Call of Duty: Modern Warfare seems to only have high highs and low lows these days, going from fun updates to game-breaking glitches. One exploit that has the professional gaming community in an uproar is actually not a new exploit at all, but a very infamous one from Modern Warfare 2 back in the day. The exploit takes advantage of the killcam function to allow players to see the enemy map, thus seeing the entire enemy team’s locations as well.
Modern Warfare can’t seem to stay out of the spotlight, for better or worse. With the recent success of the Season 4 update and the excitement of Season 5 around the corner, the game has had a lot of good going for it lately. This one negative could overshadow most of the positive, however, as pro players are rightfully upset about how something could be allowed to go on for so long.
The exploit is fairly simple in its idea. When a player is killed, they get to see the killcam and watch from the enemy’s perspective how exactly that kill happened. However, the player also has access to the rest of the enemy’s perspective, including their map. This means that, while a player is watching the killcam, they can pull up the enemy’s map and see the locations of other enemy players.
Whether players are casual or competitive, this is a big deal. A team could in theory send one person in to die over and over, constantly being aware of the enemy team and calling out their positions to teammates. To the enemy perspective, the cheating team just somehow always knows where they are. This might be how it took so long for this large of an uproar to happen.
This is dire news for the competitive community, because the biggest Call of Duty prize pool ever—totaling $4.6 million—is just around the corner. One seasoned Call of Duty player, Patrick "ACHES" Price, explained that the exploit has been in the game since the beginning. Some professionals, such as Austin "SlasheR" Liddicoat, have voiced concern about teams having taken advantage of this exploit throughout the competitive season already.
Hopefully this exploit will be fixed soon, but fans are upset that it took this long and this much professional anger for it to finally be noticed. With the recent Warzone cheater address, hopefully that means Modern Warfare will get more attention as well. The next Call of Duty entry is coming out in just a few short months, and players can only wonder what issues that one will have at release as well.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Source: Dextero