll have to start from scratch if you want to do it properly. You've been ****ed over, nothing you can do now only report people in the lobby you were in.

On the PS3 though? Every lobby I go into is the same? WTF!

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knuth

You can ask to be deranked in a challenge lobby.

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krudler

Christ, went into a few games there, all the same. Does mean I have to play Blops

iMuse

Its due to the ps3's security been cracked open, anybody with limited computer knowledge can run these hacks which is going to be a problem for alot of ps3 games going forward unless sony can lock them out from connecting online like MS are doing with Jtags.

I wouldnt expect much to be done unless sony can sort it out through a firmware update

krudler

**** sake, i got 2 pms off two muppets accusing ME of being a hacker, and they're the ones with the spinning skull emblems :rolleyes:

irish_goat

If you play S&D you'll see less hacking due to the lack of respawning.

Nuri Sahin

irish_goat wrote: »

If you play S&D you'll see less hacking due to the lack of respawning.

Opposite in COD4, SnD is 95%(being kind) of the time is unplayable.

Victor_M

Has MW1 been over run with hackers too?

Treyarch just aren't at the races when it comes to the COD gaming experience I played BLOPs for about 6 weeks tried very hard to like it, same with WaW they just don't look, sound or play as nice as the IW games, get bored and went back to MW2, have been playing it since December and hadn't seen a hacked game until last night, I'm gutted my favourite game franchise is potentially ruined in one foul swoop.

No matter which other PS3 games I play I always end up putting a MW disk back in.

Randy Shafter

I've been thrown into hacked lobbies twice this week. The first time was in Favela and the screen started flashing mad colours. One guy killed me so i looked at the killcam: He was flying about at a mad speed with no guns in his hands, just his fingers pointed like guns and was getting shots off left right and centre. The team names changes too. Then last night i was thrown into one again. Estate and i ended up with akimbo thumpers. I left sharpish because it just isn't fun! Its pointless!

TiGeR KiNgS

Victor_M wrote: »

Has MW1 been over run with hackers too?

Treyarch just aren't at the races when it comes to the COD gaming experience I played BLOPs for about 6 weeks tried very hard to like it, same with WaW they just don't look, sound or play as nice as the IW games, get bored and went back to MW2, have been playing it since December and hadn't seen a hacked game until last night, I'm gutted my favourite game franchise is potentially ruined in one foul swoop.

No matter which other PS3 games I play I always end up putting a MW disk back in.

yep, COD 4 has been hacked for a long time without a patch, mainly with speed lobbies. I just back out and try another lobby/game mode.
However today it was awful, domination regular and groundwar were full of hacked lobbies; speed,infinite ammo,super jumps,prestige hacks, etc. Total nightmare.

Tommy_NDX

Was playin mw2 last night and one game had the super jump hack and one guy who whenever he would shoot, an ac 130 round would come down where he was pointing. Chaos.

krudler

Tommy_NDX wrote: »

Was playin mw2 last night and one game had the super jump hack and one guy who whenever he would shoot, an ac 130 round would come down where he was pointing. Chaos.

was in one last night where a guy on the other team would teleport every other player to where he was and just kill everyone, completely ruining the game.

This is probably the end of MW1 and 2, if thats the case I'm getting BFBC2 now its cheap, cant be arsed with Blops

Randy Shafter

I can see MW2 becoming over run with hacked lobbies now. Hopefully there'll be a few that play straight and fair....

Kev_ps3

Just quit and join another room, who cares about win/loss ratios at this stage.

krudler

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Just quit and join another room, who cares about win/loss ratios at this stage.

seems to be every game though, and theres hacked messages with youtube channels and crap like that scrolling across the bottom of the screen as soon as you go into a match type on the MP, fcuk sake.

Nuri Sahin

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Just quit and join another room, who cares about win/loss ratios at this stage.

Easy to say that here.

You like playing SnD Kev. So just imagine every lobby being hacked and that being the only game type you really want to play! Likewise Sabotage(only other game type I'd play in COD4).

Got into a lobby yesterday and there was this guy going around as a F22(airstrike), yes a ****ing F22! He had the RPG attached on top of it, unlimited ammo, speed hack, invisible hack and invincible hack.

I was flipping out at this ****er on the mic. I presumed he'd be a kid until he turned on his mic, sounds like he is in 20s.

Kev_ps3

yea just turned it off there because of the hacked rooms. call of duty has gone stale for me.

krudler

Ugh, every gametype is hacked, saw one guy running around with an aimbot, and every time he shot someone some stupid messages would pop up on the screen.

