WARNING: Modern Warfare Remastered is potentially unsafe. ruclips.net/video/ady5xtErQKo/видео.html With the recent announcement of the H2M mod, population on the game has grown a lot, I have seen multiple posts of players claiming to have been loaded into a map called "get rce'd by meow" before their game crashed. It is not known if there was actually any RCE involved, or if it is only a scare tactic. Either way, I wouldn't recommend anyone play on MWR's official servers. Use a client called H1, or wait until friday to play on H2M's client. Stay safe!
@@lollipopomg thanks for the update , also this is off topic but I haven’t really seen anyone talk about it and maybe you know something, but will we be able to play with friends and invite them to our party ? Or will we have to just time it and choose the same server to play on ?
@@imanrebornpro Not sure about that, I know Plutonium has a friend list feature and H1 has a private match option, maybe this client will have those as well but nothing confirmed by the devs as far as I know
@lollipopomg The problem is people and their networks are ie ip address and PC's are very exploitable because few take the time to do their own due diligence and protect themselves. For example if I'm going to make an online purchase with it be for a physical product or Software (new game or subscription service) I use either a Giftcard or reloadable card that is in no way tied directly to my identity. This limits the risk of me being exploited as does having a trusted VPN and a separate IP for entertainment purposes, yes it's a little more money but at the end of the day it closes any exploitable points of access. This is all information that's literally been around for decades, the fact people are not cognizant of it speaks more to their own ignorance than anything else. There are few games I play online anymore because the developers and publishers leave so many exploitable options available to those few who are both skilled and looking to make a Fianacial gain off of anyone and everyone.
@@lollipopomg lol wait i wouldnt say that too soon, cs like why did the other client uh sm2 i think it was get taken down? (or was that cs they didnt use the game key verification method which activision wants?)
@@moneybilla The popular theory as to why most clients got shutdown by activision is that they were allowing pirated versions of the game to be played on their clients and also all the supply drops contents (such as Advanced Warfare) were unlocked for free. Plutonium now requires a steam key to allow players to play and other than the bo2 dlc camos, doesn't have any dlc for free.
@@lollipopomgYou can still use pirate versions on Plutonium. I think they will lose a good chunk of their player base if they start forcing steam keys. It is sad how old CODs on pc will be dead unless Microsoft starts forcing them to patch the games. I will not be paying money on overprice hacked games and dlc. Bo1 multiplayer plutonium is dead. I might buy a Xbox when it drops down.
@@lollipopomgit didn't help that other clients had download links to cracked versions of the game, along with written guides on how to get the game for free.
For BO3 on PC, if you are playing solo, then you need to play offline. Click steam in the top left and click go offline. If you play multiplayer zombies, you need the T7 patch by serious. Also check off friends only and make a password. Pick a custom name as well for fun. All your friends need to have it too. I know he mentioned this in the video but this is for people who didn't listen initially.
@@mrglobster don't know, but to be super safe i played bo3 on PS4 without internet I Heard that just by connecting to bo3 servers you could get hacked (don't know if Is true or not)
Was playing PC BO2 Multiplayer with a friend, probably about 4 years ago now. The match we were in was fine, no apparent hackers. Then all of the sudden, my browser opened with about 20 tabs of adult websites. The players in my lobby started talking about same thing happening to them. It didn't happen to my buddy, but it's safe to say I'm never touching that game again.
@@OldSchoolOverload That's really great information for precisely nobody at the moment. The games rarely if ever go on sale, as I stated. You can look up the historic prices of the games and how they rarely if ever fluctuate.
I know it would be a bad PR move but they really should add disclaimers to these games bc they rarely go on sale and nobody wants to spend like $70 and pay for microtransactions just to get hacked
Dude they always go on sale on pc. Which are the main ones with RCE. They need to go on sale more on Xbox and PlayStation though, cuz bo2 on Xbox has wild modded lobbies (though it’s usually kinda funny depending if the modder’s malicious or just dicking around)
exactly this, i mean false bans on old accounts and consoles that they probably wont do anything about to make right, full on malaware injecting pcs? this should fall under a giant fucking lawsuit but they pump out cods so often these games probably lost "support" for them a year after release, they def do some loophole bs to not be held liable
they are selling an active security risk, you could sue, but they will drag it out so long until you run out of money. and us congress wont give 2 shits about 10 year old games. dunno how the eu is still allowing the sale
I have some of the older CoDs for my Xbox 360 and on the back of the case there is a warning that reads : "Activision makes no guarantees regarding the availability of online play and may modify or discontinue online service in its discretion without notice, including for example, ceasing online service for economic reasons due to a limited number of players continuing to make use of the service over time."
Call of Duty is not malware so it's not illegal to distribute. Vulnerable software is not illegal to distribute. When software reaches EOL then you use at your own risk.
@@WolfRaven-jm1cm These games are sold in the store under the pretense that they feature a single player, "network capable" multiplayer (2-18 players). But the multiplier either doesn't work or is compromised and poses a risk to the consumer. The game is still being negligently sold under false pretenses, tricking uninformed consumers who trust that their purchase will perform as advertised. Imagine if the single player didn't work and was sold under the pretense that it did? Multiplayer is no different and this IS illegal.
@@MagnumTriumph All software can be compromised and all software can have vulnerabilities. All devices that connect to the internet are susceptible to hacking. If you are purchasing a product without doing proper research about that product that is on you. They have no legal obligations to tell you what you should already know.
@@WolfRaven-jm1cm Unless it can be proven that these games are intentionally neglected in order to cause harm to the consumer for financial gain by driving up sales of their latest title. It's different from planned obsolescence. It is insidious and there is definitely a case against them. Activision has enough money to get away with murder, but murder is still illegal
@@Von009 The real reason was the game was outsourced to Treyarch for consoles. CoD2 "big red one" (Treyarch) was not the same game as CoD2 (spin off). CoD2 was originally a PC build and only got ported to x360. CoD4 came back to PC because infinity ward was developing it.
After watching this video, which was randomly recommended to me, I went down a rabbit hole researching how all the old games' servers have been compromised. I came across a Reddit comment that sounded all too familiar, and to my surprise it was from you. A really interesting video. I didn't know all the old cod games in my Steam library were nuclear bombs waiting to go off. I'm glad I watched this video. I also hope the posters I came across on Steam and Reddit are still safe after commenters told them the games were safe and that they didn't get their credit card info nicked. What a scary state all the old cod games have been and still are in.
@@coverest1540 Glad I could inform! I wish more commenters on these forums would help the posters, or at least not say that it's safe without knowing anything about it. I'm happy this video has helped spread awareness!
Shouldn't that be a red flag to you though? You've just confirmed this guy's claims with this guy's own claims. Variety in sources matters way more than quantity.
I'm a cybersecurity major and I think it's complete and utter BS what some of what lolipopomg is saying. He's saying people can essentially control your PC through call of duty servers. If it was that easy we would be seeing reports of this every day and hackers would be flooding in to do this. I played bo3 zombies recently in public matches unprotected right after everyone started saying bo3 servers were hacked to my lack of surprise, I was met with not only a safe lobby, but a lobby full of legit players. That's not to say you won't find cheaters, but do your own research before you let these big RUclipsrs scare you. I've seen no solid proven evidence that players can install rootkits onto your machine through Call of Duty servers. If it was this easy, you would be seeing it a lot more often rather than people saying "Oh yeah it's a risk because it can happen"
I fully agree, also would like to add that GTA 5 is also atrocious for borderline being malware with the amount of exploits being a p2p game; that bad actors CAN ddos you if they want. Also, there was a rumour Team Fortress 2 had an RCE because the source code of an older version got leaked so there is that. I’m sure there are more games on steam that are old and are risky to play online but I don’t play a large variety of games.
@@rvgrrockstar gets absolutely cucked by their hackers. there was one going around where you would get the free garage by the airport, spawn in any car you want (like fivem, but in gta online), type in some other command that would trick the game into thinking you owned the vehicle. i got a bunch of cars that were removed from gta online stores (the voltic mainly), but you could essentially spawn in cars and spam sell them at the car shop. i wanna say they stopped allowing expensive cars to be sold to counter this, which is a fucking sad cope in my opinion. the text chat commands allowed you to do other things, but the modders didnt share as much about that, it seemed like their main jive was getting people free cars. as annoying as they can be, ive had the best experiences with gta hackers for whatever reason. most of the time they just set up ridiculous shit and games for the whole lobby.
It's worth noting as i feel you kinda described RCE as a prank used on streamers. Truth is to a bad actor, RCE is the holy grail of exploits and can be automatically exploited on mass to harvest credentials, payment methods, personal files, etc. Please don't think "I'm just some rando, no one will target me." Remember people use fishing nets, not spears, when it comes to this sort of thing. The internet may be big, but if you think you're not a target, chances are you've already been scooped up in a net.
@@aprilwarren5511 Absolutely. I expand on that later in the video but yes, RCE is very dangerous and is the reason why I even bothered making this video to begin with. I'm hoping this video helps players realize they shouldn't connect to these servers whatsoever
It's a shame they keep the old games the same price as new games and offer no support to force players to buy the newer titles. If MW2/3 and Bo1/2 were safe and working, nobody would play newer COD titles.
@@lollipopomg I should ask; there's a mod for the first Black Ops known simply as "game.mod" that, among other things, adds a mod manager to load other mods through. It's launched from a separate .bat file. Would you have any way of knowing if the game is still safe to play or not through game.mod?
Black Ops 3 on PC is dangerous again even with the patch which is why players suggest the T7 patch for zombies and like a client or something for Multiplayer. Unfortunately, BO3 on consoles is considered unsafe too where even in private/invite only servers, hackers can still get in and mess with your game and in worse case situations, your account (ex: PSN) gets hacked too. Only safest way to play BO3 on console is campaign on offline only and the only rumored safest way to play online is with the Xbox One version of the game.
@@lollipopomg It's at 40k now, and thank you for this video. I've been wondering which ones are safe, and the hacking and malware are a growing problem for older games that must be stopped.
