The lights are on
UPDATE: A patch that fixes the Javelin glitch and others has been submitted to Microsoft, per the ever-useful Twitter of Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling. PlayStation 3 modern warriors already have the patch. Modern Warfare 2 version 1.06 addresses the Javelin issue as well as fixing bugs involving infinite care packages and getting into the geometry (i.e. the rocks in Afghan).
It's good to see a relatively quick response from a developer when something like this crops up in online play. In an ideal world it wouldn't be there in the first place, but not everyone can take six years to build a game.
ORIGINAL STORY: The Xbox Live team is handing out 24-hour suspensions (or up to two weeks for repeat offenders) to gamers caught using the Javelin glitch in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, per the service's policy and enforcement director Stephen Toulouse's Twitter. The glitch, which causes abusers to explode in a fiery inferno when they die, has obvious balance ramifications. Infinity Ward and Microsoft are taking it seriously enough to have a fix already in testing (according to Robert Bowling of IW's Twitter) and enforce the aforementioned suspensions.Cue comments defending the Javelin glitch as "creative use of game mechanics" in 3...2...1...[Via Joystiq]
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Makes sense; it seems odd that MW2 is the only one handing out punishment for glitch abuse though. Why not L4D2 or GOW2, while they're at it?
YES!! Someone I killed blew me up, I was pisseed.....I'm glad Microsoft is taking action!
I had this happen to me a few times the other night. Was pretty comical, but at the same time extremely annoying.
What is it exactly that happens?
Hahahahahaha it really sucks for those who knife and do not know about this.
What exactly is the glitch? Some can kill you when you die? huh?
The glitch is basically you kill the person and after they die they explode causing you to die as well.
Thank youuuuu...just started noticing people going around doing that. Exremely annoying.
And how exactly is that done?
Im glad offenders will experience the long arm of the law
good. those d@mned hackers always spoiling the fun by modifying their experience at our expense.
It's the same as in Halo 2 when players used glitches to 'exit the stage' and snipe you from out of sight.
This is why I am waiting before I go back into the multiplayer portion of this game. Fix the bugs, then I'll play...
THANK YOU!!! People who use glitches like these in a video game are just sad. Play the game as it should be played and don't rely on the little glitches to make yourself a "good" player. So annoying.
Good deal.
Already wrote a blog about it, I was getting pissed.
ME and sacco played MW2 last night and used just about every word in the book... only 24 hours, then two weeks. If you have to use a glitch to win... ban them longer!!!
oh, but sniping a glitch user... AMAZING!!!
That's lame... I dont play this game, but why should somebody be suspended because the game producers are too lazy to fix a glitch?
Glad the ps3 does not have this issue. That would stink.