I wanted to play an old call of duty game to reminisce about my childhood. I tried Modern Warfare II and Black Ops, but it’s impossible. You get into a game fine, but every single game is just full of cheaters - not just cheaters with fairly benign (yet unfair) things like wall hacks, cheaters that literally change the physics of the server for all users in a completely unworkable way.

I’m not sure whether this is because of the PS3 client-hosted server model, or just poor coding from COD.

Either way, I gave up eventually. It was a brief passing thought one evening; I’m sure if I really wanted to I could figure out a way to play properly. But you can’t just put the disc in and play online, at least in my experience.

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david_allison a day ago | parent | next [-]

Worse: there's unpatched RCEs for Modern Warfare II: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10718

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HDBaseT 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Valve needs to grow a bit of a spine here.

The Call of Duty series is one of the worst offenders, effectively every game outside of the last 2 years has so many bad CVEs' and remote code exploits that even opening them on your PC is unsafe. Playing the official matchmaking on even something as recent as Black Ops 3 will have your computer compromised in minutes.

Yet they are still on the store front, they never go on sale. Black Ops 2 has been out for well over a decade and still wants full price for it on Steam & its unsafe.

Playing Call of Duty games on PC is probably the most unsafe thing you can do with your computer, outside of downloading malware itself.

Valve should delist these games from the store if they are effectively unplayable. They should ban Activision from selling new games on the store if they cannot make older titles even remotely safe. It's pure neglect, most of this stuff is fixed by the community with a few lines of code.

	▲	GJim 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not necessarily doubting what you say, however please could you provide us with a citation? The allegations you make appear quite serious.

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inigyou a day ago | parent | prev [-]

We can't really expect public multiplayer experiences to remain the same across time, but surely you can play it in a LAN style.

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