Dedicated servers might be more secure but man does it become aggravating when a game servers get shut down and you just can't play with your friends anymore
@@THEBUGSAREBACCCCKKKKKKKKKK haven't encountered that, but I know WaW tends to crash out on synchronizing players for zombies. If the reboot to try again wasn't so quick, game would be dead for my buds and I
@@THEBUGSAREBACCCCKKKKKKKKKKMW3 Dedicated Servers got taken down by Activision like a year or many months ago, I can't tell when 'cause it was a silent take down. Kinda sucks 'cause the Matchmaking in MW3 was broken and you could sit there for 20 minutes even until you find a match. Sometimes you were lucky and it didn't take long, but when it did take too long you could play on one of the dedicated servers. It was the only way to play Infected too as the Normal Matchmaking version was dead. MW3 Multiplayer just seems dead now. I remember in 2021 and before, if you had all the DLC Maps you could find full matches almost all the time and it wouldn't take long to find one. But now that ain't the case no more. It may not be entirely dead though, as I said the Matchmaking is broken so the less players the more that's exacerbated.
I play bo1 zombies and campaign every once in a while,never knew the cod games were so compromised.Thanks for the video man, I won't be playing the vanilla cod games anymore lol
this is the sad part about yearly release video game franchises, once a game is in the past, all support is dropped, so even though we love black ops 1 and 2, we can't safely play them anymore and even if it's safe you still can't get that experience back because it's just full of cheaters
Here a funny story from Ps3: Was playing on my Jailbreak Ps3, trickshotting on Modern warfare 2 in a private game thinking nothing bad then suddently i get a message like you would get when you got a trophy but it said my IP adress and my heard sunk to the bottom lol, i didnt know at this point that some guy could remote control my Ps3. He sended me custom messages, turned my ps3 off, added himself on my friendlist and joined my game. But im glad he didnt do any damage like stealing my Console ID, Mod Menus keys or even breaking my console which he could have done because he could browse the entire file system on my ps3 and delete or add what he wanted. It was caused by a application called webMAN which is still very famous but at that time if you turned FTP Server on and someone knew your ip he could connect to your console with many different tools. It fixed now since many years.
A few years back, I think 2021, my buddy Chris and I were nostalgic about older CoDs and were playing a few of them, a big one being bo2. We'd get into occasional voice chat banter reminiscent of xbox live days, but it was never the same, 95% of people using text chat. One day, he was trash talking one of the opponents and he responds with "keep talking, see what happens." Following this, this player somehow got access to his PC and booted him out of the game, proceeding to fuck around with his desktop. I have the recording on my old PC I think, but shit was wild. Ever since then, we rarely use voice chat or even play on the older CoDs.
My brother was once streaming Zetsubo for fun. He was on the last step of the Easter Egg, and some loser decided to hack into his game and crash it on some of the last steps
@@KamikazeCommie501or they was already there and they seen what he was doing and did it. no one going after your money would do that. but a disgruntled cheater would. you did something obviously that's how I've been ddos'd about 20 times in my 16 years of playing cod online. got to outsmart them if there doing things like that and never accept friend requests from people you know. that's how they get into your system
What a shame that some of the best selling and most loved games of all time are literally abandonware by activision becuase even the most minimal amount of support for these old games means nobody would play the new ones. What wouldn’t give for QOL and support updates/dedicated servers for blops 2, mw3, mw2. No need to buy any new games, I would rebuy all these games if they put even the most minimal amount of work into them. Fuck I’d pay $59 each if the would do this and keep hackers off. No need to invest in making new games, we would literally rebuy these games.
Having just recently purchased BO3 for custom zombies, this video became a goddamn suspensful horror movie for a bit. Playing it safe and doing solo zombies only, though that's what i usually do anyway. Never liked zombies multiplayer.
@@lollipopomg Does it fix the samantha glitch that makes your guns/money disappear? If so, downloading it. Been trying to find a fix for it for ages.. Happens at the worst possible times i swear!
@@Udhdvdhdjiwisjshzjfjfbdududjd I don't think it does, sadly. It mostly fixes performance and stutters in the main menu as well as protecting you from remote crashing or disconnecting
I’ve posted about this on Reddit multiple times but my copy of call of duty tries to connect to a server that Malwarebytes blocks for Trojan . A few random people tell me this is normal. I’m still very suspicious.
Definitely not normal, which game is it? If it's MW2 or BO2 I wouldn't be surprised if the servers upsets your AV since these severs most likely have malware or have had malware in the past.
@@laurenwright5540 Interesting, yeah I think I've seen posts a while ago that mentionned AV triggering on the newest COD. Probably a false positive then, to be honest. I'm surprised it's still a thing to this day, there must be a reason why Malwarebytes hasn't added it to their false positives list.
@laurenwright5540 It's a garage game and not worth playing anyways. It's more of a casino than a game, everything is rigged, there's no such thing as skill anymore.
I know you probably titled this the way you did to get it into the algorithm and all that, but if you could at least add that this is a full guide/resource for playing CoD on PC in the description, that would be greatly appreciated. I think it's important for this overview to be easily searchable for the masses in the years to come.
For sure! I didn't expect the video to get this much attention to be honest, I'll definitely be updating the description with written guides and more information/corrections as soon as I can
Current title's fine; CoD publishers could make all of these methods redundant in a heartbeat. The masses will, simply, stop playing this shit franchise in the future, and probably switch to an indie clone with an INFINITELY more competent team behind it.
RCE is being used on PS3 for a few years on mw2. Several days ago I heard some guy was bricking consoles with it. Only way to counter this is having a flasher on your ps3 at all times. Unbrick the console within minutes.
i actually knew the guy that invented infections in bo2. I told him that he destroyed the game but it was never his intention but still. a bit out of context i know
@@lollipopomg i was in the ps3 modding scene. its pretty fucked up. especially mw2 and mw3 there even were some tools that could actually destroy the console by overheating it
I remember back in the day when MW2 (2009) on PC was still popular (2011-2012ish) you had to make your config files and save data read only (and disable steam cloud saves) so that changes made in game wouldn't be permanent. Cause they would mess with your rank, graphics settings, classes, and even somehow mess with the steam first run dependencies so you would get crashed and have to verify files and redownload all the VS and C++ redistributables to be able to relaunch the game (and this was 12 years ago i bet none of them have been patched).
Call of duty 4 (2007) does have an RCE exploit on all versions up to 1.7, hence why the community patch (cod4x / 1.8) exists. Vanilla MW2 is VERY dangerous, Multiple RCE exploits. If you were to play MW2 install IW4X/Alterware. I know the devs of IW4X/Alterware and they are a very passionate and dedicated group who work pretty much around the clock to keep it in a safe and playable state. And it's pretty much the same story for plutonium.
In my experience, I found CoD 4 on the 360 to be quite safe. Never ran into any hackers at all. I’m sure I’ve just been very lucky, but compared to games like MW2 and BO2, I’ve had no issues with CoD 4.
your name does sound familiar considering I mained cod4 au servers for the peak just adding to this though, there was also an exploit where server owners could steal the cd keys from people who joined their server, it was done by hiding the killfeed for all players, setting their name to each part of their cdkey cvar and then recording those name changes back on the server.
It's so funny to me: CoD multiplayer games with server browsers are way safer than the ones with a matchmaking, once again proving that a server browser is way better to play online than a matchmaking.
I bet you got every single covid vax you were told to get, huh? You need to understand statistics and probabilities. I'm tired of good things being ruined by low IQ people.
Well.. I'm just really glad that we don't live in a world where Activision gives out "cease and desist" letters to the modders who makes the community patches or dedicated servers..
I remember playing cod4, on a ps3, a couple of years ago, there was a hacker in game, on the opposing team, yet we were still winning like 2 matches in a row and on the 3rd match, it was on Wet work, he teleported to the highest point of the map, he was kinda trash tbh but he started spamming the chat with: "GO AHEAD, LEAVE I DARE YOU", pretty much none of the people in lobby left, I don't know what happened to the other people I was with but I was deranked to negative stats, to the point that even the matchmaking feature was unavailble to me
And people used to call me crazy when I told them COD was super unsafe for PC, many hacks for MW2019 were easily ported to the latest games... and of course old ones have their known exploits awesome video.
my pc got hacked last february while playing bo2 multiplayer. i just got disconnected mid game from the servers and then i saw on my 2nd monitor that a new chrome tab was opened. i turned of my psu and restarted my lan router. after a few days i reinstalled windows and never came back to bo2 anymore
P2P isn't oldschool, dedicated servers are. Which doesn't mean they're save. Last I played CoD4 on PC, it was filled with redirect servers that used RCE (buffer overflow in the general packet handler) to install iw3x or some variant thereof. Like, launches the installer. They fixed this bug accidentally in IW4 because the compiler chain now marks stack memory as non-executable by default.
From the comments I've seen, COD4 is a lot more dangerous than I initially thought in the video, thanks for your input! Spreading awareness is ultimately the goal here and your response contributes a ton to help
@@lollipopomg you're actually spreading misinformation really. Been playing cod 4 since release on PC and the game is fine. The redirect servers install the latest patch. Please watch mike rxqe's video on this because you're going to turn people away from playing old school PC cod games. Most people play cod 1 v1.1 anyways, not the steam version (1.5). Not because of "safety", but because people want to bunnyhop. CoD 2 is fine. Every server basically installs the latest patch as thats what they're running.
@@christiansmemefactory1513 even if those servers install a non-malicious community patch, that's someone doing RCE on your computer, and completely unacceptable.
@@christiansmemefactory1513 I'm not claiming the video is perfect, I even mention that some information could be wrong, especially before talking about COD4. However, no one else has done a video like this and lots of people are not aware at all about any of this, I apologize if my research on COD4 was inconclusive. I'd rather say something and get some things wrong than not, but I'm glad comments like yours can correct my mistakes and inform people better
Honestly I am so sad I can’t play the older CoD games online without potentially getting hacked. Really sad because BO3 looks fun and I missed out on that game when it was released.
