Modern Warfare 3 Game Security a Top Priority
Executive producer Mark Rubin said “One of the big things we’ve changed is the ability to alter the game post-launch. That doesn’t sound like a cool feature, it sounds simple – it’s like ‘why can’t you just release patches?’ Well, games don’t work that way – you can patch some things, but for others, it’s a significant deal, patching is not broad enough to do everything in the game, So one behind-the-scenes feature allows us to update files, sometimes without even doing a full patch – we can just tweak things like weapon balance, which we could never do before. In the past, we’d put out a game and realize, ‘hmm, that’s weapon’s really over-powered’ but there was nothing we could do about it.
“With twenty million people playing the game, you learn more in the ten minutes after release than you do in months of pre-launch playtesting. So that tech feature was a big thing for us.”
He also talked about fighting back against hackers and cheaters who ruin the game for everyone else to the point they deserve to be stripped of their human rights. “Security was a big problem in previous games, so we’ve done a whole lot on that to create what we hope is a much more secure game. Part of that is learning from Treyarch’s work on Black Ops and being pro-active and aggressive on banning, watching the leader boards, looking for cheaters.”
Being able to tweak things remotely without a patch has several upsides. If a weapon is far too unbalanced, it can be changed on the fly and affect everyone right away, making it easy to keep the details in check. Having to download a huge patch in order to rebalance a few weapons is incredibly annoying and one of the reasons I quit League of Legends. It does not take a 60mb patch to nerf Vayne.
Preparation like this saves time for both developers and the gamers, resulting in an all-round better experience. Modern Warfare 2 was given masses of criticism from gamers and reviewers for the massive amounts of cheating and the time it took to correct the errors.
http://igxpro.net/2011/09/12/modern-warfare-3-allows-updates-without-patches-sorcery/169656
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NaturallyHatedPosted:
-MSR- really, you're gonna focus all your energy on blocking mods even though it will still be modded... If Infinity Ward actually had SMART people they could just patch mods and glitches within 1-5 days (depending).
Focus on what we want, A BETTER GAME, patching mods and glitches 24/7 isn't gonna make it better, for some it makes it worse. damn you think you'd learn your lesson from TreyArch on Black Ops.
Don't complain because they are trying to make it mod free being as that is what the majority of players want. Sure, we want to be able to mod it but there are tons of other gamers that want a clean game so don't get mad because IW and Sledgehammer are doing their jobs.
-MSR-Posted:
And as a side note, i think it's pretty cool (looking at the picture above) that they're making more radial maps instead of Side vs. Side
-MSR-Posted:
really, you're gonna focus all your energy on blocking mods even though it will still be modded... If Infinity Ward actually had SMART people they could just patch mods and glitches within 1-5 days (depending).
Focus on what we want, A BETTER GAME, patching mods and glitches 24/7 isn't gonna make it better, for some it makes it worse. damn you think you'd learn your lesson from TreyArch on Black Ops.
Focus on what we want, A BETTER GAME, patching mods and glitches 24/7 isn't gonna make it better, for some it makes it worse. damn you think you'd learn your lesson from TreyArch on Black Ops.
TheHoneyBadgerPosted:
GuyNamedBob i thought i had read this before... except it was for waw, mw2, bopsBops did a pretty good job of it
A-Fat-MudkipPosted:
" Modern Warfare 2 had it's fair share of online problems following release"
Understatement of the century.
Also has anyone seen shark's post with the new real time mod, so say it works on every cod to date and it was announced that it WILL work on MW3
Understatement of the century.
Also has anyone seen shark's post with the new real time mod, so say it works on every cod to date and it was announced that it WILL work on MW3
dvalkinPosted:
this is a wait and see i hope its true though im really looking foward to the games features
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