CoD: MW2 gets Dedicated Servers via Hack

K1LLSW1TCH · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:48

When I said that the community would find a way to allow dedicated servers back a couple of months ago, Link 2 Insanity and a couple of others that frequent the PC games' forum laughed at me, said I didn't know what I was on about, and that it couldn't be done.

I hope you all eat a large hat.

Kenai · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:52

K1LLSW1TCH said:
When I said that the community would find a way to allow dedicated servers back a couple of months ago, Link 2 Insanity and a couple of others that frequent the PC games' forum laughed at me, said I didn't know what I was on about, and that it couldn't be done.

I hope you all eat a large hat.

Maybe they will when it actually happens, it hasn't happened yet though.

K1LLSW1TCH · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:54

Kenai said:
Maybe they will when it actually happens, it hasn't happened yet though.

True. But it's quite clear that it's able to be done, which was the main point I made a few months back.

Dave85 · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:57

This just makes it that little bit closer though. IW need to know we wont stand for there crap.

Kenai · 16 Nov 2009 at 21:59

Well it's not 'quite clear' really is it? We have a video of someone who has unlocked the dev console and we have some snippets from in the game code that could just be legacy junk they didn't remove.

We've got a long way to go before someone manages to create the server side software (most likely by modifying the COD4 server exe i'd have thought) and that will be a lot of work for someone outside of IW to take on, never mind get the actual hosting side of it sorted out as it's yet to be seen if server hosting companies would be happy to run servers based on a third party platform that Activision will probably highly dissapprove of.

mortals · 16 Nov 2009 at 22:00

managing to hack in the developer console and enable the ability to set up dedicated servers

The hack I've seen posted around (console unlocker) is a clientside hook which will undoubtedly get picked up by VAC and people will probably be banned.

K1LLSW1TCH · 16 Nov 2009 at 22:02

Well I didn't go and visit the source or watch the video. The quote at the top of the page says that they have found the ability to enable dedicated servers.

Kenai · 16 Nov 2009 at 22:03

The quote at the top of the page is misinformed and wrong though, that's the trouble.

K1LLSW1TCH · 16 Nov 2009 at 22:07

I see. I'm sorry. I shouldn't take people's quotes from other sources with good faith anymore. Especially if they can't be bothered to check if what they are telling everyone else is true. I was under the impression that these guys have found a way to enable dedicated servers. As that's what I was being explicitly told in the first post.

Kenai · 16 Nov 2009 at 22:14

Indeed, you'd expect to be able to trust such things but in this case the article has taken a snippet of misinformation from elsewhere and embellished it and managed to make a whole article about something that's not accurate.

It would be nice if it were true but sadly someone somewhere along the line seems to have got confused about what a dedicated server actually is and has taken 'ability to modify settings' to directly mean 'dedicated server support' when it is entirely unrelated and everyone else has followed from there.

The reality is there is still no dedicated servers and any true dedicated server 'solution' is a long way off. It's all very well enabling support for the client to connect to something (but they haven't even done that as yet) but it still has to have a server running the right software to connect to, which is going to be the hard part as such a thing doesn't exist (at least outside of IWs offices, who knows what they have coded but unreleased) so it's going to have to be made from scratch or modified from a COD4 server executable I expect.

mortals · 16 Nov 2009 at 22:22

The youtube video looks like someone has hosted a game and just changed some cvars using the console. (not dedicated server)

mortals · 16 Nov 2009 at 22:26

Kenai said:
sadly someone somewhere along the line seems to have got confused about what a dedicated server actually is and has taken 'ability to modify settings' to directly mean 'dedicated server support' when it is entirely unrelated and everyone else has followed from there.

idd

quite funny that people are all over it so quickly
seems like a lot of people who boycotted MW2 for lack of dedicated servers actually don't know what a dedicated server is :rolleyes:

Fenris · 16 Nov 2009 at 23:25

OP updated with advice to look at Kenai's posts.

Pitty really, sounded promising.

Leeroy123 · 16 Nov 2009 at 23:30

awful game.

Fenris · 16 Nov 2009 at 23:35

Leeroy123 said:
awful game.

Well don't go nuts, posting a wall of text like that giving valid opinions, logical backed up by solid facts and all might confuse us peasants.

Sem · 17 Nov 2009 at 00:04

hopefully this will force IWs hand and make them create official dedicated servers

or is that wishfull thinking

im sure if they wanted they can still make dedicated servers and IWNet and force the BS DLC on us

Leeroy123 · 28 Nov 2009 at 13:03

doesnt really matter if they do or dont because the cod series is riddled with sad hackers, completely runied the games.

Deadbeat · 28 Nov 2009 at 13:20

Edit: If anyone can photoshop that pic and provide me with a version that spells 'significantly' correctly, I'll post you a cookie. 1st class recorded delivery.

~>Dg<~ · 28 Nov 2009 at 13:25

hackers big ban today supposed to be 2500+ :eek:

this mod is supposed to be out monday

hopefully might tilt iw hands to do it there self. if it works very well and shown to work well they ll loook like idiots

cant wait !

sauer · 1 Dec 2009 at 14:01

Still wait for anyone to "create" a possibillity to use dedicated servers for MW2. But I'm a bit sceptic unless Infinity participate. And there has probarly been to much principal into this for them to change path now. We'll see..

Btw, Deadbeat, would any of these work for u?