I find it pretty messed up that players need to rely on the community to fix games that the publisher still makes new players pay full price (in many instances) for. If the publisher thinks the game is too old to be worth patching and maintaining themselves, they shouldn’t still not be charging anything for it.
rce/rat is HUGE problem for the cod pc games. they could steal banking data off your browser and drain your accounts. sure, it's unlikely, but launching software with known rce vuln is something you should never do.
This really puts into perspective why we shouldn't be buying Cod anymore. Like, at all. Everyone says it's unsafe, play offline, get a client, whatever, but I don't think many of us knew just how BAD it really was. I already stopped buying Cod for personal reasons, but idk how you can buy a game from Activision knowing that this exists. I feel uncomfortable owning their products now.
@@lollipopomg Cold War was the last I bought too. I didn't get 2019 and skipped a few along the way, but I used to be THE guy who bought it every year, lol. Ever since MW2 OG. It took a lot to quit since playing the games basically became 2nd nature, but I have 0 intentions going back. After seeing this video, I have negative intentions.
Happened to me in Black Ops 1 back in 2013 in Xbox 360. I played a team tactical game. And randomly nova gas was all over the level, giving me minus points which de-ranked me. (Obviously a hacker in the game) so I left. Then I was shocked to see I had -4 billion cod points. Or whatever the currency was to purchase stuff. I shut the game off thinking that would fix it. But then as I tried to load multiplayer, there was an error saying I couldn’t connect back to the game. And that account is still like that to this day. Can never get back into the game. Luckily I have two accounts & used the other one. But just sucked at the time.
Yeah the COD4 info provided is a mixed bag. COD4 (2007) most servers are on 1.8X or "COD4x" a community patch with features to stop cheaters. Generally Safe unless you join a suspicious server. COD4(Remasters): Do not play the steam version it does have a live RCE currently being exploited. The H1-Client fixes this and adds dedicated servers. W@W: Generally safe the Pluto client exists due to steam running out of game keys so if you buy the game you can't play online only singeplayer. Interesting that for both COD4 and W@W you suggest playing offline when the SP/MP are seperate EXE's and W@W can only host co-op/zombies servers with the port forwarded. Ah just seen pinned comments oh well.
A buffer overflow overwrites information in the memory and when the program reaches the point of the overwritten code then the CPU executes it. The code is overwritten in your system's memory and a clever person could execute commands to write a self-executable file into your hard drive that executes at startup without ever making the game crash.
When I was like 12, I joined a modded WaW zombies lobby on 360. The dude somehow set my level to 0, and the game requires level 1 for online play, which effectively banned me from multiplayer. Shit sucks.
honestly how is this not a lawsuit for activison? they are lucky that they pump out cods so often that games like bo3 and bo2 are "old" now beacause if they werent considered old this def wouldnt be a thing that would be happening, i mean pcs getting infected to accounts getting injected with mods and false banned which im sure activison cares about so so much! (they probably wont even respond to a ticket you make about it) thank god they are trying to take down plutonium though! those are the real hackers! and the real bad guys allowing us to do what we want on our childhood games that we pumped 100s into year after year. Cant change a shitty studio but you can sure as hell change their product
this was a big issue in minecraft back in the day on servers. you joined the servers and in a few seconds the owner could have a rat/ random trojan installed on the persons computer with them having no way to defend themself.
Dedicated servers are bad for games preservation. P2P connectivity means the game can still be played online long after the developer has moved on. I would push for a P2P option in EVERY game.
While I agree that most games are fine to play in P2P and even preserve them (such as L4D2) maybe I didn't explain it as good as I could have in the video, however in the case of call of duty, the security just isn't there for P2P to be viable. If a game has P2P as the only option in the long run, it should be somewhat secure to play in my opinion. But yeah, games like BO4 will eventually shut down the servers and that is a shame.
@@lollipopomg There are safe ways to play games over P2P. Firewalls, VPNs, virtual machines, immutable operating systems... There is no excuse to put an expiration date on a game.
@@ErdrickHeroThat's fair. I would still say that the store page should specify the risks of playing without those protections in place so that the casual gamer who buys a call of duty game for 60 bucks doesn't get hacked for not knowing any better.
Thats simply not true. Dedicated servers you or i could host were first and is arguably better for game preservation. Like quake css or cs1.6 etc what you might be refering to is matchmaking servers which is different and also sometimes combined with either p2p or servers the devs own.
Infinity Ward was allegedly cought once on sending cheaters to play in games with streamers to ruin their game, and discourage people from playing older titles to make people buy their new games. It was in MW2019 or Warzone. Recently they made a sale for Remastered COD before the release of the MW2R multiplayer mod, which was needed to launch the mod, just to send C&D on the modders 12h before the announced lanuch. Sources in the company say, they were scared about impact on BO6 sales. They gain profit from the broken state of their older games, so they can sell more of newer ones. I wouldn't be surprised if they were staying behind some of the exploits in the community. Even their prices for old titles are so ridiculously high that they dont want you to play them.
A few months ago I wanted to go back and replay the nostalgic campaigns from Cod4 MW up to MW3. I did not touch multiplayer what so ever but I also didn't know that all it took was to launch the game to potentially get malware. Hope I didn't fuck something up but I will go an delete them most likely. Sucks that my favorite cods are now dangerous to have fun on:(. Thanks for the video and info.
I remember playing CoD WaW almost a decade ago (I think) on my PS3. A modder joined the game, killed a player, the game ended and I lost about a quadrillion XP, locking me out of Multiplayer and creating classes as well. Such a shame, I really enjoyed WaW.
I play CoD4 on PC through this version of the game called CoD4x, it seems pretty safe so far, and I also play MW2 2009 through IW4X and that seems pretty safe as well. Those are my two favorite CoDs from back in the day, and other than some other options through Plutonium, I'm staying away from CoD and not supporting Activision by purchasing Blops 6 since they screwed everyone over recently with that MW2 remaster mod...
I got RCE'd/ratted by Activision because they failed to upgrade their servers. This gave hackers full ability of my computer and all my photos were deleted and info. I didn't know about this, and they gladly charge costumers $60 for black ops 2 on steam. Any game between 2007-2015. Disgusting I can't seem to get reimbursed, and they know it's an issue. They patched the privacy with a half ass patch a bit ago that doesn't work and never solved the issue. I'm beyond infuriated because I was not aware of any of this at purchase
Fun fact: through the main menu of the game when launching the "zombies" client for Plutonium BO1, you can play though the ENTIRE campaign EXCEPT for the last mission which breaks in the underwater section.
with the h2m mod for mwr on PC ive heard rumors that people have started making Rce's for that game because of the player base and big youtubers/streamers that may be playing right now. I was playing yesterday and left my pc on at night and came back to it shutdown which has never happened when i have left it on, that wasnt too weird but then my mwr would not launch until i fully reinstalled with revo uninstaller. I dont know if they corrupted my files but it seemed the same as when i got rce'd on bo3
I wouldn't be surprised. I checked the forums today to see if I could find anything about it since there's a playerbase currently, I have seen one post claiming that a cheater loaded up a map in their lobby called "get rce'd" and their game crashed afterwards
I've actually had my profile wiped a few times playing BO2 on Plutonium. Not a huge deal since it was rare. It's the way that on certain servers mods are installed to your game without even asking you, that makes it irritating. Track down and delete all those installed mods, and you're golden. Last I tried to play, everything was fine when I logged out. Logged back in, and boom.. wiped. That killed it for me. I was like prestige 4, lvl 44, with a bunch of diamond classes. I was just done. Yeah you can just unlock everything and play out the gate.. but that kinda ruins a lot of the fun of the game.
I didn’t know that BO1and BO2 were taking over by hackers. They probably have my info already. They really need to remove all the old cod games from steam.
MW2, BO, MW3, BO2 are the most dangerous games on steam. Every game has low player count, 1/4-1/2 of all games have an obvious hacker, people ask for your personal info. Best if steam removed older cod multiplayer.
This kind of stuff is kind of why I wish Activision would enable Proton support in their games, because at least under the context of running the games on Proton on Steam, RCE exploits would probably be less likely to screw up your entire system considering each prefix counts as a "Windows install" and that's fairly isolated outside of the Z drive (Which is your system root) being visible. Black Ops III works fine, it's just that t7patch does not work on Proton. Genuinely don't get why they don't use a simple DLL file for their fixes rather than a separate client you have to launch and install dependencies to run. EDIT: As of checking T7patch has been compatible for around 2 weeks or so. Sweet!
CoD4, World at War, and Black Ops 1 are all safe to play multiplayer on through steam as they are the only games released from 07 to current day that run servers SOLELY through a server browser. The only problem with these games is that there is a very small dedicated population of players aware aware of this and actively playing since everyone assumes every CoD on PC will put your system at risk. All 3 of those games are 100% safe to play through steam and honestly for CoD4 I would install the CoD4X patch that just improves the game even further.
ehhhhhhhhhh. i wouldn't completely say that CoD4/waw/bo1 are all safe, because connecting to servers that host custom maps tells your game to download files files which, could, obviously "in theory" have remote code ran they are way safer than any of the p2p games, but not by much
i remember playing bo2 zombies multiplayer then there was a laughtrack i ask the lobby if they heard it and all of them said yes after that someone said "**** you hacker" then left the game i got scared then i looked into it now im playing in plutonium for 1 year and everything is fine absolute gold finds of my life
Black Ops 3 on PC is dangerous again even with the patch which is why players suggest the T7 patch for zombies and like a client or something for Multiplayer. Unfortunately, BO3 on consoles is considered unsafe too where even in private/invite only servers, hackers can still get in and mess with your game and in worse case situations, your account (ex: PSN) gets hacked too. Only safest way to play BO3 on console is campaign on offline only and the only rumored safest way to play online is with the Xbox One version of the game. Hoping that Microsoft will be able to have a huge push to get rid of the hacking issues so we can get back to how it was before it got bad.
