News - 2,500 Modern Warfare 2 cheats get the boot

[HEXUS]

Infinity Ward has delivered a hefty kick up the ass to over 2,000 Modern Warfare 2 cheaters.

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[matty-hodgson]

what exactly did they do?

[Grey M@a]

what exactly did they do?

I think it probably has something to do with the hacks and work arounds to get the sort of sudo dedicated server stuff back. It's the only thing I can think of.

[OilSheikh]

Excellent job. But, it doesnt look good for PC - on emore reason for game creators to abandon PC.

[GheeTsar]

AFAIK, there are cheaters and hackers on the 360 and PS3 too, so I suspect these will face similar treatment.

Myself, I've not ever been certain I've been a victim of a cheat. A few times I have been surprised when someone hasn't gone down after a number of good hits, but that's my only real experience of suspicous activity.

[jim]

I think it probably has something to do with the hacks and work arounds to get the sort of sudo dedicated server stuff back. It's the only thing I can think of.

No, I would say almost certainly that's not it. It's VAC based, which means that only people playing the game in steam have been banned, and VAC is only active on Steam-based servers anyway.

The dedicated server hacks will probably be done with cracked versions of the game (read non-steam) because Steam would just be a hinderance - so VAC would never even be invoked.

In all likelihood, it's a portion of the people that have used aimbots, and all other sorts of hacks in Steam-based MW2 games. And it's a report that's best ignored, because VAC and PB are both fairly hopeless at banning hackers from games, the hackers will generally get away with it because the whole point of the hacks are that they're undetectable. It's a bit like SecuROM vs Scene, the corporate guys are always playing catch-up. That was one of the main issues with dedicated servers being removed - it makes catching hackers absolutely impossible, so unless VAC detects the hacks, then they'll be hacking away with impunity.

I used to be a server admin for BF2, and hacking was a lot more prevalent than people tended to realise - we had hackers on our servers probably every couple of nights on average. PB would catch maybe half, the rest of them required manual methods of detection, which in turn required the use of our dedicated server.

[danroyle]

No, I would say almost certainly that's not it. It's VAC based, which means that only people playing the game in steam have been banned, and VAC is only active on Steam-based servers anyway.

The dedicated server hacks will probably be done with cracked versions of the game (read non-steam) because Steam would just be a hinderance - so VAC would never even be invoked.

In all likelihood, it's a portion of the people that have used aimbots, and all other sorts of hacks in Steam-based MW2 games. And it's a report that's best ignored, because VAC and PB are both fairly hopeless at banning hackers from games, the hackers will generally get away with it because the whole point of the hacks are that they're undetectable. It's a bit like SecuROM vs Scene, the corporate guys are always playing catch-up. That was one of the main issues with dedicated servers being removed - it makes catching hackers absolutely impossible, so unless VAC detects the hacks, then they'll be hacking away with impunity.

I used to be a server admin for BF2, and hacking was a lot more prevalent than people tended to realise - we had hackers on our servers probably every couple of nights on average. PB would catch maybe half, the rest of them required manual methods of detection, which in turn required the use of our dedicated server.

we used to run a CSS server and hacking was constant on there about 1 in 10 were automatically caught by vac the rest we had to boot manually. including a guy that was going from CT spawn on DE_DUST to T spawn in about 3-4 seconds from round start and vac didnt catch that

[Flash477]

we used to run a CSS server and hacking was constant on there about 1 in 10 were automatically caught by vac the rest we had to boot manually. including a guy that was going from CT spawn on DE_DUST to T spawn in about 3-4 seconds from round start and vac didnt catch that

VAC has a delayed ban - it can take upto 6 weeks (or more) for them to be banned. Their argument for it is so that the cheaters don't know which cheat got them banned.

[.havoc]

To be fair - at least action is being taken. Flip side of that is it will push them to make better, more elaborate hacks.

[educatedfool]

Krakkenbus(on here) got banned for some EVGA graphics application.

[Krakkenbus]

Krakkenbus(on here) got banned for some EVGA graphics application.

Whatever you do, don't run the evga overlay tool, apparently it and i quote... "injects your .exe" replicating a hack.

It's happened to more people than just me too!

[jim]

You hacking scum, I think the gaming community will be delighted that the ever infallible VAC has won yet again.

:/