Infinity Ward decided to take a step back to familiar territory with the PC release of Modern Warfare 3 — forgoing its in-house IWnet system in favor of dedicated servers, a move Call of Duty community chief Robert Bowling says was prompted by fan feedback. In a recent interview, Bowling discussed the shortcomings of IWnet, and why it failed to succeed.
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Players are using hacks to gain an advantage in the game, such as aimbots and wall hacks. The first gives a player superhuman aiming abilities, while a wall hack lets you see through walls to gauge where other players are.
“These hacks are typically used by PC players, but those playing on PC via Xbox Game Pass are identified as Xbox players in multiplayer lobbies.”
This is pretty dumb to say the least.
Don't Gamepass online games have anti-cheat systems?
If not, that's pretty dumb. Microsoft need to fix that asap.
I mean, COD games was always filled with hackers, nothing new. I can’t blame MS on this. Activision had years to try and fix this. Might take MS some time to make some change.
The Yokai's Wrath bundle was released despite previous guarantees by Activision that A.I. would not be used for final assets, per the report. Instead, Activision assured developers it was simply for internal concepts. That, of course, was not followed through. For what it's worth, per the PlayStation Store, 2,400 COD Points cost $19.99, meaning players potentially spent real-life money on a skin that was not created by an actual human.
As far as A.I. use goes across Activision, a source told Wired that 2D artists are utilizing A.I. to aid their work. That is a result of mass layoffs, in which many 2D artists were impacted. “A lot of 2D artists were laid off,” the source named Noah said. “Remaining concept artists were then forced to use A.I. to aid in their work.” Mandatory A.I. trainings have been implemented, according to Noah.
Activision. And MS. They will ruin console gaming forever.
Oh and where the FRIGGIN outrage people? When Sony makes a remaster of a masterpiece single player story driven game, they get roasted. But this, this, goes unnoticed? Then don’t complain that you aren’t getting enough single player story games.
"The Yokai's Wrath bundle was released despite previous guarantees by Activision that A.I. would not be used for final assets, per the report."
We're talking concept art? Because as of right now there's no way to generate a final 3D model with final textures. So the final assets don't use AI. That's not to say that it sucks for 2D artist that it's easier to generate visual ideas and build from them leading to less 2D artists needed (really sucks), but are they say the final concept art was completely AI generated and then 3D artists built from that? And yes, I'll pile on that Activision as a publisher and their developers I have experience with suck and they'll do whatever, ethics be damned.
Wow I can just imagine the likes of Activision, EA and Ubi etc having an army of AIs creating overpriced crap and the fanboys just lapping it up. I hope the AIs have a good union.
I understand why people think it’s good idea to Unionize to fight back against such things but it’s not. It’s a bad idea. It’s activisions wet dream to have these pumped out weekly by some AI. Protect your neck!
I keep thinking of that old saying: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." In other words, I'll believe it when I see it. Using the same old engine and not taking advantage of PC's graphical strength is not a good start. Dedicated servers are great, but not if the map sizes and player counts are small because of console limitations (18 players on PC is not taking advantage of that platform). Take a look at DICE's work and see how to cater to both crowds without "gimping" out the PC version. Then, I might buy another COD game.
hmmm...i have faith in IW!!
i am looking forward to the game...
They gotta have Dedicated Servers and Admins for the PC. This is not a PC feature but more like a standard PC must have!
Steam is cool along with VAC but Dedicated servers and Admins are the best anti-cheat system there is. Hackers and Cheats do not last long when you have an Admin flaiming your screen with......
5.4.3.2.1 bye bye Haxor!!..........disconnected from server!......lol
"community chief Robert Bowling says was prompted by fan feedback"
Even though when they announced it literally every PC player was complaining about it. But now that they realise that nobody likes it then its "oh yeah we listen to the fans"
Sorry not buying this crap anymore, and neither are any of my friends...ragequit haha