Consoles should have onboard VPN included. Im not 100% sure how this would work but some sort of active protection should be included in either the console package itself or ps+ or xboxlive gold
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha That would mean they would be protecting their players and being half decent companies And we all know console companies are scum, especially PlayStation This would cost money, that should tel you everything you need to know
Imagine selling old titles at full price but doing nothing to protect them. I don't even like having to install third party clients in case THEY get up to shady business too, but playing the game vanilla is just walking through a minefield
@@tsunderemerc2963 absolutely right. I don't trust any other clients other than Plutonium and Alterware myself. We've seen what happened with H2M when it was shut down, lots of dangerous repacked clients being shared around
As a guys who has 2000 hours and many friends on blops and yet still play it, i havent heard anyone being hacked on blops while being connected to the servers. But yes they dont really have protection.
@@sirrr4881 True, it is rare. I have also played the games before I knew about any of this and nothing happened to me. I'm hoping this video can at least make people aware of the risks, as the storefront doesn't have any disclaimers about any of this!
jesus fuck, a majority of COD games having Remote Code Exec is terrifying and should honestly get Activision in hot water for essentially rootkitting every single player of those games because of their atrocious coding.
@@arn0000 I believe he’s saying that You should use a virtual machine if really want to play these games. VMs work as a sandbox that will contain the hacker’s attack and it won’t reach you main device where your valuable information are stored. It’s like you got a separate pc (but it’s actually virtual) that is isolated and you only use when want to play these games and when you finish you just turn it off and move to use your actual machine
couldnt someone sue activision for this? theyre still selling these games on steam for high prices, yet not many of them are safe to play. that should be a legal issue right?
Dedicated servers for PC were actually used much earlier in Cod games. BO3 100% has dedicated servers, and so did BO2. At least for multiplayer when I used to play on PC. Zombies was different though. (My apologies if this was addressed later in the video)
Isn't it just nuts they haven't updated these games? Just insane. A huge slap in the face to their customers. They act like there's a never ending supply of suckers out there. Which, I guess, they're not that wrong about.
Bro, I have to thank you so much for this video. My friend and I have been wanting to jump back on the older CoD games for nostalgia, but we had NO idea what was going on in the PC scene. I knew there were issues way back during MW2's PC release with people getting banned because if you played in a lobby with a hacker, for some reason the entire server flagged everyone as a hacker leading to VAC bans, but I never knew it became so severe.
Id download it but im not so sure if id be able to get good matchmaking, wouldnt it separate you from normal matchmaking from the dedicated servers? Like youd only be able to play with people that also have the patch downloaded.
@@Zomothy oh im talking about the 2017 remaster. That one has online matchmaking ive been playing it for days cuz modders are putting mw2 on it on friday
A few months ago my friends bought me Ghosts, they like playing squads and private matches. Seemed fine, nothin bad happened but a few days later squads stopped working. I assume that's from lack of players lol. It said there were 20 players playing it total. That's probably also why hackers didn't target it, no one really liked that game. That's interesting about BO2, I used to play that one. That's crazy that some guy just runs the servers for that game now. Good to know, I should probably use Plutonium if I ever feel like playing that again.
A warning for those who want to buy World at war on PC, the servers no longer create new accounts, so if you buy the game you won’t be able to play online multiplayer
Thanks for making this video. This definitely needs more attention. Blocking the games internet access on firewall should be enough to protect you if you just want to play campaigns, right? That was what I was planning to do.
hey love the video man! But i was wondering where you get your music from? I really like it and ig im wondering if either you made it or its from an artist i havent heard before.
All the music used in this video are from the RUclips Audio Library! It's all copyright free music that RUclips officially distributes for videos for free, you can check it out in your RUclips Studio dashboard. There are some bangers in there!
Thank you for this video man, sufficiently scared the shit out of me because me and my friends have been diving back into the older games and I had no idea it was a ticking timebomb waiting to happen. Someone should sue Activision for selling these games at full price and allowing bad actors to get away with murder.
Many thanks for this free warning. I starded playing bo1 about month ago for zombie and never got idea how dangerous it can be. I heard about this kind of attacks, but i thought it's only can happend when you play multiplayer not if you just boot up the game and be connected to the internet. I only got two questions. First, switching steam to offline mode will make my session safe? And the second, is this kind of attack can also happend for dvd non-steam WaW version in solo?
Playing with steam in offline mode should keep you safe as far as I know, as for the WaW dvd version, I have no idea. However, I know a lot of the exploits are related to the steam client, so it is probably safer on the dvd version
Thing is about BO3 BOIII is the main version that got C&D got deleted. But some other people like Ezz, and Watchful Wolf uploaded their own version of BOIII to their name. Even though they claim its safe, Shiversoftdev has said many times that those clients are still vulnerable to the unfinished code, and can get fully hacked. The owners of Plutonium have talked about how Ezzs code is a mess and that he shouldve never made the client, and is the reason Activision is going around C&D clients.
@@wuavo9157 Thanks for sharing more info about BOIII, I never used it personally as I don't trust it anymore after the C&D. Thought I'd mention it in the video since apparently it's still pretty popular to this day. I had heard that redistributed versions of BOIII existed and were sketchy
They have zero reason to. Sure they could make a little extra off the purchases of the games or mtx still in some games but they aren’t making anything from these. In fact old CoDs running well eats in to the newer games playerbase.
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With the recent announcement of the H2M mod, population on the game has grown a lot, I have seen multiple posts of players claiming to have been loaded into a map called "get rce'd by meow" before their game crashed. It is not known if there was actually any RCE involved, or if it is only a scare tactic. Either way, I wouldn't recommend anyone play on MWR's official servers. Use a client called H1, or wait until friday to play on H2M's client. Stay safe!
@@lollipopomg thanks for the update , also this is off topic but I haven’t really seen anyone talk about it and maybe you know something, but will we be able to play with friends and invite them to our party ? Or will we have to just time it and choose the same server to play on ?
@@imanrebornpro Not sure about that, I know Plutonium has a friend list feature and H1 has a private match option, maybe this client will have those as well but nothing confirmed by the devs as far as I know
That Sucks!
@lollipopomg The problem is people and their networks are ie ip address and PC's are very exploitable because few take the time to do their own due diligence and protect themselves. For example if I'm going to make an online purchase with it be for a physical product or Software (new game or subscription service) I use either a Giftcard or reloadable card that is in no way tied directly to my identity. This limits the risk of me being exploited as does having a trusted VPN and a separate IP for entertainment purposes, yes it's a little more money but at the end of the day it closes any exploitable points of access. This is all information that's literally been around for decades, the fact people are not cognizant of it speaks more to their own ignorance than anything else. There are few games I play online anymore because the developers and publishers leave so many exploitable options available to those few who are both skilled and looking to make a Fianacial gain off of anyone and everyone.
@@jericho1-4you have no life normal people don’t do all that shttt
thank god Activision didn't send a cease-&-desist to Plutonium
For real!
@@lollipopomg lol wait i wouldnt say that too soon, cs like why did the other client uh sm2 i think it was get taken down? (or was that cs they didnt use the game key verification method which activision wants?)
@@moneybilla The popular theory as to why most clients got shutdown by activision is that they were allowing pirated versions of the game to be played on their clients and also all the supply drops contents (such as Advanced Warfare) were unlocked for free. Plutonium now requires a steam key to allow players to play and other than the bo2 dlc camos, doesn't have any dlc for free.
@@lollipopomgYou can still use pirate versions on Plutonium. I think they will lose a good chunk of their player base if they start forcing steam keys. It is sad how old CODs on pc will be dead unless Microsoft starts forcing them to patch the games. I will not be paying money on overprice hacked games and dlc. Bo1 multiplayer plutonium is dead. I might buy a Xbox when it drops down.
@@lollipopomgit didn't help that other clients had download links to cracked versions of the game, along with written guides on how to get the game for free.
For BO3 on PC, if you are playing solo, then you need to play offline. Click steam in the top left and click go offline. If you play multiplayer zombies, you need the T7 patch by serious. Also check off friends only and make a password. Pick a custom name as well for fun. All your friends need to have it too. I know he mentioned this in the video but this is for people who didn't listen initially.
Thanks for this reminder 👍
I'll just turn off internet cable i Guess xD
i just played a solo match on kino yesterday on blops 3 pc am i cooked?
@@mrglobster don't know, but to be super safe i played bo3 on PS4 without internet
I Heard that just by connecting to bo3 servers you could get hacked (don't know if Is true or not)
@@mrglobster sorry big dawg u gotta change country and send me the digits on the back of ur bank card, sorry
Was playing PC BO2 Multiplayer with a friend, probably about 4 years ago now. The match we were in was fine, no apparent hackers. Then all of the sudden, my browser opened with about 20 tabs of adult websites. The players in my lobby started talking about same thing happening to them. It didn't happen to my buddy, but it's safe to say I'm never touching that game again.
You can use plutonium to run dedicated servers without any of the risks, it also works for World at War, BO1, BO2, and Modern Warfare 3
Your buddy was doing it
@@TheRealName7 my buddy is tech illiterate LMAO it just wasn't happening to everyone in the lobby
@@EverydayWhiteyso plutonium is safe?
@@connor_jayhappened to me in mw2 last year so I un installed it
Wish this video was more popular. Activision loves to have sales on their older titles but refuses to address any of these issues.
Love to have sales? When? The COD games are notorious for never going on sale on steam
@@fimmywa A steam sale on pretty much every cod game just ended less than a week ago.
@@OldSchoolOverloadYet they still cost more than most other multiplayer games on steam, even on sale.
@@OldSchoolOverload That's really great information for precisely nobody at the moment. The games rarely if ever go on sale, as I stated. You can look up the historic prices of the games and how they rarely if ever fluctuate.
