Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 Patch For Care Package Glitch

On 02.12.10, In Video Games, By AC Slater

The Xbox 360 patch for Modern Warfare 2 rolled out this morning to the cheers of many. Finally after weeks of having to deal with idiots who don’t know how to play the game, we get a fix for the unlimited care package glitches that have been plaguing the online system. The reason the patch took longer on the 360 is because while the initial patch was waiting for Microsoft approval, another version of the care package glitch was discovered so Infinity Ward pulled the patch back and updated it to include a fix for that latest glitch. So hopefully this will no longer be an issue, but you never know what people with too much time on their hands will find.

Here’s everything that the patch fixes:

  • Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades sprint speed normalized.
  • Fix for “infinite care package” exploit.
  • Sentry Guns: Improved placement detection, preventing cases of Sentry Guns inside geometry.
  • Model 1887: Bling using Akimbo and FMJ combination now has same range and damage as non-Bling Model 1887’s.
  • Fixes to prevent various XP hacks (including the prevention of negative XP)

So there you have it. Hopefully this will fix a good amount of the complaints for a while and lead to more balanced games again.

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Modern Warfare 2 Getting Yet Another Patch

On 12.21.09, In Video Games, By AC Slater

For those of you with a PS3 the newest title update for Modern Warfare 2 is already live, but those of us with an Xbox 360 will have to wait for Microsoft to put the patch through their testing (ugh). Robert Bowling aka FourZeroTwo updated his Twitter account the other day to let everyone know a little about what’s going into this latest patch.

  • Re-balancing of the 1887 Akimbo Shotguns
  • Fix for Prestige Hack
  • Fix for Private Match Glitch

For those of you that aren’t familiar with what these things mean I’ll give you a quick rundown. The 1887 Shotguns seem to have a ridiculous range and are quite powerful, especially when using them Akimbo (1 in each hand). So thankfully it looks like Infinity Ward will be re-balancing this gun so that it can’t shoot halfway across the map and maybe won’t be as powerful. I obviously don’t know exactly what they re-balanced, but anything is better than nothing I guess.

The prestige hack was a hack that allowed you to download a file off the internet and put it on a memory card (or the hard drive) and use that to somehow get your character to 10th prestige level almost instantly. It really doesn’t change the game at all other than give you some different call signs/titles and an extra class spot, but it was a problem anyways so they fixed it.

And finally the private game glitch where you could basically glitch into a private game with a bunch of other people and gain all sorts of experience points in ridiculous games (like Ground War on Rust). It was kinda fun to play one game the first time it happened to me, but like the javelin glitch it just became extremely annoying after it happened more than once.

So there you have it, hopefully MS will get it together and push this fix through the certification process so we can all go back to enjoying the game the way it was meant to be enjoyed (even though these things really don’t bother me too much, shotgun thing is a little annoying).

Update 12/22: Robert Bowling tweeted out that the patch should start going live to Xbox 360 users starting around 2 AM on 12/23.

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Modern Warfare 2 Dumping Me Into Private Games

On 12.16.09, In Video Games, By AC Slater

I ran into a problem the other day and I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this. I was in a party with a buddy of mine and we were playing Ground War. We had just finished a match and were waiting in the lobby for the next game to start when all of a sudden the screen flashed as if we had joined another game and sure enough it now said we were in a “Private Match”. The room was full of people so obviously we didn’t accidentally hit some buttons and start a private match, but that’s not all. The lobby said it was a “Private Match” and the gametype said Free-For-All, yet the map was Rust and the lobby broke us into two teams before the game even started. If you’ve ever played Rust then you know why this is so strange. The map is extremely small and to play Team Deathmatch on it would be crazy, but we weren’t just in a Team Deathmatch game we were in a Ground War game, so there were almost double the amount of people and since the gametype said “Free-For-All”, despite being broken up on teams, everyone was able to kill everyone else whether you were on their “team” or not. It was pretty bizarre.