So long MW2, its been a hell of a ride

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Nov 2009-January 2011 RIP

Survived by Call of Duty Black Ops, his lesser fun cousin.

bluemooner

ugh went on it for the first time in ages. first snd lobby i went into and it reset all my stats. turbo gay now i must say! what fun do they get in just running around and pressing one button and winning the game? :mad:

Stuxnet

bluemooner wrote: »

what fun do they get in just running around and pressing one button and winning the game? :mad:

peoples reactions, thats what they are going for, its nothing to do with winning games, its to get reactions !

Randy Shafter

iPwnage wrote: »

peoples reactions, thats what they are going for, its nothing to do with winning games, its to get reactions !

A bit pointless doing that just to get reactions IMO. Can they not just play the game and enjoy a bit of decent fun?

krudler

iPwnage wrote: »

peoples reactions, thats what they are going for, its nothing to do with winning games, its to get reactions !

if making people quit within 30 seconds of a game as the hacker has already got a pavelow in by just pressing the fire button a few times then its working, games been ruined forever, thank christ Dead Space and Killzone 3 are out soon, should get me online action from them

beertons

My mate mailed one of the hackers yesterday, and asked him how he did it. He replied, "have you got paypal."
Mate : What's paypal!

Stuxnet

Randy Shafter wrote: »

A bit pointless doing that just to get reactions IMO. Can they not just play the game and enjoy a bit of decent fun?

obviously not, that's their kick ! like team killers, they do it for reactions

krudler wrote: »

if making people quit within 30 seconds of a game as the hacker has already got a pavelow in by just pressing the fire button a few times then its working, games been ruined forever, thank christ Dead Space and Killzone 3 are out soon, should get me online action from them

agreed

lollypopmmm

Yeah i got this too. I was playing afghan, and all of a sudden it froze, and in the middle of the screen it started saying 'challenges 10/100, 20/100' and so on. Then i got kicked, and noticed i had unlocked everything. People are now messaging me saying why have you cheated, and can i have the cheat, or show me how to hack, and i dont have a clue how it happened. Kind of annoying, i was doing so well - (3rd prestige.) Why even bother playing a game if your jhuust going to cheat and ruin it for others. Grrrr.:mad:

raze

I've seen hackers on PS3 MW2 before - guys with no rank beside their names, and hitting instantaneous headshots blind through walls from across the map, etc. But the past few days have been horrible. It seems every muppet wants to devolve the game to some shoddy challenge lobby. On Sunday I was in a game, all going normally, then about 7 minutes in I see "All stars reset" come up on my screen and only then realised it was a hacked lobby. Disconnected immediately, but all my weapon attachments/challenges/stats were wiped, though my rank wasn't affected by that.

I used to play on PC way back when, but thought consoles would be better to get away from aimbots etc. I never saw anything like this situation though.

A few people on my friends list run challenge lobbies (I don't condone this) - so after I was screwed over I asked about the lobbies for the first time. It couldn't put my stats back to what they were with any degree of accuracy so I left it.

But I took a look at some of the novelty modes these guys had running - you can have gun game from Blops but in MW2, and there's hide and seek and a zombies versus humans game. Which just makes it all the worse when you think about how these games have been designed.

I went into a game of zombies, and all the players were outside of the normal boundary of the Karachi and Terminal maps. How much power do you have to give the host in a networked game? I was playing on a modified version of a map, something I would have swore blind wasn't on the MW2 disk I own. It's only like the difference between a map on SnD and on domination - adding flags and puting a few containers in. Still, it's preposterous, and after 10 minutes the novelty wears off and it's just the badly made mess you'd suppose it would be. But it's still novel enough that every dip**** teenager who gets his kicks from pissing people off will do his damnedest to get it into public games.

Kev_ps3

Literally every game is fully of these idiots. Had to go back to fail Ops

krudler

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Literally every game is fully of these idiots. Had to go back to fail Ops

TDM Express is usually untouched, annoying that the tactical games are wrecked though, miss playing Sabotage and Demo

krudler

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

I wouldnt be surprised if they didnt bother patching it up.

Why would they? games out, sold, new COD is being played,IW is gone, Activision dont give a fcuk. such a pity, if there were dedicated servers this wouldnt happen, or a lot less at least, but noooo, they have to be money grabbing fcukers as usual. The idea they want to charge specifically for playing COD online is a joke, why would you with a p2p system?

hightower1

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Yea im pritty much done with the CoD franchise, Doubt ill be buying DLC. They can get fcuked after black flops. Activision publish a faulty game, Wont see another cent from me. Lookin forward to seein what Homefront is like in March.

*Dedicated servers.

Been playing MW2 consistanlty on ground war, dom and mtdm and havent come accross a single modded lobby since black ops or ever in fact.

