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Achievements of the soon to be published Modern Warfare 3 are now circulating in the Web. Go have a look.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3/achievements/

Infinity Ward announced that the long awaited security patch is in internal QA testing and will soon see the daylight. The patch fixes issues affecting online play (bye bye hackers?) and a small geo exploit on the map Fuel, which players exploited in order to get inside a rock on the outskirts of the map.

The patch will be available for all platforms (PS3, Xbox360, PC).

Infinity Ward just posted an update of the situation:

Update: I just left a security meeting with the coders here at Infinity Ward where we discussed a lot of solutions. I feel good about the meeting, but of course I can’t go into detail on the possible solutions we discussed as we don’t want to give out any information that could potentially hinder the security any further.

Once I have more information, I will post it here.

The key factor I want you to know is, that while any update takes time, we are looking to make the process as quick as possible and nothing is being left unattended.

Our main focus right now is on:

1) Preventing hackers from affecting legitimate players.
2) Addressing users who have already been affected.

Source: http://fzt.me/PS3security

Myths:

Diving into water will protect you from fall damage.
An indirect kill from a killstreak will count towards unlocking your next killstreak.
A well placed tactical grenade can kill a previously undamaged opponent.
A Napalm Strike can destroy a Care Package helicopter.
Using Chopper Gunner, you can take down Spy Planes.
Launching a Valkyrie while airborne will leave you floating in midair.
You are invulnerable while diving.

I guess most of those who don’t have Black Ops or prefer MW2 over Black Ops (like me), have noticed the growing number of hackers on PS3. Inifity Ward recently commented that the core problem is the breach of security on the PS3 platform and they don’t have any way to fix it. Good thing is IW acknowledged the hacker trouble but for our disappointment seems to ignore this problem because MW and MW2 are “legacy games”. Thumbs down.

The problem is quite severe for two reasons; 1) it definitely ruins your gaming experience and even worse 2) the hackers can mess up with your statistics, profiles etc. There are growing number of complaints on the IW forum.

This is really sad thing to happen because MW2 is truly a great game and could still offer countless hours of entertainment before the next IW COD game, which should come out in 10 months. That’s a long time to wait unless you want permanently switch to Black Ops.

What are your thoughts on this?

EDIT:

After more investigations it seems that MW2 has been developed relaying totally on the PS3 security (why on earth – PS3 was already on overtime with this…) and at the moment there is no way to fix the issue. Basically the f*** hackers have access to the local files on PS3 and by altering them can change the stats and other information in the game.

Fresh from the Defendthehouse’s oven, episode 3.

Just learned about this cool video, very well made and definitely worth watching!

The 1.05 patch is out for PS3.

12/22
• Improved party reliability when leaving with party – an additional step in an ongoing series of party improvements continued in the next patch
• Improved UPnP functionality – further expands the game’s capability to open NATs on routers with universal plug and play enabled
• Enabled mute functionality in Playercards in the pre-game lobby
• Enabled kick functionality in party and private match lobbies
• Addressed an issue where the pre-game lobby would not always display properly when multiple players leave the lobby after a team split
• Addressed an issue where the pre-game lobby would appear stuck on the countdown timer while waiting to balance teams

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Btw the first podcast episode has been recorded and will be published within few days.