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So after like a long time, probably 5-6 months, I start up MW2 again. I'm on the pc so I have to use steam etc. After ages of getting disconnected from lobbies and more endless countdowns, I get in a ground war game. First 2 minutes are okey, it is a domination match on wasteland. To my suprise I was actually having some fun, but then it started. The first lag spikes were little but within a minute the whole game became a stuttering slideshow with explosions for everyone. The usual shit talking about the host started and I was getting a bit aggravated. Then someone decided that it would be fun if he turned on his aimbot/wallhack, because the lag made it impossible to play. To my surprise the general response was not to shit talk the hacker, instead everyone turned on their aimbot/wallhack. I got fed up with all this quick and left.
After this I tried to join some dozen other matches before I finally got in a tdm game on highrise. Within minutes however this game was also turned into a hackerfest with everyone aimbotting each other to death. Tried two more games after this and seriously in both of them were obvious hackers raking up kills again... Needless to say I quit the game pissed of.
This got me thinking how sad it actually is that cheaters/hackers are so widely spread that you can't play a match in one of the most popular fps shooters at the moment without someone in it using some kind of hack. It seems to me that a lot more people are using hacks these days then when vanilla Call of Duty just came out. What do you think?Is this true? Are the amount of players using hacks increasing? or is it just that there are more gamers and the percentage using hacks is the same?
 
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About the same, it's just that the legit players, like you, got fed up and quit. That's why it seems more frequent.
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Yeah, it's pretty bad on PC.
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On PC, don't play Ground War or TDM, full of tubes, laggers and hackers. SnD is the best 
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The amount of wallhackers i find in TDM is pretty low, and even those that do are pretty awful
Bad luck i suppose
EDIT: If i recall i found like 3-4 hackers on CoD1 and i played it for years, there was a vote to ban from the server system so it was alot easier to get rid of them for good
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Try TDM Express, less hackers, less waiting.
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I've yet to experience any hackers on MW2, but I dont play much these days. And when I do play I play the mode where you dont get to use your killstreaks in freeforall/TDM.
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Is it still that bad? I remember quitting because of hackers and the noob tube getting really bad. Whenever there's one noobtuber someone would get mad and also noobtube. Then everyone ended up noobtubing and knifing. Of course then a nuke goes off. Arghhh...horrible memories. I remember enjoying the 1v1 a lot and thinking less BS happening in there. Not any better there either.
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That's why I don't think PC FPS games are as efficient as other consoles. :/. Sure, on consoles you run into people who've 10th prestige hacked and all that good stuff, but you can always find a game relativly fast, people don't have aimbots & wallhacks etc, you don't randomly get kicked from games (for the most part). If I didn't accidently kick my xbox over and break the disc (twice), I would still play it everyday.
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I'm thinking about buying a console solely for the hackers on the pc, but my televisionscreen isn't so great that I want to play games on that. And maybe I will try other game modes in the future, right now I'm a bit fed up with Modern Warfare 2.
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There are a few reasons this happens in MW2:
1. No dedicated servers. With dedicated servers clans could have their own servers, set their own rules and ban people if they were hacking. Getting hackers banned through PunkBuster would disallow their GUID from entering any servers running PB. Admins could also go to certain sites with massive blacklists of proven hackers/exploiters that could be added onto the ban-list, which kept a good number of cheaters from even being able to enter the server, even if they'd never been there before.
2. VAC. All the previous Call of Duty games used PunkBuster, which would immediately ban players when it detected them hacking. VAC is not a bad program, it just works differently. Instead of immediately banning hackers it gathers information and bans them on a mass scale. While normally this is fine since it helps to slow down the development of new hacks, when combined with no administrative control in the matches the hackers are never forced out.
3. Internal issues at Infinity Ward. This means it takes forever for them to release patches fixing exploits.
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Yup this will always be a concern for FPS games on PC. It is so easy to create and apply cheats on the PC. And, tbh, I find the FPS community to be better on consoles.
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Just don't play Modern Warfare, even without hacking I think the gameplay is bullshit.
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