I didn’t mind playing it cause it was a fun mess and it was a really fast way to level up some guns to unlock attachments, but it was still weird, especially when it came to spawning. Rust is only usually used for small Free-For-All games so there aren’t a large variety of spawn points so when you have 18 people all trying to spawn at the same few points it makes things interesting. As soon as you died and spawned if you immediately shot your gun you would get at least 1 kill of a dude that was also respawning on top of you. And in addition to that there were just people that would camp those spawn points and rack up huge numbers of kills. But like I said, it was fun and it hasn’t happened to me since so it doesn’t seem to be an on going issue although I hope Infinity Ward patches the issue in the next release, but we’ll see.

So has anyone else had this happen to them? Is there a way to reproduce these results?

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Facebook, Twitter and Last.FM on Xbox 360 – Why?

On 11.19.09, In Music, Technology, Video Games, By AC Slater

Microsoft rolled out the latest little update to the Xbox 360/Xbox Live service this week in the form of a couple applications. You can now access your Facebook, Twitter and Last.FM accounts via the Xbox 360 dashboard. Now I understand that Microsoft is trying to bring all aspects of social media onto their platform and make them easily accessible by it’s users, but why? The only one that makes any sense to have the Xbox 360 is last.FM and I think it’s great that they’ve added support for it, but what am I going to do with Facebook and Twitter on my Xbox?

To be perfectly honest I have not tried out the Last.FM application yet, but just in theory alone it sounds like a perfect match for the 360. It gives you the ability to stream all sorts of music through your TV. Last.FM is a great service that I use on my computer all the time and I think people will use it quite a bit when entertaining guests, etc. However, Facebook and Twitter seem absolutely pointless to use on the 360. Both applications are extremely basic and I can’t see myself ever using them again. I installed them the other day just to test out and see what sort of features they were offering, maybe Twitter would tweet out what game I was playing or what achievement I just received or maybe Facebook would update my status with the same information, but as far as I can tell they don’t do anything really.

The Twitter application is about as basic as you can get, picture what the Twitter.com homepage was when it first started out. It’s basically the updates from all of the people you are following and then a box where you can enter what you are doing, oh and you can access the Twitter trends. That’s it. I don’t know about most people, but I follow a lot of random people that I don’t always want to read about which is why I like TweetDeck and it’s ability to separate people into different groups for easier reading, not so much here. It’s just one long list of updates from all of the people you follow and it only fits about 10 updates per screen. I don’t know, maybe there was a demand for this, but I personally think it’s pointless and will never take the time to log back into it ever again.

Now let’s talk about Facebook. Again, why on the Xbox 360? It makes no sense! The interface is clumsy, it uses the same tile structure that the dashboard itself uses and it barely displays anything on the screen at one time. Maybe I didn’t dive into it enough, but from what I gathered in the few minutes I played around with it, I will never be logging in to it again unless it can do something like show me my Facebook friends that also have Xbox Live and what their gamertag is or something. I know it asked me when I logged in for the first time if I wanted to display my gamertag somewhere within Facebook, I said yes, but I have no idea where it’s displaying it. Maybe this is a feature and I just didn’t take the time to find it, or maybe my friends have the same feelings as me and find Facebook on the Xbox pointless and didn’t even bother logging in.

So are people actually using the Xbox 360 for Facebook and Twitter? I don’t know how many people have a keyboard or the chatpad hooked up to their 360 (not me), but it takes a damn long time to type anything using the on screen keyboard even if it is only 140 characters. So I don’t know, are you guys using this? Did you try it out at least? Am I missing the point of all this? Do the apps have the ability to update my Twitter with games I’m playing? Someone please tell me what I’m missing here, why would Microsoft waste their time doing this?

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Apple iPhone 3.0 Announcements

On 03.17.09, In Technology, By AC Slater

So what did Apple announce today regarding the iPhone 3.0 software??? Pretty much everything that people were asking for. And to be honest, the people that were asking for video or background applications don’t understand the limitations of the current hardware. For the video stuff, sure video can be done with the iPhone, there are plenty of applications available to those of us that Jailbreak our phones, but the camera is really not meant for video, therefore to make this actually supported Apple would have to update the camera in the phones, which is a hardware issue, not a software issue. And as far as background applications, they’ve already explained many times in the past that running applications in the background would severely drain the battery life of the phone. And with a lot of people already complaining about battery life on the phone anyways, adding another power drain would not be wise, but this also leads me into what WAS announced (after the jump).

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