Modern Warfare 3 cheaters beware, Call of Duty Elite will help Infinity Ward monitor your wrong-doings and you'll be stamped out by a dedicated team.
"There's been a lot of work put into it. I can't go into specifics. On a general high level area there's so much more stuff that we've locked down and made less accessible than we had before," he told told GameSpy.
"A lot of stuff that we stripped out, a lot more challenge response things that we're doing... It's about verifying what the code is supposed to be and what the code actually is on the client side, and making sure that those are aligned," he explained.
"It's also about our ability to take action when stuff is wrong so we've done a lot of work in our ability to update the game more quickly and efficiently than we have before.
"A lot of that stuff can be done through Elite that we can review," Bowling added. "Then we have tools to report player stuff in game that players can use, and we'll have entire teams monitoring and taking actions on those."
"That's new for us. A lot of that stuff, the monitoring stuff, a lot of that was introduced in Black Ops but with Elite that is launching with Modern Warfare 3, we're taking that in an all new area, having full teams dedicated solely to that."
As well as boosting its cheat busting measures, Infinity Ward claims to have "re-imagined" Modern Warfare multiplayer.
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only_777 on 27 Sep '11 said:
COD Cheating, not possible if you pay a subscrition.
RustySpoon80 on 27 Sep '11 said:
So you only get access to cheat free cod if you buy Elite.
Lets see how this turns out. Blops wasn't anywhere near as bad as MW2, so hopefully this should be better.
FlacidDonkeyGuy on 27 Sep '11 said:
Bulls**t there are mouse like controllers that have been around for quite a some time now, thats one way to cheat on a console for a start. Never mind that you can manipulate you home connection to lower your download speed to the least you can get away with. While retaining a higher upload speed in a peer to peer dogfight you then become a bullet sponge, and don't get me started with PC hacks aimbots & wallhacks.
illage2 on 27 Sep '11 said:
I for one am glad that they are finally doing something about cheaters. There might be better games to have
only_777 on 27 Sep '11 said:
http://www.terrariaonline.com/attachments/cant-tell-if-stupid-or-trolling-jpg.6665/
Ais4Audi on 27 Sep '11 said:
Way hey the riot shield is back... I can noob away ... looking forward to this and battlefield, no point arguing which is better, just buy both!
Lance Uppercunt on 27 Sep '11 said:
DIECHEATERSDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE.
MPH on 27 Sep '11 said:
I don't think that's what he meant. No doubt IW will use the Elite service to identify cheaters due to their stats. It's not just the gamers that will use the service you see?
Sammy_bham on 27 Sep '11 said:
I think a few of you arn't getting the point..
on Elite, you can look at all the data from every single game you play. ever.
all it takes is for some cheating noob, to over do their hack in a game, someone notices who has Elite, watches the game back, gets the gamer tag of whoevers dong it, report them. Job done. And thats just the users.
the admin will have control over all stats for everyone.
anyones kill to death ratio at 999% - deleted from mw3 online.
also, be aware, online passes will be brought in for mw3, activision = deleting your pass = you screwed.
only_777 on 27 Sep '11 said:
No, the point is that other games do this without a subscrption. Player/game scanners have been part of FPS games for over half a decade now.
gmcb007 on 27 Sep '11 said:
Well this time around IW, sledgehammer and the other 15 devs; Make sure you don't release blatant overpowered weapons and glitch friendly maps. They were the reason behind a lot of cheating and that was your fault. MW2 was a mess to play evena fortnight after release!
spaceman_DOUG on 27 Sep '11 said:
Punkbuster's been around twice that!
Old Skool Gamer on 28 Sep '11 said:
They said the same when Black Ops came out last year if I remember correctly, from Treyarch, still didn't stop the cheaters finding a way round there supposed locked down code, just like tick the report button in game or file complaint on XBOX LIVE, its just designed to make you feel better psychologically that's all!!, there is too many people now online, 25 millon +, with only 12 XBLPET patroling, it is a joke, just like rep!!
godlygamer on 29 Sep '11 said:
My ass, Activision/ Infinity Ward dont give a s**t. They're just money-grabbing douchebags... for example, http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/ ... -the-line/
they are really overdoing everything
only_777 on 29 Sep '11 said:
Thanks for posting that link.
This is pretty much proof that Activision-Blizzard have no problem with RMT, so long as the money go to them.
After everything they said about it wrecking the balance in WoW (which it did, RMT totally f**ked WoW's economy) they have not only gone and put it in Diablo 3 they are now doing the same in MW3.
Some people might think that this Pepsi cross promotion is not RMT, but I'm sorry it is. People spend real money for in-game benefits which puts them above players that didn't spend real money. You may get a Pepsi or two, but as far as gaming goes, that's a by-product.
gmcb007 on 29 Sep '11 said:
Plus the fact they're promoting full blown junk food (it's the US so the sugar & fat is probably quite high) through the use of gaming. Way to promote obesity!
rxandl on 12 Oct '11 said:
Everybody gets Elite for free. The premium subscription gets you all the DLC and ability to play in tournaments. The anti-cheat features apply to the whole game.