Seems like the ps3 is officially busted with the jailbreak..... xbox ftw!
I can see where the devs are coming from, why try keep plugging holes in the dam like mad men when the river behind is the issue. Fix the ps3 and you fix the hacks. Fox the hacks and your still gonna get more on the busted ps3 platform.

krudler

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

I got offered E4.50 cash for MW2 in Gamestop. Good lord.... Really reflects the state of the game.

not really, games that sell billions of copies get sfa trade in value, your cod's fifas,wwe games etc. I never trade in games, would rather keep it and replay it at some stage, knowing me i'd only wind up buying it again :pac:

Magill

hightower1 wrote: »

Been playing MW2 consistanlty on ground war, dom and mtdm and havent come accross a single modded lobby since black ops or ever in fact.

Seems like the ps3 is officially busted with the jailbreak..... xbox ftw!
I can see where the devs are coming from, why try keep plugging holes in the dam like mad men when the river behind is the issue. Fix the ps3 and you fix the hacks. Fox the hacks and your still gonna get more on the busted ps3 platform.

Hardly the PS3's fault that they released an inferior game on their console. As for the hacking, and jailbreak ****e... its unfortunate. Sony will have to work with the developers to keep online games secure, i think the only way they can solve this problem is by releasing new hardware, The PS4 may not be that far away because of this.

On the grand scale of things i dont think it will impact sonys sales as much as some think tho, the xbox has been a haven for piracy since its release almost but it continues to set records.

Im sure activision would love nothing more than to shut down the PSN servers and blame sony for the half job they did on the port tho. It wont happen.

krudler

so what happens if they do shut down the PSN servers? they've essentially removed half the reason, well probably the whole reason, people play Blops

Magill

krudler wrote: »

so what happens if they do shut down the PSN servers? they've essentially removed half the reason, well probably the whole reason, people play Blops

eh ? If they shut down the PS3 servers no1 will beable to play blops. It would essientally become a single player game.

krudler

Magill wrote: »

eh ? If they shut down the PS3 servers no1 will beable to play blops. It would essientally become a single player game.

yeah i get that lol, i mean wouldnt activision just get sued for not providing what they promised with the game, online multiplayer is the main reason to play cod, take that away and they've sold a product that no longer functions, its grounds to get refunds from them for a game that no longer works the way its meant to, its one thing shutting down a server for a game thats been out donkeys years and has tiny amount of players, Blops is the biggest online game around at the mo (probably)

Leeg17

Says in the load of menu for Mw2 and I'm sure Blops that they can discontinue the service because of

1. Lack of interest/players
2. Economic reasons
3. They feel like it basically.

krudler

Yes, they're a crafty bunch alright...

still though, if they do shut down the ps3 servers they've essential lost millions in revenue from future ps3 gamers, people will just buy xboxes so they can play future COD games online.

although...maybe thats the idea *tinfoil hat time*

microsoft are sitting in their hollowed out volcano base chuckling to themselves as their dastardly scheme coming to fruition..

Magill

ahh, soz read your post wrong

But yeah they'd never get away with it. I just hope that all this hacking bull**** going on in MW2 and MW1 doesnt make its way into black ops.

Nuri Sahin

krudler wrote: »

Yes, they're a crafty bunch alright...

still though, if they do shut down the ps3 servers they've essential lost millions in revenue from future ps3 gamers, people will just buy xboxes so they can play future COD games online.

although...maybe thats the idea *tinfoil hat time*

microsoft are sitting in their hollowed out volcano base chuckling to themselves as their dastardly scheme coming to fruition..

I'm telling you there is something to it. I for one wouldn't be surprised.

wilford

I was only sayin in another post how easy it was to anticipate a hacked lobby spinnin skulls,clantags etc but over the last couple of days it really has gotten bad,I was on my 9th prestige level 61,over the space of 3 games I'm now level 10th level 70 with everthing unlocked without personally doing anything but getting dropped into these lobbies.I then set up a new account and started again,after 1 night game time 2hrs 26m,8 wins 20 losses,kills 50147 deaths 332,oh and I'm 5th prestige with everything unlocked again,I could have easily gotten to 10th if I hadn't went to bed!! I'm now giving spec ops another go to stay away from multiplayer for a while.

krudler

That guy in the videos gives a great point, Activision are making money on a broken game I know us gamers consider MW2 as "broken" in the sense of unfair perks and nooby tactics and stuff like that, but now its actually broken. The multiplayer doesnt work in the way you want thanks to these dickless hackers who have ruined a fantastic online experience in MW1 and 2, all jabs about which COD is better aside, they're fun to play online, simple as, and its 99% of the reason to buy a COD game, I've played the SP of MW1 three times, twice on 360 once all the way through on PS3, MW2 the same, and Blops once with no intention of ever playing it again tbh. Its the multiplayer you buy it for, and now Activision are misadvertising a product. I full expect someone will file a class action lawsuit against them for it, and someone would have a very good case against them I'd reckon.