@@fimmywai bought bo3 on sale like a month ago ? What are you on
I know it would be a bad PR move but they really should add disclaimers to these games bc they rarely go on sale and nobody wants to spend like $70 and pay for microtransactions just to get hacked
Absolutely they should
Dude they always go on sale on pc. Which are the main ones with RCE. They need to go on sale more on Xbox and PlayStation though, cuz bo2 on Xbox has wild modded lobbies (though it’s usually kinda funny depending if the modder’s malicious or just dicking around)
exactly this, i mean false bans on old accounts and consoles that they probably wont do anything about to make right, full on malaware injecting pcs? this should fall under a giant fucking lawsuit but they pump out cods so often these games probably lost "support" for them a year after release, they def do some loophole bs to not be held liable
they are selling an active security risk, you could sue, but they will drag it out so long until you run out of money. and us congress wont give 2 shits about 10 year old games. dunno how the eu is still allowing the sale
I have some of the older CoDs for my Xbox 360 and on the back of the case there is a warning that reads :
"Activision makes no guarantees regarding the availability of online play and may modify or discontinue online service in its discretion without notice, including for example, ceasing online service for economic reasons due to a limited number of players continuing to make use of the service over time."
It's not that it should be illegal for them to sell these malware games. It IS illegal, they just don't care
Call of Duty is not malware so it's not illegal to distribute.
Vulnerable software is not illegal to distribute.
When software reaches EOL then you use at your own risk.
@@WolfRaven-jm1cm These games are sold in the store under the pretense that they feature a single player, "network capable" multiplayer (2-18 players). But the multiplier either doesn't work or is compromised and poses a risk to the consumer. The game is still being negligently sold under false pretenses, tricking uninformed consumers who trust that their purchase will perform as advertised. Imagine if the single player didn't work and was sold under the pretense that it did? Multiplayer is no different and this IS illegal.
@@MagnumTriumph All software can be compromised and all software can have vulnerabilities. All devices that connect to the internet are susceptible to hacking.
If you are purchasing a product without doing proper research about that product that is on you.
They have no legal obligations to tell you what you should already know.
@@WolfRaven-jm1cm Unless it can be proven that these games are intentionally neglected in order to cause harm to the consumer for financial gain by driving up sales of their latest title. It's different from planned obsolescence. It is insidious and there is definitely a case against them. Activision has enough money to get away with murder, but murder is still illegal
@@MagnumTriumph Then file a claim.
I thought it was weird that there's no Call of Duty 3 (2006) here, but then I remembered there was never a PC port of Call of Duty 3.
Sad. But you can play through rpcs3 at least
There wasn’t?!
@@Puffypoo574sadly no :(
cod 3 lmfao. nobody played cod 3 on pc nobody was a sweat those were the times cod was considered casual. no shit there wasn’t no cod 3
@@Von009 The real reason was the game was outsourced to Treyarch for consoles.
CoD2 "big red one" (Treyarch) was not the same game as CoD2 (spin off). CoD2 was originally a PC build and only got ported to x360.
CoD4 came back to PC because infinity ward was developing it.
After watching this video, which was randomly recommended to me, I went down a rabbit hole researching how all the old games' servers have been compromised. I came across a Reddit comment that sounded all too familiar, and to my surprise it was from you.
A really interesting video. I didn't know all the old cod games in my Steam library were nuclear bombs waiting to go off. I'm glad I watched this video. I also hope the posters I came across on Steam and Reddit are still safe after commenters told them the games were safe and that they didn't get their credit card info nicked. What a scary state all the old cod games have been and still are in.
@@coverest1540 Glad I could inform! I wish more commenters on these forums would help the posters, or at least not say that it's safe without knowing anything about it. I'm happy this video has helped spread awareness!
What other popular games have been compromised?
Shouldn't that be a red flag to you though? You've just confirmed this guy's claims with this guy's own claims. Variety in sources matters way more than quantity.
@@kompst_tu There's plenty of sources other than me to be found, I've only commented a handful of times to help people on reddit
Excellent video, I hate getting told to just “go back and play the old cods if you miss them” when basically all of them are a risk to even load up.
Not everyone online wants to harm you? I played every single old cod up to blops 3 and never had an issue.
It's a 'risk' to walk outside. You need to understand the probabilities of what you're risking, and it's obvious you don't.
I'm a cybersecurity major and I think it's complete and utter BS what some of what lolipopomg is saying. He's saying people can essentially control your PC through call of duty servers. If it was that easy we would be seeing reports of this every day and hackers would be flooding in to do this. I played bo3 zombies recently in public matches unprotected right after everyone started saying bo3 servers were hacked to my lack of surprise, I was met with not only a safe lobby, but a lobby full of legit players. That's not to say you won't find cheaters, but do your own research before you let these big RUclipsrs scare you. I've seen no solid proven evidence that players can install rootkits onto your machine through Call of Duty servers. If it was this easy, you would be seeing it a lot more often rather than people saying "Oh yeah it's a risk because it can happen"
@@kompst_tu they patched the bo3 rce exploits
how is steam alowing this malware breeding ground ont their storefront? kinda wild to me that activision hasn't been sued over this.
I fully agree, also would like to add that GTA 5 is also atrocious for borderline being malware with the amount of exploits being a p2p game; that bad actors CAN ddos you if they want. Also, there was a rumour Team Fortress 2 had an RCE because the source code of an older version got leaked so there is that. I’m sure there are more games on steam that are old and are risky to play online but I don’t play a large variety of games.
@@rvgrrockstar gets absolutely cucked by their hackers. there was one going around where you would get the free garage by the airport, spawn in any car you want (like fivem, but in gta online), type in some other command that would trick the game into thinking you owned the vehicle. i got a bunch of cars that were removed from gta online stores (the voltic mainly), but you could essentially spawn in cars and spam sell them at the car shop. i wanna say they stopped allowing expensive cars to be sold to counter this, which is a fucking sad cope in my opinion. the text chat commands allowed you to do other things, but the modders didnt share as much about that, it seemed like their main jive was getting people free cars.
as annoying as they can be, ive had the best experiences with gta hackers for whatever reason. most of the time they just set up ridiculous shit and games for the whole lobby.
@@rvgr around 2007 in all valve games there was an exploit with the motd that would download anything to a user's pc.
Because Valve is in on it. That's why they allow Rockstar to have their own launcher instead of just loading on its own via Steam.
Microsoft was supposed to fix the servers, but I guess that only applied to console
Thank you for this very informative video, it's crazy to me that triple A games like these are so risky to play and are still at full price
Yeah, they should fix up the games' bugs and exploits if they're still selling the game, especially at full price as if they released yesterday.
It's worth noting as i feel you kinda described RCE as a prank used on streamers. Truth is to a bad actor, RCE is the holy grail of exploits and can be automatically exploited on mass to harvest credentials, payment methods, personal files, etc. Please don't think "I'm just some rando, no one will target me." Remember people use fishing nets, not spears, when it comes to this sort of thing. The internet may be big, but if you think you're not a target, chances are you've already been scooped up in a net.
@@aprilwarren5511 Absolutely. I expand on that later in the video but yes, RCE is very dangerous and is the reason why I even bothered making this video to begin with. I'm hoping this video helps players realize they shouldn't connect to these servers whatsoever
It's a shame they keep the old games the same price as new games and offer no support to force players to buy the newer titles. If MW2/3 and Bo1/2 were safe and working, nobody would play newer COD titles.
Force?!?!?!?!?
Nobody is forcing you to buy their trash, it's actually really easy
This is actually extremely depressing. I have such fond memories of these games and I'm simply not allowed to play them anymore?
@@Keygentlemen Thankfully the community made clients for most of these games that are safe to play, but yeah this whole situation sucks
@@lollipopomg I should ask; there's a mod for the first Black Ops known simply as "game.mod" that, among other things, adds a mod manager to load other mods through. It's launched from a separate .bat file. Would you have any way of knowing if the game is still safe to play or not through game.mod?
Where can I download these clients? @@lollipopomg
sadly yes😢
Black Ops 3 on PC is dangerous again even with the patch which is why players suggest the T7 patch for zombies and like a client or something for Multiplayer. Unfortunately, BO3 on consoles is considered unsafe too where even in private/invite only servers, hackers can still get in and mess with your game and in worse case situations, your account (ex: PSN) gets hacked too. Only safest way to play BO3 on console is campaign on offline only and the only rumored safest way to play online is with the Xbox One version of the game.
Seems like this video is getting traction on discussion forums. This might hit 100,000 views.
I'm already flattered to have reached 1,000! I wasn't aware it would be discussed so much but I'm glad! Hope it helps spread awareness
@@lollipopomg It's at 40k now, and thank you for this video. I've been wondering which ones are safe, and the hacking and malware are a growing problem for older games that must be stopped.
@@lollipopomgAlso Bo||| is not safe ask modders in the Bo3 community. It has many exploits and there are posts covering this in Steam
Well... you were right! I can't say I believed it would reach that amount when I first saw your comment, but your crystal ball saw clearly lol!
I actually helped the guy at 3:25. Modder put a map loop on his account but I was able to fix it for him!
It's awesome to see some good hearted modders who help players with banned accounts!
i saw you in the comments of that post saying you'd help him. you're awesome dude
How did you fix it for him?
Dedicated servers might be more secure but man does it become aggravating when a game servers get shut down and you just can't play with your friends anymore
Unless its like MW3 their servers are utter dogazz and regularly buys out and removed you from matches
@@THEBUGSAREBACCCCKKKKKKKKKK haven't encountered that, but I know WaW tends to crash out on synchronizing players for zombies. If the reboot to try again wasn't so quick, game would be dead for my buds and I
@@THEBUGSAREBACCCCKKKKKKKKKKMW3 Dedicated Servers got taken down by Activision like a year or many months ago, I can't tell when 'cause it was a silent take down. Kinda sucks 'cause the Matchmaking in MW3 was broken and you could sit there for 20 minutes even until you find a match. Sometimes you were lucky and it didn't take long, but when it did take too long you could play on one of the dedicated servers. It was the only way to play Infected too as the Normal Matchmaking version was dead.
MW3 Multiplayer just seems dead now. I remember in 2021 and before, if you had all the DLC Maps you could find full matches almost all the time and it wouldn't take long to find one. But now that ain't the case no more. It may not be entirely dead though, as I said the Matchmaking is broken so the less players the more that's exacerbated.
this is why playing on Offline Mode on Steam is the best option
We wanna play with friends dude
I play bo1 zombies and campaign every once in a while,never knew the cod games were so compromised.Thanks for the video man, I won't be playing the vanilla cod games anymore lol
Campaign and offline/private zombies should be completely fine
Man I just bought Bo1 and Bo2 on sale on steam. Thanks for the shoutout for Plutonium though! Good to know as a solo player, great video man!
