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," said Rubin speaking to The Guardian. Security was a big problem in previous games," continued Rubin, "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. 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 realise, 'hmm, that's weapon's really over-powered' but there was nothing we could do about it.

I think this was already posted, I remember making a post saying Black Ops already had this.

You already posted this, this is just re-written...

Nothing new, they did this with MW2 too.
It was called a playlist update I believe, we didnt need to install any patches..

:carling: Wel well well, I guess iI have to play offline then to play with glitches :fa:


The developers of Modern Warfare 3, Infinity Ward & Sledgehammer Games that is. Have implanted a system that manually allows them to update and tweak the game with updates that doesn't require user(s) to download any patches. Let's take Modern Warfare 2 for example (COD6), I think we can all agree the gun named UMP-45 was the most overpowered gun in the game. They weren't able to tweak the gun power on that gun nor any others that they urged to without having send out a new game release. With this new implantation Modern Warfare 3 developers are able to do just that. Among a variety of other things.




Seems like they're doing whatever possible to make consumers happy. Do you think this is for the better? I mean obviously it is due to the fact they're able to tweak weapon power whenever they want and release update's, fix bugs, glitches and alot more without consumers having to download a patch.