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Good news to PC players, there may be Dedicated Servers for MW2 on PC afterall

"Teknogods" as they call themselves made the "TeknoMW2 v1.0 loader" a few days after MW2 came out, which allowed you to play MW2 online & Co-Cop modes without Steam you could also directly connect to a host's IP address like you could with CoD4, I used it myself to play online worked great. Steam released a MW2 Patch that disabled it.

BUT today they may release TeknoMW2 v1.1 loader which will replace the previous loader plus it will probably have a inbuilt console and the ability to host dedicated servers. They don't encourage piracy at all, the new v1.1 loader may be made to not work with cracked copies of the game.

Anyway here's an interview with one of the Coders that are making the loader:

BASH BASH 131: Teknogods

Click the play button under "listen now" and fast forward it to 3:00 minutes

You'll get all the info there, also here's their FAQ about TeknoMW2 v1.1 loader

TeknoGods.com • Information

I only made this for the dedicated servers feature, I'm not encouraging piracy.

P.S. Sorry I wasn't sure if this is the right section of the site to post this.

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Olaf Vikingsson

IW will patch the game to disable this just as they'd patched the game to disable the original console activation hack.

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As Vis says, the only place this is going is "exploit > counter exploit patch > new exploit > patch to counter new exploit"

Regarding cheating and viruses some people are happy to keep making cheats or viruses because for them the reward of one that works for a week is more than enough.

As deteremental the backend of steam is to the COD experience I can't see people having the patience to continue to fight it for a year or two.



Anyway, I don't see what stops you having a permanent private match running on a computer doing nothing else? ensure said computer has a great net connection and we instantly have what we all knew as dedi servers. Sure there'd still be no console or no mods but at least the lag would be completely removed.

I'm guessing there is some sort of liscencing obligation that server companies have to adhere to that would prohibit them making their own profit out of steam and IW, although that'd be rather ironic seeing as steam have completely monopolised the COD market. Which now I come to think of it 25%, IIRC, market share would be illegal in virtually any other business environment.

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This is getting repetitive.