Glad to help! Have fun playing
I have these games too can i play them offline? i just want to play the campaign.
@@Riadmerd Playing the games offline is completely safe
@@lollipopomg Good to hear that, thanks.
this is the sad part about yearly release video game franchises, once a game is in the past, all support is dropped, so even though we love black ops 1 and 2, we can't safely play them anymore and even if it's safe you still can't get that experience back because it's just full of cheaters
Here a funny story from Ps3:
Was playing on my Jailbreak Ps3, trickshotting on Modern warfare 2 in a private game thinking nothing bad then suddently i get a message like you would get when you got a trophy but it said my IP adress and my heard sunk to the bottom lol, i didnt know at this point that some guy could remote control my Ps3.
He sended me custom messages, turned my ps3 off, added himself on my friendlist and joined my game. But im glad he didnt do any damage like stealing my Console ID, Mod Menus keys or even breaking my console which he could have done because he could browse the entire file system on my ps3 and delete or add what he wanted. It was caused by a application called webMAN which is still very famous but at that time if you turned FTP Server on and someone knew your ip he could connect to your console with many different tools. It fixed now since many years.
A few years back, I think 2021, my buddy Chris and I were nostalgic about older CoDs and were playing a few of them, a big one being bo2. We'd get into occasional voice chat banter reminiscent of xbox live days, but it was never the same, 95% of people using text chat. One day, he was trash talking one of the opponents and he responds with "keep talking, see what happens." Following this, this player somehow got access to his PC and booted him out of the game, proceeding to fuck around with his desktop. I have the recording on my old PC I think, but shit was wild. Ever since then, we rarely use voice chat or even play on the older CoDs.
My brother was once streaming Zetsubo for fun. He was on the last step of the Easter Egg, and some loser decided to hack into his game and crash it on some of the last steps
That game also crashes every other 30 mins
I don't believe that. How would they get access to his IP without being in the game with him?
@@KamikazeCommie501or they was already there and they seen what he was doing and did it. no one going after your money would do that. but a disgruntled cheater would. you did something obviously that's how I've been ddos'd about 20 times in my 16 years of playing cod online. got to outsmart them if there doing things like that and never accept friend requests from people you know. that's how they get into your system
What a shame that some of the best selling and most loved games of all time are literally abandonware by activision becuase even the most minimal amount of support for these old games means nobody would play the new ones. What wouldn’t give for QOL and support updates/dedicated servers for blops 2, mw3, mw2. No need to buy any new games, I would rebuy all these games if they put even the most minimal amount of work into them. Fuck I’d pay $59 each if the would do this and keep hackers off. No need to invest in making new games, we would literally rebuy these games.
@@Kitten_Party You're absolutely right!
Having just recently purchased BO3 for custom zombies, this video became a goddamn suspensful horror movie for a bit. Playing it safe and doing solo zombies only, though that's what i usually do anyway. Never liked zombies multiplayer.
It is a bit spooky lol! You can always use the T7Patch for BO3 solo zombies, just to avoid annoyances and get a performance boost.
@@lollipopomg Does it fix the samantha glitch that makes your guns/money disappear? If so, downloading it. Been trying to find a fix for it for ages.. Happens at the worst possible times i swear!
@@Udhdvdhdjiwisjshzjfjfbdududjd I don't think it does, sadly. It mostly fixes performance and stutters in the main menu as well as protecting you from remote crashing or disconnecting
Sorry bro, but original MP zombies goes too hard
@@lollipopomgis bo3 zombies safe to play with just friends?
I’ve posted about this on Reddit multiple times but my copy of call of duty tries to connect to a server that Malwarebytes blocks for Trojan . A few random people tell me this is normal. I’m still very suspicious.
Definitely not normal, which game is it? If it's MW2 or BO2 I wouldn't be surprised if the servers upsets your AV since these severs most likely have malware or have had malware in the past.
@@lollipopomg the most modern one
@@laurenwright5540 Interesting, yeah I think I've seen posts a while ago that mentionned AV triggering on the newest COD. Probably a false positive then, to be honest. I'm surprised it's still a thing to this day, there must be a reason why Malwarebytes hasn't added it to their false positives list.
@@laurenwright5540 I wouldn't play it
@laurenwright5540 It's a garage game and not worth playing anyways. It's more of a casino than a game, everything is rigged, there's no such thing as skill anymore.
I know you probably titled this the way you did to get it into the algorithm and all that, but if you could at least add that this is a full guide/resource for playing CoD on PC in the description, that would be greatly appreciated. I think it's important for this overview to be easily searchable for the masses in the years to come.
For sure! I didn't expect the video to get this much attention to be honest, I'll definitely be updating the description with written guides and more information/corrections as soon as I can
Current title's fine; CoD publishers could make all of these methods redundant in a heartbeat. The masses will, simply, stop playing this shit franchise in the future, and probably switch to an indie clone with an INFINITELY more competent team behind it.
RCE is being used on PS3 for a few years on mw2. Several days ago I heard some guy was bricking consoles with it. Only way to counter this is having a flasher on your ps3 at all times. Unbrick the console within minutes.
I've seen that PS3/360 is becoming increasingly dangerous as time goes on
i actually knew the guy that invented infections in bo2.
I told him that he destroyed the game but it was never his intention but still.
a bit out of context i know
@@lollipopomg i was in the ps3 modding scene. its pretty fucked up. especially mw2 and mw3 there even were some tools that could actually destroy the console by overheating it
Wtf
@@CDbiggen They can delete essential files in your system to brick it. OR change offsets to shut off the fans to overheat.
I remember back in the day when MW2 (2009) on PC was still popular (2011-2012ish) you had to make your config files and save data read only (and disable steam cloud saves) so that changes made in game wouldn't be permanent. Cause they would mess with your rank, graphics settings, classes, and even somehow mess with the steam first run dependencies so you would get crashed and have to verify files and redownload all the VS and C++ redistributables to be able to relaunch the game (and this was 12 years ago i bet none of them have been patched).
Call of duty 4 (2007) does have an RCE exploit on all versions up to 1.7, hence why the community patch (cod4x / 1.8) exists.
Vanilla MW2 is VERY dangerous, Multiple RCE exploits. If you were to play MW2 install IW4X/Alterware. I know the devs of IW4X/Alterware and they are a very passionate and dedicated group who work pretty much around the clock to keep it in a safe and playable state. And it's pretty much the same story for plutonium.
@@Jumpzehh Thanks a lot, I wasn't sure if COD4 had any RCE but I'm not surprised that it does. Good to know that there's a patch for it!
In my experience, I found CoD 4 on the 360 to be quite safe. Never ran into any hackers at all. I’m sure I’ve just been very lucky, but compared to games like MW2 and BO2, I’ve had no issues with CoD 4.
@@Foxikaze Makes sense. CoD4 is what pushed CoD into the cultural zeitgeist, but it is not the one that would send CoD's popularity into the heavens.
your name does sound familiar considering I mained cod4 au servers for the peak
just adding to this though, there was also an exploit where server owners could steal the cd keys from people who joined their server, it was done by hiding the killfeed for all players, setting their name to each part of their cdkey cvar and then recording those name changes back on the server.
@@brndeeeeeeto we probably did cross paths at some point, google promod was lit back in the day.
It's so funny to me: CoD multiplayer games with server browsers are way safer than the ones with a matchmaking, once again proving that a server browser is way better to play online than a matchmaking.
all p2p connections are a security risk
MM is not the problem lol.
I bet you got every single covid vax you were told to get, huh? You need to understand statistics and probabilities. I'm tired of good things being ruined by low IQ people.
Well.. I'm just really glad that we don't live in a world where Activision gives out "cease and desist" letters to the modders who makes the community patches or dedicated servers..
I remember playing cod4, on a ps3, a couple of years ago, there was a hacker in game, on the opposing team, yet we were still winning like 2 matches in a row and on the 3rd match, it was on Wet work, he teleported to the highest point of the map, he was kinda trash tbh but he started spamming the chat with: "GO AHEAD, LEAVE I DARE YOU", pretty much none of the people in lobby left, I don't know what happened to the other people I was with but I was deranked to negative stats, to the point that even the matchmaking feature was unavailble to me
And people used to call me crazy when I told them COD was super unsafe for PC, many hacks for MW2019 were easily ported to the latest games... and of course old ones have their known exploits awesome video.
my pc got hacked last february while playing bo2 multiplayer. i just got disconnected mid game from the servers and then i saw on my 2nd monitor that a new chrome tab was opened. i turned of my psu and restarted my lan router.
after a few days i reinstalled windows and never came back to bo2 anymore
That sucks. I hope this video can help players avoid having this happen to them
Were you on official or plutonium?
P2P isn't oldschool, dedicated servers are. Which doesn't mean they're save. Last I played CoD4 on PC, it was filled with redirect servers that used RCE (buffer overflow in the general packet handler) to install iw3x or some variant thereof. Like, launches the installer. They fixed this bug accidentally in IW4 because the compiler chain now marks stack memory as non-executable by default.
P2P is garbage
From the comments I've seen, COD4 is a lot more dangerous than I initially thought in the video, thanks for your input! Spreading awareness is ultimately the goal here and your response contributes a ton to help
@@lollipopomg you're actually spreading misinformation really. Been playing cod 4 since release on PC and the game is fine. The redirect servers install the latest patch. Please watch mike rxqe's video on this because you're going to turn people away from playing old school PC cod games.
Most people play cod 1 v1.1 anyways, not the steam version (1.5). Not because of "safety", but because people want to bunnyhop.
CoD 2 is fine. Every server basically installs the latest patch as thats what they're running.
@@christiansmemefactory1513 even if those servers install a non-malicious community patch, that's someone doing RCE on your computer, and completely unacceptable.
