Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is in stores now and looks to be yet another major success. We're not so sure we'd have been able to type that if it wasn't for the great work that Sledgehammer Games put into the title. When Infinity Ward's Jason West and Vince Zampella got into a legal battle with Activision, and numerous employees decided to leave, the status of Modern Warfare 3 was called into question, but Sledgehammer came to the rescue.
Sledgehammer wouldn't be what it is today without the leadership of its founders, Michael Condrey (COO) and Glen Schofield (GM). IndustryGamers is putting the spotlight on this developer duo in our newest "Better Know" feature.
Sledgehammer's first game was killed so Modern Warfare 3 could be finished.
I adored Battlefield Bad Company 2's Vietnam expansion. Sucks to hear this was scrapped for CoD. I haven't touched CoD since Modern Warfare 2 came out. (The original one.) I would have definitely checked that out though.
No such thing as horror when equipped with the type of weaponry in a COD game. 😂
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Players are using hacks to gain an advantage in the game, such as aimbots and wall hacks. The first gives a player superhuman aiming abilities, while a wall hack lets you see through walls to gauge where other players are.
“These hacks are typically used by PC players, but those playing on PC via Xbox Game Pass are identified as Xbox players in multiplayer lobbies.”
This is pretty dumb to say the least.
That's a WTF, they suppose to be labeled as pc users even if its on PC game pass. They mess that up big time.
If AI keeps getting better (and it will) it's just a matter of time before there's more sophisticated cheats even for consoles, and they wouldn't even need to be running on it, I have little doubt about that.
Don't Gamepass online games have anti-cheat systems?
If not, that's pretty dumb. Microsoft need to fix that asap.
They won't ever fix this problem, unless they (developers, publishers, Sony and MS) go after the cheat providers directly. You no longer need to hack consoles to use hacks. During the ps360 days, they were going after cheat devices, but it was a cat and mouse game. These cheating methods were around during those days, it's nothing new, but they kept it under control. Since the PS4/Xbox one generation, they stopped going after these cheating devices and it became widespread. Which I find odd, since they started charging for online play (PS4).
Possibly, this is because the companies were going after cheats because the same cheats were being used to pirate the games, whereas today, the companies use online verification to prevent piracy, thus eliminating the need to go after people who cheat only to gain an advantage in the game. As long as the cheater remains below the radar, and does not completely break the game, the companies look the other way as their wallets are not threatened by it. (that is my completely Uneducated opinion on the matter)
I mean, COD games was always filled with hackers, nothing new. I can’t blame MS on this. Activision had years to try and fix this. Might take MS some time to make some change.
It all depends…
Microsoft’s guidance on how to handle gamepass on pc and their love to force crossplay with pc seems like a them issue.
And they own activision, so it is still a them issue.
Let's hope these two don't get the same result as Vince and Jason...