Despite the VAC antic-cheat system being used on the PC version of Modern Warfare 2, cheating is still prevalent in multiplayer matches. There’s good news for the honest players out there though…. steps are being taken to rid the game of the hackers / cheaters.

In a tweet by Infinity Ward’s creative strategist, Robert Bowling, he confirms that around 2500 known cheaters will be banned from Steam (the MP matchmaking system), rendering their games multiplayer-less. The tweet came in reply to a frustrated fan who had this to say to the Infinity Ward front-man.

@fourzerotwo Robert, you should really try to take care of cheaters in MW2. It’s getting ridiculous: http://ow.ly/Gbyn

He also posted video proof of the cheaters which you can catch after the break

Bowling’s response confirms that a fix is on the way and 2500 known cheaters will be banned

Such cheats are limited to the PC version of the game and it is unlikely the equivalent is going to happen on the console versions. That is unless someone figures out how to introduce them on a pirated copy and get that version connected in a live game. The odds are against such a scenario, but you never know. Thankfully with both Xbox 360 and PS3 accepting updates when online it would be easily patched anyway.

Infinity Ward does need to keep on top of cheaters because it just completely spoils the game for all the other players trying to do well without cheating. It will be interesting to see if lifetime bans are imposed or whether they opt for a cooling off period of a few weeks or months.

Whatever happens, there are going to be 2,500 very angry gamers tomorrow morning who probably intended to spend the whole of the weekend playing MW2 online. There’s a virtual cookie for the first link in the comments below to a naive cheater posting on a MW2 forum about having trouble getting online tomorrow.
ViaMW2blog