@@christiansmemefactory1513 I'm not claiming the video is perfect, I even mention that some information could be wrong, especially before talking about COD4. However, no one else has done a video like this and lots of people are not aware at all about any of this, I apologize if my research on COD4 was inconclusive. I'd rather say something and get some things wrong than not, but I'm glad comments like yours can correct my mistakes and inform people better
Honestly I am so sad I can’t play the older CoD games online without potentially getting hacked. Really sad because BO3 looks fun and I missed out on that game when it was released.
@@TheBreadB You can play BO3 safely using the T7Patch!
T7Patch is a must for Black Ops 3
It makes the game actually playable with tolerable frame rates.
I had -2000000 xp on world at war for years on the 360 so I couldn’t play zombies online, eventually I got fed up and downloaded a mod menu to fix it
worst player of all time loses xp after matches
I find it pretty messed up that players need to rely on the community to fix games that the publisher still makes new players pay full price (in many instances) for.
If the publisher thinks the game is too old to be worth patching and maintaining themselves, they shouldn’t still not be charging anything for it.
rce/rat is HUGE problem for the cod pc games. they could steal banking data off your browser and drain your accounts. sure, it's unlikely, but launching software with known rce vuln is something you should never do.
This really puts into perspective why we shouldn't be buying Cod anymore. Like, at all. Everyone says it's unsafe, play offline, get a client, whatever, but I don't think many of us knew just how BAD it really was.
I already stopped buying Cod for personal reasons, but idk how you can buy a game from Activision knowing that this exists. I feel uncomfortable owning their products now.
@@CrimsoniteSP Same here, haven't bought a cod since cold war and I'm not planning to anytime soon
@@lollipopomg Cold War was the last I bought too. I didn't get 2019 and skipped a few along the way, but I used to be THE guy who bought it every year, lol. Ever since MW2 OG.
It took a lot to quit since playing the games basically became 2nd nature, but I have 0 intentions going back. After seeing this video, I have negative intentions.
Happened to me in Black Ops 1 back in 2013 in Xbox 360. I played a team tactical game. And randomly nova gas was all over the level, giving me minus points which de-ranked me. (Obviously a hacker in the game) so I left. Then I was shocked to see I had -4 billion cod points. Or whatever the currency was to purchase stuff. I shut the game off thinking that would fix it. But then as I tried to load multiplayer, there was an error saying I couldn’t connect back to the game. And that account is still like that to this day. Can never get back into the game. Luckily I have two accounts & used the other one. But just sucked at the time.
Yeah the COD4 info provided is a mixed bag.
COD4 (2007) most servers are on 1.8X or "COD4x" a community patch with features to stop cheaters. Generally Safe unless you join a suspicious server.
COD4(Remasters): Do not play the steam version it does have a live RCE currently being exploited. The H1-Client fixes this and adds dedicated servers.
W@W: Generally safe the Pluto client exists due to steam running out of game keys so if you buy the game you can't play online only singeplayer.
Interesting that for both COD4 and W@W you suggest playing offline when the SP/MP are seperate EXE's and W@W can only host co-op/zombies servers with the port forwarded.
Ah just seen pinned comments oh well.
A buffer overflow overwrites information in the memory and when the program reaches the point of the overwritten code then the CPU executes it.
The code is overwritten in your system's memory and a clever person could execute commands to write a self-executable file into your hard drive that executes at startup without ever making the game crash.
When I was like 12, I joined a modded WaW zombies lobby on 360. The dude somehow set my level to 0, and the game requires level 1 for online play, which effectively banned me from multiplayer. Shit sucks.
honestly how is this not a lawsuit for activison? they are lucky that they pump out cods so often that games like bo3 and bo2 are "old" now beacause if they werent considered old this def wouldnt be a thing that would be happening, i mean pcs getting infected to accounts getting injected with mods and false banned which im sure activison cares about so so much! (they probably wont even respond to a ticket you make about it) thank god they are trying to take down plutonium though! those are the real hackers! and the real bad guys allowing us to do what we want on our childhood games that we pumped 100s into year after year. Cant change a shitty studio but you can sure as hell change their product
you prolly waive rights to a suit in the tos/eula and there's forced arbitration and shit
gross stuff
It's funny because I still consider every cod after BO2 new, I never played any new one after that.
I honestly wouldn't be suprised if they leave some back doors so that you are essentially forced to buy new cods.
@@rafox66 cold war is good
this was a big issue in minecraft back in the day on servers. you joined the servers and in a few seconds the owner could have a rat/ random trojan installed on the persons computer with them having no way to defend themself.
Dedicated servers are bad for games preservation. P2P connectivity means the game can still be played online long after the developer has moved on. I would push for a P2P option in EVERY game.
While I agree that most games are fine to play in P2P and even preserve them (such as L4D2) maybe I didn't explain it as good as I could have in the video, however in the case of call of duty, the security just isn't there for P2P to be viable. If a game has P2P as the only option in the long run, it should be somewhat secure to play in my opinion. But yeah, games like BO4 will eventually shut down the servers and that is a shame.
@@lollipopomg There are safe ways to play games over P2P. Firewalls, VPNs, virtual machines, immutable operating systems... There is no excuse to put an expiration date on a game.
@@ErdrickHeroThat's fair. I would still say that the store page should specify the risks of playing without those protections in place so that the casual gamer who buys a call of duty game for 60 bucks doesn't get hacked for not knowing any better.
@@lollipopomg Having it as an option is always important, same with bots etc
Thats simply not true. Dedicated servers you or i could host were first and is arguably better for game preservation. Like quake css or cs1.6 etc what you might be refering to is matchmaking servers which is different and also sometimes combined with either p2p or servers the devs own.
Infinity Ward was allegedly cought once on sending cheaters to play in games with streamers to ruin their game, and discourage people from playing older titles to make people buy their new games. It was in MW2019 or Warzone.
Recently they made a sale for Remastered COD before the release of the MW2R multiplayer mod, which was needed to launch the mod, just to send C&D on the modders 12h before the announced lanuch. Sources in the company say, they were scared about impact on BO6 sales.
They gain profit from the broken state of their older games, so they can sell more of newer ones. I wouldn't be surprised if they were staying behind some of the exploits in the community.
Even their prices for old titles are so ridiculously high that they dont want you to play them.
A few months ago I wanted to go back and replay the nostalgic campaigns from Cod4 MW up to MW3. I did not touch multiplayer what so ever but I also didn't know that all it took was to launch the game to potentially get malware. Hope I didn't fuck something up but I will go an delete them most likely. Sucks that my favorite cods are now dangerous to have fun on:(. Thanks for the video and info.
I remember playing CoD WaW almost a decade ago (I think) on my PS3. A modder joined the game, killed a player, the game ended and I lost about a quadrillion XP, locking me out of Multiplayer and creating classes as well. Such a shame, I really enjoyed WaW.
I play CoD4 on PC through this version of the game called CoD4x, it seems pretty safe so far, and I also play MW2 2009 through IW4X and that seems pretty safe as well. Those are my two favorite CoDs from back in the day, and other than some other options through Plutonium, I'm staying away from CoD and not supporting Activision by purchasing Blops 6 since they screwed everyone over recently with that MW2 remaster mod...
@@VioletElite4 Same here, not buying BO6 until changes are made at Activision
I love seeing small RUclipsrs dropping amazing 10/10 content
I got RCE'd/ratted by Activision because they failed to upgrade their servers. This gave hackers full ability of my computer and all my photos were deleted and info. I didn't know about this, and they gladly charge costumers $60 for black ops 2 on steam. Any game between 2007-2015. Disgusting I can't seem to get reimbursed, and they know it's an issue. They patched the privacy with a half ass patch a bit ago that doesn't work and never solved the issue. I'm beyond infuriated because I was not aware of any of this at purchase
Fun fact: through the main menu of the game when launching the "zombies" client for Plutonium BO1, you can play though the ENTIRE campaign EXCEPT for the last mission which breaks in the underwater section.
with the h2m mod for mwr on PC ive heard rumors that people have started making Rce's for that game because of the player base and big youtubers/streamers that may be playing right now. I was playing yesterday and left my pc on at night and came back to it shutdown which has never happened when i have left it on, that wasnt too weird but then my mwr would not launch until i fully reinstalled with revo uninstaller. I dont know if they corrupted my files but it seemed the same as when i got rce'd on bo3
I wouldn't be surprised. I checked the forums today to see if I could find anything about it since there's a playerbase currently, I have seen one post claiming that a cheater loaded up a map in their lobby called "get rce'd" and their game crashed afterwards
I've actually had my profile wiped a few times playing BO2 on Plutonium. Not a huge deal since it was rare. It's the way that on certain servers mods are installed to your game without even asking you, that makes it irritating. Track down and delete all those installed mods, and you're golden. Last I tried to play, everything was fine when I logged out. Logged back in, and boom.. wiped. That killed it for me. I was like prestige 4, lvl 44, with a bunch of diamond classes. I was just done. Yeah you can just unlock everything and play out the gate.. but that kinda ruins a lot of the fun of the game.
Sick video. Seems like something similar is happening on the Halo Master Chief Collection. Wonder if its the same type of exploits.
I've heard about that a little, seems like it's mostly crashing/banning players, no RCE at least
I feel like black ops 6 zombies being ALWAYS ONLINE is gonna be an issue later on
Always online how ? Dont tell me u cant play offline or sth ...
@@arn0000 as far as we currently know, there isn't confirmed to be an offline mode for BO6 Zombies
@@Kevaca ngl that sucks ass..... ty for th eintel....
I didn’t know that BO1and BO2 were taking over by hackers. They probably have my info already. They really need to remove all the old cod games from steam.
Its also with the older counter strikes it will download random files on you PC which could infect your machine if you play online
MW2, BO, MW3, BO2 are the most dangerous games on steam. Every game has low player count, 1/4-1/2 of all games have an obvious hacker, people ask for your personal info. Best if steam removed older cod multiplayer.
This kind of stuff is kind of why I wish Activision would enable Proton support in their games, because at least under the context of running the games on Proton on Steam, RCE exploits would probably be less likely to screw up your entire system considering each prefix counts as a "Windows install" and that's fairly isolated outside of the Z drive (Which is your system root) being visible.
Black Ops III works fine, it's just that t7patch does not work on Proton. Genuinely don't get why they don't use a simple DLL file for their fixes rather than a separate client you have to launch and install dependencies to run.
EDIT: As of checking T7patch has been compatible for around 2 weeks or so. Sweet!
wild how unsafe BO1 is when vanilla servers have way higher pop than plutonium servers
CoD4, World at War, and Black Ops 1 are all safe to play multiplayer on through steam as they are the only games released from 07 to current day that run servers SOLELY through a server browser. The only problem with these games is that there is a very small dedicated population of players aware aware of this and actively playing since everyone assumes every CoD on PC will put your system at risk. All 3 of those games are 100% safe to play through steam and honestly for CoD4 I would install the CoD4X patch that just improves the game even further.
ehhhhhhhhhh. i wouldn't completely say that CoD4/waw/bo1 are all safe, because connecting to servers that host custom maps tells your game to download files
files which, could, obviously "in theory" have remote code ran
they are way safer than any of the p2p games, but not by much
Crazy I’m barely hearing about this now and crazier bo2 is 60$ on steam still even tho it’s unplayable
Single Player gamer to Multiplayer gamer:
“Wow, sucks to be you.”
if you listened you aint much safer playing single player LOL
SP isn't much safer tho lmao
It's still then being online and play. I only play when steam is in offline mode.
dudes who only play single player love mentioning it even when it doesnt make sense lol
i remember playing bo2 zombies multiplayer then there was a laughtrack i ask the lobby if they heard it and all of them said yes after that someone said "**** you hacker" then left the game
i got scared then i looked into it now im playing in plutonium for 1 year and everything is fine absolute gold finds of my life
This is such a chill background video. Would love for you to make more!
@@Renzo9898 Working on it! Glad you enjoyed
What about Modern Warfare: Remastered?
Black Ops 3 on PC is dangerous again even with the patch which is why players suggest the T7 patch for zombies and like a client or something for Multiplayer. Unfortunately, BO3 on consoles is considered unsafe too where even in private/invite only servers, hackers can still get in and mess with your game and in worse case situations, your account (ex: PSN) gets hacked too. Only safest way to play BO3 on console is campaign on offline only and the only rumored safest way to play online is with the Xbox One version of the game. Hoping that Microsoft will be able to have a huge push to get rid of the hacking issues so we can get back to how it was before it got bad.
Consoles should have onboard VPN included. Im not 100% sure how this would work but some sort of active protection should be included in either the console package itself or ps+ or xboxlive gold
Vpns increase latency. Would you prefer to have 40 ping to a game or 20?
@@M8Military that difference is negligible. Also, it would be a toggle.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
That would mean they would be protecting their players and being half decent companies
And we all know console companies are scum, especially PlayStation
This would cost money, that should tel you everything you need to know
@@M8Military depends if you’re wired in or not probably
@@THEBUGSAREBACCCCKKKKKKKKKK it’s a foreign concept, unfortunately
Imagine selling old titles at full price but doing nothing to protect them. I don't even like having to install third party clients in case THEY get up to shady business too, but playing the game vanilla is just walking through a minefield
@@tsunderemerc2963 absolutely right. I don't trust any other clients other than Plutonium and Alterware myself. We've seen what happened with H2M when it was shut down, lots of dangerous repacked clients being shared around
Very informative Video. Thank you for talking about this, especially with people getting hyped up for BO6 and starting up older Games again!
You're welcome! Glad to help spread awareness
As a guys who has 2000 hours and many friends on blops and yet still play it, i havent heard anyone being hacked on blops while being connected to the servers. But yes they dont really have protection.
So for people being scared of getting hacked, it is very rare!
@@sirrr4881 True, it is rare. I have also played the games before I knew about any of this and nothing happened to me. I'm hoping this video can at least make people aware of the risks, as the storefront doesn't have any disclaimers about any of this!
jesus fuck, a majority of COD games having Remote Code Exec is terrifying and should honestly get Activision in hot water for essentially rootkitting every single player of those games because of their atrocious coding.
RAT is remote access tool... Usually delivered with a trojan... RAT does not stand for remote access trojan... trojan is just the delivery method...
Two words: *VIRTUAL MACHINE*
Can u elaborate in more words pls ?
@@arn0000 I believe he’s saying that You should use a virtual machine if really want to play these games. VMs work as a sandbox that will contain the hacker’s attack and it won’t reach you main device where your valuable information are stored. It’s like you got a separate pc (but it’s actually virtual) that is isolated and you only use when want to play these games and when you finish you just turn it off and move to use your actual machine
vmware has its vulnerabilities too, although less. also it depends if you have a good cpu.
@@notquitek3t so the cpu is what takes the load when u run a vm ?
@@arn0000 basically, yes, since you’re running another pc on top of yours already
Very good video. I was planning on buying all the BLOPS and MW games but now i'll probably just play them on console and hope for the best. Subbed
Glad you enjoyed!
couldnt someone sue activision for this? theyre still selling these games on steam for high prices, yet not many of them are safe to play. that should be a legal issue right?
i mean, in theory, yes (im no lawyer), but good luck trying honestly
Dedicated servers for PC were actually used much earlier in Cod games. BO3 100% has dedicated servers, and so did BO2. At least for multiplayer when I used to play on PC. Zombies was different though.
(My apologies if this was addressed later in the video)
Isn't it just nuts they haven't updated these games? Just insane. A huge slap in the face to their customers. They act like there's a never ending supply of suckers out there. Which, I guess, they're not that wrong about.
You played or seen anything they have released in the past few years???
They are huge slaps in the face and should show you they just don't care
Dammit I just wanted to play through the old campaigns and it turns out I can't even comfortably open THOSE without fearing getting hacked.
turn off your internet connection/play offline there is 0 risk
Play offline and you’re good. The game files themselves are safe, it’s just the servers are super fucked by hackers
Bro, I have to thank you so much for this video. My friend and I have been wanting to jump back on the older CoD games for nostalgia, but we had NO idea what was going on in the PC scene.
I knew there were issues way back during MW2's PC release with people getting banned because if you played in a lobby with a hacker, for some reason the entire server flagged everyone as a hacker leading to VAC bans, but I never knew it became so severe.
@@TyonGera Glad to help!
Call of Duty 4 on PC is perfectly safe as long as you upgrade to CoD4X.
Id download it but im not so sure if id be able to get good matchmaking, wouldnt it separate you from normal matchmaking from the dedicated servers? Like youd only be able to play with people that also have the patch downloaded.
@@exeterd9 CoD4 on PC doesn’t have matchmaking.
@@Zomothy oh im talking about the 2017 remaster. That one has online matchmaking ive been playing it for days cuz modders are putting mw2 on it on friday
@@exeterd9 this aged poorly. Activision shut down the mod
@@edwardnormal bruh you think i dont know that? Actual glue eater response
A few months ago my friends bought me Ghosts, they like playing squads and private matches. Seemed fine, nothin bad happened but a few days later squads stopped working. I assume that's from lack of players lol. It said there were 20 players playing it total. That's probably also why hackers didn't target it, no one really liked that game.
That's interesting about BO2, I used to play that one. That's crazy that some guy just runs the servers for that game now. Good to know, I should probably use Plutonium if I ever feel like playing that again.
A warning for those who want to buy World at war on PC, the servers no longer create new accounts, so if you buy the game you won’t be able to play online multiplayer
Online works for me
@@Zulfakar1337 If you bought the game before the servers stopped issuing new accounts then you'll be good to go
Thanks for making this video. This definitely needs more attention. Blocking the games internet access on firewall should be enough to protect you if you just want to play campaigns, right? That was what I was planning to do.
Should be enough, would still recommend putting steam in offline mode
hey love the video man! But i was wondering where you get your music from? I really like it and ig im wondering if either you made it or its from an artist i havent heard before.
All the music used in this video are from the RUclips Audio Library! It's all copyright free music that RUclips officially distributes for videos for free, you can check it out in your RUclips Studio dashboard. There are some bangers in there!
@@lollipopomg oh sweet! thanks a ton 😁
Thank you for this video man, sufficiently scared the shit out of me because me and my friends have been diving back into the older games and I had no idea it was a ticking timebomb waiting to happen. Someone should sue Activision for selling these games at full price and allowing bad actors to get away with murder.
I play ghosts only for extinction 💀
By this point I would run older PC cods in a virtual machine. MW2 or WAW should run fine on modern machines through them.
Many thanks for this free warning. I starded playing bo1 about month ago for zombie and never got idea how dangerous it can be. I heard about this kind of attacks, but i thought it's only can happend when you play multiplayer not if you just boot up the game and be connected to the internet. I only got two questions. First, switching steam to offline mode will make my session safe? And the second, is this kind of attack can also happend for dvd non-steam WaW version in solo?
Playing with steam in offline mode should keep you safe as far as I know, as for the WaW dvd version, I have no idea. However, I know a lot of the exploits are related to the steam client, so it is probably safer on the dvd version
@@lollipopomg Thanks
Thing is about BO3 BOIII is the main version that got C&D got deleted.
But some other people like Ezz, and Watchful Wolf uploaded their own version of BOIII to their name.
Even though they claim its safe, Shiversoftdev has said many times that those clients are still vulnerable to the unfinished code, and can get fully hacked.
The owners of Plutonium have talked about how Ezzs code is a mess and that he shouldve never made the client, and is the reason Activision is going around C&D clients.
@@wuavo9157 Thanks for sharing more info about BOIII, I never used it personally as I don't trust it anymore after the C&D. Thought I'd mention it in the video since apparently it's still pretty popular to this day. I had heard that redistributed versions of BOIII existed and were sketchy
This needs more attention from Activision. They need to prioritize stuff like this instead of making the garbage they have today.
They have zero reason to. Sure they could make a little extra off the purchases of the games or mtx still in some games but they aren’t making anything from these. In fact old CoDs running well eats in to the newer games playerbase.
@@captaindestruction9332 they could at minimum just shut off online play but they're too shitty to even do that
This is unfortunately, not on their priority list
Community clients being safer than official servers is absolutely insane.